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Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Nov 10, 2015
The door code of Looking Glass Studios, often used in their and other studios' games as an easter egg.
An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
A scripted random event that may or may not have been intended by the developers. A source of much unintentional comedy & frustration. An example would be the Imperial foresters fighting each other over deer. Another would be a tribe chieftain getting kidnapped by UFO's in Spore.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
The value that determines how many events can take place in a character's turn in pure turn based combat as well as in the modern Fallout franchise.
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.
A compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.
Grabbing the attention of a nearby enemy NPC. Usually leads to them attacking.
Alternate realities are worlds that exists next to, in parallel of, or in place of our own.
In games, the player is usually the ambushee, not the ambusher, but certain multiplayer, stealth and open-world games give players a chance to try this sneaky tactic themselves.
Animals that follow you or help you on your journey.
Non-human secondary helper to main character and usually helping the main character when in trouble.
Usually refers to the end of the world.
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.
Assassins are people who are tasked with the action of violence against peoples, though their general aims are to be discreet and as minimally violent as possible in order to remain discreet if necessary.
A combat robot developed by RobCo. and employed by the United States military.
A gang in the Commonwealth, specializing in power armor modifications.
Attributes are a numerical representation of a character's abilities who have their roots in RPGs. Today, attributes have spilled over to a wide range of game genres.
A map that is updated in real-time as you play a level. Usually seen in FPSs and RPGs.
An immature childish person. It wears diapers and whines a lot, much like old folks. Babies are considered cute by most people.
Short one-line audio clips spoken by the NPCs that populate the game world. Can be random or in reaction to the player or events.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Because you'd never expect a banana to be an undercover cluster grenade.
Bloatfly are an enemy creature in the Fallout series.
Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.
When blood will splash textures on walls or floors and even roofs.
Bats, hammers, wrenches, maces, staves, or even brass knuckles. These are weapons intended for blunt trauma rather than cutting or slicing.
Body armor in games acts as additional protection. In most cases, when a player takes damage that would completely affect their health, their body armor reduces the damage taken or takes the damage instead.
Your body is torn apart and your organs are falling out. But don't worry, you have the ability to pull yourself back together.
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