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Gaming jargon that isn't used much anymore
- Thread starter Phediuk
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This is still around.
For example:
Anthem is going to be a Killer App for Bioware - it's either going to kill it in sales or it's going to kill Bioware.
I hear this regularly mentioned as a boss fountain these days. Haven't heard goreshadowing before.
if you think about it, it's kind of weird we call multiplayer content you play on 'maps'. it's just board/sheets thesaurusing.
It's a term coined by Anthony and Ashly Burch during a 2011 episode of "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playing?"
Camping is alive and well in PUBG, no way to get to the end without some good ol gun slinging hide and go seek, and lets not even start discussing bunkering down in a building without any kills if you somehow land in the middle of the circle.
I still see mobs being used in FFXIV and the word is also the primary term used in Minecraft to describe any sort of living entity, including non hostile NPCs.
It's funny to go back to the tricks section of game magazines before about 1992 and see tips to get "an extra man". Meaning "extra life".
Hell I still refer to Switch's + button, X1's Menu button, and PS4's Options button as the Start button.
If you watch PUBG streams you'll hear this term used about 800 times per day
Still alive in the fighting game community. People crave arcade-perfect ports of 2D sprite based fighters. That's why the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has got us all excited- every single one of the games will be arcade-perfect.
In fighting games, people would call super moves in fighting games "specials" or "special moves". I still call them that.
Given the advent of Online play and less and less AAA games having local multiplayer anymore, "Screenlooker/ing" is something I hardly hear anymore.
gib·lets
ˈjibləts/
noun
- the liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
Very few demos...but yes, betas are essentially demos. Sometimes they are run as closed and offer limited features and test the servers (Sea of Thieves) but when a 'beta' comes out 2 weeks before launch (Star Wars Battlefront 2) then it's laughingly NOT a beta. It's a demo that is disguised as a beta and is there for no other reason but to get free publicity and marketing (with SOME server testing).
The last time I heard a classic was when a buddy of mine asked me how many "bits" my New 3DS XL was. My response was "I...uh...what?"
Pretty glad we don't hear "cinematic" much anymore. That was a big one in the late '90s and early 2000s.
Pretty glad we don't hear "cinematic" much anymore. That was a big one in the late '90s and early 2000s.
I've avoided the online FF's. Prefer my FF's old school. MOB goes way way back further than Minecraft but its interesting to me they still use it as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_(gaming)