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: Black Desert Mobile is absolutely crammed with stuff
This first-ever edition of Choose My Portable Adventure was more hotly contested than I was expecting. By the narrowest of margins – six votes,...
Choose My Adventure: The perfect sandbox MMORPG already exists in Project Gorgon
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever delighted in being so lost in an MMORPG before.
Most of the time, being kicked out into the...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2019
When I was handed the reins of Choose My Adventure by the incomparably awesome Eliot, I had bare little idea what sort of things...
Choose My Adventure: Conquering the fear of Project Gorgon (and getting rewarded for it)
You’ll probably notice that last week’s CMA was absent, and that’s because Project Gorgon intimidated me. I basically was scared off for a bit.
I...
Choose My Adventure: How Citadel Forged with Fire made me like survival sandboxes in spite of its faults
So here we are at the end of my first real deep dive into a survival sandbox. Citadel: Forged with Fire is, by all...
Choose My Adventure: Pushing boundaries and building a better house in Citadel Forged with Fire
As we come to the close of our Citadel: Forged with Fire adventure, we decided to push the absolute limits of how far we...
Choose My Adventure: Citadel Forged with Fire and the Quest for My Own Stuff
Maybe I’m turning the corner. Maybe I’m getting acclimated to how things work. Or maybe the game caught me on a good day. Whatever...
Choose My Adventure: Second time’s the charm in Citadel Forged with Fire
As interesting as figuring things out on my own in Citadel: Forged with Fire may have been the first time around, I have to...
Choose My Adventure: An intriguing and frustrating start in Citadel Forged with Fire
This one’s going to be a doozy, I can already tell.
My first arrival to Citadel: Forged with Fire was a bumpy, rough, unpleasant one....
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers says goodbye to me with a hearty kick to the butt
It seems that the final week of Torchlight Frontiers wanted to see me out with some bruises on my butt. I don’t know whether...
Choose My Adventure: The poisonous hell of the Hyvid Frontier in Torchlight Frontiers
The Goblin Frontier of Torchlight Frontiers isn’t exactly boring per se so much as just… blasé, I guess is the word I want to...
Choose My Adventure: The Torchlight Frontiers Railmaster suddenly makes perfect sense
You know that moment when you’re playing a new MMORPG class and there’s this kind of epiphany? That feeling like a switch has been...
Choose My Adventure: Figuring out the crazy train of Torchlight Frontiers’ Railmaster
So it turns out that the CMA readership would really like to see me run around with a murder train following me. This week's...
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers and the mindless catharsis of ARPG gaming
Sometimes, you’ve just got to run around and blow up hordes of enemies with big flashy skills and hoover in the goodies. You have...
Choose My Adventure: Diary of a Legends of Aria desert wildman
The desert sun rakes its fingers over my bronzed skin like I am the coals of a forge. Indeed, I am the forge: the...
Choose My Adventure: Accidentally naked adventures in Legends of Aria
It would probably stand to reason that my rise in confidence in Legends of Aria would take a hit this week. But mercifully, I'm...
Choose My Adventure: A stronger, straighter start in Legends of Aria
What a difference a few weeks make.
This past spring when I last toured Legends of Aria for Choose My Adventure, things were a little...
Choose My Adventure: In which Apex Legends makes me feel extremely old
I'm a firm believer of "You can't dislike it unless you know it," a sort of twist on the "Don't knock it 'til you...
Choose My Adventure: Anthem kept crashing, so here’s what happened in Destiny 2
This past weekend, for lack of a better word, was a shitshow.
Let me try to set the scene. My computer is about five or...
Choose My Adventure: Rediscovering the simple joy of flight in No Man’s Sky
Boy is it good to be back here.
I'll be honest, not much of what I did while flying around in No Man's Sky was...
