(AfroGamers.com) I’ll just start off with this: the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War is the best gaming mechanic of all time for open-world games. I’d say that in 2023, it’s a necessary feature got big, breathing worlds where combat is a constant reality. Now, some ...
(AfroGamers.com) Super Mario Bros. 3 tends to hold a special spot when discussing groundbreaking video games. I usually sum it up with the first SMB being significant to gaming as a whole—it saved an industry—while SMB3 is significant to the franchise. One thing I always noticed whether it was SMB ...
(AfroGamers.com) Usually when we see the spiritual successor to a game it’s created by a studio made up of the spiritual predecessor’s studio. A good example of this is the Story of Seasons series made by Marvelous—which features talent from Natsume, the studio behind Harvest Moon. You also have Mighty ...
(AfroGamers.com) Recently, I’ve gotten into and revisited a couple of open-world games. As I’ve expressed in the past, open-world is my favorite approach to games since the linear approach just doesn’t do it for me. If I know how the progression is going without me getting there at my own ...
(AfroGamers.com) The first game I ever played was Castlevania, a side-scrolling action game where you killed all kinds of monsters and demons leading up to a final showdown with Count Dracula. I was probably four when my cousins let me play on their OG Nintendo, so there was no way ...
(AfroGamers.com) Saints Row is one of the more successful Grand Theft Auto clones to be released. The series was started in 2006 and delivered a number of features associated with GTA. Given that the series dropped years after Vice City and San Andreas, Volition had a leg up on storytelling ...
(AfroGamers.com) I’ve recently sat and played a classic Nintendo 64 game in Duke Nukem 64. Actually, it’s more of a cult classic since it wasn’t exactly one of the blockbuster titles on the console. Regardless, it’s a game that really made me look at how good GoldenEye 007 was as ...
(AfroGamers.com) Along with many meta changes in season 4 of Overwatch 2, came the arrival of a long-awaited support character, Lifeweaver. While people are just getting their hands on him and are still figuring out the best way to play him and all the crazy things that he can do, ...
(AfroGamers.com) Welcome to the first Tales from the East Side where I go into stories from the MnM/Crossroads roleplaying community. The community usually roleplays in a modified Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 servers but is based around the Music and Mayhem (GTA V) and Crossroads (RDR2) ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a masterpiece of gameplay and became one of Nintendo’s truly legendary titles. It took players on an adventure that crossed time, the elements, and nations all through the perspective of a young boy who is actually leaving him hometown for the ...