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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 -...
Choose My Adventure: The monster-eating adventures of McFishy the Squid Man in Chimeraland
I've not had a great deal of time in Chimeraland, but one thing is being made pretty immediately apparent to me: This game really...
Choose My Adventure: Feeling like a vampire is not the problem with or the solution for V Rising
After these few weeks and hours playing V Rising in its early access state at the time of this column's publishing, I can pretty...
Choose My Adventure: Customizing my V Rising experience (because my other server was closed)
As that title would suggest, the V Rising server that I was originally playing on just decided to go kaput. The people who were...
Choose My Adventure: Boredom and frustration rear their head in V Rising
This week, V Rising decided to remind me why I deeply dislike survival sandboxes.
It all started off pedestrian enough for the most part. Over...
Choose My Adventure: V Rising provides moments of chaos and comfort
There's often a moment I've experienced when playing survival sandboxes where I hit my stride. The mechanics make perfect sense, I have a plan...
Choose My Adventure: Forewarned is forearmed in my return foray to V Rising
There's something extremely valuable in hitting a reset button when you're able to. Failure is always an option in MMOs and multiplayer titles, to...
Choose My Adventure: What Final Fantasy XI taught me about games preservation and the ‘good old days’
Well. This has been a journey. I wasn't really expecting my return trip to Final Fantasy XI to be all sunshine, rainbows, and easy...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI shows its age and its nostalgia in equal measure
Once again, this week in Final Fantasy XI continues to deliver nostalgia and aggravation in mostly equal amounts.
First off, I will admit that deciding...
Choose My Adventure: Slow-going through Final Fantasy XI’s more recently added systems
First thing’s first: I have sorted out the way the aspect ratio option works. No more squished kitty! You’d think that’d be a pretty...
Choose My Adventure: The long-awaited and slightly bumpy return to Final Fantasy XI
So as you can see, I got Final Fantasy XI working. More specifically, I got the help of our resident expert on all things...
Choose My Adventure: Sampling a quick serving of player creativity in City of Heroes Rebirth
Even though City of Heroes Rebirth is a smaller rogue server in comparison to others out there, I was happy to notice that there...
Choose My Adventure: Some classic mission running in the City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server
So yes, it would appear that missions are indeed the most rewarding thing to do in City of Heroes: Rebirth.
That would probably be the...
Choose My Adventure: My life as a Guardian in City of Heroes Rebirth
Can the introduction of a completely different class change the entire makeup of an MMO’s experience? That is often the bet pushed forward by...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI’s PlayOnline decides to not let me play online
This was not how I was expecting to return to Final Fantasy XI. I always knew about the completely goofball account system that is...
Choose My Adventure: A walk into the yellow zones and realm warfare in Albion Online
After all of the time I’ve spent in my return trip to Albion Online, I can comfortably say that it’s not the kind of...
Choose My Adventure: Delving the expeditions, cities, and dungeons of Albion Online
I'm not sure that Albion Online is going to sink its hooks fully into me enough that I'll keep playing after this column, but...
Choose My Adventure: The quest for big punchy gloves in Albion Online
I don’t know whether I was just hungry for a positive experience after last month’s series, I came to this game with a newfound...
Choose My Adventure: The point of a community-guided MMO column
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Choose My Adventure programming for something of a meta discussion on what this column is meant to be and...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends makes me reconsider my interest in the series
After several weeks of slogging my way through classic The Secret World, I now find our readers have dispatched me to Secret World Legends....
