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Earning an extra life, either by collecting a 1up or by hitting a certain score.
Classic form of numbering that gives things a more regal feel.
Fatalities are a means of ending a fighting game match by gruesomely murdering the loser. It was popularized as a finishing move performed at the end of a match in Mortal Kombat.
Finishing moves are typically moves that end a fight in a traditional fighting game.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
Gameplay type emphasizing deliberately paced tactical battle where each side politely takes turns moving and attacking one another through varied forms of combat.
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.
Monarchs and their families.
"Vore" is an internet term for a sexual fetish for the act of a creature swallowing someone else whole while they are still alive. The act is also seen in many video games, in a decidedly less sexual manner.
Flattening is taking something three dimensional, and somehow making it very thin almost two dimensional. It can be used for comedic effect or a character to use it to fight through tight spaces.
One of the world's oldest board games, using eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a queen and king.
A humanoid construct given life through magic. The materials used to create a golem vary greatly.
Games that ask the player whether they are sure about the decision that they have just made.
A digital distribution platform operated by Epic Games.
Comic book or manga characters who are also in video games. There are tons of games with superheros such as Batman and Spider-Man out there.
Whether it has voice over or not, text bubbles are a way of reading the dialog that a character on screen is saying and or thinking.
Video games that are based on comic books, manga and graphic novels.
Games that have animals (except humans) as the main character. The character must be playable.
Non-human secondary helper to main character and usually helping the main character when in trouble.
Games which have nothing to do with each other, but have the same title.
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