6/19/2023 0 Comments Gamer lingo try hardBut on the plus side, loot!ĭRM: An expensive and controversial way of making pirates wait almost a week to play the latest games, sometimes.Įarly Access: A way to get access to your future favourite games long before they’re any fun, and be sick of the sight of them by release. It is rarely particularly clear who built these things and why. Typically like playing a party based game of Dungeons and Dragons with your friends, only without the need for a Dungeon Master to handle the action, dice to determine results, or indeed, friends.Ĭover system: A way of spending entire battles staring at the side of a crate, occasionally popping up into the air to trade shots like they’re Pokémon cards.Ĭrouch jump: A height-giving move better appreciated than imagined.Ĭlass: In which the vast possibilities of the universe are condensed into a few more easily balanced archetypes, the female variants usually wishing they got proper armour.Ĭlosed beta: A brief period of time where developers give a game to fans to test, and then pretend that all of their problems and complaints will actually be fixed before release.Ĭutting edge: About $400 more than you secretly know you actually needed to spend.Ĭutscene: A scene intended to convey plot, which in most cases should have been cut.ĭifficulty level: A decision you’re asked to make by psychically predicting what the developer's definition actually entails, and are then stuck with even if they turn out to be sadists.ĭouble-jump: An affront to physics so common, it is its absence that often feels strange.ĭungeon: A sprawling world of monsters and treasure and occasionally a cell. (And always delicious.)Ĭheckpoint: Thing that you die a hundred times before reaching.Ĭooldown: The amount of time you have to feel depressed between using cool attacks.Ĭonsole: Something non-PC owners will need once their new toy becomes outdated.ĬRPG: Computer Role Playing Game. Cheese is increasingly spreadable thanks to the internet. Probably jaywalking in improbable expanding patterns.īunny hop: The act of jumping in a first-person shooter, specifically to be annoying.Ĭheese: Any strategy that enables players to win in a manner unforeseen by the developers. It is not clear what the bullets did to deserve their damnation. Debuff is the negative, yet Debuffest is highly regarded.īullet hell: Games and mechanics that involve filling the screen with dangerous projectiles. May repeatedly attempt to charge and headbutt you despite being knocked unconscious with every failed attempt.īuff: A beneficial effect placed on a character to make them stronger or shinier. See free to play.īattle Royale: Games in which you hide inside an increasingly smaller series of circles.īoss: A particularly tough enemy that proves its wits and tactical savvy by either living in a room designed to kill it, or a dungeon containing a weapon which is its only weakness. Night Shyamalan movie.īattle pass: A to-do list you pay for. Come in many flavours, occasionally including tall and blue, but none worse than that M. Or a grammatically incorrect way of saying ‘an RPG’.Īssassin’s Creed: Ubisoft wishing you a Happy New Year.Īutosave: Something you know you shouldn’t switch your PC off during, but occasionally feel the urge to just to stick one to that smug spinning icon.Īvatar: A player character, usually customisable. Action: A niche genre defined by things happening, sometimes things involving movement.Īdventure: A point and click-based genre involving wonderful worlds, often hilarious dialogue, epic tales, and mindbending puzzles that any sane person would solve by taking $20 to the nearest hardware store instead of stealing from tramps and whipping up chlorine gas.Īimbot: A cheat that cheaters use to have the computer aim for them, the cheats.ĪRPG: Action RPG.
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