intended as a joke but it’s been 15 minutes and i genuinely think this is a good idea now
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Perfect for a self-loathing game
Imbroglios
Thus far only Michael Brough is powerful enough to use this word in a game.
Related to the topic: Bosses are referred to as Main Events in Devilish: the Next Posession and I love it.
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The levels in NiGHTS Into Dreams are called dreams, and their subsections are called mares. Boss battles are called Nightmares.
There’s a game that’s not afraid to make up silly terminology!
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Imbroglio, the Old Brother
The flip side of the coin of which both Mario and Wario together make up only one side.
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Isn’t Irem’s Kung Fu Master the source of all video game terminology? If so, we have no choice but to universalize “floors.”
Or we can just go with “worldboards.”
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I am with the previous posters that Danny of Game Grumps calls them boards and I lose it everytime.
Yeah, I remember seeing “boards” in a game magazine around 2000 or so but don’t remember which one.
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“Level” is applicable if you are ascending/descending and prefer not to use “floor”. I like it in that context.
“Boards” could be used for Mario Party games but not much else
waves
patterns
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oh yeah phases is cool too
In the game of scientific research, phases are worlds and trials are levels.
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in the new amplitude its BRAIN REGIONS instead of levels
edit: the bonus levels are called ANCILLARY NEURAL PATHWAYS
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I think I tend to use Level if it’s long or big, and Stage if it’s a single screen or close to it.
So Mario has levels, Peggle has stages.
Y’know?
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somebody should make a game that uses all of these terms only once
start off in level 1, head off to zone 1, then to phase 1, etc, etc
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Was gonna make a biblical chapter/verse joke suggestion but then remembered Bayonetta and probably others have done that.
Bayo uses Verse but I can’t remember if it uses it just for the main encounters of a chapter or the whole chapter
This thread is making waves.
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