You shoot a man in the arm and the arm comes off. Not a scripted animation or a special kill: you hit an arm, it is gone, and he is still standing there.
The commonest way to fail at installing San Andreas Multiplayer is to buy San Andreas. That sounds absurd and it is completely true.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was sold as a single-player game about an occult research programme, zombies in a crypt, and a man with a Thompson.
The person beating you 25 to 4 in a Quake duel is probably not out-aiming you. They are standing where the red armour will appear, counting the seconds.
Good Quake III players do not shoot at people. They shoot at the floor beside them, because a rocket aimed where you will be beats one aimed where you are.
Nobody plays Quake online with the executable id Software shipped in 1996, and the reason is a piece of software history that most games never had.
About a third of the way through Quake 4 you are captured, strapped to a conveyor belt and fed into the machine that turns prisoners into Strogg.
About five minutes into your first Natural Selection round, a health pack drops out of the ceiling and lands at your feet. Nobody threw it.
Expansion packs are usually extra maps everybody plays for a fortnight. Spearhead is one of the few that ended up replacing the game it was attached to.
Breakthrough is the Medal of Honor expansion where dying puts you in a cage, and somebody on your team has to cross the map to let you out.
Everybody remembers the beach. Medal of Honor opened the ramp at Omaha in 2002, and most of the men beside you died before you worked out which way to run.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault put you in a landing craft off Omaha Beach in 2002, dropped the ramp, and killed most of the men beside you in three steps.
