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Experience Points are part of a character advancement system commonly found in RPGs. These points are generally gained by defeating an enemy or completing a task.
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
Falling blocks appear in many games.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
Fetch is a game played between a pet and its owner. The owner throws an object and the pets goal is to retrieve it.
The film grain effect gives games a cinematic feel by simulating the grainy visuals that are present in some movies.
Literally meaning "black film," film noir is a term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas. This unique style of storytelling and cinematography is often incorporated into video games.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
An emerging trend. The only objective? Achieve your optimum physique.
Flashbacks take a player into a flashback sequence. Often playable, but not always.
A small, parasitic insect that can hop great distances. They can be killed with a flea collar, but good luck finding one that small and getting it around its neck.
Some games want to stand out on the retail shelf, and being shiny is one way to do that. Sometimes the foil is simply shiny and other times they stand out even more by being holographic.
A frameup, or framing, is when someone tries to convince people someone else committed a crime. It could be in the form of leaving false clues or giving out false information.
A safeguard method of adding friends to friends lists on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Bet a little or bet the house. How much you win depends on how much you wager.
Since 1998, an independent group of about forty worldwide media outlets who determine the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Game Developers Choice Awards is an annual awards ceremony recognizing the work of video game developers of the previous year. Since 2001, it has been held during the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
The seventh annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2006.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
A character or a disembodied voice will say the name of the video game. Depending on the mood of the game, this could range from shouting the game's name to ominously whispering it.
Following in the tradition of Nintendo games carrying a "Super" prefix for SNES or a "64" suffix for N64, these games contain "Wii" in the title.
Game titles that pose a rhetorical question to the player. Occasionally, these titles are accompanied with an exclamation point to form an interrobang.
A characteristic present in game characters with a superior state of mind reflected in how they solve problems and their way of approaching situations.
Controlling by using different gestures such as touch, swing, twist, flick, and more!
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.
Goombas are common enemies in the Mario games.
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.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
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