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Actually Impossible Achievement Videogame
Similar to That One Achievement, except the achievement is actually impossible to get. The game is broken or glitched.
Short-Hopping Mooks Videogame
There's a lot of enemies in video games that don't do much other than taking a short leap at the player. Is there a page for that?
Reflect Character Videogame
A character whose most unique quality is that they react to everything about you, even in a game where most NPC react to the things that happened, they have broader subjects that they reflect on and with more frequency, such as your stats, favorite weapon type, class, faction, loadout, moral alignment, status effect, what quests you completed recently, recently most killed enemies types... etc.
Edited by Andermann
Attraction Points Videogame
Do we have a page for the gameplay trope where you can raise attraction points between characters?
Bullet Grazing Videogame
We have this one, right? Bullet Hell games give a bonus for getting really close to the bullets without letting them hit you. Touhou has it, Deltarune has it, I'm sure many games have it but I'm not that into the genre so I'm out of examples.
Sneaky speaking (or All Mooks Are Blind and Deaf) Videogame
I was wondering if there's a trope for how people can speak pretty much normally in video game stealth sections and still not be heard, or how the mook can stare right at the player without noticing them? Or would that count as part of The Guards Must Be Crazy?
Stronghold Sidequest Videogame
DO we have a trope for when a video game (usually an rpg) has A Home Owner Is You elements but with a more political/military bent? example i can think of include
- Vigil's Peak from ''Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
- Skyhold from Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Caed Nua from Pillars of Eternity
- I haven't played Pathfinder: Kingmaker yet but it seems to be all this
- Fighter's Stronghold from Baldur's Gate
Treetanium Alloy Videogame
The indestructible force of nature that is immune to all forms of punishment, that halts all momentum when driving, the infamous trees, stopping us dead in our tracks and providing hazards where buildings are impractical
Stop the decay of the world Videogame
In the Dark Souls Series we have the idea of a cyclic world.
Age of Ancients -> Age of Fire -> Age of Dark
The beings in the Age of Fire are afraid of the Age of Dark and therefore they try to avoid the coming of the Age of Dark by prolonging the Age of Fire artificially.
In the Age of Fire we have something that is called "the first flame". It works like the "life-force of the world" of the Age of Fire. But it fades and that means decay and the coming of the Age of Dark. The beings in the Age of Fire begin to use souls as fuel for the first flame. They believe that could keep it burning and keep also the coming of the Age of Dark away.
Are there other fantasy worlds that work like this?
I mean especially ideas like:
-prolonging this age artificially because the next age sucks or stop the cycle from ongoing by prolonging this age
-use souls (or whatever) as fuel (power source) to keep the world young and avoid its decay
Edited by Globi
Not so NPC Videogame
Npcs that can be unlocked as playable-characters upon finishing the game or completing some challenge(or using cheatcode).
Edited by Andermann
Easy Mode Punishment Videogame
Beyond Easy-Mode Mockery, there's an option that makes the early part of the game much less challenging, and the rest of it much harder. For example, a survival game where you can pick a skill that makes it easy to build a home base, but no other use.
video game mailbox Videogame
A message box in a video game where you can receive in-character messages from the characters.
Cutscene knowledge and Forgetful quest givers Videogame
This is sort of a metagaming trope. Your party is given a quest to go and do x thing, a while after leaving you get some sort of cutscene back at the quest giver where they say something like "Oh I should have told them not to do y in those caves".
In many games this would be followed immediately by another cutscene with the party doing y and you deal with the consequences.
However for the case I am talking about this happens. You go get the quest, leave, see the cutscene with the quest giver. But now you can go back and talk to the quest giver again. Does he remind you of that thing he remembered? No, you still need to bumble into whatever it was he should have told you. When you talk to him you'll just get "oh how's the quest going?"
Do we have a trope for this? Where you get a cutscene but going back to talk with the guy after it changes nothing?
Hopeless Level? Videogame
Basically a Hopeless Boss Fight, but as a level. Plot reasons mean that you will never win the level.
You deserve this Videogame
A lots of games let you make choices, but like real life, choices have consequences.
What is the trope when the game punish player for doing the wrong thing?
Like aggroing an NPC that is undefeatable will get you killed, make a lots of dumb decision and the whole kingdom want to dead?
Systemic Gameplay Videogame
Basically what's described in this video
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When a game's systems are completely intertwined (i.e. the complete opposite of self contained obstacles which only respond to one ability).
Edited by Bisected8
"Evil Media" Videogame
Ok, so this is a cliche used in online comedic review shows, and it's when the game, movie or other like piece of media being covered- usually low in quality in the opinion of the reviewer- comes alive and encompasses evil in some form, usually trying to either force the critic to review itself or straight-up harm or kill the reviewer (sometimes maybe even both). It's been used to death, almost certainly to the point of being a trope of sorts. For instance, James Rolfe uses it quite a lot- a famous example would be the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.) episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd, where R.O.B. turns all of the games on James Rolfe's shelf into Gyromite and Stackup before proceeding to terrorize the city. Another one is in Jon Tron's review of "Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts," in which the game straps him to his chair and forces him to play it forever.
Is there already a documented trope of this? If not then someone should almost definitely create one (I'd offer to do so if that's the case). Also, I put the question under "Videogame", but only because there weren't any general options of any sort.
Combinatoric search for a solution Videogame
In Graphic Adventures, when the player gets stuck and just tries to USE any item in their inventory WITH any object in the game in order to solve the puzzles.
Edited by eroock
This isn't AntiGrinding, but what is it? Videogame
In Miitopia, if your party members aren't evenly leveled, the game will award bonus EXP that you can give to whichever Mii you like. This is clearly intended to boost your low-level Miis and even things out, but you're not at all required to actually go along with that.
Originally, this mechanic was listed as an example of Anti-Grinding, which definitely isn't right. Leaked Experience was my first thought, but that doesn't seem correct either.
AI customization Videogame
For games with a multiplayer component which have an AI/botmatch mode, these modes allow you to customize the aspect of the AI bots. AI-based game mods also count.
Edited by AM_NK
Need to help everyone to get what you need Videogame
Is there a trope for having to help everyone and their mother with their problems before they agree to help you?
Two examples I can think of:
- In Red Dead Redemption, John Marston finds himself doing a lot of favors for snake oil salesmen, craven grave robbers, corrupt government officials (on both sides of the border), and others to track down Bill Williamson and his other former gang partners.
- In Mass Effect 2, Shepard has to help some of their possible recruits out with personal requests before they join, from helping Samara find a manifest in her hunt for a fugitive to helping Mordin cure a plague on Omega, a task which gives us the relevant quote: "Just once, I'd like to ask someone for help and hear them say 'Sure, let's go, right now'."
Gameplay isn't literal Videogame
When the gameplay of a game isn't intended as a completely literal representation of in-universe events. Almost every videogame works like this to some extent or another since you can't exactly program the entirety of real life into a game. I was wondering if we have a page for something like this yet. Not the same as gameplay/story segregation because it's not about the gameplay being consistent with the story or not, it's just that the gameplay is a slightly indirect representation of the story.
Edited by homestar
The Batter Videogame
When the protagonist/player-character turns out to be evil and the player didn't know. Named after the player-character from the game OFF in which this happens. And it can't just be the character switching sides; they were always evil in the game's plot.
Ambiance animals in games Videogame
Is there a trope for random birds, fish, insects, and other animals inserted into a game primarily for atmosphere, ambiance, and to make the setting feel more complete or the world more lived in and less empty? They may or may not be killable, but they usually serve no direct gameplay purpose for being there.