cma 2022
Choose My Adventure: My time inside Guild Wars 2’s dungeons and Elon Riverlands
It was partially a letdown, partially a surprise in my trip through Guild Wars 2 this time around. The objectives were pretty clear: GO...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2022
This has been a pretty challenging year for a lot of reasons, and my 2022 in Choose My Adventure certainly didn't feel any different...
Choose My Adventure: Hitting my stride in another round of Guild Wars 2 Tyria mapping
I was almost certain our last Choose My Adventure vote would be a blowout one way or the other, but you fine folks had...
Choose My Adventure: Going back to Guild Wars 2 basics through Tyria mapping
One of the surefire ways I know that I'm loving a game is when I swing my wallet like a shillelagh at it -...
The Stream Team: Traipsing through Tyria in Guild Wars 2 for Choose My Adventure
MOP's Chris is back at it again! He's wandering the wilds of Tyria in Guild Wars 2 as asked for by the CMA voting...
Choose My Adventure: Genfanad is ‘nostalgic’ in almost all of the wrong ways
I don't envy any development team that wants to make something that's "nostalgic." Making a game that hearkens back to predecessors or a time...
Choose My Adventure: Broken Ranks is a grim and fascinating bit of RPG gaming
Most of the time when you hear something call itself "grim," "dark," or "grimdark," it often translates into being some 17 year-old's idea of...
Choose My Adventure: Mist Legacy manages to somehow be both an idle and punishing MMORPG
When I first took a look into Mist Legacy during a livestream, I was both intrigued and charmed. The game basically looked and played...
Choose My Adventure: Running face-first into the brick wall that is Neocron
It's not often an MMO makes me ragequit, but hoo baby did I ever do that with Neocron.
I'll digest on why I think I...
Choose My Adventure: Alone in the crowd of Lost Ark’s endgame
Even at the max level in Lost Ark, I find that I'm still kind of playing alone. A little bit. Though I suppose I...
Choose My Adventure: Getting into the routine with Lost Ark’s Machinist
The polling for last week's Lost Ark Choose My Adventure was pretty clear: stay in the lower levels and focus on the Machinist. I...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to the very beginning of Lost Ark
I've been away from Lost Ark long enough that I'm effectively being left in the dust in terms of endgame - presumably, anyway -...
Choose My Adventure: Temtem is just not for me
I'll open with a little personal opinion: I've never liked the baseline Pokemon games. It never appealed to me when it first released, the...
Choose My Adventure: The joy of hunting for new critters to add to the Temtem collection
I'm going to be honest, the initial worry when I saw what won last week's Choose My Adventure poll was that I had already...
Choose My Adventure: Hitting the reset button and getting hit in return during Temtem’s launch
To be honest, I wasn't really expecting my full reset to the launch version of Temtem to feel too different, but I also was...
Choose My Adventure: Hands-on with Temtem’s early access build before launch
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
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
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
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
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 -...
