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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...
Choose My Adventure: Fallout 76 and my fight against the all too familiar feeling of not caring
I wish I could say that I'm arriving to Fallout 76 without any sort of pre-formed opinions. I haven't ever touched this game since...
Choose My Adventure: Surprise storytelling in No Man’s Sky’s base building progression
It was often remarked going in to this week’s Choose My Adventure task that base building in No Man’s Sky is something of a...
Choose My Adventure: Paradise planets, destroyed freighters, and hellbeasts in No Man’s Sky
It would be super easy for me to make this week's ride in No Man's Sky a picture book. Not just because the game...
Choose My Adventure: A slow, steady, and informational search for Artemis in No Man’s Sky
I think I appreciate why last week’s voting had me follow the Artemis path, as this past week felt a bit like more tutorial...
