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Choose My Adventure: The Elder Scrolls Online welcomes me back with open arms and fun quests
You know that moment in an MMORPG - or even a single-player RPG - where you boot up the game after a long hiatus...
The Stream Team: Celebrating a late Starlight in Final Fantasy XIV
It might be well past the regular Christmas season in real life, but the Starlight seasonal event in Final Fantasy XIV is still going...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2021?
As our veteran readership will remember, one of our core MMORPG awards every year is our award for the most underrated MMO - an...
Choose My Adventure: Grim Dawn is finally getting fun
One of the best things that can happen to me in video gaming is to be proven wrong. To be surprised by how wildly...
Choose My Adventure: Grim Dawn starts off as grim as its name suggests
So, apparently, I was being hung to strangle out a demon. But I got better.
This is the opening section of Grim Dawn, and boy...
Choose My Adventure: Cobbling together a death brick in Avorion
You know how your first construction job in a survival sandbox is a perfectly functional but spectacularly hideous in terms of aesthetics? That was...
Choose My Adventure: Discovering familiarity, failure, and random adventure in Avorion
I was one jump away from what could have been a big payday. The opportunity was literally handed to me and I had managed...
Choose My Adventure: Avorion affirms that I am not a very good shipwright
Entering into Avorion for this month's Choose My Adventure column had me assuming a few things. First off, since this game was very much...
Choose My Adventure: LOTRO’s fall festival rekindled my love for all things Tolkien
All right, that was a nice detour. It was going to be a long run in Lord of the Rings Online, so it was...
Choose My Adventure: Lord of the Rings Online might have been a bad choice for this column
So as that headline suggests, I probably mad a bad call adding Lord of the Rings Online as an option for a CMA column....
Choose My Adventure: It’s bear time in Lord of the Rings Online
It has been a few years since I made my way back to Lord of the Rings Online. I remember being around the game...
Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more
Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...
Choose My Adventure: The further adventures of a twin pistols gadgeteer in DC Universe Online
So, the powers that be said that keeping to my twin pistols in DC Universe Online was the way to go, and I have...
Choose My Adventure: Slowly acclimating to the goofiness of DC Universe Online
Boy did this one start out strangely. Apparently I have played DC Universe Online a few times before -- I even have a level...
Choose My Adventure: Club Worlds are the pinnacle of player creativity in Trove
Homestead who? Dungeons what? Player-made items? Don’t need ‘em. The pinnacle of player creativity in Trove, without any peer or equal, is the Club...
Choose My Adventure: A quick spot of building and crafting in Trove
I have to admit, this one didn't take long at all to get through. I sort of assumed that building things in Trove was...
Choose My Adventure: Back to the basic joys of dungeon running in Trove
This is way more like it.
The bare bones, basic, simple delight of Trove continues to be running around the open world, heading to whatever...
Choose My Adventure: A sample platter of classes and a taste of Geode boredom in Trove
You know what the problem is with Trove in the beginning? It just throws so much stuff at you that when you do something...
Choose My Adventure: Tearing through the colorful world of Trove at breakneck speeds
The idea to play Trove this month ended up being something of a needed breath of fresh air for me. With all of the...
