Questions about science-fiction/fantasy elements of a video-game are considered on-topic.
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Can someone give me a FULL list of all the Darth's in the Star Wars: The Old Republic game? [closed]
Yes, I know there are a lot of Darth characters in SWTOR, but I can't keep track of them. Most of them I see on Wookieepedia, but there are a few names like Darth Kallomena and Darth Tagros floating ...
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How was Cortana going to detonate In Amber Clad's reactor?
In the beginning of High Charity level of Halo 2:
Cortana: "That structure, at the center of the city... it's a
Forerunner Ship! And Truth is heading straight for it! If he leads the
Covenant ...
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Why didn't the Portal Gun fail to create a Portal on the Moon?
In the end of Portal 2, I fired the portal gun to the Moon. And it worked, which created a quantum tunnel between Moon's surface and Floor below Wheatley - sucking Wheatley out into space.
Throughout ...
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How powerful is Cody Travers?
How strong is Cody from the Final Fight and Street Fighter universe within the canon of its lore?
Cody is a character who has been shown to perform supernatural feats of strength, such as demolishing ...
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What did happened on the Elizabeth Dane?
In Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines one of the player's first tasks is to investigate the Elizabeth Dane, an ocean-going cargo vessel. This vessel was transporting an ancient sarcophagus which many ...
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Identify source of picture (probably “Doom” related)
I cleaned up my hard drive and found this picture.
The file is dated 1997, so the source must be older (obviously). It is probably related to the computer game Doom by id-Software. Somehow, that ...
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Why isn't the Master Chief a Commissioned Officer?
In the Halo universe, the main character is John-117, commonly referred to as "the Master Chief", a non-commissioned officer even though he had a lifelong military education. Why hasn't he become a ...
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What is the song playing in The walking dead S2e5 when daryl pulls the arrow out and in s3e10 when daryl and merle help the mexicans?
What is the song playing in The walking dead Season 2 episode 5 (when daryl pulls the arrow out and that) and in season 3 episode 10 (when daryl and merle help the mexicans) and its also in the game ...
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Why did 343 Guilty Spark help Miranda to stop Halo Delta?
The prime task of the AIs of forerunner was to ensure defense against the Flood. After a significant infection level, they were even willing to break the protocols (e.g. 343 Guilty Spark tried to ...
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What is the nature of the Terran Dominion?
I recently started playing Starcraft II, and I remember hearing about the Terran Dominion, and indeed, in the game, you play against them.
My question is, what type of government is the Terran ...
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What does Q*Bert say when he dies?
When the classic Q*Bert character dies, he says something that sounds like an alien language:
What is he supposed to be saying, exactly?
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Why does Death work for Dracula in Castlevania?
In the Castlevania series of games, Death works as Dracula's servant?
Why is this? Dracula started off life as a human, did he coerce Death during his life or after the start of his unlife?
What ...
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Why doesn't GLOPP mutate humans?
In Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, it can be seen that G.L.O.P.P. (Gluon Liquid Omega-Phased Plasma) mutates alligators, rats, pigs etc. into giant monsters. But, when I (Duke) am attacked with ...
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Kid gets sucked into a video game or TV show
I read a book as a kid (in the late 80's-early 90's) that was about a kid getting sucked into a video game or TV show and he had to make his way through the world and defeat the bad guy. I was ...
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Why is the culture in Fallout stuck in the 1950s?
All of the main fallout lore (1,2,3,and New Vegas) is 1950's-esque.
The nuclear war that destroyed the world did not occur until 2077.
What caused the culture to stay static for that ~120 year ...
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Was Half Life 1 inspired by HP Lovecraft's “Fungi from Yuggoth”?
The similarities aren't stark, but the remind me about each other so much.
Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar
system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great ...
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What happened to Lucy after the end of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood?
I have this question on the Assassin's Creed story plot. I want to know what happened to Lucy after Desmond stabbed her at the end of the AC: Brother Hood?
Presumably she died but what was the reason ...
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Is respawning technologically feasible in Pandora? [closed]
In the world of Pandora, in the game Borderlands 1 & 2, there are machines called "Fast-Travel" stations that can respawn the character. Dying seems to transmit your data through some sort of ...
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Why did the Quarians attack the Geth after creating them?
According to the Geth memories shown by Legion in Mass Effect 3, we see that the Geth were shut down and attacked after they were created by the Quarians. The Geth responded by self-defense but what ...
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How does a non-sentient life being do intelligent things?
The Flood is a non-sentient life form. That's why the Halo array is unable to kill it directly (the Flood is starved to death which is passive killing by Halo).
What I see about the Flood in the ...
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In Assassin's Creed: Embers, who talked to Ezio before the end?
Even though the character appears in the credits as "Young Man", he talks knowingly to Ezio, takes his hand, tells him "Courage, Ezio". So he clearly knew who he was talking to. He's the only unnamed ...
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Could Kreia's plan to destroy the Force actually succeed?
In the Star Wars video game Knights of the Old Republic II, the final antagonist, Kreia (Darth Traya) wanted to completely destroy the Force by sacrificing herself in the wound in the force on ...
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How much did Larry Niven's Ringworld inspire the Halo game franchise?
I have heard that the First Person Shooter Halo game franchise was inspired by Larry Niven's Ringworld. How Ringworldie is it? Is there more to the connection between Niven's classic Ringworld and the ...
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Would the Valley have made Jerec more powerful than Palpatine or Abeloth?
In Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Jerec tries to access the power of the Valley of the Jedi.
If he had succeed, would he have truly become more powerful than Palpatine or even Abeloth?
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Where do new Pokemon come from?
Each new TV series and each new game seems to introduce new pokemon, so many I've lost count.
Where do this new pokemon come from? Are they newly discovered? Or are they 'regional'?
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Does it occur to GLaDOS that the Black Mesa incident was a great achievement?
At the time, Aperture Science and Black Mesa were having a race over portal technology. The Black Mesa incident opened a giant portal connecting Earth and Xen.
My theory is that GLaDOS thought that ...
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Is Galen Marek AKA Starkiller part of the Star Wars canon?
I just wanted to know this. Thank you!
If this is too basic, may I ask where can I find if something is star wars canon or not?
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How are soldiers recruited onto the XCOM squad?
XCOM is a non-governmental 'elite multinational military organisation'. Soldiers from all around the world take part in this programme.
I know that there were two novels (Diane Duane's X-COM: UFO ...
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How deep was Coruscant's surface buried?
I knew that Coruscant's undercity received no light, but I didn't realize how big it was. In the trailer for the upcoming game Star Wars 1313, a panoramic shot of level 1313 is shown:
You can ...
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How does Halo's defense system destroy sentient life selectively?
Halo's defense system is designed to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy. How does this work?
It can't be like nuclear bomb, otherwise it'd also destroy non-sentient life (viz. the Flood). It ...
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What is the Sith Emperor Vitiate's lightsaber form?
I saw that in the KOTR Star Wars game, Sith Emperor (Vitiate) uses a lightsaber.
I've never played the game, but those who have, based on his actions, what light-saber form do you think Vitiate ...
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How were the Flood captured?
If all sentient life (including humans) in the galaxy was intact, it means that Halo array was silent for long which means the Flood wasn't a threat to galaxy for long. Its only possible for alive ...
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Is Earth the same size as the Riverworld?
Philip José Farmer's Riverworld book series takes place on a terraformed planet with a single river system that flows between 10 & 20 million miles from begining to end and tightly zig zags ...
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Where did the Space Invaders come from?
Space Invaders is an arcade video game.
Is there any licensed material that explain from where they come from, why they want to invade us and why the only solution is to destroy them.
Bonus point ...
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Sith using the light side of the force?
I started to play Star Wars: The Old Republic. In this game, you can choose between 2 factions (Jedi/Sith), however in the quest you can choose what you want you do. For example: torture a prisoner ...
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Why didn't Rapture collapse due to structural damage?
Both Bioshock and Bioshock 2 take place in a city that's built on the bottom of the ocean. In both games there is at least one audio diary pointing out the extreme danger of water leaking into the ...
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How did Chell end up at Aperture?
I have been looking around the web for an answer but I can't really find anything. How did the character in the video game Portal end up at the lab, trapped by GLaDOS?
It is clear from answers to ...
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Why the effective military strength affect the ending of Mass Effect 3?
Mass Effect 3 has different ending depending of your actions through the game, I'm not asking what action affect this (it's described here), but Why? (Obvious spoilers):
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Are there any choices made by the player in the Mass Effect series that are considered canon?
In the Mass Effect series, the player makes several choices that affect further events. Some characters will die or survive based on your choices, and your actions have an impact on the ending.
Are ...
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What is Sonic the Hedgehog's maximum running speed?
This question isn't exactly limited to the video game (there's also the Archie Comics books and a TV series), but was there ever a canon answer on how fast Sonic can run? In his Super Sonic or Hyper ...
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When do we find out who Miranda Keyes' Mother is?
In the Halo universe, it is well know that Miranda is the daughter of Captain Jacob Keyes. In the recent Halo: Glasslands it is made obvious that her mother is:
However, when was it mentioned ...
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Why do some Salarians have a handle on their chest?
Salarians are one of the council species in Mass-Effect. Some of them have some kind of bottle opener shaped handle on theirs chest:
This feature doesn't seem motivated by any biological ...
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Why do digger-zombies walk in the wrong direction after emerging from the ground?
We have learned that the zombies in Plants vs. Zombies eat our precious plants because they hinder their way to get into the house. So the zombies themselves have no interest in eating the plants as ...
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Why do Zombies eat plants in “Plants vs. Zombies”?
AFAIK, Zombies aren't vegetarians. They usually have a special interest in eating living human brains. Why do they eat the Plants then?
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Is it possible to fly like Batman in Arkham City?
In the game you can glide, then go into a dive, and then glide again. Using this technique you can travel long distances. Is that possible in real life?
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Why could we barely see through all Quarian's masks?
In Mass Effect, Quarians are an alien race that have an immune system so weak they need to constantly wear environmental suits to protect them from disease or infection if they are injured. A major ...
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Why does GLaDOS say “again” in her greeting?
At the very beginning of Portal, GLaDOS greets the player with these words:
Hello, and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.
Why again?
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Is a design like Varus' bow possible?
I'm not an archer, but I saw this and thought it was cool:
Ignoring the fact that it's magical, are bows with 4 or more limbs and 2 or more strings possible in reality? Would there be any benefits?
