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: MapleStory insists on getting in the way of fun
I am mightily surprised I'm having such a bad time with MapleStory - especially considering how much I enjoyed the sequel, which you'll recall was...
Choose My Adventure: RIFT was fun before, wasn’t it?
My time in RIFT this past month has left me confused, frankly. Primarily because I remember genuinely enjoying this game more than I did.
That’s...
Choose My Adventure: Further group adventures (that weren’t IAs) in RIFT
Once again, the polls from last week were a split between people saying I should queue for normal dungeons and others saying I should...
Choose My Adventure: Warrior time and a more classical Cleric in RIFT
This week, I traded my shepherd’s cane for a big honkin’ sword in RIFT and found that… well, there’s not too much different here,...
Choose My Adventure: Getting invested in RIFT’s Instant Adventures
So, before we begin, this is what happened with one of the polls: a dead-even split between doing Instant Adventures and following the breadcrumb...
Choose My Adventure: I think I accidentally turned my Cleric into a Necromancer in RIFT
One of the big selling points in RIFT has always been the ability to combine three of the game's Souls into a custom class....
Choose My Adventure: What Wizard101 taught me about ‘kiddie’ MMOs
My brief time in Wizard101 has pointed out to me a rather deep-seated assumption I had held about the game. Granted, I had said...
Choose My Adventure: The point where Wizard101 blends in with other MMOs
I feel like I’ve got the general thrust of Wizard101. For the most part, anyway.
This week it was all about trying to clear the...
Choose My Adventure: Fizzle frustration, boss beatdowns, and slowly forming strategies in Wizard101
Remember last week how I wrote about being surprised at the depth of Wizard101’s combat? This week I learned that the game’s combat can...
Choose My Adventure: The combat is the sauce in Wizard101
It’s only been a little bit of time, but I am already mightily impressed with Wizard101.
The game has a pretty rich and involved following,...
Choose My Adventure: In search of RvR in WAR Return of Reckoning; first steps in Darkfall Rise of Agon
The Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has effectively transformed into me doing two games at once for Choose My Adventure. Let me explain.
First, I...
Choose My Adventure: Battleground PvP in Warhammer Return of Reckoning is unexpectedly fun
I was not anticipating this.
I came to this week’s assignment with not an inconsiderable level of dread. My previous experiences in PvPing were coloring...
Choose My Adventure: An intriguing but PvP-free first foray into Warhammer Return of Reckoning
I promised that this month's CMA column would feature my attempts at getting into some PvP MMO action. Sadly for you (but mercifully for...
Choose My Adventure: My post-level 30 life in ArcheAge
Well, this final week of my time in ArcheAge was indeed challenging, but not perhaps in the ways that were expected.
Almost overwhelmingly it was...
Choose My Adventure: My ArcheAge mage is an absolute monster
This was a close poll, but I am pretty happy with the choice to bring Witchcraft into my Auramancy and Malediction mage in ArcheAge...
Choose My Adventure: Oops, I completely forgot to do the main quest in ArcheAge
Yes. Yes, that happened. I absolutely am an idiot.
This week in CMA saw me rambling onward in ArcheAge with a fresh set of skills...
Choose My Adventure: The extremely guided tour through the opening segments of ArcheAge
Look, I appreciate how a sandbox game should start people off by guiding them in to what's possible, but much like Black Desert, ArcheAge...
Choose My Adventure: My time as a volunteer for the Responders in Fallout 76
As per your instructions, I was voluntold to volunteer for the Responders for my return trip to Fallout 76, and boy was it something...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2020
It'd be spectacularly easy -- routine, even -- to look back at the year gone with derision, bitterness, and all sorts of acrid snark,...
Choose My Adventure: Simply skipping through quests small and large in Fallout 76
I'm not sure that this week has fully inured me to Fallout 76, but I will say that things were starting to come together...
