109
Voicemail Dump Truck
Game Mess Mornings 03/28/24
GrubbSnax
The Community Spotlight 2024.03.23
The Community Spotlight 2024.03.16
The Community Spotlight 2024.03.09
Location »
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Audio logs are short voice recordings that a player comes across within a game that helps inform the player of the game's story and characters.
The Concordance Extraction Corporation, or CEC, is the mining company in the Dead Space franchise.
Effective and brutal way to put an opponent down. Involves stomping on the back of someone's head while they're in a prone position.
Many RPGs and survival horror games have the player find diaries written by people that were slowly transforming into monsters or zombies. Somehow, they make sure to keep writing in their diary, right up until they're no longer human, so that the player can read their mindlessly violent final thoughts.
Decapitation is the removal of the head of a person or animal.
Malevolent creatures that resemble babies for one reason or another. The ironic juxtaposition of innocence with evil, plus the player's natural reluctance to hurt a baby, makes them a popular trope in horror games.
Typically naval (ocean or space) in nature, a vessel is considered derelict if it is abandoned, damaged, drifting, or otherwise inoperable. While often scavenged through, very rarely are they completely empty.
The severing of limbs is a good way for designers to make every battle a bloodier, gorier mess. Or sillier in the right situations.
The concept of seemingly religious phenomena being explained as the work of alien civilizations.
Long elevator rides meant to hide the game loading.
Games that feature enemies that were at one point unconscious in a sealed glass or metallic chamber (generally full of goo). Most of the time, the enemies break through the chamber to attack the player or are activated by an outside force.
Footprints are visible marks left behind by a character walking.
Gravity is a physical phenomenon, specifically the mutual attraction between all objects in the universe. In a gaming setting, gravity determines the relationship between the player and the "ground," preventing the player or game objects from flying off into space, and hopefully acting in a predictable/realistic manner.
Placing the player in an environment and making them feel alone. Games often use this for atmospheric effect.
A MacGuffin is a plot device, having little importance itself, which exists purely in order to motivate characters and/or advance the story.
They may be good or evil, but mad scientists are always performing experiments that are on the outer fringes of science. Ever since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, they've been in the scene.
Somebody wrote or drew a message on the wall, maybe it was in blood, maybe they had a marker handy; but now here you are, reading it.
Necromorphs are the enemies in the Dead Space franchise. The Necromorph infection uses deceased bodies as hosts and forms hideously mutated shapes to adapt to more effective killing styles. Originally encountered on deep-space mining colony Aegis VII, it is believed that the infection originated from the Red Marker.
Planet destruction sometimes a gameplay mechanic, sometimes a plot point. Should cover pending as well as actual destruction.
Strategic dismemberment allows players to separate an enemy's limbs from its body without killing it, disabling limb-specific functions.
Survival is a concept that signifies that the player's life is constantly in jeopardy.
Major religion of the game Dead Space. Members believe that the scientist Michael Altman discovered an alien artifact on Earth and was later assassinated for it.
Battle becomes something new entirely when there's no up or down.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment