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: Genfanad is ‘nostalgic’ in almost all of the wrong ways
I don't envy any development team that wants to make something that's "nostalgic." Making a game that hearkens back to predecessors or a time...
Choose My Adventure: Broken Ranks is a grim and fascinating bit of RPG gaming
Most of the time when you hear something call itself "grim," "dark," or "grimdark," it often translates into being some 17 year-old's idea of...
Choose My Adventure: Mist Legacy manages to somehow be both an idle and punishing MMORPG
When I first took a look into Mist Legacy during a livestream, I was both intrigued and charmed. The game basically looked and played...
Choose My Adventure: Running face-first into the brick wall that is Neocron
It's not often an MMO makes me ragequit, but hoo baby did I ever do that with Neocron.
I'll digest on why I think I...
Choose My Adventure: Alone in the crowd of Lost Ark’s endgame
Even at the max level in Lost Ark, I find that I'm still kind of playing alone. A little bit. Though I suppose I...
Choose My Adventure: Getting into the routine with Lost Ark’s Machinist
The polling for last week's Lost Ark Choose My Adventure was pretty clear: stay in the lower levels and focus on the Machinist. I...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to the very beginning of Lost Ark
I've been away from Lost Ark long enough that I'm effectively being left in the dust in terms of endgame - presumably, anyway -...
Choose My Adventure: Temtem is just not for me
I'll open with a little personal opinion: I've never liked the baseline Pokemon games. It never appealed to me when it first released, the...
Choose My Adventure: The joy of hunting for new critters to add to the Temtem collection
I'm going to be honest, the initial worry when I saw what won last week's Choose My Adventure poll was that I had already...
Choose My Adventure: Hitting the reset button and getting hit in return during Temtem’s launch
To be honest, I wasn't really expecting my full reset to the launch version of Temtem to feel too different, but I also was...
Choose My Adventure: Hands-on with Temtem’s early access build before launch
Knowing that the Temtem character I was running was going to be reset at the time of launch, as voted on by you fine...
Choose My Adventure: Chimeraland lets its freak flag fly one last time
You remember how I wrote last week that Chimeraland was becoming comfortable and routine? That its weirdness had sort of become kind of expected...
Choose My Adventure: Chimeraland’s weirdness routine continues to become a comfortable cadence
There's always a point when you're playing a new game that things become comfortable. A lot of folks tend to refer to that as...
Choose My Adventure: Making a house and making character progress in Chimeraland
This week in Chimeraland was all about growth - not necessarily for my big round boy Chonkhonk but for my abode and for McFishy...
Choose My Adventure: The winding and confounding road to make Chonkhonk stronger in Chimeraland
I am pretty much resolved to making my round bird mount the strongest it possibly can be. It's my long-tail goal in Chimeraland -...
Choose My Adventure: The monster-eating adventures of McFishy the Squid Man in Chimeraland
I've not had a great deal of time in Chimeraland, but one thing is being made pretty immediately apparent to me: This game really...
Choose My Adventure: Feeling like a vampire is not the problem with or the solution for V Rising
After these few weeks and hours playing V Rising in its early access state at the time of this column's publishing, I can pretty...
Choose My Adventure: Customizing my V Rising experience (because my other server was closed)
As that title would suggest, the V Rising server that I was originally playing on just decided to go kaput. The people who were...
Choose My Adventure: Boredom and frustration rear their head in V Rising
This week, V Rising decided to remind me why I deeply dislike survival sandboxes.
It all started off pedestrian enough for the most part. Over...
Choose My Adventure: V Rising provides moments of chaos and comfort
There's often a moment I've experienced when playing survival sandboxes where I hit my stride. The mechanics make perfect sense, I have a plan...
