Videogame Tropes
Basic Information
Videogame tropes are tropes that are common in video games.
List of Videogame Tropes
- Above The Ruins
- Advancing Wall Of Doom
- AI Roulette
- All In A Row
- The Anime Of The Game
- Announcer Chatter
- Anyone You Know
- Artificial Atmospheric Actions
- A Taste Of Power
- A Winner Is You
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer
- Action Commands
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
- After Boss Recovery
- Air Vent Escape
- AKA 47
- Already Done For You
- Amateur Photographer
- An Adventurer Is You
- And Now For Someone Completely Different
- Antidote Effect
- Anti Poop Socking
- Anti Grinding
- Apathetic Citizens
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit
- Arrows On Fire
- Artificial Stupidity
- Asteroids Monster
- Auto Pilot Tutorial
- Attack Drone
- Attractive Bent Gender
- Attract Mode
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Awesome But Impractical
- Back From The Brink
- Back Stab
- Back That Light Up
- Backtracking
- Bag Of Sharing
- Bag Of Spilling
- Baleful Polymorph
- Battleship Raid
- Beat Them At Their Own Game
- Beehive Barrier
- Behind The Black
- Benevolent Architecture
- Betting Mini Game
- BFS - Big Effing Sword
- Bilingual Bonus
- Block Puzzle
- Boom Headshot
- Bottomless Pits
- Boring But Practical
- Boss In Mook Clothing
- Boss Subtitles
- Bragging Rights Reward
- Breakable Weapons
- Breather Level
- Bribing Your Way To Victory
- Bunny Hood
- But Thou Must
- Cap
- Capture The Flag
- Cardboard Obstacle
- Cast From Hit Points
- Character Level
- Charged Attack
- Chasing Your Tail
- Check Point
- Chekhovs Boomerang
- Cherry Tapping
- City Guards
- Civil Warcraft
- Classic Cheat Code
- Clowncar Grave
- Combat Role
- Combos
- Cognizant Limbs
- Collection Sidequest
- Combination Attack
- Combinatorial Explosion
- Command And Conquer Economy
- Competitive Balance
- Conspicuously Selective Perception
- Construct Additional Pylons
- Continuing Is Painful
- Controllable Helplessness
- Convenient Questing
- Copy And Paste Environments
- Copy Protection
- Cosmetically Different Sides
- Cosmic Keystone
- Collision Damage
- Colony Drop
- Common Place Rare
- Cosmetic Award
- Counter Attack
- Cranium Ride
- Crippling Overspecialization
- Critical Existence Failure
- Critical Hit
- Crystal Dragon Jesus
- Cutscene
- Cutscene Drop
- Dance Battler
- Dark World
- Deadly Gas
- Deadly Walls
- Death Cry Echo
- Death Course
- Death Is A Slap On The Wrist
- Death Isnt Permanent
- Debug Room
- Demonic Spiders
- Desperation Attack
- Developers Room
- The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything
- Dialogue Tree
- Die Chair Die
- Difficulty Levels
- Disc One Nuke
- Ditto Fighter
- The Dixie
- Dodongo Dislikes Smoke
- Do Not Drop Your Weapon
- Do Not Run With A Gun
- Dolled Up Installment
- Door To Before
- Doppleganger Spin
- Dronejam
- Dual Wielding
- Dude Wheres My Respect
- Dummied Out
- Dying Like Animals
- Dynamic Difficulty
- Easily Amused
- Easing Into The Adventure
- Easter Egg
- Easy Logistics
- Easy Mode Mockery
- Edge Gravity
- Elemental Crafting
- Elemental Rock Paper Scissors
- Eleventh Hour Superpower
- Elite Tweak
- Embedded Prequel
- Emergency Weapon
- Emote Animation
- Enemy Civil War
- Enemy Chatter
- Enemy Exchange Program
- The Enemy Gate Is Down
- Enemy Scan
- Escort Mission
- Event Flag
- Every 10,000 Points
- Everything Breaks
- Everything Fades
- Everythings Better With Spinning
- Everything Trying To Kill You
- Evil Pays Better
- Evolving Attack
- Evolving Weapon
- Excuse Plot
- Exclusive Enemy Equipment
- Exploding Barrels
- Extended Gameplay
- Extremity Extremist
- Face Doodling
- Fairy Battle
- Fake Difficulty
- Fake King
- Feelies
- Fetch Quest
- Fight Woosh
- Finishing Move
- Fire Ice Lightning
- Fishing Minigame
- Fission Mailed
- Floating Platforms
- Fog Of War
- Follow The Money
- Follow The Plotted Line
- Foreboding Architecture
- Foregone Victory
- For The Cel Of It
- Full Motion Videos
- Gaiden Game
- Game Breaker
- Game Breaking Bugs
- Game Level
- Game Over
- Gameplay Ally Immortality
- Gameplay And Story Integration
- Gameplay Guided Amnesia
- Game Shark
- Gay Option
- Geo Effects
- Get On The Boat
- Gimmick Level
- Girly Run
- Give Me Your Inventory Item
- Glass Cannon
- Global Airship
- Global Currency
- God Mode
- Goddamned Bats
- Go For The Eye
- Going Through The Motions
- Good Bad Bugs
- Good Bad Translation
- Good Morning Crono
- Goomba Stomp
- Grand Theft Auto Effect
- G Rated Sex
- Grave Humor
- Grid Inventory
- Grimy Water
- Grind Boots
- Ground Pound
- Guess The Verb
- Guest Star Party Member
- Guilt Based Gaming
- Guns Are Worthless
- Harder Than Hard
- Have A Nice Death
- Healing Shiv
- Heart Container
- He Knows About Timed Hits
- Hello Insert Name Here
- Heroic BSOD
- Hide Your Children
- High Altitude Battle
- Highly Visible Ninja
- Hijacked By Ganon
- Hit Points
- Holding Out For A Hero
- Hold The Line
- Home Run Hitter
- Honest Axe
- Hostage Spirit Link
- Hostage For MacGuffin
- Hundred Percent Completion
- I Am Not Left Handed
- I Let You Win
- I Cant Use These Things Together
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
- Idle Animation
- Improbable Power Discrepancy
- Improbable Weapon User
- Improvised Weapon
- In A Single Bound
- Inescapable Ambush
- Inevitable Tournament
- Inexplicable Treasure Chests
- Infallible Babble
- Infinity Plus One Sword
- Inn Security
- Instant Death Radius
- Instant Runes
- Insurmountable Waist Height Fence
- Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
- Interface Screw
- Inventory Management Puzzle
- Invisible Block
- Invisible Grid
- Invulnerable Civilians
- Irrelevant Importance
- Its All Upstairs From Here
- Its Up To You
- Item Crafting
- Izchaks Wrath
- Jiggle Physics
- Joke Character
- Journey To Find Oneself
- Jump Physics
- Kamehame Hadoken
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Kleptomaniac Hero
- Kobayashi Mario
- Last Disc Magic
- Last Lousy Point
- Late To The Party
- Law Of One Hundred
- Leaked Experience
- Lethal Joke Character
- Lets Split Up Gang
- Level Grinding
- Level Up At Intimacy 5
- Light And Mirrors Puzzle
- Limit Break
- Limited Sound Effects
- Living Statue
- Loading Screen
- Loads And Loads Of Loading
- Lock And Key Puzzle
- Locked Door
- Lost Forever
- Lord British Postulate
- Ludicrous Gibs
- Luigification
- MacGuffin Delivery Service
- Mad Libs Dialogue
- Macrogame
- Maechen Period
- Magic Knight
- Magic Tool
- Magikarp Power
- Magnet Hands
- Malevolent Architecture
- Mana Drain
- The Man Behind The Man
- The Many Deaths Of You
- The Mario
- Marked Change
- Mascot With Attitude
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover
- Mercy Invincibility
- Mercy Rewarded
- Metal Slime
- Mirror Match
- Mission Pack Sequel
- Money For Nothing
- Money Spider
- Mook Maker
- Most Annoying Sound
- Multiple Endings
- Multi Mook Melee
- Musical Spoiler
- Nerf
- Nerf Arm
- New Game Plus
- News Travels Fast
- Nice Job Breaking It Hero
- Night Of The Living Mooks
- Ninja Looting
- Nintendo Hard
- Nitro Boost
- No Campaign For The Wicked
- No Doorlevers
- No Fair Cheating
- Non Entity General
- Non Lethal KO
- Non Linear Sequel
- Nonstandard Game Over
- No Recycling
- No Sneak Attacks
- Nostalgia Level
- No Swastikas
- Not Compensating For Anything
- Not Completely Useless
- Not The Fall That Kills You
- Now Where Was I Going Again
- NPC Amnesia
- Numbered Sequels
- Obvious Beta
- The Ogre
- Old And Busted New Hotness
- Old Save Bonus
- One Hit Point Wonder
- One Game For The Price Of Two
- One Man Army
- One Thousand Needles
- The One True Sequence
- One Up
- Only Idiots May Pass
- Only Smart People May Pass
- Optional Party Member
- Optional Sexual Encounter
- Orcus On His Throne
- Orphans Plot Trinket
- Overly Long Fighting Animation
- PAL Bonus
- Palette Swap
- Parabolic Power Curve
- Parasol Parachute
- Party In My Pocket
- Pass Through The Rings
- Path Of Inspiration
- Paused Interrupt
- Penultimate Boss Theme
- Perpetually Static
- Personal Space Invader
- Pipe Shooter
- Pixel Hunt
- Platform Hell
- Playable Epilogue
- Player Punch
- Player Versus Player
- Pointless Waste Of Time
- Point Of No Return
- Poison Mushroom
- Poor Predictable Rock
- Pop Quiz
- Pop Up Video Games
- Portal Picture
- Power Creep Power Seep
- Power Crystal
- Power Up
- Powerup Letdown
- Protagonist Without A Past
- Purely Aesthetic Gender
- Puzzle Pan
- PVP Balanced
- Quad Damage
- Quicksand Box
- Ragdoll Physics
- Rainbow Pimp Gear
- Random Encounters
- Randomly Drops
- Random Power Ranking
- Rank Inflation
- Rated M For Money
- Real Is Brown
- Real Money Trade
- Recurring Riff
- Recurring Traveller
- Reinventing The Wheel
- Relationship Values
- Respawning Enemies
- Reverse Blade Sword
- Revenue Enhancing Devices
- Revive Kills Zombie
- Revolvers Are Just Better
- Reward From Nowhere
- The Ridill
- Rise To The Challenge
- Risk Style Map
- Romance Sidequest
- RPG Elements
- Run Dont Walk
- Rocket Jump
- Save Game Limits
- Save Point
- Save The Princess
- Saving The World
- Scenery As You Go
- Schala Lives
- Scoring Points
- Scrappy Level
- Scratch Damage
- Screamer Trailer
- Script Breaking
- Scripted Event
- Scrolling Text
- Secret Character
- Selective Gravity
- Separate But Identical
- Set Piece Puzzle
- Ship Shape
- Shoot The Medic First
- Sidequest
- Silliness Switch
- Slap On The Wrist Nuke
- Smashing Hallway Traps Of Doom
- Smashing Survival
- Sniping Mission
- Socialization Bonus
- Soft Reset
- Some Dexterity Required
- Sorting Algorithm Of Evil
- Sorting Algorithm Of Weapon Effectiveness
- Soul Train
- Soup Cans
- Space Compression
- Space Filling Path
- Speaking Simlish
- Spikes Of Doom
- Spoony Bard
- Sprite Polygon Mix
- Stalked By The Bell
- Stalking Mission
- Standard FPS Guns
- Standard Status Effects
- Start To Save
- Statistically Speaking
- Status Buff
- Sticks To The Back
- Stock Puzzle
- Story Driven Invulnerability
- Story To Gameplay Ratio
- Strategy Guide
- Strong Flesh Weak Steel
- Stupidity Is The Only Option
- Subtitles Are Superfluous
- Sucking In Lines
- Suicidal Overconfidence
- Summon Magic
- Super Title Sixty Four Advance
- Super Star
- Surprisingly Easy Mini Quest
- Suspicious Videogame Generosity
- Sword Of Plot Advancement
- Tactical Rock Paper Scissors
- Talk To Everyone
- Tech Tree
- Tele Frag
- Teleporting Keycard Squad
- Temporary Platform
- Ten Second Flashlight
- That One Sidequest
- Theme Song Reveal
- There Are No Tents
- Thriving Ghost Town
- Timed Mission
- Time Keeps On Slipping
- Too Awesome To Use
- Took A Shortcut
- Trauma Inn
- Trial And Error Gameplay
- Turns Red
- Unbreakable Weapons
- Underground Monkey
- Unexpected Genre Change
- Unstable Equilibrium
- Unusable Enemy Equipment
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight
- Unwinnable
- Upgrade Artifact
- Urban Segregation
- Useless Useful Spell
- Useless Useful Stealth
- Use Item
- Use Your Head
- Variable Mix
- Vendor Trash
- Victory Pose
- Videogame Cruelty Potential
- Videogame Geography
- Videogame Historical Revisionism
- Videogame Setpiece
- Videogame Stealing
- Villain Override
- Violation Of Common Sense
- Violence Is The Only Option
- Visible Silence
- Wacky Racing
- Walk It Off
- Walkthrough
- Wall Crawl
- The Wandering You
- The War Sequence
- Warp Whistle
- Warring Without Weapons
- Waste Of Time Story
- Weak Turret Gun
- We Cannot Go On Without You
- Welcome To Corneria
- We Sell Everything
- White Magic
- Who Cares About Gameplay
- Whoring
- Wide Open Sandbox
- With This Herring
- Wizard Needs Food Badly
- Wreaking Havok
- Wutai Theft
- You ALL Look Familiar
- You Can't Get Ye Flask
- You Lose At Zero Trust
- Your Money Is No Good Here
- Zero Sum Game
Sources
Game and Story Use
- As the cultures and fan bases of video games often overlap, many gamers will be familiar with videogame tropes. Use that to your advantage by using them to build tension.
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