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Action RPG (Action Role-Playing Game), also known as ARPG, refers to RPGs (role-playing games) that use direct, real-time, reflex-oriented, action combat systems, instead of the more abstract turn-based or menu-based battle systems.
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
When text, usually dialogue, makes a sound as it comes onto the screen. This sometimes represents the sound of a character's voice, in the absence of voice acting.
Combining or raising animals, plants, or any variant of living items into a child or new item.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
Carefully exploring a large, labyrinthine area full of enemies (i.e., a dungeon) in the hopes of finding treasure, leveling up, or completing a specific task. Having their roots in tabletop games, video game dungeon crawls are found almost exclusively in RPGs.
The 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on July 15-17.
A competition where contestants attempt to eat as much as possible with in a certain amount of time.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
A person, often a gypsy woman, gifted in diviniation through some kind of inate power or mysticism, usually with the aid of a crystal ball.
Games that have a (usually) unique title, but then identifies that it is a sequel, spin-off, or other affiliation to a pre-existing franchise via its subtitle.
Constantly performing an in-game action to progress a certain attribute.
The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Nintendo's online service. It supported the Wii and Nintendo DS.
Small forage fish that grows up to 8 inches. Lives in regions with shores in the Arctic and Northern Pacific. Can survive in landlocked bodies of fresh water as well as rivers, brackish deltas, and the ocean.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Various fish species that fall under the Salmonidae family, known for traveling to the ocean from riverbeds upon hatching and returning to the freshwater beds to spawn.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Those creatures that go 'baa' and grow wool on their backs.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
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