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
Choose My Adventure: LOTRO’s fall festival rekindled my love for all things Tolkien
All right, that was a nice detour. It was going to be a long run in Lord of the Rings Online, so it was...
Choose My Adventure: Lord of the Rings Online might have been a bad choice for this column
So as that headline suggests, I probably mad a bad call adding Lord of the Rings Online as an option for a CMA column....
Choose My Adventure: It’s bear time in Lord of the Rings Online
It has been a few years since I made my way back to Lord of the Rings Online. I remember being around the game...
Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more
Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...
Choose My Adventure: The further adventures of a twin pistols gadgeteer in DC Universe Online
So, the powers that be said that keeping to my twin pistols in DC Universe Online was the way to go, and I have...
Choose My Adventure: Slowly acclimating to the goofiness of DC Universe Online
Boy did this one start out strangely. Apparently I have played DC Universe Online a few times before -- I even have a level...
Choose My Adventure: Club Worlds are the pinnacle of player creativity in Trove
Homestead who? Dungeons what? Player-made items? Don’t need ‘em. The pinnacle of player creativity in Trove, without any peer or equal, is the Club...
Choose My Adventure: A quick spot of building and crafting in Trove
I have to admit, this one didn't take long at all to get through. I sort of assumed that building things in Trove was...
Choose My Adventure: Back to the basic joys of dungeon running in Trove
This is way more like it.
The bare bones, basic, simple delight of Trove continues to be running around the open world, heading to whatever...
Choose My Adventure: A sample platter of classes and a taste of Geode boredom in Trove
You know what the problem is with Trove in the beginning? It just throws so much stuff at you that when you do something...
Choose My Adventure: Tearing through the colorful world of Trove at breakneck speeds
The idea to play Trove this month ended up being something of a needed breath of fresh air for me. With all of the...
Choose My Adventure: Wakfu definitely isn’t my cup of tea (and that’s OK)
Well, I tried, everyone. I really did. But sometimes you just have to sort of admit when you're diametrically opposed to a game. Thus...
Choose My Adventure: Wakfu may not be my cup of tea
You know how sometimes you really can't know for sure how you'll feel about a game until you fire it up? Those games where...
Choose My Adventure: Space combat is yet another vast and interesting layer to Star Wars Galaxies
What even is this game? This is a question I seem to be asking myself a lot as I continue to scrape at the...
Choose My Adventure: The long road to starting a Star Wars Galaxies crafting empire
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will Wolfy Starflight Concern. The time I spent this week on the Legends rogue server of...
Choose My Adventure: Awestruck by Star Wars Galaxies’ crafting and housing potential
This week has been something of a rollercoaster for me. Of emotions. Of discovery. And, slowly yet surely, of deeper appreciation and enjoyment of...
Choose My Adventure: Dipping a toe in the vast ocean of Star Wars Galaxies crafting and gathering
"Crafting in Star Wars Galaxies was the greatest thing ever in MMORPGs."
How often have you read a comment like that? I know I've seen...
Choose My Adventure: Star Wars Galaxies’ legacy questline is so boring
Level 22. That was the arbitrary block between me and wearing armor in Star Wars Galaxies. Not level 10. Not level 15. Not level...
Choose My Adventure: The slow setup for adventure in Star Wars Galaxies Legends
This week's Choose My Adventure probably had more preliminary preparation than any other game I've had. Most of the time I tend to fly...
Choose My Adventure: How guidance made all the difference in MapleStory
Boy, am I glad I read the comments. That's not an admission that I very often make when it comes to my online life,...
