Singleplayer "fake / simulated MMO" games >>>> actual MMOs
Phantasy Star Offline?
Only for loners who don't want to associate with other people. Taking down ancient monstrosities with your friends while laughing and joking will always be superior though
>>736555136No shit, because they're not incentivized to make you grind and have shitty design for the purpose of padding out subscription money.
>>736555330>Only for loners who don't want to associate with other peopleThat's what normal single player games are for. Fake MMOs or offline MMOs with bots are just for the genuinely insane.
give me the full listi've only played the sao games and older .hack
>>736555426Offline MMOs with bots are insane because all of the shitty parts of MMOs still exist.
>>736555431Xenoblade series
>>736555431literally the xenoblade gamesgo play them in order, 1 and X feel more "MMO" than 2 and 3
i miss when new MMOs still came out
rpgs with cooldowns get boring after a while. ff16 is the epitome of this.
>>736555136is that the new SAO game?
>>736555750when you have no cooldowns and just mash buttons it gets boring even quicker
>>736555872but Tales of games are fun
>>736556186only xillia 2
>>736555872theres some sort of resource that prevents you from spamming. thats okay. artificial timer cooldowns like a mmo is dumb. you use skill and you cannot use it again for 60-90s no matter if you have full mp or whatever.
>>736555136Erenshor and Crescent Quest
>>736556909I really wanted to support the erenshor dude but the game is truly ugly as fuck, looks like a cheap roblox game or somethingand yeah I know it's hard for 1 guy to do it all
>>736555842It's SAO hollow realization
>>736555669>>736555674I love xenoblade 1 so much, I should play it again now that boost mode works on switch 2
>>736555431White Knight Chronicles 2(it comes with 1 included)
>>736556909I've been enjoying Erenshor a lot, I've wanted to try the SAO games but I don't want to play as Kirito.
>>736557680this is the game that made me regret selling my old PS3I can emulate all the other exclusives like MGS4, demons souls and drakengard 3 fine but this fucking game just runs like ass on RPCS3 for some reason
>>736555136imagine playing in your little offline hamster wheel, you gotta be some special kind of retard
>>736558413>p-please buy subscription to my MMO, it's dying!KEK
>>736557680i don't have four hundred hours to spend on a platinum trophy
>>736555431The only games I've managed to come acrossXenoblade Chronicles 1-3 + XWhite Knight Chronicles 1 & 2Sword Art Online games (esp the PSP ones)Earth Seeker .hack series (esp fragment)Sword & Fairy 6Xuan Yuan Sword: The Gate of Firmament FF 11 & 13 Ni No KuniActual MMO's (Guild Wars has built in solo bots, WoW has so many free and easy to spin up servers)Fake MMO is unfortunately the only way to describe these sort of 'real time with queuing' games and even then its still lacking>Real-timeRefers to 90% of action-oriented games>Auto-combatDevolves into either autochess/auto-battlers or people who are skipping through JRPG combat>MMO likeGets every single person to talk about games with heavy grinding or MMO themes without actually feeling like an MMO (if I see Kingdoms of Amalur or Crosscode one more fucking time)And then the elephant in the room is the RTwP genre. Given that it was the wellspring of early MMO design, it should scratch the itch but something about the majority of them just being turn based systems automated means the real time aspects are often at odds with another. DA:O is a great game but if you've ever played the Xbox vs the PC, they completely tailored the experience with the expectation you'd be slamming the pause button in the PC version.
>>736559312>FF13Did you mean 12?
>>736555330>Only for loners who don't want to associate with other peopleGiven the kind of people who will overlook MMO's shitty gameplay, paying a subscription to enjoy their shitty skinner, all for a desperate attempt at socializing?I'd take the singleplayer game "fake MMO".I actually think it probably requires more effort and creativity to make a faux-MMORPG than to design a real one.Real MMO are specifically optimized at making you waste as much time as possible with cheap repetitive quests meant to fake content.Nowadays the new money-cow is GaaS, you pay a subscription but at least you can many games, not just one.It would still take a lot of effort to convince me, the only way I expect such game to be fun would be as a parody or maybe as a MATRIX setting.
>>736559312why did you put xianjian and xuan yuan in this list, they are just regular RPGs and dont really have the same feeland I think you mean FF12, 11 is an actual MMO (although you can play with trusts) and there's nothing MMO-like about 13 either
>>736555136i just want something like osrs but offline loli need to kill alot of time osrs is so evil but its less evil than social media
>>736560653bro your terraria? diablo2? valheim? dont starve?
>>736555330I do ancient monstrosities without friends even in an MMO thoughever
>>736560653>>736561592I actually picked up Diablo 2 on steam to blow some time and somehow, someway Blizzard has not fucked it up. Well I heard the Warlock is Op as shit but I only play offline anyway
>>736555330>Only for loners who don't want to associate with other peopleI'd love to associate with other people, but the games that are still populated aren't designed in a way to make those associations meaningful.What I'd really like is a time machine so I can go back and play real MMOs in their heyday. I can't have that, so I'll take these games instead.
>>736555136I'm sorry that your only frame of reference for MMOs is post-WoW theme park shit.
>>736555245bro did u not get the network adapter
>>736562193lol meanwhile everquest is literally about to launch a singleplayer MMO experience get cucked
>>736557763Try Fatal Bullet. It's goofy as fuck. You make your own character and an NPC-pet companion in this one.
>>736556909I didn't like this. I did the tutorial dungeon and the game mostly just played itself.
>>736562668I love RPGs that let you use guns, everythings always just sword and magic.
>>736560653Just find a diablo clone you like and you can blow 500 hours
>>736555330>defending subscriptionslop>defending friendslopok slopper
>>736555136Add LLMs to NPCs so you can erp with the guild mom just like in the old times
>>736564272I did so much catfishing/ERP as a teenager in MMO games, it got really disturbing fast. I'm surprised I didnt end up trans up.
>>736555136I do think they’re better than regular mmo’s but it’s still shit regardless
>>736555136Correct, .hack is based.
>>736564427only IMOQ is basedGU is dogshit
>>736564452I like the quadrology more, sure.
>>736559312>>736557680why does sao realization and wkc2 have shit ratings? is it fun?
>>736555426.hack was a good game tho
>>736564737both of them are pure LVDO
>>736564452i want to steal mistral from her husband by showering her with rare items.
>>736555330Grinding away at the same faggy computer game for years on end while all your friends are in separate locations isn't "hanging out with friends and playing video games"
This is why I love ARPGs like Diablo and The Division. It's not being able to pick and choose when you want to play with people.
