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: Yes, Project Gorgon is a weird game
I want to start this column by saying the absolute meanest thing I have to say about Project Gorgon, and that one is probably...
Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in Project Gorgon
I'm really glad to be heading into Project Gorgon for the first CMA of the year. Not just because it's a title which I...
Choose My Adventure Year in Review: DC Universe Online, Shroud of the Avatar, Guild Wars 2, and Secret World Legends
As our review of the past year of Choose My Adventure rolls onward (a bit longer than originally planned), we enter what I think...
Choose My Adventure Year in Review: Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WildStar, Black Desert, and Neverwinter
So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review
Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping things up in Secret World Legends
One of the things that I promised way back when I started writing this series about Secret World Legends was to mention the way...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse
Would you believe that I sort of forgot about levels altogether in Secret World Legends? It's true! I remembered that they were a thing...
Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends
Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...
Choose My Adventure: It’s all the same in Secret World Legends
I was a bit disappointed to see that last week's poll for Secret World Legends went to the Illuminati. I played the Illuminati my...
Choose My Adventure: The truth is out there about Secret World Legends
Oh, Secret World Legends. What are you? Are you a Frankensteinian change forced upon an existing beloved game that sucked some of the life...
Choose My Adventure: Not quite farewell to Guild Wars 2
I am not done with Guild Wars 2.
This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....
Choose My Adventure: All spoken out in Guild Wars 2
Well, this is a bit awkward. I appear to have run out of things to say.
This is not inherently a bad thing. My time...
Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2
One of the points of the polls and discussions for Guild Wars 2 the other week was that while I could focus on either...
Choose My Adventure: Following a god in Guild Wars 2
To my absolute lack of a surprise, the fact that your abilities are so aggressively limited once you pick an Elite Specialization in Guild Wars...
Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2
My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...
Choose My Adventure: The return to Guild Wars 2
Many moons ago, when I was first hired on Massively-that-was, my fellow hire at the time was a lady by the name of Rubi...
Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation
All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And...
Choose My Adventure: Many kinds of lost in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the first things I did in Shroud of the Avatar was get kind of lost. The last week's activities were largely similar....
Choose My Adventure: The why behind Shroud of the Avatar
Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side.
The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...
Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
