cma 2019
Choose My Adventure: How Citadel Forged with Fire made me like survival sandboxes in spite of its faults
So here we are at the end of my first real deep dive into a survival sandbox. Citadel: Forged with Fire is, by all...
Choose My Adventure: Pushing boundaries and building a better house in Citadel Forged with Fire
As we come to the close of our Citadel: Forged with Fire adventure, we decided to push the absolute limits of how far we...
Choose My Adventure: Citadel Forged with Fire and the Quest for My Own Stuff
Maybe I’m turning the corner. Maybe I’m getting acclimated to how things work. Or maybe the game caught me on a good day. Whatever...
Choose My Adventure: Second time’s the charm in Citadel Forged with Fire
As interesting as figuring things out on my own in Citadel: Forged with Fire may have been the first time around, I have to...
Choose My Adventure: An intriguing and frustrating start in Citadel Forged with Fire
This one’s going to be a doozy, I can already tell.
My first arrival to Citadel: Forged with Fire was a bumpy, rough, unpleasant one....
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers says goodbye to me with a hearty kick to the butt
It seems that the final week of Torchlight Frontiers wanted to see me out with some bruises on my butt. I don’t know whether...
Choose My Adventure: The poisonous hell of the Hyvid Frontier in Torchlight Frontiers
The Goblin Frontier of Torchlight Frontiers isn’t exactly boring per se so much as just… blasé, I guess is the word I want to...
Choose My Adventure: The Torchlight Frontiers Railmaster suddenly makes perfect sense
You know that moment when you’re playing a new MMORPG class and there’s this kind of epiphany? That feeling like a switch has been...
Choose My Adventure: Figuring out the crazy train of Torchlight Frontiers’ Railmaster
So it turns out that the CMA readership would really like to see me run around with a murder train following me. This week's...
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight Frontiers and the mindless catharsis of ARPG gaming
Sometimes, you’ve just got to run around and blow up hordes of enemies with big flashy skills and hoover in the goodies. You have...
Choose My Adventure: Diary of a Legends of Aria desert wildman
The desert sun rakes its fingers over my bronzed skin like I am the coals of a forge. Indeed, I am the forge: the...
Choose My Adventure: A stronger, straighter start in Legends of Aria
What a difference a few weeks make.
This past spring when I last toured Legends of Aria for Choose My Adventure, things were a little...
Choose My Adventure: In which Apex Legends makes me feel extremely old
I'm a firm believer of "You can't dislike it unless you know it," a sort of twist on the "Don't knock it 'til you...
Choose My Adventure: Anthem kept crashing, so here’s what happened in Destiny 2
This past weekend, for lack of a better word, was a shitshow.
Let me try to set the scene. My computer is about five or...
Choose My Adventure: A reminder of why I haven’t played Monster Hunter: World in a while
You ever uninstall a game after a while, forget that you did so, then see it on your Steam library, wonder why it’s not...
Choose My Adventure: I may have fallen out of love with City of Heroes
I have to admit something, to everyone reading this and to myself. I’m not sure I missed City of Heroes as much as I...
Choose My Adventure: Help, the Going Rogue story of City of Heroes has a hold of me
The thing about being a superhero that almost nobody tells you is that there are personal stories involved. Sure, the big picture is what...
Choose My Adventure: Breaking through the obstacles of Going Rogue in City of Heroes
"Traveling the realms is no task for the meek. The underprepared. The easily overwhelmed. The challenges you face and the hardships you have to...
Choose My Adventure: The ‘hard mode’ of City of Heroes in Going Rogue
Disaster! Our plucky Praetorian has plunged into a pit of perilous despair! The challenges of this bold new world are mounting, and the pint-sized...
Choose My Adventure: Getting to the group stuff in TERA
My final week in TERA saw me hitting the ground running, looking to utilize whatever means I could to chow through the levels, get...