Month: August 2018

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Dive into Darkstalkers with The Nostalgic Gamer’s Fighting Game Primer series

Step into the world of the Night Warriors with these guides from The Nostalgic Gamer!

After concluding his “Meet The Darkstalkers” series last April with an episode covering Lilith Aensland, The Nostalgic Gamer continues his Darkstalkers Forever project with a three-part “Darkstalkers Fighting Game Primer” mini-series. It serves to introduce newcomers to both the wold of Darkstalkers (as well as the fighting game genre as a whole) though the lenses of Night Warriors and Vampire Savior, the two most-commonly played installments of the franchise, which are also part of Capcom’s 2013 Darkstalkers Resurrection release.

Though the series begins by explaining the very basic concepts of 2D fighting games (which will no doubt be familiar territory to the majority of our readers), TNG goes on to outline mechanics that are specific to Darkstalkers such as Pursuit Attacks, Holds, and the Dark Force system in Vampire Savior, as well as the core differences between the two games.

Finally, the third part of the Primer discusses ways for new players to get into the genre and stay for the long haul, as well as just exactly what drives many of us to log hours and hours of study and playtime into our video game genre of choice — especially for a 21-year old game like Savior.

With this weekend’s AnimEVO having a 56 entrant side tournament, this series is definitely a recommended watch if you’re new to the game, but invested in spectating the event. There is also a series of companion articles, videos, and social media pages, if you’re interested in further increasing your fighting game knowledge or looking to get involved with the competitive Darkstalkers community, listed in the video descriptions. You can see the full series below.

Source: The Nostalgic Gamer

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World of Warcraft – Alex Afrasiabi on Story – ‘We Want to Make Sure You Feel Something’

In an interview at ScienceAlert.com, Creative Director Alex Afrasiabi answered several interesting questions about storytelling in World of Warcraft. The interview was conducted prior to the start of the Battle for Azeroth pre-expansion event, War of Thorns, that has, to put it mildly, kicked up a lot of emotions with players. In one forward looking statement, Afrasiabi clearly indicates that the team knew that emotions would be running high, but urges patience with the unfolding of the story.

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BornFree interviews Smug at Defend the North 2018, talks Balrog, Fortnite, and more!

“I just like to have fun. I tried on GamerBee’s glasses just to see how blind he really was.”

There are few, if any, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition players that ooze the charisma that RISE|Smug does. With a wild sense of humor and a finely crafted Balrog, Smug manages to always come out of a tournament as the most talked-about player, win or lose.

It doesn’t hurt any that, lately, he’s been doing an awful lot of winning: he’s currently 6th on the NA Capcom Pro Tour leaderboard, and walked away with a top 3 finish at the event today’s interview was filmed at: Defend the North 2018. If you’ve ever wanted to get into the sharp mind of one of the FGC’s most colorful personalities, then BornFree‘s hour long interview above is for you.

Source: BornFree