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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]

Choose My Adventure: Hands-on with Temtem’s early access build before launch

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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...

Choose My Adventure: Forewarned is forearmed in my return foray to V Rising

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There's something extremely valuable in hitting a reset button when you're able to. Failure is always an option in MMOs and multiplayer titles, to...

Choose My Adventure: What Final Fantasy XI taught me about games preservation and the ‘good old days’

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Well. This has been a journey. I wasn't really expecting my return trip to Final Fantasy XI to be all sunshine, rainbows, and easy...

Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI shows its age and its nostalgia in equal measure

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Once again, this week in Final Fantasy XI continues to deliver nostalgia and aggravation in mostly equal amounts. First off, I will admit that deciding...

Choose My Adventure: Slow-going through Final Fantasy XI’s more recently added systems

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First thing’s first: I have sorted out the way the aspect ratio option works. No more squished kitty! You’d think that’d be a pretty...

Choose My Adventure: The long-awaited and slightly bumpy return to Final Fantasy XI

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So as you can see, I got Final Fantasy XI working. More specifically, I got the help of our resident expert on all things...

Choose My Adventure: Sampling a quick serving of player creativity in City of Heroes Rebirth

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Even though City of Heroes Rebirth is a smaller rogue server in comparison to others out there, I was happy to notice that there...

Choose My Adventure: Some classic mission running in the City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server

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So yes, it would appear that missions are indeed the most rewarding thing to do in City of Heroes: Rebirth. That would probably be the...

Choose My Adventure: My life as a Guardian in City of Heroes Rebirth

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Can the introduction of a completely different class change the entire makeup of an MMO’s experience? That is often the bet pushed forward by...

Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI’s PlayOnline decides to not let me play online

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This was not how I was expecting to return to Final Fantasy XI. I always knew about the completely goofball account system that is...

Choose My Adventure: A walk into the yellow zones and realm warfare in Albion Online

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After all of the time I’ve spent in my return trip to Albion Online, I can comfortably say that it’s not the kind of...

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