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Game » consists of 3 releases. Released Sep 27, 2011
A protagonist who lacks some or all of the qualities traditionally seen as heroic.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
A huge boss that often must be climbed upon to kill.
One of the age-old narrative structures in literature, in which a young protagonist faces conflict that transforms him or her into a mature adult. This is an especially common device in RPGs.
In a franchise, it entails the second game that takes on a gritty and dark tone to distinguish it from the first.
The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 7-9.
Water that has been exposed to electricity. Often functions as a puzzle the player must solve to proceed.
Women in Refrigerators (or "Fridging" for short) is an unfortunately popular plot device in storytelling where female characters are killed off or brutally harmed for the sole purpose of having an impact on a male character. The term was coined by comic book writer Gail Simone.
The fourth annual Game of the Year awards from Giant Bomb.
HD collections are multiple games in a franchise that have been remastered to comform to HD standards and then put on a single disc.
Horse riding is mostly used in games to get around from one place to another quicker than you could on foot. They can also sometimes be used in combat or racing.
Equines that go 'neigh' and tend to eat hay. Some are the stars of motion pictures. The truest of companions to many adventurers.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
A graphical effect used in video games where an object blocks light and around the edges of the object the light is significantly brighter than normal.
A mode that allows a game to be replayed after a first completion, carrying over items, experience, weapons, and other elements from the first playthrough.
Any game that does not have any written or spoken dialogue in it, regardless if it has characters or not. This includes any text or recorded dialogue that is spoken by a character or narrator, but not text such as "Press Start".
Normal mapping is an integral part in making believable visuals. Using advanced surface information in conjunction with light information, an artist is able to define an incredible amount of detail on any low polygon model.
Damage modeling added to a character throughout a game that lasts through the duration of the game.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
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!
When the character the player is controlling dies as part of the game's plotline.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Remote Play allows users access to a PS3 wirelessly via a PSP or PS Vita
Games that have art on the inside of the game case, to double the decoration.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Shakey Cam is the use of shaking the camera in a game in order to give the feeling of chaos, disorientation or realism. It is usually used in action games when moving at fast speeds or when a large impact or explosion occurs.
An aesthetic sub-genre of fantasy, focusing on brutal barbarians and arcane wizardly magic.
2010 Edition of the Tokyo Game Show that is to be held from September 16 to September 19.
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