https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:28:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/30/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-a-perfectly-lovely-single-player-rpg/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/30/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-a-perfectly-lovely-single-player-rpg/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=477455 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 anger. Seriously, I have enough reasons to feel awful. I want to cut off any rage at the pass by saying that Genshin Impact is still a wonderful bit of gaming […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/30/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-a-perfectly-lovely-single-player-rpg/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/23/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-slowly-working-its-charms-on-me/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/23/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-slowly-working-its-charms-on-me/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=476437 Perhaps this is just time away from the game or the full mental and literal reset talking, but I have to say that right now, Genshin Impact is beginning to hit the right notes for me so far, and I’m not really sure why. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to really unpack […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/23/choose-my-adventure-genshin-impact-is-slowly-working-its-charms-on-me/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/16/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-genshin-impact/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/16/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-genshin-impact/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=475575 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, as I was pretty sure that Eterspire wasn’t going to be something that would demand a lot of my hardware. Guess I was wrong. Long story made rather short, when I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/16/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-genshin-impact/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/09/choose-my-adventure-villagers-and-heroes-starts-to-click-and-become-routine-at-the-same-time/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/09/choose-my-adventure-villagers-and-heroes-starts-to-click-and-become-routine-at-the-same-time/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=474472 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 the point when a game becomes something you like or not. And I’m kind of at the point where Villagers & Heroes has ultimately played its hand and shown me all […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/09/choose-my-adventure-villagers-and-heroes-starts-to-click-and-become-routine-at-the-same-time/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/choose-my-adventure-villagers-heroes-starts-off-feeling-like-a-different-game/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/choose-my-adventure-villagers-heroes-starts-off-feeling-like-a-different-game/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473708 I admit that it’s been a very long time since I had played Villagers & Heroes – since 2020, to be exact – but considering the whirlwind of life between then and now and just the simple eroding effects of time, I have to say that this revisit to this MMORPG was nothing like I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/02/choose-my-adventure-villagers-heroes-starts-off-feeling-like-a-different-game/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/choose-my-adventure-all-of-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2023-from-guild-wars-to-gorgon/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/choose-my-adventure-all-of-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2023-from-guild-wars-to-gorgon/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=465052 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 I will admit that the 2023 slate of gaming for Choose My Adventure definitely had some rough bumps in the road – enough that I actually took a month away from […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/26/choose-my-adventure-all-of-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2023-from-guild-wars-to-gorgon/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/19/choose-my-adventure-the-joy-of-performing-menial-tasks-in-project-gorgon/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/19/choose-my-adventure-the-joy-of-performing-menial-tasks-in-project-gorgon/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=472194 The problem I have with sandbox MMORPGs is the thing that most people herald as their greatest strength: their unguided nature. The ability to go where you want, do what you’re interested in doing, and explore without too many restrictions, bar the risks associated with doing so. And while I’ve cut my teeth on old […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/19/choose-my-adventure-the-joy-of-performing-menial-tasks-in-project-gorgon/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/05/choose-my-adventure-project-gorgon-once-more-proves-both-engaging-and-agitating/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/05/choose-my-adventure-project-gorgon-once-more-proves-both-engaging-and-agitating/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=470177 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 report that most of my time in this sandbox MMORPG for this column was a lot more of the former than it was the latter. And it’s nice because the last […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/05/choose-my-adventure-project-gorgon-once-more-proves-both-engaging-and-agitating/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/28/choose-my-adventure-i-still-dont-know-if-i-like-tree-of-savior-even-after-hitting-triple-digit-levels/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/28/choose-my-adventure-i-still-dont-know-if-i-like-tree-of-savior-even-after-hitting-triple-digit-levels/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=468997 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, but I’m afraid that you’d be wrong. That’s partially a result of my indecision, I will contend, but it’s also because I’m still not entirely clear what motivates me to keep […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/28/choose-my-adventure-i-still-dont-know-if-i-like-tree-of-savior-even-after-hitting-triple-digit-levels/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/21/choose-my-adventure-character-and-comfort-levels-continue-flowing-in-tree-of-savior/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/21/choose-my-adventure-character-and-comfort-levels-continue-flowing-in-tree-of-savior/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=468152 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 from class level 15 to about the middle 30s has done something to me. I pretty much sat myself down to the game and mainlined it for a lot of Friday […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/21/choose-my-adventure-character-and-comfort-levels-continue-flowing-in-tree-of-savior/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/choose-my-adventure-levels-and-confusion-come-fast-and-thick-in-tree-of-savior/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/choose-my-adventure-levels-and-confusion-come-fast-and-thick-in-tree-of-savior/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=467140 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 of times before. I will admit that there’s always been a long break in between each return trip, so I’m probably not remembering things right, but I also don’t recall gaining […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/choose-my-adventure-levels-and-confusion-come-fast-and-thick-in-tree-of-savior/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/07/choose-my-adventure-swamps-spicy-fights-story-and-technical-issues-in-new-world/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/07/choose-my-adventure-swamps-spicy-fights-story-and-technical-issues-in-new-world/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=465935 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 an extremely important thought experiment about cartoons. Sprinkled through it all, I kept on with my New World adventuring, and if that headline wasn’t already a clue, there was a lot […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/07/choose-my-adventure-swamps-spicy-fights-story-and-technical-issues-in-new-world/feed/ 0 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/17/choose-my-adventure-amrine-excavation-and-other-flail-based-new-world-adventures/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/17/choose-my-adventure-amrine-excavation-and-other-flail-based-new-world-adventures/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=462280 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 alone or lonesome in this game – far from it, actually – but there was a period of time when I was almost positive that nobody was going to be joining […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/17/choose-my-adventure-amrine-excavation-and-other-flail-based-new-world-adventures/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/10/choose-my-adventure-new-worlds-flail-and-void-gauntlet-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-jelly/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/10/choose-my-adventure-new-worlds-flail-and-void-gauntlet-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-jelly/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=461278 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 I should have been more clever about it, but that’s how I feel. I am absolutely in love with this combination of weapons. Of course, I’ll elaborate more on why I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/10/choose-my-adventure-new-worlds-flail-and-void-gauntlet-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-jelly/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/03/choose-my-adventure-what-weapon-goes-best-with-new-worlds-new-angry-earth-flail/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/03/choose-my-adventure-what-weapon-goes-best-with-new-worlds-new-angry-earth-flail/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=460125 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 or rushing to goals, preparations are made, final auction house sales are conducted – the whole thing has this sort of open-air bazaar thrum to it. It’s one of the best […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/03/choose-my-adventure-what-weapon-goes-best-with-new-worlds-new-angry-earth-flail/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/26/choose-my-adventure-wrestling-with-disappointment-boredom-and-comfort-in-lost-arks-jump-start-server/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/26/choose-my-adventure-wrestling-with-disappointment-boredom-and-comfort-in-lost-arks-jump-start-server/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=459206 It was probably asking a lot of myself to cut through Lost Ark as quickly as possible so that I could get to the endgame, but even so, I really did give it the old college try for this run of Choose My Adventure. So while I’m not really able to report in with what […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/26/choose-my-adventure-wrestling-with-disappointment-boredom-and-comfort-in-lost-arks-jump-start-server/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/19/choose-my-adventure-exploring-lost-arks-jump-start-server-and-a-regular-xp-boosted-character/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=458253 Last week was a close vote here in Choose My Adventure World Land slash Waffle House. The vote came down to one person casting a suggestion that I focus on the jump start server of Lost Ark. In fact, the voting was so tight that I had assumed doing both boosted server and boosted character […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/12/choose-my-adventure-slayer-time-with-slightly-boosted-xp-in-lost-ark/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=457179 So I kind of made a mistake in my comeback to Lost Ark. I apparently did have at least one Powerpass to burn up, but I accidentally used it on the wrong class, so the wrong character ate the cookie. However, I also had at least one more cookie to use – not the Powerpass […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/05/choose-my-adventure-trialing-and-testing-in-trixion-before-returning-to-lost-ark/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=456456 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 busy, mind you, but it’s been busy all the same. And it wasn’t all the fault of Armored Core VI either! At the same time, I have to admit to a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/25/choose-my-adventure-what-warhammer-return-of-reckoning-taught-me-about-my-competitive-nature/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/25/choose-my-adventure-what-warhammer-return-of-reckoning-taught-me-about-my-competitive-nature/#comments Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=450038 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 assuredly know that I’m given to fits of despair if effort doesn’t yield results very fast, but those aren’t really remarkable traits, and not ones I attributed to being a competitive […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/25/choose-my-adventure-what-warhammer-return-of-reckoning-taught-me-about-my-competitive-nature/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/18/choose-my-adventure-frustrations-mount-in-warhammer-return-of-reckoning/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/18/choose-my-adventure-frustrations-mount-in-warhammer-return-of-reckoning/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=449063 Memory is a funny ol’ thing. It can straight-up lie to you and convince you of something that probably wasn’t even there. Or it recalls something from the past without taking into account that things have changed between the recollection and the reality. I’m not sure whether that’s the case with my ongoing Warhammer Online: […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/18/choose-my-adventure-frustrations-mount-in-warhammer-return-of-reckoning/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/11/choose-my-adventure-pvp-and-rvr-bring-reward-and-rage-in-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/11/choose-my-adventure-pvp-and-rvr-bring-reward-and-rage-in-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=448056 It was pretty darn clear what you folks wanted me to experience next in the Return of Reckoning rogue server for Warhammer Online, and honestly I’m not too surprised at the result. For a while there the voting seemed to be much closer than I expected, but PvP as the focus won the day by […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/11/choose-my-adventure-pvp-and-rvr-bring-reward-and-rage-in-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/04/choose-my-adventure-a-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning-reunion-with-a-dash-of-waaagh/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/04/choose-my-adventure-a-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning-reunion-with-a-dash-of-waaagh/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=447273 It’s criminal that there aren’t as many Warhammer games that use the Orks. They’re my favorite group in the game purely because they just like to fight. I assume there’s some deeper lore going on, but my limited knowledge is that they’re effectively non-stop, heavy metal, loud, boisterous marauders. So when the Choose My Adventure […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/04/choose-my-adventure-a-warhammer-online-return-of-reckoning-reunion-with-a-dash-of-waaagh/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/27/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-engages-my-barbarian-rage/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/27/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-engages-my-barbarian-rage/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=446279 Let me be honest with you all: This week saw me ragequit out of Age of Conan, though not quite to the point that I didn’t try to answer the poll’s request to find out if life outside of Tortage was any different. For the most part. I typically feel like I’ve got more mental […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/27/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-engages-my-barbarian-rage/feed/ 8 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/20/choose-my-adventure-finding-frustrations-in-age-of-conan/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/20/choose-my-adventure-finding-frustrations-in-age-of-conan/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=445305 If that headline wasn’t a big enough clue, then let me just go ahead and reaffirm: This week, life in Age of Conan was not easy. The whole thing started off pretty placid in general. Things weren’t exactly overwhelming, but they also weren’t really challenging either, so I was kind of left to believe I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/20/choose-my-adventure-finding-frustrations-in-age-of-conan/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/13/choose-my-adventure-settling-into-age-of-conans-uncomfortable-routine/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/13/choose-my-adventure-settling-into-age-of-conans-uncomfortable-routine/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=444196 Today’s Choose My Adventure column is about the groove. I think some folks know what I mean in relation to MMOs (or even gaming in general). It’s that moment when the mechanics, the setting, the controls, and the general moment-to-moment of a game starts to take shape around you. It begins to become natural feeling. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/13/choose-my-adventure-settling-into-age-of-conans-uncomfortable-routine/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/06/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-underwhelms-almost-immediately/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/06/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-underwhelms-almost-immediately/#comments Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=443125 For an MMORPG that has been out for as long as it has, Age of Conan sure feels like an early access title. And I say this as someone who has bought, played, and generally found things to like about early access titles. Now I should preface by reminding you all once again that the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/06/choose-my-adventure-age-of-conan-underwhelms-almost-immediately/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/choose-my-adventure-plumbing-the-challenging-deleras-tomb-in-dungeons-and-dragons-online/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/choose-my-adventure-plumbing-the-challenging-deleras-tomb-in-dungeons-and-dragons-online/#comments Tue, 30 May 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=442102 This week’s Choose My Adventure ended up being a bit more challenging than I had expected it to be. Primarily because my level five character in Dungeons and Dragons Online was taking on a series of level seven quests, even though the chain started at level five. Luckily, I felt like I was up to […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/30/choose-my-adventure-plumbing-the-challenging-deleras-tomb-in-dungeons-and-dragons-online/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/23/choose-my-adventure-ddos-catacombs-offer-a-classic-taste-of-the-mmos-storytelling/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/23/choose-my-adventure-ddos-catacombs-offer-a-classic-taste-of-the-mmos-storytelling/#comments Tue, 23 May 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=440991 Let me start this week’s Choose My Adventure on something of a tangent – a parallel one, but a tangent nonetheless. If it wasn’t already clear before, I love the D&D tabletop game, at least on something of a brass tacks level. Particularly, I love being a DM because it lets me enjoy weaving a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/23/choose-my-adventure-ddos-catacombs-offer-a-classic-taste-of-the-mmos-storytelling/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/16/choose-my-adventure-sludging-through-the-saltmarsh-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/16/choose-my-adventure-sludging-through-the-saltmarsh-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/#comments Tue, 16 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=439918 This week’s Choose My Adventure episode was all about heading to a new-to-me area in Dungeons and Dragons Online: Saltmarsh. Trust me, it would have stood out, and not just because it was a marshy, swampy area. Generally speaking, this kind of biome is not really my favorite in video gaming, but the setting wasn’t […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/16/choose-my-adventure-sludging-through-the-saltmarsh-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/09/choose-my-adventure-adventuring-in-the-borderlands-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/09/choose-my-adventure-adventuring-in-the-borderlands-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/#comments Tue, 09 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=438895 Now this place I remember. I’m pretty sure I’ve done this before for the site. Or have I done it in my off-time on my own? In any event, the Keep on the Borderlands adventure series in Dungeons and Dragons Online was absolutely a place I’ve been in before. Not that I minded the return […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/09/choose-my-adventure-adventuring-in-the-borderlands-of-dungeons-and-dragons-online/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/02/choose-my-adventure-dungeons-and-dragons-online-immediately-brings-that-tabletop-goodness/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/02/choose-my-adventure-dungeons-and-dragons-online-immediately-brings-that-tabletop-goodness/#comments Tue, 02 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=437802 It’s still early days for this month’s run of Choose My Adventure, but even so I can pretty much immediately confirm my earlier suspicions: Dungeons and Dragons Online absolutely knocks the feeling of being in the TTRPG out of the park. That feeling starts with one very minuscule but stupendously important detail: the dungeon master. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/02/choose-my-adventure-dungeons-and-dragons-online-immediately-brings-that-tabletop-goodness/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/25/choose-my-adventure-endgame-in-neverwinter-nearly-rocks-my-bards-face-apart/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/25/choose-my-adventure-endgame-in-neverwinter-nearly-rocks-my-bards-face-apart/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=436812 So as that headline suggests, I made it to level 20 in Neverwinter. That’s not really too surprising to regular players, I imagine – the leveling curve in this game has been smoothed to the point of being a pinball – but it did mean that I got to see just how well my favorite […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/25/choose-my-adventure-endgame-in-neverwinter-nearly-rocks-my-bards-face-apart/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/18/choose-my-adventure-rocking-my-way-to-max-level-bard-play-in-neverwinter/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=435801 The journey in Neverwinter continues with pure, unadulterated focus on my Bard, as suggested by the voting public. And I promise, I won’t ask the same question a third time. No, seriously. I’m pretty much on-rails at this point, there is no divergence available to me, and I am bereft of choices for polls for […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/11/choose-my-adventure-the-songblade-makes-neverwinters-bard-rock-even-harder/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/11/choose-my-adventure-the-songblade-makes-neverwinters-bard-rock-even-harder/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=434784 Most of the time when I’m beaten over the head by an MMORPG’s meta, I tend to thumb it in the eye and tacitly ignore it. In the case of the Neverwnter Bard and the overwhelming player opinion of choosing the Songblade paragon path, I would have made the same choice and gone with the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/11/choose-my-adventure-the-songblade-makes-neverwinters-bard-rock-even-harder/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/04/choose-my-adventure-the-neverwinter-bard-continues-to-rock-even-as-the-challenge-level-rises/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=433796 This week in Neverwinter could be best described as broken up into two halves: a half of chicken time and a half of regular gameplay time. In case you missed my stream, I made my first foray into the April Fowls’ Day event of the MMORPG, and then I continued on with normal Tiefling Bard […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/28/choose-my-adventure-neverwinters-bard-rocks/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/28/choose-my-adventure-neverwinters-bard-rocks/#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=432566 Neverwinter is another one of those MMORPGs that I just put on the shelf and walked away from after being generally bored by it. I don’t remember the combat being that great. I don’t remember the setting being compelling. And I definitely don’t remember the classes that I experienced being too dynamic or interesting. All […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/28/choose-my-adventure-neverwinters-bard-rocks/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/14/choose-my-adventure-embers-adrift-defeats-me/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/14/choose-my-adventure-embers-adrift-defeats-me/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=430533 You know how last week I mentioned I was mad? Well now I’m just disappointed. Mostly in myself, but also in Embers Adrift. To preface, I feel the need to point out that I’m not new to the old ways of things; my first major game was Final Fantasy XI after all. Nor is this […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/14/choose-my-adventure-embers-adrift-defeats-me/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/07/choose-my-adventure-starting-out-in-embers-adrift-is-just-as-tough-as-expected/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/07/choose-my-adventure-starting-out-in-embers-adrift-is-just-as-tough-as-expected/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=429579 It took me an alarming amount of time to get to level two. That’s pretty much as good of a summary as I can come up with regarding my first foray into Embers Adrift for this week. And not just because this game is hard-bitten, old-school, or whatever other descriptors you can come up with […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/07/choose-my-adventure-starting-out-in-embers-adrift-is-just-as-tough-as-expected/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/28/choose-my-adventure-new-tutorials-and-old-habits-see-destiny-2s-hooks-set-in/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=428408 I’m going to admit it to myself: In spite of my misgivings about what awaits me at the endgame, I can feel myself getting wrapped up in Destiny 2 all over again. You know the feeling when you can sense a game’s hooks getting into you? When you realize that you’ve lost a few hours […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/21/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-destiny-2-was-both-bumpy-and-engaging/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/21/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-destiny-2-was-both-bumpy-and-engaging/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=427455 As we close out this random whim of mine to enter shooter MMOs for this month’s Choose My Adventure, we clear out our list of games with Destiny 2, a shooter title that I didn’t expect to love quite as much as I did when it launched and one that also made it abundantly clear […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/21/choose-my-adventure-returning-to-destiny-2-was-both-bumpy-and-engaging/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/14/choose-my-adventure-slowly-cracking-the-code-of-how-warframe-works/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/14/choose-my-adventure-slowly-cracking-the-code-of-how-warframe-works/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=426491 For the longest time last week, the Choose My Adventure voting was extremely close – it was at a three-way tie at one point – and by the end of polling this week it was a split between Destiny 2 and Warframe, leading to a coin flip and Warframe getting the nod. This game and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/14/choose-my-adventure-slowly-cracking-the-code-of-how-warframe-works/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/07/choose-my-adventure-global-agenda-provides-a-classic-mmo-ass-beating/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/07/choose-my-adventure-global-agenda-provides-a-classic-mmo-ass-beating/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=425506 I’ll be one of the first to admit that in spite of my desire to get into a shooter MMO/multiplayer game this month, I’m not particularly skilled at them. You would think that would mean I’d want to stay away from a sub-genre that I am objectively bad at, but once in a while I […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/07/choose-my-adventure-global-agenda-provides-a-classic-mmo-ass-beating/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/choose-my-adventure-classic-guild-wars-just-makes-me-want-to-play-guild-wars-2/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/choose-my-adventure-classic-guild-wars-just-makes-me-want-to-play-guild-wars-2/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=424413 Well I suppose this was a foregone conclusion if people had been following along with this month’s series of Choose My Adventure articles, but I think I can pretty confidently say that the original Guild Wars is just not meant for me, someone who hasn’t really had deeply fond memories of the game at launch […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/choose-my-adventure-classic-guild-wars-just-makes-me-want-to-play-guild-wars-2/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/24/choose-my-adventure-landing-on-a-stable-character-in-the-original-guild-wars/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/24/choose-my-adventure-landing-on-a-stable-character-in-the-original-guild-wars/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=423365 Last week in Choose My Adventure, Nightfall proved to be the more suitable starting experience for classic Guild Wars. This week, the Dervish won out in the voting and also turned out to be the suitable class for my playstyle, meaning that the pieces of this game that previously felt disjointed and scattered are finally […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/24/choose-my-adventure-landing-on-a-stable-character-in-the-original-guild-wars/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/choose-my-adventure-nightfall-might-end-up-being-the-superior-classic-guild-wars-starting-experience/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/choose-my-adventure-nightfall-might-end-up-being-the-superior-classic-guild-wars-starting-experience/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=422454 I was pretty sure I was going to go into Factions after last week’s Choose My Adventure, but a final surge in voting saw my Classic Guild Wars path shift direction from Prophecies to Nightfall instead. As I wrote last week, this was the campaign that was recommended as the real starting point for the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/choose-my-adventure-nightfall-might-end-up-being-the-superior-classic-guild-wars-starting-experience/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/choose-my-adventure-how-good-advice-led-to-some-minor-comfort-with-classic-guild-wars/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/choose-my-adventure-how-good-advice-led-to-some-minor-comfort-with-classic-guild-wars/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:15:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=421514 I have to admit, the Choose My Adventure voting did not fall the way I had expected it to last week. Apparently folks were really eager for me to continue in Prophecies during this month’s trip through Classic Guild Wars. That poll result brought up a lot of advice overall, from commenters as well as […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/choose-my-adventure-how-good-advice-led-to-some-minor-comfort-with-classic-guild-wars/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/03/choose-my-adventure-guild-wars-delivers-a-shock-to-the-system-after-months-in-the-sequel/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/03/choose-my-adventure-guild-wars-delivers-a-shock-to-the-system-after-months-in-the-sequel/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=420830 We’re starting the new year of Choose My Adventure by hopping in to an older game, the original Guild Wars. I’m honestly not too surprised by the results here, especially since last month was all about the sequel. It has been literal years since I’ve even hopped into this game; the first time I fired […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/03/choose-my-adventure-guild-wars-delivers-a-shock-to-the-system-after-months-in-the-sequel/feed/ 16 https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/27/choose-my-adventure-my-time-inside-guild-wars-2s-dungeons-and-elon-riverlands/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/27/choose-my-adventure-my-time-inside-guild-wars-2s-dungeons-and-elon-riverlands/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=420296 It was partially a letdown, partially a surprise in my trip through Guild Wars 2 this time around. The objectives were pretty clear: GO back to the Path of Fire journey and peek at a dungeon or two, and since I was still kind of fixated on base Tyria, I elected to try a couple […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/27/choose-my-adventure-my-time-inside-guild-wars-2s-dungeons-and-elon-riverlands/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/20/choose-my-adventure-all-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2022/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/20/choose-my-adventure-all-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2022/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=416089 This has been a pretty challenging year for a lot of reasons, and my 2022 in Choose My Adventure certainly didn’t feel any different in that regard. We had a lot of games that were a bit harder than normal to get through, but we got through them together, which is always the strength of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/20/choose-my-adventure-all-the-mmos-you-made-us-play-in-2022/feed/ 3