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Common Tropes in Quake and custom maps/mods
Two terrible links as hint what this is about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trope_(literature)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_tropes_and_conventions
Not sure if normal common gameplay setups count too, eg monster closets, spawning in the player's back, repopulating the map before sending the player to backtrack etc
- A horde of zombies right before the player gets the grenade launcher
- Moving platform over lava
- Seeing a pickup behind bars or otherwise unreachable at the moment
- Red demon face texture shooting nails
- Putting stuff/secret behind the player at his spawnpoint
Add more and/or write more descriptive descriptions!