(AfroGamers.com) For years, FromSoftware built its whole reputation on suffering by yourself. You against the world. You against some horror the size of a cathedral, dying over and over, learning every twitch and tell until you finally, finally got it. Solitude was the point. Those Souls games whispered a cruel ...
(AfroGamers.com) I still remember sitting too close to the screen, controller damp in my hands, my boy on the second pad next to me, both of us whisper yelling so we wouldn’t wake nobody’s mama. That was the era. Couch, split screen, no headset required because the trash talk was ...
(AfroGamers.com) Real ones remember the first drop. The bus, the little glider, that half second your boots hit grass and somebody was already cracking your shield before you’d even found a gun. There was a purity to it back then. You against ninety nine strangers, a storm squeezing the map ...
(AfroGamers.com) I been gaming long enough to remember exactly where I was when the first trailer dropped. Phone buzzing, group chat losing its entire mind, somebody’s cousin already screen recording so they could slow it down frame by frame. And then that flamingo. That sunrise over the water. That voice. ...
(AfroGamers.com) What game is the most samurai game ever? Is it Samurai Warriors? Not close. Actually, if I could write out the sound effect for a buzzer, I’d do it but that’s bad taste or something. How about Bushido Blade? If you guessed that, you’re definitely in flavor country but not ...
(AfroGamers.com) For a couple of months, I got back into Warframe, a third-person shooter from Digital Extremes. The game came out in early 2013, over a year before Bungie released the first Destiny game. I mention Destiny because Warframe comes off as something of a third-person version of Destiny—which is kind of inaccurate because Warframe came first but it’s definitely not ...
(AfroGamers.com) I recently watched some videos about the development process of the PS3-era title Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and was really impressed by the work that went into the game. For those who never experienced it or played the game when it ended on storefronts, Kingdoms of Amalur was an ...
(AfroGamers.com) Pokeclones are a favorite subgenre of mine and Koei Tecmo’s Monster Rancher is one of my favorites. It dropped at a time of others such as Medabots, Robopon, Dragon Quest Monsters and an adjacent title such as Digimon. Not too long after Monster Rancher landed on PSX we’d see ...
(AfroGamers.com) A title that gamers who were either around or just coming into gaming might remember from the PS2’s launch is E.O.E: Eve of Extinction. Released in 2002, E.O.E was a beat ‘em up published by Eidos and developed by Yuke’s, the game is an odd memory for me. I ...
(AfroGamers.com) While chatting with a good friend about open-world crime games, we got around to discussing Saints Row. From 2006 until 2022, the game was developed by Volition and underwent directional changes as the lore of the titular Saints gang grew. Two strengths for Saints Row included always having fun ...