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Spiritual Regrouping Videogame
Protagonist and companions attempt to face villain for final battle, but are utterly defeated. Companions appear to be gone for good before protagonist dies. Protagonist wakes to find themself in a spirit realm where a guide tells them how to save themself and companions. Protagonist regains strength then searches for each companion individually before returning to physical world to face the villain again.
Last week I finished a game that had this (although the searching was less involved) and got to the searching point in another game last night. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this elsewhere, probably in a game, but maybe in a non-interactive narrative, although the searching for individual companions bit seems especially gamey.
Convenient Clones Videogame
A situation where a game with a multiplayer component handwaves the fact that players 2-4 are simple Palette Swaps of player 1 by stating that they're basically clones of P1, or even making it so that all four players are clones of some other character, with bonus points if the original is Mission Control. Which would also justify how gameplay can continue when one of them "offs" themselves, as MC can simply call in another clone, give them an appropriately-colored outfit, then send them down to pick up where the old one left off.
Edited by Gofastmike
fall 50 feet, you die. Fall 49 feet, you're unharmed Videogame
Is there a trope for when falling damage works this way in games? Similar to Critical Encumbrance Failure or Critical Existence Failure in that you're fine until you hit some magic number/limit then bad things happen.
Spoiled by the ??? Videogame
In Mass Effect 2, one of the early missions requires you to recruit a Krogan warlord. When you finally meet him, he has been creating tank bred Krogan, and has created a "perfect" specimen. The Krogan still in the tank has a unique model, while the warlord is just a reskinned Krogan model seen everywhere else in the game. Of course, the warlord dies and the perfect Krogan is recruited, an outcome almost anyone would expect. Is this an example of Spoiled by the Format or Interface Spoiler?
Edited by Billlington
The Chosen One, but random Videogame
I'd like to pin down how Ara Fell averts The Chosen One. The heroine puts a ring, can't remove it, and is tasked by ancient spirits with saving the world. But they make it clear she was not destined in any way; for them, she's just the first person to come across the ring. They hope she can succeed, but they have no guarantee.
So the trope can be said to be defied, but does it fit any sub-trope? (Not The Unchosen One, as the heroine is quite reluctant.)
Invincible mook? Videogame
Whats the trope for a mook that's immune to everything, meaning all you can do is run/sneak past it? Example: The ballisticraft (big robots) on Rise Of The Triad.
Locked into a bad ending Videogame
The critical choice that leads to the game's bad ending has already been made, but the game gives no indication of this. You play through same kind of scenes as you'd get for the good paths for a while, then suddenly hit the bad ending. Fairly common in the kind of Visual Novel that isn't explicit about what kind of effect your choices will have down the road.
Character Can Never Be Loved Videogame
Hey tropers. Is there any trope that is specifically about a character being unable to have any positive relationship with absolutely anyone due to a supernatural curse of some kind? I'm trying to find a trope like this for the video game Gal*Gun, where the protagonists of the first two games have to find their One True Love by a certain deadline or lose their chance at a romantic relationship forever. Failure also apparently stops all men, women, or animals from feeling any love for the protagonist from that point onward, and this is the line that prompted this search.
I've dug through the indexes of Love Tropes and Hated Characters, and can't really think of where else to look. Thanks in advance!
Video game Traps trope? Videogame
I'm updating the entry VideoGame.Lemmings Revolution and am trying to find a trope other than Death Trap for these features that exist In-Universe in the game:
- The regular green-haired, blue-bodied lemmings can't walk across water or acid, but there are:
- Pale green-haired, white-shirt-wearing lemmings who can walk across water but not acid
- Bright red-haired, green T-shirt-wearing lemmings who can walk across acid but not water.
- A switch can be moved left or right to open or close a platform
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- There's an anti-gravity pad◊ that allows the lemmings to fall upwards and walk on the ceiling.
What Video Game Tropes fit these situations for this work page?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Quake and Thunder Videogame
Do you remember the fantastic "dangerous weather" in Tiberian Sun? Ion storms, meteor showers, ice cracking under a vehicle's weight... Something like that was in Battle at Procyon too (black holes, asteroids and volcanos). What's the name of the trope for this kind of mechanics in a videogame?
Critical Success Videogame
Sister of Critical Hit, opposite of Critical Failure, this describes the chance of something other than damage being "extra successful". Like this:
- Honkai Impact3rd: when you fill a weapon's EXP with the materials, there's a chance that you'll fill it with 1.5 times the amount or, rarely, 2 times. This makes leveling up the weapons take less amount of materials and money, if you're lucky enough.
Game with no characters Videogame
Is there a trope for a game with no actual characters? Pong being an example.
Simon says boss Videogame
What's the trope for what I call a "Simon Says Boss" which is where (usually in MMORPGS) the boss will say or do a certain thing and the people fighting him have to preform some action or something bad will happen e.g a boss might stop and raise his sword over his head every few minutes and unless everyone gets out of melee range within a certain amount of time he uses some really nasty attack that hits everyone.
MY HP runneth over Videogame
Is there a trope for how it's possible in some games (usually RP Gs) to get buffs and the like which can raise your hp over your normal max? (So that your health meter will read something like "300/250".
Sex with the band Videogame
We have Groupie in TLP, but do we have a trope for the groupie whose goal is to bang one or more people in the band? I put this in Video Game because the example I have in mind is a bit of a parody.
Edited by Willbyr
Only make sense in player’s perspective Videogame
When a game design something that only make sense from a player’s perspective and not in universe.
An enemy weaker than normal. Videogame
An enemy weaker than normal.
Like:
- VideoGame.Eternal Senia Hydrangea After The Rain: Giant Mushrooms take double damage from every source, unless guarding, where upon they take 1/8 of normal damage.
Lowered Monster Difficulty? Giant Mushrooms are the first boss...
Edited by Malady
Level taking place inside another characters mind? Videogame
Is there a trope for a level that takes place in another characters mind? Usually with a lot of symbolism involved in what enemies you fight and the like.
Enemies always fight to the death Videogame
Is there a trope for how in a lot of video-games (particularly older ones, due to limited A.I) enemies always fight to the death even when it's clear they have no chance?
Question about FourLinesAllWaiting Videogame
In ‘’Video Game/Warlight’’ you are able to do huge 20 player free for all games. Because of the fact that you are encouraged to make alliances some games can become huge story’s with several plot lines. Does this count as Four Lines, All Waiting
Edited by syyghq
As long as your hands are clean Videogame
What would the trope be for this situation (in a large-scale strategy game):
A wants to conquer a city held by B. But since A and B are allies, he waits for the city to be conquered by C before swooping in to attack the weakened C, conquering the city without the backstabbing penalties since it technically belonged to C at the time.
In a similar case, A conquers a city and immediately sells it to B. The city is conquered by C soon afterwards, leaving A the clear winner (since B spent a large amount of money and has no city to show for it).
It's not False Flag Operation because A didn't negotiate with C, do anything to induce C to attack, or dress up as C.
Edited by Chabal2
Trope where special weapons in one game becomes common in sequels? Videogame
Is there a trope that describes how something that was unique and specialized in one installment of a game series becomes more commonplace in sequels?
In the Ace Combat series, the "Tactical Laser System" was a sub-weapon only available to the FALKEN and Morgan, two Super Planes that were obscenely powerful in their own right, and a Bragging Rights Reward that required multiple playthroughs to unlock. Having a laser that could kill planes almost instantly was their defining feature. Come Ace Combat 7, which takes place further along in the series' own timeline, and the TLS is now a subweapon available to use on more common jet fighters like the F-15 Eagle, F-22 Raptor, and Su-37 Terminator.
I'm trying to find a trope that can convey this example.
Edited by DRCEQ
Same powers, different results Videogame
Two people have the same kind of powers, but use them in different ways. For example: A Badass and Child Duo, where both can use the same magical spells, with this trope coming into effect when either person tries to combine a certain pair of spellsnote into a Yin-Yang Bomb. When the "child" tries to use it, they simply smash the requisite spells together like water balloons, with predictable results. But when the "Badass" uses the same two spells in the same manner, they instead perform a form of Ability Mixing that successfully combines the two spells into one, followed by them creating a colossal energy beam that not only manages to instantly kill any enemies that are unlucky enough to be in the way, but it also makes any allies caught in the crossfire immortal for the next few seconds.
Basically; when one person uses it, the result (literally) explodes in their face, due to not being able to wield it properly. But when another person uses manages to successfully cast it, the result is a few hours short of an 11th-Hour Superpower.
Edited by Gofastmike
Platformers Near Always Use Animal Characters Videogame
Do we have a trope for platformers having animal characters as their main characters? Not necessarily a Mascot with Attitude but just an animal.
Swap Tracks Videogame
Having 2 variants of the same track in order to perform an in-place Tone Shift without interrupting the flow of the music.
Edited by SomePerson