Questions tagged [terminology]
For questions that ask what a gaming-specific term means, or what the terminology is for a gaming-specific concept.
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What is the technical name of this type of chart?
I see this type of chart in many different video games that gives a breakdown of performance in various categories. Is there a technical name for this type of chart?
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What exactly can be considered a base game?
I'm kind of new to gaming and I am somewhat confused about all the terminology regarding to types of video game releases. I would appereciate if anyone can clarify somethings for me.
As I understand ...
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What are "Top Up" games?
Someone in a Discord group I'm in mentioned "Top Up" games as being even worse than Diablo Immortal and other Gacha games in their microtransactions, but when pressed he couldn't explain the ...
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Is there such thing as an "All Glitches" Speedrun?
I enjoy watching videos about speedruns, but I'm not super knowledgeable on everything so I don't know if this exists or not.
I just wanna know if there are kinds of speedruns where the goal is to ...
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What is the origin of "s-tier" in video games? [duplicate]
It occurred to me the other day that I don't remember ever hearing the term "s-tier" (meaning the best in a tier list, far better than anyone else - the highest tier) before Super Smash Bros ...
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What's the earliest known use of the term "farming"?
The first time I saw the term farming in a videogame context was bonewall farming / "bonefarming" in Diablo 2. It makes sense in this case since you "plant" a bonewall then "...
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When did "stack" became synonymous with an instance of an effect? e.g. "Three stacks of vulnerability"
This might be a bit of a crossover question with linguistics. "Stacking" itself is a rather old concept, but referring to instances of buff/debuff as a "stack" seems to have ...
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General term for the technology that allows games to be replayed?
Apparently there is some way to store play (i.e. inputs, timing etc) of a Doom level (Ultimate Doom and Doom II) as text file, so that the precise replay can be replayed on anther person's computer ...
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Name for games that have abusive in app purchases
I am looking for a new game and finding searching hard.
The problem is that most games have in app purchases these days. So I eliminate a lot of quality games by trying to filter those out.
But at the ...
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What is a spike in Tetr.io?
I play Tetr.io a lot.
If I send a large amount of garbage, it shows a number, followed by “spike”. What is a spike?
I have found nothing, here on the Arqade, or on Google; just videos of people doing ...
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What's the difference between a grab and a command grab? [closed]
What are the differences between a grab and a command grab?
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What is a wipe in Escape from Tarkov?
Battlestate Games recently tweeted there will be wipe in the upcoming 0.12.11 patch. Viewing the responses shows that players are incredibly excited for it, but it's unclear what a wipe actually is ...
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What does 'Xbox exclusive' mean?
While E3 was going on, I saw articles pop-up with titles like 'Starfield will be Xbox exclusive!'. I was disappointed, because I had hoped it would come to PC, as well. Later on, when I was watching ...
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What does it mean for a game to be a skinner box?
I've recently seen the term skinner box thrown around more often as a derogatory term by reviewers for free-to-play games that use predatory practices to encourage players to spend more money than ...
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