(AfroGamers.com) Going on twenty some years now, a certain kind of WoW veteran has carried the same quiet ache. You remember standing at the edge of Azshara, staring at a sealed gate nobody could open, inventing little stories about whatever waited behind it. Or the crumbled ruins between Mulgore and ...
(AfroGamers.com) Everybody kept saying the big war shooter was dead. Dead like the arcade, dead like couch multiplayer, dead like the LAN party you used to drag your tower across town for. The suits looked at the numbers, saw a hundred bodies crammed onto one map going nowhere, and decided ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every few months a new title lands where you snag little critters and raise them up for battle, and like clockwork somebody in the replies calls it a Pokémon knockoff. Reflexive. Kind of lazy, honestly. And almost nobody bothers to check whether that franchise even landed before the competition. ...
(AfroGamers.com) I have gotten dropped in Call of Duty more times than my ego wants to admit, and not once did my gut clench up. You eat a bullet, the screen barely reacts, and you are moving again, chewing the same stick of gum before the irritation even lands. Reload, ...
(AfroGamers.com) In recent years, I’ve come to appreciate sports games more. That’s primarily down to watching Dynasty videos and franchise rebuilds. I’m a big simulation game fan and the GM, Player Career, and MyLeague modes were what I went to if I played a sports title since I’ve never cared ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let me talk about something that has been sitting heavy on my chest since the first trailer dropped and everybody lost their minds over Lucia. That feeling did not disappear when Rockstar released its extended look. If anything, seeing more of the world made the question harder to ignore. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Gaming has always involved some way of rewarding the player, and in the genre’s earliest days, that usually meant little more than a congratulatory splash screen upon completion and perhaps our name on the high score leaderboard. Things have come a long way, and we’re now at the point ...
(AfroGamers.com) The idea of releasing an unfinished game to the public used to be the height of indignity for developers and would have been ripped apart in the gaming press for being borderline scammy. But things have changed a lot, with early access releases on Steam setting a new precedent ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody told you where to go. Back then that felt less like design and more like getting ditched. You slid the gold cartridge into the Nintendo, watched the title screen shimmer beside that trickling waterfall, and then there you were. A tiny figure in green, dropped onto a screen ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody warned me what that chainsaw would do to my nervous system back in 2006. First time it caught a Locust mid-lunge, my roommate came flying out the kitchen convinced somebody was getting jumped in our living room. Just me. Hunched over a controller, sweating through a cover shooter ...