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Running at 60 FPS is standard for arcade & PC games, but hardware restrictions of consoles often force developers to aim for lower framerates in order to preserve visual detail or allow greater scale. 3D console games hitting 60 FPS are thus uncommon, though the trend of re-releasing games on newer hardware has technically resulted in more 3D console games hitting 60 FPS.
A secondary mode in a fighting game that assumes a either 2D or third-person perspective as the player runs around an environment fighting enemies
Neglectful and/or abusive parents and parental figures.
A large omnivorous mammal that can be white, brown, or black. Despite their ferociousness, they are also associated with being soft and cuddly, as in teddy bears. Bears are also known to eat stairs. Scientists say that because "bears eat stairs" rhymes the bears are naturally inclined to do so.
The ultimate pressure feature. Players have to complete the task at hand, be it defeating opponents or cutting the right wire, in the allotted time.
It's all in the family.
A gene inherited from the devil himself, if you somehow have some devil gene in you, you may find yourself transforming into a devil version of yourself sometime soon. Prominent in Capcom and Namco franchises Tekken and Devil May Cry.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Electric Wind Godfist (最速風神拳 Saisoku Fūjinken or Fastest Wind Godfist) is an enhanced version of the Wind Godfist attack in the Tekken series, and a signature move of the Mishima clan.
The Evo 2024 world championships took place July 19-21, 2024 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Evo 2025 world championships will take place August 1-3, 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
EVO is the largest fighting game event in the world. Beginning in 1996 as the Battle by the Bay, EVO has since grown into an event that features thousands of players from all over the world convening in Las Vegas every summer.
When a character appears to have died a horrible death, but is then eventually revealed to have somehow survived or was never really dead to begin with, often serving as a plot-twist.
A flawless victory is a victory in which the winning player has incurred no loss of health, or in other uses, like Unreal Tournament III or Fury, no points scored against the winning team.
"The gentle way", a martial art focused on grapples and throws.
Some modes/features had non-fighting game elements in Fighting Games.
Pandas are black and white bears that live mainly in China and zoos. It is an endangered species.
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term popularized in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Health lost, but recoverable if certain actions are performed, such as swapping characters in a fighting game.
Reptilian humanoids are a common motif in mythology, folklore and fantasy. As a race, they are sometimes cited to be extremely old, even older than men and elves. Examples: Lizalfos (Zelda), Lizardmen (Warhammer) & Argonians (The Elder Scrolls) They generally walk upright like any other humanoid and sport some kind of tail.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
SNK fighting games are notorious for boss fights of ludicrous difficulty. Common symptoms of SNK Boss Syndrome include absurdly high attack priority, overpowered special attacks, and AIs that read button inputs. Though it's most common in SNK games, the syndrome has also appeared in games by other companies.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
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On occasion, menus can be tilted; commonly done with the right stick.
The fifth major iteration of the Unreal Engine from Epic Games was revealed on May 13, 2020 in preparation for the new console launches of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
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