Showing posts with label Guide to Gaming Terminology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guide to Gaming Terminology. Show all posts

Friday, 28 September 2012

Guide to Gaming Terminology: Boss


A creature within a game, usually found at the conclusion of an act, which, despite its imposing size and appearance of intelligence, is doomed to repeat the same irrational sequence of violent movements until it has been itself beaten, cut and shot enough that a corresponding gauge has been emptied, whereupon it either dies or withdraws.

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Guide to Gaming Terminology: Physics Game


Any game in which the simulated physics are wildly inconsistent or else a hideous parody of real world physics, usually both.