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Actually all those terms have slightly different definitions. My video game design textbook really goes into detail over the subtle differences.

>Stage = Level

No retard Act = Level

>>14322499

I don't know anyone that calls "Lives" 1up, extended play, or free man. Maybe you should stop talking to people who don't play video games, OP.

>>14322499

>Opening Poster = OP = Fag

>level used first in games like Donkey Kong where your literally scaling upward

>stage in more self aware games where you're fulfilling a sequence of a story or 'play'

>map for multilayer/top-down games, or what the devs called it in the game's files

<catsup=ketchup=tomato batter

>>14322499

Why the hell does map piss you off? It's the most reasonable of the three there.

It's just jargon.

It's found everywhere.

>Free man

I've never heard someone say this shit, it sounds retarded enough to be real and used in reddit

>>14322499

Maplefrogs call stages/levels boards.

>>14322576

>What is Sonic

"Avatar" and "board" as video game terms don't really get used much any more.

>that one faggot who mentions a game series by its acronym phonetically

>>14322557

>rare deepwater jew

It's for my video game design degree. Lots of colleges have been offering them now.

>>14322620

for got to reply you. >>14322703

>>14322703

What's the title, guvnah?

>>14322601

Wracking my brain, the only time I can think of hearing the phrase was by timmy turner's black friend when they got trapped in a video game.

It makes sense at least and was thought up before reddit was a thing.

>>14322619

Sonic uses it the same way. A "zone" is a level, and is composed of acts.

Clip

>Board

>Paddle

>Clicker

>>14322601

It's really old. It dates to arcades. When you get an extra life in an arcade game, it's a "free" man, because it doesn't cost you extra quarters.

>>14322518

underrated post tbh

>>14322744

How about Miss player instead?

>>14322744 (checked)

lol

>>14322576

A set of levels is called a stage stupid.

>>14322499

>Soulsborne

>Metroidvania

>OP when referring to a weapon or item or ability that they believe is too effective or powerful and should be nerfed

>Roguelike

Basically any shitty retarded terms that don't need to exist.

>>14322499

Get over it.

>>14322812

>"Metoidvania"

>has zero RPGlite elemtents

>>14322812

Roguelike is fine when it is used to refer to games that are actually like Rogue, because it really is a genre of its own. It's only retarded if you use to mean "a game of any genre with around as many random elements as diablo"

>>14322816

>denying dubs

Go fuck yourself you fucking newfag.

>>14322515

No, a level is a measure of power, as in "I am a level 15 paladin", stupid.

>>14322853

Diablo 1 was created as a graphical, simplified version of Rogue.

>>14323161

>spoonfeeding such an obvious fucking concept that you could just as easily google

You're not much better dhipshit.

Levels and stages are sequential, maps are not.

>>14322737

>not Just Defend

>>14323447

>not Just Communication

>>14322499

>free man

I’ve heard extra guy, but not free man.

I've never understood why people call kills in FPSs "frags". I assume it comes from using grenades, but why use it when you shoot people?

Also calling your character in an MMO a "toon". You aren't playing bugs bunny.

A CLIP IS NOT A MAGAZINE YOU CUNT, A CLIP REFERS TO OTHER THINGS BUT IS NOT A MAGAZINE

>>14322499

Map is just a synonym for level used by some games, such as tactical games. Level is used more often but they are equivalent. There is no need to be upset.

>>14325400

I'll clip ur mom's magazine nerd

>>14325301

Blame Quake.

>>14322556

>Forgetting tomato smoothie

>>14322543

>Opening Poster

Wew fucking lad.

>>14322601

I'm youngfag and even I know people used to say free man, or extra man based on how extra attempts were often represented a little sprite of the player character in the corner.

>>14322511

Post this pseudointellectual cancer you fag. I want to see the miserable state of education surrounding vidya.

>1up = Extended Play = Free man

They're called extra lives, who the fuck says "extended play" or "free man"?

>>14325736

>who the fuck says "extended play"

The Japanese.

>who the fuck says "free man"?

Oldfags.

>>14325736

"free man" is something that might have been said in the NES era and basically never again. Then again, all three of those sound like ancient terms

>>14325773

>1-up

>ancient

They still use it in tons of Mario games, just not Odyssey. Christ, are you twelve and Odyssey was your Mare-e-oh?

>>14325793

first* Mare-e-oh?

>>14325773

To be fair lives are an ancient mechanic.

>>14325793

No, more like SMB3 was my LAST Mario

>>14325828

That's some amusing autism.

>>14322626

>"Hey there anon, what's your favorite Guhta? Vice City or San Andreas? What about Muhgus?"

>>14322543

>Opening Poster

wew

>>14325828

I swear "toon" was a post-2005 thing when newfags started flooding the game after that one South Park game. Now, that may sound stupid consider WoW was always a newfag magnet, but we're talking about a whole other level of cluelessness. They're complete inability to co-operate made the game unplayable and eventually caused it devolve into the glorified single player game it became.

>>14325884

>South Park game

*meant episode here, obviously.

>>14322499

You play through a stage, you play on a map.

>Strafe: to rake (ground troops, an airfield, etc.) with fire at close range and especially with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.

And morons use it when they actually mean move sideways.

>>14325890

I've played on many parts of a stage and I've played through one corner of a map to the other.

>>14325951

It's okay anon, you'll eventually learn how to use English properly.

>>14322853

Rogue was just an adventure game with permamanent death, nothing more. Stop putting it on a pedestal.

>>14326013

point and click adventure =/= adventure

>>14326036

zork and full throttle are different game genres whether you like it or not, reddit.

>>14322518

The absolute worst. It's painful to hear this used and I don't even play MMOs

>>14326230

I don't get it

>>14326230

>>14326307

Never mind it's the McKids episode, forget I said anything sorry

>calling non roguelikes roguelikes

Makes me furious

I hate most of the "professional" Smash terms

>Wombo Combo = Stun Locking

>Wobbles = Infinite Chained Grabs

>Wave Shining = A Wavedash paired with Fox's down special which isn't called Shine or anything to do with light. It's called "Reflector"

>Wavedash = Air Dodge Exploit(It's a stupid term that tells you nothing about the maneuver, how it got popular I will never know)

Noticing a trend of 'W' starting these words too

>>14325301

The term frags comes from Quake and UT where a lot of kills are done with the rocket launcher or other explosive weapons.

>>14326329

Does the term Roguelite make you feel any better? Because it just makes me angrier. Stop trying to fit the word Rogue into the term just call it something else. How many fucking people these days have even played Rogue?

>>14326043

They do have traits in common.

>environmental puzzles interwoven with narrative

>no combat, or very little combat

>>14326329

I call it die & unlock.

> Jumping puzzle

> No puzzle to it, just a matter of execution

>>14322752

Fuck. I call controllers paddles and can't seem to shake it out of my head.

>>14325798

This is true, I've abandoned the concept of a life years ago.

>>14325909

"Strafe" doesn't even relate to movement to begin with. It means fucking "punish" in german, so really, it's arbitrary.

>>14326531

>FPS Shooter

>>14326527

>>when they get angry because you use normie and normalfag interchangeably

Don't worry, it's just assmad closet normalfags getting self-conscious :^)

>>14326329

>>14326349

>>14326447

Roguelike is a shit genre name to begin with.

Remember back in the 90s every fps was called a doom-clone? Then someone with a brain realised that shit wasn't going to work in the long run and coined the phrase first-person shooter? Notice that we don't have any autistic debates about it now because the genre's very name succinctly summarises what defines it? Imagine if we had stuck with doom-clone, or even gone with doomlike. Then when games like portal got made we would have started getting complaints about how obviously different from doom portal is. We would have then had people throwing the phrase "doomlite" around to try and compensate.

That's what's happened to roguelike. The genre name should have been dropped for something better a long time ago.

>>14326552

No, eat shit. If we drop the Roguelike name and go with some broad, generalizing term like 'permadeath-ASCII-dungeoncrawler' then future games will continue deviating from the original until the genre stops resembling what it started out as (kinda like fps games!). Roguelites help make a distinction between actual roguelikes and games that have fucking nothing to do with Rogue.

>>14326552

The problem is that roguelikes are a subgenre of RPG with very nuanced characteristics. What do you propose we call it? Permadeath dungeon crawlers? Each name I could think of would bring endless autismal fits over the name not being accurate enough. Roguelike is vague enough for autists who disagree to inject their own idea of what it is, which prevents all discussions on games in the genre from devolving into semantics.

>>14322518

anyone have the >toon copypasta?

>>14326349

Roguelite is better but still bad. I have actually tried Rogue.

>>14326419

This is also fine, "indie devs" who call their spawn a roguelike when you keep unlocks after dying grind my gears.

>>14326447

No they are not, check the berlin interpretation.

>>14326552

What this guy said >>14326663

>>14322557

>rare deepwater jew

Atlantis confirmed

>>14326534

>SIN number

>>14326552

Reminds me of RPG. Most RPGs tell nothing about the gameplay most of the time. Action RPG? Sure that works but Tales of Hearts R and Fallout being under the same label is bizarre.

As for roguelikes, how about something along the lines of BASIC (as in the computer language) Adventure Game or Procedurally Generated Dungeon Crawler.

>Mare ee oh

Fucking off yourself

>>14322744

Is this Player Miss?

When playing Contra, my old man'd always call lives "reinforcements"

>>14327542

>>14322518

"Allegedly" (this is based on self-proclaimed MMO oldfags that I found on Jewgle), "toon" was a term that arose so that RPG players could feel less attachment or show that they don't identify with a character they generated. As a guy who's played tabletop RPGs for 10 years, I find this to be very retarded, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it were true because even most tabletop RPG players are very retarded. There are some traditions, like giving human traits to the dice or RNG, that are fun, but that just sounds very cringeworthy, like the person saying it honestly thinks their dumb character is a perfect representation of themselves in high fantasy.

>>14322557

If it wasn't for his eye and nigger lips he'd look half decent.

>>14327981

>self-proclaimed MMO oldfags that I found on Jewgle

So posers then. You can go on urbandictionary right now, a site founded in 1999, and the oldest entry for toon as used in MMOs is in 2004 which even then mocks the term. It was never a "MMO oldfag" thing, period.

>people calling guilds "clans"

>>14328053

>"looking for group"

>when they're explicitly called parties in the game's chat channels

>"please send tell"

>when they're explicitly called whispers in the game's chat channels

>calling emotes "RP' like some tryhard who's totally not playing a MMO for the roleplaying factor, nosiree

>>14328039

>It was never a "MMO oldfag" thing, period.

No, it was used in EverQuest. I know a guy who used to play EQ and knew others who were so addicted to EQ it ruined their life and they used the term.

>>14328065

I think "Please send tell" has stuck around because it abbreviates to "pst," which indicates that you want to whisper something to someone. It's a play on words.

>>14328053

if it's an RPG it's a guild, if it's an FPS it's a clan.

or if you're like a guy who was part of my UT clan and hated the term "clan" because he grew up in appalachia, it's a "team"

>>14328493

> and hated the term "clan" because he grew up in appalachia

Sounds like a fag.

>>14328509

To him "clan" meant his inbred family fighting other inbred families over stupid shit, which he worked hard to drag himself away from.

he was a cool guy, I respected it.

>>14322811

>Question block = Mystery block = Hmmm block = clang thread

>>14322499

> not being 3 and saying you got a free man when you earn an extra life

> not getting that developers map out levels

> never heard player miss in my life

Opening Poster truly was a faggot today.

>>14322499

>player miss

>extended play / free man

First time I hear about these.

>>14322499

>Press Start

<Press Any Button to Start

>>14325301

>not playing toontown

You sicken me.

>>14330040

>Not playing Toontong Hitlerwritten

Anyone have images from that incident?

>>14330049

There is a video of 4 guys doing a factory during the "incident" on jewtube somewhere.

Not going to post it since I'm secretly phoneposting from bed.

Act=Episode=Mission Pack=Map Pack

Scene=Level=Mission=Map

Sentence=Room=Sector=Section

>>14330086

It's what I usually call Doom .wads with less than 9 levels. Those with 9 levels are called episodes, those with 27 are Doom Megawads, 32 are Doom II Megawads, and 36 are Ultimate Doom Megawads.

>>14330079

Mission packs and map packs are not equivalent to an act or episode. To begin with, the former two imply expanded content over the base game

Furthermore, a map pack does not necessarily have mission-based or story-based content. They are strictly just maps

Scene comes from 3D modeling programs; at the time, their primary use was in creating movies and TV shows

I've never heard sentence used in that way. Can you provide examples?

>Reddit

I keep hearing of this place but don't know what it referring to.

>>14325973

>>14330310

>Having enough faith in anons to believe it's bait

I've been to a college in recent years. They have vidya design degrees, and like every other class they'll probably have overpriced textbooks to sell you.

>>14330812

>I'm guessing that "greening" refers to the fact that sad toon health icons are a sickly green.

Not to fucking with greehorns?

I fucking hate

>Group of players who play together often = Guild

>>14330845

Son of a…

>>14325301

"Frag" originally appeared in Doom, and it came there from an actual military term "fragging", which stands for a deliberate killing of a fellow soldier/officer. Considering all players in Doom belong to the same faction, its use is somewhat justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

>>14330747

>kebab = camel jockey = sandnigger = Muslim

>>14322518

came here to post this

>>14330899

>what are atheist arabs

>what are Indonesians

>>14330845

Clever nigger

>>14330706

>>14330706

where the sauce at

>>14330920

>atheist arabs

Diet shitskin

>Indonesians

Water shitskin

>>14330808

where the fuck are her nipples

>>14326808

You're right all games are roguelikes by the berlin interpretation. It's shit and you should kill yourself for trying to follow it

>>14331096

In the Bluray DVD release that's going to sell like shit because the show was hot garbage when it aired.

>>14322499

>>Stage = Level = Map

Some niggers use the term board.

>>14322744

Where did he get that Fluttershy toy though? Every single one I ever seen were complete dogshit quality.

Have you niggers never played Mario?

Stage = World or equalivant. If someone asks how far along in the game you are, or, what "stage" you are at in the game you'd tell them what world you're on.

Level = Level or equalivant. The level within the world.

Map = Specific portions of a level, i.e, there's multiple stages to a castle. Alternatively, it can be used to group distinct types of levels together. "That level is a castle map" or "That level is a map with floaty islands"

>>14326349

What are you, an uneducated nigger?

>Wombo Combo

A Wombo Combo is a continuous combo between two players

>Wobbles

Wobbling was named after the person to popularize/do the Ice Climber infinite chaingrab, whose name was Wobbles

>Shine

This I dont know where the fuck it came from, other than when you use the reflector it looks like you get a lense-flare "shine"

>Wave*

Wavedashing, Waveshining, etc, is called that because when performed correctly it looks like you're moving like a wave does in the ocean

You're just retarded if you don't get why you need to name this stuff.

>>14328311

Isn't Everquest that ancient MMO that was basically just infinite dailies and nothing more?

>>14331535

You think that isn't dogshit quality?

One hilarious term that I used to encounter in online games that seems to have died down (though I occasionally still see it in German sessions) is "nab" for noob. How did it arise?

One ironic spelling for noob is "nub", people would start missing what it supposed to mean reading it like the actual word (as in a small knob of some kind) and started making ironic misspellings of that, thus "nab".

>>14334050

Sounds britbongy.

>>14332484

>dailies

Not really. It was more like

>kill monsters 24/7

>despite the name most quests mean jack shit. a few give exp from turning in items you get from killing monsters. a few give you good gear or a popular spell effect item

>after you hit level 50 (classic level cap) you can grind even more to unlock Alternate Advancement abilities that make you even stronger

Everquest was just kill monsters: the MMO.

>>14335956

not always. Sometimes there were interesting quests

of note is that the quest structure required you to actually communicate with the NPCs by sending them a /tell. This would let you ask about various keywords that popped up in their conversation (or someone else's conversation if you hae a good memory) instead of clicking a guy and getting a list a la WoW

>>14330845

Fuck off you got me

>be me

>be playing old school co-op where u can use partner's lives when all yours run out

>lose all my lives, knick one from cousin

>"You stole my man!"

>mfw

>on mobile so use your imagination

>ahahahahahaha faggot.png

>>14327997

That's the price you pay for taking on a rare deepwater jew unarmed.

>jansport = bag =backpack

>>14330808

Season 2 of Kemono Friends really went in a different direction.

>>14341302

>Any time I've asked faggots why they use this term they get defensive but won't say why.

That's really odd to say the least.