Gaming Lists

This is a list of gaming terminology and phrases.

Games I'm Currently Playing

Offer prayers of stability and sacrifice my wallet to our Lord and Savior Chris Roberts
Boot up all my peripheral control software (Tobii Eye Tracker, VKB Flight Stick Control, JoyToKey, etc.)
Hop into Discord to see what my Org's up to.
Kit myself and prepare my ship accordingly.
Get killed by something stupid and beyond anyone's control (Like suddenly phasing through the world and falling into an abyss forever), or have my hangar "eat" my ship (where your ship won't spawn after calling it out of storage).
Try and have fun until something (either the game's server networking, netcode, or some other background process or event) breaks completely and I decide enough is enough for the day.
This game has over a billion dollars in development budget and over 15 years of work put into it, by the way. And like a child with Down syndrome and a habit for eating glue, I still love it.

MMO: Massively Multiplayer Online: A style of multiplayer game where a shared, interactive game world is experienced by hundreds or thousands of players at once. (i.e. World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Everquest, Runescape, etc.)
MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena: A style of multiplayer game that involves two teams competing on a structured map in order to push lanes, take objectives, and destroy the enemy's defenses and base in order to win.
FPS: First Person Shooter: a genre of video game where the player experiences the 3D environment from the eyes of the player-character. Does not always involve shooting things. (i.e. Halo, Doom, F.E.A.R., Portal, Dear Esther, SOMA, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, etc.).
Alpha: An early, unfinished version of a game where mechanics are functional, but content, assets, textures, and polish have yet to be completed.
PvP: Player Versus Player: Pretty self-explanitory.
PvE: Player Versus Environment: A game where it's just the human Player against programmed AI opponents and environmental hazards. No other players are involved, unless it's Co-op where another player is able to team up with you against the AI.
Org: Organization/Clan/Guild, a group of gamers unified under a name/banner/creed for whatever game they're all playing.