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Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO or online game of 2020?

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It's been a long time since a brand-new MMORPG really deserved a GOTY award - in fact, my my reckoning, it was was 2016,...

Choose My Adventure: The extremely guided tour through the opening segments of ArcheAge

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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...

The best Massively OP community leaderboard polls, 2020 edition

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We didn't do quite as many Leaderboard polls this year as in previous years, largely because... well, we've already asked a lot of the...
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Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2020?

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It's been a longstanding problem that end-of-the-year awards for MMORPGs aren't ideal for honoring "classic" MMOs, especially the really old games, really small games,...

Choose My Adventure: My time as a volunteer for the Responders in Fallout 76

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Choose My Adventure: Exploring a new world and new bugs in No Man’s Sky

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My goodness how things have changed. I have had a brief peek at No Man's Sky once before, but only the barest peeks, so being...

Choose My Adventure: Counting the ways I love Dauntless

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Thank you all for letting me close out this month with some Dauntless because I seriously love this game so very, very much. I’ve been following...

Choose My Adventure: Good friends and bad player behavior in Star Wars Squadrons

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Well, I was hoping for this to be more fun than it actually was. I adore the heck out of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter,...

Choose My Adventure: Remnant From the Ashes is the action shooter MMO I didn’t know I wanted

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I miss out on a lot of games. It happens. It’s bound to happen. There are likely countless numbers of titles that escape my...

Choose My Adventure: How Spellbreak kicked my butt

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So, you’re first of all likely all wondering what happened to the voted-for Fallout 76 that was supposed to be part of this column....

Leaderboard: To which WoW expansion era will you send your Shadowlands alts first?

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One of the more intriguing things about World of Warcraft Shadowlands, at least for me, is the game's new leveling system. While brand-new accounts...

Leaderboard: Are you tempted by Ultima Online’s New Legacy server?

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So here's a fun fact for you: While vanilla, legacy, and progression servers have been all the rage for the last five years or...

Choose My Adventure: Wurm Online is not for me, and that’s OK

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Wurm Online has made me feel the most noobish I've ever felt in an MMORPG in ages even after the tutorial. A tutorial that, by the way, I did indeed do; it's literally impossible not to do the tutorial. I couldn't get in to a different island until I got through the tutorial. The tutorial was done.

Choose My Adventure: Mining misadventures in Wurm Online

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Well, I have to say, following the advice of the poll from last week did help a little bit while also unfurling the multiple...

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