Tag: Mafia: The Old Country

  • BigNerdGaming’s Top 20 Moments of 2025

    BigNerdGaming’s Top 20 Moments of 2025

    This is probably my second favorite post I do every year. As great as it is talking about the characteristics of different video games, there’s something extra special about diving deep and exploring individual moments from those games. If someone tells me their favorite video games from a year, I think there are things I…

  • My Hottest Gaming Takes of 2025 So Far

    My Hottest Gaming Takes of 2025 So Far

    This may surprise you, given the title of this article, but I don’t like a lot of “hot takes” in the gaming space. I feel like a lot of these takes are given in bad faith, and mostly for attention. Calling a very well regarded game “bad” is an easy way to get attention and…

  • Mafia: The Old Country Review- A Journey Worth Ignoring The Ending

    Mafia: The Old Country Review- A Journey Worth Ignoring The Ending

    I have a moderately hot take. People obsess about endings too much, for just about everything. Don’t get me wrong, a powerful ending hits like little else. Many of my favorite moments in a year come when a game absolutely nails an ending. But if a game takes me on an awesome journey, and then…

  • My 15 Most Anticipated Games For The Rest of 2025

    My 15 Most Anticipated Games For The Rest of 2025

    When I look at 2025 so far, I’d honestly say that this year has fallen just a touch short of 2023 and 2024. That isn’t a big knock at all. I thought 2023 and 2024 were historic, and 2025 is just a little behind. Despite this, I still constantly feel overwhelmed with the number of…

  • BigNerdGaming’s Top 15 Most Anticipated Games of 2025

    BigNerdGaming’s Top 15 Most Anticipated Games of 2025

    2023 was one of the greatest gaming years of my life. I felt like I played more amazing games that year than perhaps any other year in my life. I was very pessimistic about 2024 surpassing it. Then, 2024 came in and did surpass it for me by a hair. I thought 2023 was a…