(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) I’ve touched on Focus Entertainment’s Vampyr and The Surge and we’ve explored reviving Outriders but amazingly, we’ve never touched on The Technomancer. It’s interesting because we went into what made Kairosoft such a great studio on mobile and one of those three strong features is the gameplay formula. Focus ...
(AfroGamers.com) In the 2000s, there were memes centered around pirates versus ninjas. It’s a fun image featuring two historical badass warriors both being shrouded in myth and mystery. In gaming, we’ve seen ninjas get a ton of love in the form of Strider as well as the Naruto, Tenchu, Ninja ...
(AfroGamers.com) When I was younger, I was a big fan of side-scrolling beat ‘em ups. There have been many cult classics and true bangers of this subgenre of action games but one game always irritated me: Battletoads/Double Dragon. It’s a title I got during Christmas 1993 and I was pretty ...
(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) 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) 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) Recently, Blizzard’s hit free to play game, Overwatch 2, started its new season. As someone who put a lot of hours into the original game and now Overwatch 2, I think that it is safe to say that there are some problems with it, especially at the bronze to ...