Still a thing.
Password is a thing in every single lego game.
Continue is in every single Street Fighter / MvC game
Password is also a thing for every single EA game - they require a CVV and a password when you partake in the lootbox unlockables.
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Gaming jargon that isn't used much anymore
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Still a thing.
Password is a thing in every single lego game.
Continue is in every single Street Fighter / MvC game
Password is also a thing for every single EA game - they require a CVV and a password when you partake in the lootbox unlockables.
Fragging doesn't live anymore outside of Quake where-as it was used by people in numerous games during the late 90's and early early 2000's
Right in the feels
Full game
Wow! These brought me back lmaoo
Wow! These brought me back lmaoo
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Games like Battlefield used to call spawn points "uncaps" (because the enemy couldn't cap them). I haven't heard it in a while, pretty sure BF1 just calls it Headquarters.
My quote was that I never heard anyone say 128-bit irl. Magazine covers don't change that =p
I would like to nominate LAN or System Link. It's not a big thing anymore unfortunately. Many of this gen's games will die out like Chromehounds did when the servers go with no way to play them in even a neutered offline system link mode.
I still call it PSX. I refer to it as PS1 on boards just cause too many younger generations don't know it and because it's easier in a timeline sense. It's like how the Xbox is called the OG xbox now.
I still call it PSX. I refer to it as PS1 on boards just cause too many younger generations don't know it and because it's easier in a timeline sense. It's like how the Xbox is called the OG xbox now.
It used to be common last generation to express your game console agnosticism and diverse ownership by mashing up the names of the consoles you had, creating names such as "Wii60" or "PS360" and, for those who had 'em all, "PSWii60". That stopped, but then it's probably because the names of this generation of consoles isn't exactly conducive to creating portmanteaus. "PSOne", "Xbox4U"... eh.
Green up...this was used on Socom ps2 days. Let the lobby know everyone switch to ready so round could start.
In the UK i do remember fighting games being called "One-on-one beat em ups" to differentiate them from "side-scrolling beat em ups".
I think we used to refer to games like Renegade as beat em ups initially, which were single screen multi-opponent punch fests. That was about 1986-87ish.
I think we used to refer to games like Renegade as beat em ups initially, which were single screen multi-opponent punch fests. That was about 1986-87ish.
Frag is still used outside of Quake. I hear it mostly from older FPS eSports commentators, almost like a politically correct way to say "kill." It's definitely not long before it's dead, though.
no, it was the other way around! streets of rage was a fighting game and street fighter was a beat-em-up.
Spamming and timer scam are still used quite often today. Follow the scrub quotes account on twitter!
Cheesing is much less common but is still around. AYBABTU is definitely dead, that and "im in ur base killin ur d00dz" is similar and also dead.
"Lives" in general. Most games do not have a limit of 3 lives, or whatever, and then you start over. I can't think of the last time I played a game where I had to worry how many lives I had left.
I blame the infamous "heh. P0wned" video for that one.
(It's at around the 2:45 mark if you can't stomach the whole thing. Thank god for Steam.)
People calling what we used to call "slowdown" back in the day "lag" today.
I see "lag" as something caused by an online game experiencing network latency. I see "slowdown" as something in the code causing exactly what it sounds like.
Drives me bonkers.
I see "lag" as something caused by an online game experiencing network latency. I see "slowdown" as something in the code causing exactly what it sounds like.
Drives me bonkers.
This is true for me as well. I still call console, handheld and PC games 'computer games' as an overall term, due to Amstrad/Spectrum/Commodore defining 8-bit gaming for me in the 80s in the UK. 'Video games' always felt bizarrely American to me too for exactly the reason above. My video recorder didn't play games, and video tapes weren't games either (as opposed to the cassettes/tapes my computer games were on), and so I wondered if US 'video recorders' somehow played games or something if they called them 'video games'! :D
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Mind if I ask what games or a commentator you are referring to? It probably boils down to me watching non-esports streams for the most part
Agreed. In fact I never really use 'computer games', either, I just say 'games'. I'm into games, I just bought a new game, I've got a games console, etc, as do most of my friends.
If I ever did use either term it would be computer games, not video.