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Choose My Adventure: The why behind Shroud of the Avatar
Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side.
The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...
Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
Leaderboard: Do the HTC Vive’s and Oculus Rift’s price cuts change your opinion on VR pricing?
When Oculus dropped the price of the Oculus Rift down to $400 earlier this summer, supposedly temporarily (but not its first drop), analysts were...
Choose My Adventure: Finding my way in Shroud of the Avatar
Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...
Leaderboard: Did Guild Wars 2’s preview weekend convince you to buy Path of Fire?
This past weekend, the gaming segment of my Twitter feed was positively dominated by chatter about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion free preview weekend. I...
Choose My Adventure: Starting completely fresh in Shroud of the Avatar
I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima.
This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...
Leaderboard: Will you be trying Guild Wars 2 for free this weekend?
As part of its marketing push ahead of Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion launch in September, ArenaNet is plotting a freebie weekend...
Choose My Adventure: Get out of here, DC Universe Online
So this is an unusual situation for me: I've never actually played a game for Choose My Adventure that I've disliked this much.
Those of...
Leaderboard: Did you go back to LOTRO for Mordor?
Before we begin, let's just get the trailer thing out of our systems. It was bad. Really bad. OK? Good. That's done.
Lord of the...
Leaderboard: Is our future in virtual reality or augmented reality?
MOP reader Sally recently pointed us to a series of articles on virtual reality and augmented reality tech that when taken together make for an...
Choose My Adventure: Teleporting for fun in DC Universe Online
I may not be the best person in the world to talk about the stat revamp in DC Universe Online. Scratch that - I...
Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...
Choose My Adventure: Starting out fresh in DC Universe Online
Last week was supposed to be when I kicked off playing DC Universe Online, but thanks to various real-life time obligations, I just didn't have...
Choose My Adventure: Launching new in DC Universe Online
Looking at the the three big triple-A superhero titles, DC Universe Online has always felt like the odd one out. City of Heroes was...
Leaderboard: Do you play Star Wars Galaxies’ emulator?
Welp, here we are: Star Wars Galaxies would be turning 14 years old today, had it been allowed to live.
SWG is much beloved around...
Choose My Adventure: Cryptic’s Neverwinter in review
My time with Neverwinter is done, and it's a game I find myself in an odd relationship with. It'd be fair to say that...
Choose My Adventure: Finishing up in Neverwinter
I'm going to be honest, before playing Neverwinter I had a very different picture of this game in my head in some ways. Not...
Choose My Adventure: My frustration with Neverwinter’s lockboxes
If you thought I was enjoying my time with Neverwinter as a whole, you would be right. I am enjoying my time with the...
Leaderboard: Is Steam Direct’s developer fee too high?
Back in February, Valve announced that it would be sunsetting Steam Greenlight and replacing it with a new platform called Steam Direct, which would...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring the purpose and plan of this community column
You are no doubt staring at the title image above and thinking to yourself that it really does not look like a Neverwinter screenshot....
