Good RPG MMO but more like single player?

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I'm looking for a good polished MMO, seeing as there's no new sword RPG (skyrinm was the last) unless you go MMO, I played rift but its still not as good as I was hoping,

Is there any good RPG MMO which has better graphics more like a single player pc game ?

I how someone can understand what im looking for.
 
It sounds like you're describing Star Wars the Old Republic if I had to guess :) Decent graphics, polished combat (I guess), and a lot of effort put into the story element of it.

Could also have a look at Guild Wars 2
 
Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars The Old Republic. No requirements at all to group up (unless you obviously want to do group content) with anyone, you can just pretend they don't exist. Both have superb stories and are better than a lot of single player games of the same type.

If you're doing SW:TOR it's free to play but with a lot of restrictions, I'd honestly just sub for a month. ESO is sub based, but just buy the game for a tenner and it includes 30 days. You could finish both within 30 days, although for extra stories of other classes and races you could carry on a little longer. Even at 2 months subscription you'd still be at half the cost of a single player game (for the most part).
 
I was not thinking Star Wars buut if its that good ill try it at some point.

I've not played Guild Wars 2 so i was wondering is it more like a single player game lets say more like Dragon age, or is it like all the other MMOs ?
 
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I was not thinking Star Wars buut if its that good ill try it at some point.

I've not played Guild Wars 2 so i was wondering is it more like a single player game lets say more like Dragon age, or is it like all the other MMOs ?
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More like all the other MMO's. If you're looking for an RPG experience, MMO's will rarely be anywhere near the depth of a proper RPG game.
 
flibby said:
Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars The Old Republic. No requirements at all to group up (unless you obviously want to do group content) with anyone, you can just pretend they don't exist. Both have superb stories and are better than a lot of single player games of the same type.

If you're doing SW:TOR it's free to play but with a lot of restrictions, I'd honestly just sub for a month. ESO is sub based, but just buy the game for a tenner and it includes 30 days. You could finish both within 30 days, although for extra stories of other classes and races you could carry on a little longer. Even at 2 months subscription you'd still be at half the cost of a single player game (for the most part).
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SW:TOR Is the free game playable or will it get annoying ? also whats the monthly cost ?
Is ESO any different to skyrim ? I get board one I start getting the same weapons or upgrades.

Im a type of person that does not like monthly sub unless I know I will love the game, so far thats never been the case.

WoW I didn't think it was worth the cost
rift got board after 1 week

that's just me but you get the idea.
 
Clewis09 said:
More like all the other MMO's. If you're looking for an RPG experience, MMO's will rarely be anywhere near the depth of a proper RPG game.
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I know that will be the case with most, but im hoping something will come near to what im hoping for.

the graphics is not a major issue as long as the game play is there.
 
Reddit has loads of referral links you can click for SWTOR that will make your account a full subbed account for 7 days free, can use em with existing or new accounts. Enough time to see whether you'd like it.
 
Guild wars 2 although its a pay once MMORPG is great for immersion! It has very well done voice overs in the cut-scenes. The story lines are very immersive and differ from races etc.
The character progression feels immersive to. Id say its has a lot of PvE content available. Which is where you can get your single player RPG elements from. The NPC's are also believable.
Great combat system nice fluid actions. It has a great economy system and lots of active players with the new mega servers. Graphically great looking and very polished with some bugs in new content sometimes but always patched very quickly.

SWOTR i have played most of what i can for free. Let me say that although it says free, it is by no means really free. You are very limited to classes races and game content, and you will always feel that paying players have a great advantage over you. Graphically great looking and also very polished game play and a great combat system. Plus its Star Wars and who doesnt like that right?

Thing is most MMO's are the same with a few different ideas thrown in somewhere. Both those games above will give you some great game play and stories to play through :)
 
kaka4200 said:
Why would u like to play a RPG mmo single player :/ , seems very dull to me. RPG are fun when kill other skilled players. Not bad NPC's
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Spoken like a true elitist.

There's more to games than just amergerd get rekt noob.

Some MMOs have excellent writing and are a pleasure to play for the story alone.
 
Maybe the secret world, great story, interesting quests, that aren't kill x amount of x ever, and a good challenge, its a bit buggy like all funcom mmos but its free after you buy the box, (ultill later when theres some optional dlc) and very fun
 
Outside shout Marvel Heroes ? An aRPGMMo !! it's all about story,fighting, loot, stats, instances (solo/group/raid) legendary items, artifacts etc etc - You can play it solo or grouped, you have tons of content and you don't even have to spend a penny to access any of it. Best of all it has the single best community of any online game and the dev's who interact and play the game.

It's totally free, you get the choice from nine free starter heroes > Luke Cage - Punisher - Captain America - Black Panther - Black Widow - Human Torch - Colossus - Storm - Hawkeye < * for starters I'd recommend Human Torch or Storm * shame they removed Scarlet Witch !

Everything you see ingame can be earned simply by playing, with the exception of 'chase' costumes iirc but they are garnish.

 
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LOTRO is almost exclusively solo these days and has a tremendous amount of content to play through from 1-100... If you didn't like RIFT I'm not sure you will find this to be massively different but if you enjoy the setting, lore and story this is well worth a shout. It is essentially F2P up to L30 then you need to buy quest packs.
 
I played SW:TOR and it was fun at first but it quickly becomes really annoying as it really tries to force you to either subscribe or buy loads of stuff. Binned it off.
 
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning / Torchlight 2

both great

Torchlight 2 has the option for singleplayer too

I think these are both great single player options that are close ish to mmo's
 
Meeting the OP's requests:

Guild Wars 2
The Secret World
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

The third is primarily a single player RPG, but plays much like an MMO considering the massive scope of its world.

The former two are MMOs, but completely solo-able. Guild Wars 2 gets the 'solo' upper edge by the fact that you can literally just jump into group events as you happen to be running past, and get the reward for your input into it -- and then just continue on your merry way.

Both Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World are great MMOs, though. No subscription costs, and you're free to form groups/raid etc. at your own will. You're never forced though, and can solo to your heart's content. The Secret World can be the more punishing of the two occasionally.
 
i wouldn't bother with guild wars 2. (next paragraph is from my experience from before i quit in december)

it's exactly what they said it wasn't, kill x amount of this, gather x amount of that or a combination of both, every area is full of it in yellow heart quests which are needed for map completion. there's trains of people running around killing champions shouting at anyone who kills one out of their order. wvw is ridiculously laggy during prime time. there's a "living story" which is just a 2 week update for farming achievement points, the story with scarlett briar is horrendous. the personal story was ok i suppose until right at the end where it's a forced group dungeon, and the story itself wasn't very interesting and the cut scenes were boring. dungeon/fractal parties mainly want people in certain gear and builds and if you don't match that then you're not going in. late game (level 80 areas) are dead, there's nobody in them outside of prime time (and even then you're lucky) as everyone is in low level areas (thanks to level scaling) or a town. it's a great game if you like getting +1 acheivement points... crafting is a complete joke until you get your crafting level up to ascended it's a massive waste of gold since you will out level everything you can make before you can craft it, the only thing crafting was good for was to level your alt characters up. i think the only good thing in that game in the end for me was the jumping puzzles, they were fun.

i gave it up in december and havn't looked back

if you want a mmo you could play single player then i'd recommend guild wars 1 instead, it's not a true mmo but you can group with people if there's still any around or take heroes and henchmen with you and the story is miles better than guild wars 2 and there's only a couple of areas that you'll possibly need human help in but they aren't that important to go in. i spent 7 years playing guild wars 1 and rarely played with anyone else lol

after gw1 i was massively disappointed in gw2, shows what a good game it was when the sequel couldn't hold my interest.
 
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i wouldn't bother with guild wars 2. (next paragraph is from my experience from before i quit in december)

it's exactly what they said it wasn't, kill x amount of this, gather x amount of that or a combination of both, every area is full of it in yellow heart quests which are needed for map completion. there's trains of people running around killing champions shouting at anyone who kills one out of their order. wvw is ridiculously laggy during prime time. there's a "living story" which is just a 2 week update for farming achievement points, the story with scarlett briar is horrendous. the personal story was ok i suppose until right at the end where it's a forced group dungeon, and the story itself wasn't very interesting and the cut scenes were boring. dungeon/fractal parties mainly want people in certain gear and builds and if you don't match that then you're not going in. if you like getting +1 achievement points then it's great... i think the only good thing in that game was the jumping puzzles, they were fun.

i gave it up in december and havn't looked back

if you want a mmo you could play single player then i'd recommend guild wars 1 instead, it's not a true mmo but you can group with people if there's still any around or take heroes and henchmen with you and the story is miles better than guild wars 2 and there's only a couple of areas that you'll possibly need human help in but they aren't that important to go in. i spent 7 years playing guild wars 1 and rarely played with anyone else lol

after gw1 i was massively disappointed in gw2, shows what a good game it was when the sequel couldn't hold my interest.
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iam with you on the gw thing gw 1 was good gw2 sucks got to the end but cant do it with out a group and i cant find one so i left it jump in now and then but unless you have a group it sucks in gw 1 you could solo till ppl from the guild where on and do a group thing loved that about it
 
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