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Fog plays an important role in many games. In games like Silent Hill, it's an atmospheric element. In other games, it's artificially added to reduce draw distances to save memory and increase framerate.
Weapons that use a freezing effect to damage opponents, slow them up, or freeze them solid.
When the main character starts out as a weak, hopeless, tiny lad and the player makes him the most powerful person in the game.
This Atronach appear as a tall humanoid figure composed entirely out of ice. It is slow but sturdy and can be devastating in close combat.
A Game of the Year Edition is any video game that has been repackaged and advertised as having earned either one or many Game of the Year awards from any number of recognized publications or websites, often times with a discounted price and additional content.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
A page for video game protagonists that are elderly.
A common glitch in games where the character gets stuck in the geometry, often a rock or the floor/ground.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Ghouls are carrion eating undead creatures that dwell in graveyards and other lonely places. The stench of death surrounds these vile abominations wherever they go. Some Ghouls have been known to paralyse their victims with their manky claws.
A gigantic variant of the famous crustacean and the subject of a popular 00s internet meme.
Abilities or objects that can only be obtained by killing a god or if gods themselves offer them to a character.
Goblins are irritable, evil and mischievous creatures in folklore. They can range in size from halfling to average human size.
This tag is for all games and characters that deal in the concept of gods, demigods, half-gods and the like.
God Mode is an ability, often entered through a cheat code, that gives the player god-like abilities.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Golden Saints are the spawn of Sheogorath. They inhabit the Shivering Isles, the Daedric realm of madness.
A humanoid construct given life through magic. The materials used to create a golem vary greatly.
Whether it be Mario vs. Bowser, Jedi vs. Sith, Link vs. Ganon, or Elves vs. Orcs, the forces of good are in an eternal battle with the hordes of evil.
One of the three dominant Great Houses in Morrowind. House Hlaalu is known for it's involvement in business and trade. It's willingness to deal openly with foreigners has made it one of the most successful Great Houses since Morrowind's integration into the Empire.
One of the three dominant Great Houses in Morrowind.
Greatest hits is a general term for re-releases of games which have sold a certain number of copies, as part of a program managed by the console manufacturer.
A herd animal commonly seen roaming around in Vvardenfell. While usually aggressive, some guars are trained to friendly.
Guards guard stuff, block doors, and sometimes arrest you.
A guild is a group of people who are expert at a skill or task and have banded together for ease of employment. In games guilds take many forms, from massive societies of real people in MMOs, to simple places to level up and receive quests in most RPG's
Certain foliage in video games that leads you to believe it is possible to move through when, in fact, it is not.
A character type found in RPGs, MMOs, and class based Multiplayer games that focuses on keeping friendly characters alive. Their general role is to heal/buff and resurrect fallen allies.
More effective than any hospital. These games let you heal damage; ranging from a black eye to a gunshot wound, just by having a snack.
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