DaikaGrubba 05
Blight Club
Game Mess Mornings 06/05/24
GrubbSnax
843: Worked Wish
Giant Bombcast
GB@Nite 5-Timer's Club
The Community Spotlight 2024.06.01
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.25
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.18
Game » consists of 0 releases. Released Sep 25, 2020
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Destructible cover is an increasingly popular feature in shooters, even those without cover systems. It is used to encourage creative tactics both in single-player and multiplayer.
A dog is an animal, of which there are estimated to be 400 million of in the world. Said to be man's best friend, they naturally appear in many video games.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
The usage of drugs by the protagonist or NPCs.
Life altering and potentially dangerous, drugs come in a large variety of forms. In most games, drugs can have significantly different physical and social effects on video game characters.
Some characters get drunk off of alcohol - often this is portrayed with blurred vision, impaired movement, or slurred speech.
Ahh, eating... We can't live without it, and, apparently, neither can some characters. From snakes to dots, games have odd ways of dishing out their dishes.
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
In some free roaming driving games such as Mafia and the Driver series, a speed limit is enforced by the police as opposed to games such as the GTA series where such felonies are ignored.
A digital distribution platform operated by Epic Games.
To elude, escape, or get away from. Some games require players to escape from some people or things to perform some objective or avoid death.
Some games feature a system where a character near death can be dazed into a 'down but not out' state; while their allies can often revive them if they reach the downed character quickly enough, their enemies can perform special, frequently gruesome, execution attacks against such characters.
An environmental hazard that can be exploited to inflict massive areal damage, exploding barrels are one of the most ubiquitous objects to be found in games. The most common methods of ignition include shooting and throwing. Exploding barrels are usually distinguished from the non-exploding kind by a conspicuous red tint.
In many games there lies an ominous pressurized gas tank within the levels to help or harm the players. These tanks are filled with many different types of combustible gases that either explode on impact or have physics applied to them and rocket propel themselves across the level.
In real life, vehicles rarely explode unless an actual explosive device is involved. Like, it almost never happens. In video games, on the other hand, cars will blow up real good with almost no encouragement.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
In order to avoid licensing issues, many games simply create fictional car brands.
Fictional places and locations in games that are inspired by actual places. These fictional places do not bear the same name as the real place, but can be recognized due to landmarks and structure.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
Introduced in MK II, these new finishers would no longer kill or brutally beat down your opponent. Instead, your character would present them with a gesture of love and friendship, much to the announcer's disappointment.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
The head honcho of a group of miscreants
A gang isn't just two crude dudes, it's a whole mess of them. There's all kinds of different gangs represented in games: street gangs, organized criminals, and even high school cliques.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
HD collections are multiple games in a franchise that have been remastered to comform to HD standards and then put on a single disc.
HD Remaster is a term to a single game that has been updated to conform with the HD standards on that console.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
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