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Abilitease is an aspect of game design wherein a game will provide a glimpse of your full skill-set at or near the start, only to remove most of these skills, stats, and abilities soon after.
Short one-line audio clips spoken by the NPCs that populate the game world. Can be random or in reaction to the player or events.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
The process of fighting, but with dance.
The twenty-fourth Electronic Entertainment Expo was held June 12-14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
Extreme violence pertains to excessive amounts of blood, gore, or violent acts. These include decapitation, mutilation, dismemberment, amputation, defenestration, disembowelment, torture and much more.
A style of fast-paced melee combat in third person action-adventure games that is based off combos, chains and counters. Often involves using the environment to help subdue enemies.
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.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
A digital storefront which donates some of its profits to charity.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
When a game's villain seems to be constantly watching and commenting on the player's actions.
While all games on PlayStation 3 (2009 onwards) and later consoles have trophies, only games deemed large enough get to have the coveted Platinum Trophy for earning every Trophy in the base game.
The third annual PlayStation Experience took place on December 3-4, 2016 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
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!
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
A broad spectrum of games can be described as remakes, from straightforward graphical overhauls to extensive revision of gameplay and story elements. In the most basic sense, a remake keeps the original's core gameplay and plot but makes significant changes to peripheral aspects.
Exactly three times more impressive than a normal S-rank.
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.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Games officially verified by Valve to be fully playable on Steam Deck.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
Whether with a button press or menu, taunts destroy friendships and can even make the computer go crazy.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 2000 and 2009.
The yakuza are Japanese organized crime syndicates. Members are often identified by their elaborate tattoos.
The collective body of all the Kanto regions yakuza clans, consisting of up to 30,000 men. Originally founded by Makoto Tojo.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
A subscription service from Microsoft on Xbox platforms and Windows 10. Described as "Netflix for video games", users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles or buy to own them at a discount price.
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