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: Delving the expeditions, cities, and dungeons of Albion Online
I'm not sure that Albion Online is going to sink its hooks fully into me enough that I'll keep playing after this column, but...
Choose My Adventure: The quest for big punchy gloves in Albion Online
I don’t know whether I was just hungry for a positive experience after last month’s series, I came to this game with a newfound...
Choose My Adventure: The point of a community-guided MMO column
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Choose My Adventure programming for something of a meta discussion on what this column is meant to be and...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends makes me reconsider my interest in the series
After several weeks of slogging my way through classic The Secret World, I now find our readers have dispatched me to Secret World Legends....
Choose My Adventure: Why does The Secret World feel so bad to play?
The Secret World is a good game. A great one, even. It’s worthy of all of the praise and adoration it gets from its...
Choose My Adventure: The Secret World proves to be a familiar yet lonesome place
It has been a very long time, old friend. Yet still, here you are, simply existing. Nesting in silence. Disassociated, forgotten, but still just...
Choose My Adventure: Experiencing Zenith’s Blademaster and the overall sensation of VR MMO gaming
So, the Blademaster's way more fun.
Rolling a new character in Zenith ended up being a great decision all in all because the Blademaster class...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring VR MMO Zenith with my hands
Zenith is a bit interesting in terms of being a game for exploration. On the one hand, there are methods and means where I...
Choose My Adventure: Zenith opened me to new dimensions of MMO interactivity and weirdness
After picking up an Oculus Quest 2 in the interest of expanding our coverage (and as a present to myself and others in my...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Project Gorgon was much harder than I expected
Project Gorgon is being mean to me.
OK, maybe that’s unfair. I think I just shouldn’t have come back to this game after so long...
Choose My Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online is fun but would be better with friends
Once more, I’m reminded that Dungeons and Dragons Online should be part of my regular MMORPG gaming diet, primarily because this game lets me...
Choose My Adventure: Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood has slowly hooked me
In a landslide vote, the CMA readership said that I should press on with the Blackwood chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online. Which lead...
Choose My Adventure: The Elder Scrolls Online welcomes me back with open arms and fun quests
You know that moment in an MMORPG - or even a single-player RPG - where you boot up the game after a long hiatus...
The Stream Team: Celebrating a late Starlight in Final Fantasy XIV
It might be well past the regular Christmas season in real life, but the Starlight seasonal event in Final Fantasy XIV is still going...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
Choose My Adventure: Grim Dawn is finally getting fun
One of the best things that can happen to me in video gaming is to be proven wrong. To be surprised by how wildly...
Choose My Adventure: Grim Dawn starts off as grim as its name suggests
So, apparently, I was being hung to strangle out a demon. But I got better.
This is the opening section of Grim Dawn, and boy...
Choose My Adventure: Cobbling together a death brick in Avorion
You know how your first construction job in a survival sandbox is a perfectly functional but spectacularly hideous in terms of aesthetics? That was...
Choose My Adventure: Discovering familiarity, failure, and random adventure in Avorion
I was one jump away from what could have been a big payday. The opportunity was literally handed to me and I had managed...
Choose My Adventure: Avorion affirms that I am not a very good shipwright
Entering into Avorion for this month's Choose My Adventure column had me assuming a few things. First off, since this game was very much...
