i need more help with the list of gamer terms, please.
here is the list in its current state.
i'd like the terms to appeal to a broad spectrum of gamers (that would make the little book more salable). i ALSO would like to make it easy for the Gamer's Alphabet to be humorous.
i appreciate the effort of the contributors so far, but would like to eliminate (or nearly so) terms that will only be recognized by a players of a single game. i've added a few more that were suggested by other folks; i purposely didn't add any of the Guitar Hero terms that were suggested.
what needs to be eliminated? and.. the "Y" category is not very satisfying yet.
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A: Arena, Aggro, Assault, Ammunition, Attack, Assassinate, Arena, Avatar, Area of Effect (AOE)
B: Buff, buffed, Battleground, Backup, Blaster, Bomb, BFG, Bots, Boosh, Bunnyhopping, Bio (bathroom break)
C: Class, Clicker, CC (Crowd Control), Control Point, CTF, Camp(ing), Chaingun, Crosshairs, Clan, Carebear, Clothie, Camping
DPS, DKP, Dungeon, Debuffs. Dominating, Destruction, Deathmatch, Dual Wield, Dex, Ding (new level), Dirt Nap, DMG(damage)
E: Epix, Explosion, Enraged, Emote
F: Facemelt, Focus, Flagged. Flag, Frag, Flak Cannon, Free-for-all, Farm, fps (frames per second), FPS(first person shooter), fat lewtz
G: GM, Gear. Grenade, Godlike, Gravity, Godmode, Gank, Griefer
H: Healer, Hardcore, Headshot, Healthpack, HUD
I: Instance, Incendiary, Instagib, Imba( Imbalanced)
J: Jargon, Jarate (TF2), joystick, Jump boots
K: Keybinds (or just Binds), Killing spree, Killshot, kek, killcam,
L: LFG (looking for group), LEEEROOOOY JEEENKINS (this would need to go after H in the lineup.), Loot, LoS (Line of Sight), Lava, Love tap, Last Man Standing, Lag, Lowbie
M: Melee, Mount, Merked/Merced, Multikill, Mutilate, M-M-M-M-M-Monsterkill, Mule, mod,
N: Noob, Nerf, Nerdrage, Ninja (looter / pull), Nailgun, NPC
O: Overpowered, Overkill, Owned, Opposition
P: Pull, Pet, PVP/PVE, PEWPEWPEW, pwn, Physics, Portal, Pistol, PEW PEW PEW LAZOR!, poopsock (ewww?), punkbuster
Q: Quad Damage, QQ ("stop crying" -this is coldhearted)
R: Raid, Ranged, Ragequit, Respawn, Railgun, Red Vs Blue, Rockets, Run & Gun, Random Encounter,
S: Spec, Steamrolled, Shotgun, Sniper, Sentry, Suicide, Shield, statswhore, Smurf, Spawn,Squishy, Spawn, Spawncamping, Sandbagging, Speedrun
T: Tank, Tanking, Target, Team, Team Fortress, Teleport, Teamspeak, Turtle, Twink, Train (aggro mobs, lead them to your enemies), Telefrag
U: Underpowered, Undergeared, Ultrakill, Upgrades, Uber
V: Viable, Victory
W: Wipe, Win quote
X: Xray, XBox Live/XBL (would need a snarky quip)
Y: Yell
Z: Zone, Zap, Zerging
i'd like the terms to appeal to a broad spectrum of gamers (that would make the little book more salable). i ALSO would like to make it easy for the Gamer's Alphabet to be humorous.
i appreciate the effort of the contributors so far, but would like to eliminate (or nearly so) terms that will only be recognized by a players of a single game. i've added a few more that were suggested by other folks; i purposely didn't add any of the Guitar Hero terms that were suggested.
what needs to be eliminated? and.. the "Y" category is not very satisfying yet.
.......
A: Arena, Aggro, Assault, Ammunition, Attack, Assassinate, Arena, Avatar, Area of Effect (AOE)
B: Buff, buffed, Battleground, Backup, Blaster, Bomb, BFG, Bots, Boosh, Bunnyhopping, Bio (bathroom break)
C: Class, Clicker, CC (Crowd Control), Control Point, CTF, Camp(ing), Chaingun, Crosshairs, Clan, Carebear, Clothie, Camping
DPS, DKP, Dungeon, Debuffs. Dominating, Destruction, Deathmatch, Dual Wield, Dex, Ding (new level), Dirt Nap, DMG(damage)
E: Epix, Explosion, Enraged, Emote
F: Facemelt, Focus, Flagged. Flag, Frag, Flak Cannon, Free-for-all, Farm, fps (frames per second), FPS(first person shooter), fat lewtz
G: GM, Gear. Grenade, Godlike, Gravity, Godmode, Gank, Griefer
H: Healer, Hardcore, Headshot, Healthpack, HUD
I: Instance, Incendiary, Instagib, Imba( Imbalanced)
J: Jargon, Jarate (TF2), joystick, Jump boots
K: Keybinds (or just Binds), Killing spree, Killshot, kek, killcam,
L: LFG (looking for group), LEEEROOOOY JEEENKINS (this would need to go after H in the lineup.), Loot, LoS (Line of Sight), Lava, Love tap, Last Man Standing, Lag, Lowbie
M: Melee, Mount, Merked/Merced, Multikill, Mutilate, M-M-M-M-M-Monsterkill, Mule, mod,
N: Noob, Nerf, Nerdrage, Ninja (looter / pull), Nailgun, NPC
O: Overpowered, Overkill, Owned, Opposition
P: Pull, Pet, PVP/PVE, PEWPEWPEW, pwn, Physics, Portal, Pistol, PEW PEW PEW LAZOR!, poopsock (ewww?), punkbuster
Q: Quad Damage, QQ ("stop crying" -this is coldhearted)
R: Raid, Ranged, Ragequit, Respawn, Railgun, Red Vs Blue, Rockets, Run & Gun, Random Encounter,
S: Spec, Steamrolled, Shotgun, Sniper, Sentry, Suicide, Shield, statswhore, Smurf, Spawn,Squishy, Spawn, Spawncamping, Sandbagging, Speedrun
T: Tank, Tanking, Target, Team, Team Fortress, Teleport, Teamspeak, Turtle, Twink, Train (aggro mobs, lead them to your enemies), Telefrag
U: Underpowered, Undergeared, Ultrakill, Upgrades, Uber
V: Viable, Victory
W: Wipe, Win quote
X: Xray, XBox Live/XBL (would need a snarky quip)
Y: Yell
Z: Zone, Zap, Zerging
Comments
WC (water closet aka going to take a piss)
CS, Cut (cut scene)
never seen epic with an x
WC and CS/cut added. thank you. JP is a little too "used everywhere", i think.
I'd change Zerging to 'Zerg Rush', as that's much more common. It's specific to Starcraft, but it's well known outside of Starcraft circles.
I don't think 'epix' and 'fat lewtz' are common enough words.
Oh, another for R - 'reload'.
lit= keep was hit
aoe= area of effect
wc=war camp
hot= heal over time
dot= damage over time
pat= patrol
nerf= make it weaker
gank= to attack someone
bio= bathroom break
dps=dmg per sec
pewpew= range dps
instagib= 1 shot
gimped= broken
gm= guild master
vent= ventrilo
camp=to continuously kill a player right after they rez or release.
rez=when a healer brings you back to life with partial health
realease= have to run back to your corps as a ghost or at wc but with low health and some gear dmg
dmg= damage
repair= when gear is worn or breaks down over time need to pay to repair
will add once i remember some more
are those general terms, or are they strongly associated with a particular game?
i'll try to clean the list up later; i'm running short of time atm
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heh
blues', i delicioused you a link to the perfect Barbie for gamers. you'll need to add your own special purple touches.
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sounds more like you make a series of volumes FPS, Sports, whatever ...
"Gamers Alphabet MMPG Edition™©®"
base= warcamp etc.