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: Nightfall might end up being the superior classic Guild Wars starting experience
I was pretty sure I was going to go into Factions after last week's Choose My Adventure, but a final surge in voting saw...
Choose My Adventure: How good advice led to some minor comfort with Classic Guild Wars
I have to admit, the Choose My Adventure voting did not fall the way I had expected it to last week. Apparently folks were...
Choose My Adventure: Guild Wars delivers a shock to the system after months in the sequel
We're starting the new year of Choose My Adventure by hopping in to an older game, the original Guild Wars. I'm honestly not too...
Choose My Adventure: My time inside Guild Wars 2’s dungeons and Elon Riverlands
It was partially a letdown, partially a surprise in my trip through Guild Wars 2 this time around. The objectives were pretty clear: GO...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2022
This has been a pretty challenging year for a lot of reasons, and my 2022 in Choose My Adventure certainly didn't feel any different...
Choose My Adventure: Hitting my stride in another round of Guild Wars 2 Tyria mapping
I was almost certain our last Choose My Adventure vote would be a blowout one way or the other, but you fine folks had...
Choose My Adventure: Going back to Guild Wars 2 basics through Tyria mapping
One of the surefire ways I know that I'm loving a game is when I swing my wallet like a shillelagh at it -...
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...
