(AfroGamers.com) I got into gaming at a specific period in time as I’ve mentioned before. It was a time of 2D side scrollers, Mode-7, and actual competition between consoles. It was also a period of what appeared a greater difficulty than present games. You might be like “Really? Harder than ...
(AfroGamers.com) We went into four features that made games more difficult to tackle in the 80s and 90s 2D era of gaming. It mostly rested in technical limitations and decisions with the mechanics in many titles and not so much in “This Game is hell.” Let’s look at four features ...
(AfroGamers.com) In June 2023, Blizzard’s action RPG Diablo IV dropped and it received mix reviews despite its financial success. A lot of the pushback towards the game comes from those who enjoyed Diablo III with a lot of the issues simply being issues about features that we’re either removed or ...
(AfroGamers.com) A while back, my brother wrote about the improvements that People Can Fly made to Outriders, which dropped in April 2021. I started playing Outriders earlier in November 2023—late to the game, obviously. At least I feel I was very late as there things about the game that let ...
(AfroGamers.com) So, I went into three pros from Outriders that I felt really made the game fun for a newcomer like myself. For the past few weeks, it’s been my primary co-op game. Of course, all games have some flaws. Some are tolerable but you know they’re there while others ...
(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) Back in 2021, I joined a GTA RP—Grand Theft Auto roleplay—server called Alabama RP. It was a smaller server and at the time didn’t have the mechanics that larger servers like NoPixel and IgniteRP sported. In the player application for my background in roleplay and for my character, I ...
(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 ...