The MMORPG adventures you chose in 2015

When the Choose My Adventure column was first begun many years ago on Massively-that-was, it was an adventure entirely in the hands of the readers. The author, often different from game to game, left every decision to the whims of the voters, including the game itself. CMA has evolved over time to be less susceptible to community brigading and more an extended hands-on deep-dive into MMORPGs, but its core purpose is the same: You still nudge the author away from his or her comfort zones to really experience a game.

Mike Foster and Matt Daniel drove the Choose My Adventure bus this year. Here’s a look back at the games they played at your command.

Choose My Adventure: Right-Click Sampler Platter Edition - It's been a crazy month. Since writing my farewell Choose My Adventure on Massively-X-Joy-Gadget--vs-Capcom-Turbo, I've sent a few hundred emails, helped raise a huge pile of money, and participated in launching an entirely new website. I've…

Choose My Adventure: Diablo of Exile - This month's Choose My Adventure is like no Choose My Adventure that has come before. Instead of deep-diving one game for four weeks, we're deep-diving a genre. OARPGs (online action role-playing games) are the topic for…

Choose My Adventure: Path of Marvel - In last week's Choose My Adventure, we learned a few magic spells and set off to conquer a tiny portion of Diablo III's hellish landscape. It was dark and depressing. In this week's Choose My Adventure,…

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Heroes - Our March sampler-platter edition of Choose My Adventure is quickly coming to a close. There's only one more vote to take, one more game to play, and one more character to create. Our task this week,…

Choose My Adventure: Torchlight, too - March is but a memory. April is here. And while a new month certainly brings new things to Choose My Adventure, we've got just a bit of cleaning up to do before we head full-bore into…

Choose My Adventure: Onward and Heavensward - [AL:FFXIV]Hello old (and new) friends. It's been quite a while, so I imagine a quick (re-)introduction is in order before we get to the good stuff. Some of you may remember me from the days of…

Choose My Adventure: Heart of the Cards in FFXIV Heavensward - [AL:FFXIV]Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri to the second installment of Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward edition. Last week, I asked you all to vote on my character's race and class. The…

Choose My Adventure: Dungeons, soloing, and PvP in FFXIV’s Heavensward - [AL:FFXIV]Hello again, everyone, and welcome to week three of Choose My Adventure. If you're tuning in for the first time, allow me to bring you up to speed. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been…

Choose My Adventure: A whale of a time in FFXIV Heavensward’s Sea of Clouds - [AL:FFXIV]Hello again everyone, and happy August. It's happy for me, anyway; this past weekend marked the first time in recent memory that I could step outside without feeling as if the Florida heat was intent on wringing…

Choose My Adventure: Three games enter, one game leaves - Hello again, friends, and welcome to a new cycle of Choose My Adventure. You may remember that last time around, I bypassed the whole game-voting process and jumped straight into Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, but this…

Choose My Adventure: Unveiling the Treasures of Trove - Hello again, friends, and welcome once again to Choose My Adventure. The results of last week's race are in, and holy cow, what a race it was. Out of the gate, Pathfinder Online took a strong lead,…

Choose My Adventure: Trove’s Candyman can - Hello again, friends, and welcome to another riveting installment of Choose My Adventure. I hope you have a sweet tooth (and a good dental plan) because things are about to get saccharine as hell up in…

Choose My Adventure: Setting up Camp in Trove - Welcome, friends, to another episode of Choose My Adventure: Trove edition. Last week, as you may recall, I took my first steps in the cubist dreamscape that is the world of Trove and settled into my…

Choose My Adventure: Trove’s brave new (uber) world - It's everyone's favorite day of the week -- at least if you're that annoying camel in that one Geico commercial -- and you know what that means: It's time for another episode of Choose My Adventure featuring Trove.…

Choose My Adventure: Pointy sticks and lunacy in Trove - Hello, friends, and welcome once again to Choose My Adventure. This week, our time with Trove is drawing to an end, but we're not finished just yet. When we last met (a whole two weeks ago),…

Choose My Adventure: Freeloading in WildStar - Hello once again, friends, and welcome to a brand-new edition of Choose My Adventure. As you have probably already surmised, assuming that you read this post's title, I've decided to do things a little bit differently…

Choose My Adventure: Mad science and spellslinging in WildStar - Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the formulaic introduction to yet another installment of Choose My Adventure. As is tradition, let's start with a quick recap of last week's vote. As I'm sure you recall,…

Choose My Adventure: Unearthing the mysteries of WildStar’s Levian Bay - Hello everyone, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. Last week, you fine folks voted on whether my pwecious wittle Chua Spellslinger would continue his adventures on the planet Nexus in the scorching badlands of the Crimson…

Choose My Adventure: WildStar’s crafting frustrations - Welcome, everyone, to another installment of Choose My Adventure: WildStar edition. Last week, Bonongo Jazz, Chua Spellslinger-slash-Explorer-slash-Architect extraordinaire, arrived at the Dominion outpost of Lightreach Mission in the (relatively) untamed wilds of Ellevar. Here, a new…

Choose My Adventure: Settling the homestead in WildStar - Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest (and ostensibly greatest, depending on your perspective) installment of Choose My Adventure. This week, we'll be bidding adieu to the wild world of WildStar, but that time hasn't come…

Choose My Adventure: Into the Heart of Thorns - Hello again friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. November is upon us, and that means two things: It's time for another round of the annual cries of, "Why are all these stores decorating for…

Choose My Adventure: Running amok with Guild Wars 2’s Revenant - Hello again, friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. As you may or may not have noticed, CMA took a little hiatus last week on account of my having some computer issues that ultimately ended…

Choose My Adventure: Rising through the ranks in Guild Wars 2 - Hello, friends, and welcome yet again to another installment of Choose My Adventure. Over the course of last weekend, I've continued my journeys in Guild Wars 2's fantastical land of Tyria, and although I didn't manage…

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up my Guild Wars 2 adventure - Hello again, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition of Choose My Adventure. You may have noticed that this column is a couple of days…