Choose My Adventure tours a new MMO every month — with you, the reader, as the co-pilot, voting for how the writer plays from week to week. Our current captain is Chris Neal. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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Choose My Adventure: Tiny ship takes on big battles in Star Trek Online
I didn't have a whole heap of time to myself in Star Trek Online this week, but considering that I was basically told to...
Choose My Adventure: Starting life as a Jem’Hadar in Star Trek Online
So, first thing's first: I wasn't really able to spend excessive time in Star Trek Online this weekend. It was not just a holiday...
Choose My Adventure: Red Dead Online is a multiplayer buried treasure
There's nothing quite as bad in gaming as wasted potential. There are no shortage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that reached for the...
Choose My Adventure: My life as a Moonshiner in Red Dead Online
This is not something I say very often or very lightly, but I'm glad that I was pressured into spending money on a game.
I'll...
Choose My Adventure: Roaming the wild frontier is the quintessence of Red Dead Online
When my best friend Britarnya started to get deep into her Red Dead Online cups, she was mostly just riding around the game's prairie...
Choose My Adventure: Roaming the wild frontier of Red Dead Online with a posse of friends
What, you didn't really think I would play this game alone, did you?
I should explain just what's happening here: I'm playing Red Dead Online...
Choose My Adventure: Throne & Liberty’s endgame blends genuine fun with intense social requirements
One could be forgiven for thinking that headline was written by somebody who just discovered MMORPGs can be grindy, but I promise that's not...
Choose My Adventure: The final push to level cap in Throne & Liberty
This is probably one of the few times in my personal history with Choose My Adventure when I hit the level cap in the...
Choose My Adventure: The steady climb upward in Throne & Liberty levels and power
I've finally gotten to a point of reasonable comfort in Throne and Liberty. I've definitely settled on my weapons, obviously. I'm starting to get...
Choose My Adventure: Throne and Liberty continues to both intrigue and concern
I appreciate that reading that summary about my current feelings regarding Throne and Liberty comes off as conflicting, but that's primarily because I continue...
Choose My Adventure: The progression conflict in Once Human
I don't want to claim that I necessarily hit a wall with my time in Once Human during my playtime for Choose My Adventure...
Choose My Adventure: The quest for power and pants in Once Human
After last week's Choose My Adventure episode, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that my Once Human character would get some pants for...
Choose My Adventure: Guided adventure, multiplayer hijinks, and pantslessness in Once Human
I'm going to be honest, I'm a bit surprised at just how on-rails Once Human is so far. Chalk that up to another assumption...
Choose My Adventure: Once Human brings impressive atmosphere and routine survival beats
Sometimes I have to wonder why people like the games they like. That's not to suggest that there's something inherently wrong with people -...
Choose My Adventure: Fractured Online offers a perfectly good PvE sandbox, so why am I not in love?
Here we are past the month of August (yes really) and I am left kind of conflicted about my feelings toward Fractured Online. On...
Choose My Adventure: Leaving the tutorial island and gaining knowledge in Fractured
So that didn't take me too long, but then I suppose I had done most of the work beforehand anyway: My time in Fractured...
Choose My Adventure: Fractured Online starts off unremarkably but comfortably
I always start off with a lot of concern whenever I enter a sandbox MMORPG for Choose My Adventure. Mostly because these games are...
Choose My Adventure: Aw man Pax Dei is just not for me
Have you ever been so diametrically opposed to a game that you knew right from the very beginning that it was going to be...
Choose My Adventure: Mission runs cap off a welcoming return to Elite Dangerous
What a difference a month makes. When I first started these series of Elite Dangerous posts for Choose My Adventure, I had gone into...
Choose My Adventure: Blowing up rocks for fun and profit in Elite Dangerous
When I first started my run in Elite: Dangerous for this week's Choose My Adventure, I was just barely over the amount of credits...