How Many Of These Gamer Terms Do You Actually Know?

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My score is Epic Game Linguist.

Legendary Lexicgrapher

100% Like there was any doubt. :P

I'm an epic gaming linguist. I didn't know what Pringles, shlumping(?), or rushdown were.

10/15 · Scored 66%

Result: Precocious Polyglot

You have great potential! Sharpen your skills and hone your knowledge and you'll surely one day be a Legendary Lexicographer.

10/15 · Scored 66%

Result: Precocious Polyglot

I guessed on all but 3. I haven't played online with or against anyone in about five years, which may explain it.

12/15 80% Epic Game Linguist.

I'm not disappointed. I thought it was going to be harder.

12/15 Result: Epic Game Linguist

Really surprised since i never play moba´s or online and most terms i saw was from moba´s or online gaming.

Legendary Lexicographer. But of course I would get this because I made the damn thing.

That's not bad

13/15 myself. I will admit that I was not familiar with some of the terms as I don't really play MOBA or MMO and a lot of the terms were derived from those types of games.

11/15 - 73% - Epic Game Linguist

Truth be told, I guessed a good couple of them. :P

12/15. Epic Game Linguist. Awesomesauce

;(

Result: Precocious Polyglot: You have great potential! Sharpen your skills and hone your knowledge and you'll surely one day be a Legendary Lexicographer.

Well I don't know about that but I guess it's okay on my part.

@dragonfly110: Schmup? Short for Shoot 'em up, a term for those scrolling games like Galaga or Ikaruga where you shoot a bunch of stuff as it comes towards your character.

14/15 · Scored 93%

Result: Legendary Lexicographer

Most of them were easy to guess. Is there a way to find out which ones you got wrong?

Epic Game Linguist, I'm curious which 3 were the one I got wrong! 12/15

14/15

legendary lexicographer.

the only one i did not know was twinking

13. Twinking is transfering good gear to a lower level character. An old MMO term.

I got 12/15. Epic Game Linguist lol.

Didn't know Pringles. Knew all the others.

Epic game linguist. Seems like a common score...

@Dragon_Nexus: I thought Ikaruga was considered a Bullet Hell game?

Never heard of "Pringles" and there wasn't any option for 'repetitive low damage attacks meant to beat a foe through a war of attrition", aka chip damage, but supposedly, it's for weak openers for mass combos?

Aside, Turtle/turtling is also half-right for the right answer, they just wrote it in a more Fighting-Game style answer.

My result was "Paranoid internet user", because my browser blocks third party cookies and the test didn't show. lol

Epic game linguist. Never heard of twinking or pringles

A good advice is not to google that term.

I have no idea who first came up with using that in mmo´s but how that term got from its origin to gaming is beyond me.

Legendary Lexicographer with 93% :D

14/15 Legendary Lexicographer.

I'm happy now!

Pringles is chip/block/attrition damage? When i grew up this was called "cheese/cheesing" or "cheese winning". In one fighting game a long time ago if you died while blocking you got a literal cheese symbol as a victory instead of the normal ones. I can't remember what fighting game that was. Oh just looked it up, it was a couple Street Fighter games i guess. I barely played 4 though http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/943713-street-fighter-iv/50602482

"note: In Street Fighter Alpha 2, a victory icon was introduced in the form of a small cheese wedge, which was designed sardonically in honor of the predominance of "cheese" in the fighting game genre, which is awarded to the winner of a round who defeats their opponent using a Super or Special move while they are blocking." -Urban Dictionary for corner cheese

@GameSpot: epic game linguist here 13/15 86%

What a time to be alive!!

despite gaming for probably 20 years now i didn't know a lot of the terms since i don't play moba (didn't even know what the letters moba stood for for the longest time).. turtling? shumpling? rushdown? the must be moba terms or something

Result: Precocious

You have great potential! Sharpen your skills and hone your knowledge and you'll surely one day be a Legendary Lexicographer.

Okay

I got 14/15

Pretty sure I got Pringles wrong. Because I picked Potato Chips.

Some of the answers are pretty amusing. I especially laughed at the Noob question, with "A Nintendo Game" being an answer. Props to whoever wrote some of the answers.

I had 8/15 even though I've been playing for more than 25 years. I've never heard of a lot of terms ... Well just like every time I log in Gamespot after a while I discover new insults depending on which system you prefer ... this is ridiculous.

@dragonfly110: Bullet hell is something os a sub genre of Schmup. All bullet hells are schmups, but not all schmups are bullet hells.

I got 12/15 but it seemed like I guessed on about half of them because I wasn't sure. Some of these I've never heard before.

13/15 86%.

Glad I don't know what twinking and pringles mean. :)

14/15.
There were a couple I was unsure about. I wonder which one I missed?

@Dragon_Nexus: Ah, okay that makes sense. Thanks for the information!

13/15
Would have been nice if you gave us the result in the form that we could see which questions we answered wrong, or rather in my case, which of the five questions I just guest on I got lucky ^_^

@thekazumalord: turtling is an attack/defend fighting style. I first heard it in GunZ which is a shooter/ CQC game from the 2000's. A Shmup is a Shoot 'Em Up, think Galaga. Rushdown is a popular term for RTS' like Starcraft.

10/15

8 out of 15 :(

14/15

I've never heard of kiting, pringles, and twinking,

11/15