Choose My Adventure tours a new MMO every month — with you, the reader, as the co-pilot, voting for how the writer plays from week to week. Our current captain is Chris Neal. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is a perfectly lovely single-player RPG
Before I begin, I want to point out that I promise I didn't write that headline just to get anger clicks. I don't want...
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is slowly working its charms on me
Perhaps this is just time away from the game or the full mental and literal reset talking, but I have to say that right...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Genshin Impact in 2024
I'm irritated to admit that this week's edition of Choose My Adventure was more like a misadventure thanks to technical issues, to my surprise,...
Choose My Adventure: Villagers and Heroes starts to click and become routine at the same time
Now I should point out before we begin that a game becoming routine isn't really a bad thing - I'd argue that it's precisely...
Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes starts off feeling like a different game
I admit that it's been a very long time since I had played Villagers & Heroes - since 2020, to be exact - but...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2023, from Guild Wars to Gorgon
Well here we are, my friends. It's always such a pleasure. Remember when your votes killed me twice? OK, maybe that's being overdramatic, but...
Choose My Adventure: The joy of performing menial tasks in Project Gorgon
The problem I have with sandbox MMORPGs is the thing that most people herald as their greatest strength: their unguided nature. The ability to...
Choose My Adventure: Project Gorgon once more proves both engaging and agitating
That headline might sound like I'm about to spend a whole lot of digital ink dumping on Project Gorgon, but I am happy to...
Choose My Adventure: I still don’t know if I like Tree of Savior even after hitting triple-digit levels
You'd be forgiven for thinking that I would have made up my mind about Tree of Savior after making it to character level 150,...
Choose My Adventure: Character and comfort levels continue flowing in Tree of Savior
I don't know whether I really like Tree of Savior yet, but I also have to admit that the dopamine hit of making it...
Choose My Adventure: Levels and confusion come fast and thick in Tree of Savior
So as the headline suggests, the game we're starting November off with is Tree of Savior, an anime-styled OARPG that I've played a couple...
Choose My Adventure: Swamps, spicy fights, story, and technical issues in New World
Just in case anyone was worried, no, I didn't abandon Choose My Adventure; I was just busied by reporting on a space game and...
Choose My Adventure: Amrine Excavation and other flail-based New World adventures
I wasn't sure that I was going to be playing with others this week in New World. That's not to suggest that I've been...
Choose My Adventure: New World’s flail and void gauntlet go together like peanut butter and jelly
Honestly, that headline really condenses my entire feelings about my time through New World for this week's adventure for Choose My Adventure. I suppose...
Choose My Adventure: What weapon goes best with New World’s new Angry Earth flail?
There's always this little buzz before an MMORPG gets a major content release or expansion drop. People are flitting around doing their final checks...
Choose My Adventure: Wrestling with disappointment, boredom, and comfort in Lost Ark’s jump start server
It was probably asking a lot of myself to cut through Lost Ark as quickly as possible so that I could get to the...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring Lost Ark’s jump start server and a regular XP-boosted character
Last week was a close vote here in Choose My Adventure World Land slash Waffle House. The vote came down to one person casting...
Choose My Adventure: Slayer time with slightly boosted XP in Lost Ark
So I kind of made a mistake in my comeback to Lost Ark. I apparently did have at least one Powerpass to burn up,...
Choose My Adventure: Trialing and testing in Trixion before returning to Lost Ark
I'm going to preface my return to Choose My Adventure by noting that I've had a very busy few days. It's been a good...
Choose My Adventure: What Warhammer Return of Reckoning taught me about my competitive nature
I used to believe that I wasn't a very competitive person. Sure, I could consider myself stubborn and driven to excel, and I most...