>no single player open world game has ever made me feel like I'm stuck on a forgotten corner of the greater planet, or in the bustling center of activity where things are happening even without my participation, like the most basic MMOs from 20 years agoThere's this magic of feeling like the world is going on without you while you're just chilling in some hard to reach forgotten backwater, or that you are exactly where world developments are happening, that single player games seemingly just can't doDo you think a single player game will one day be able to achieve this?
>>743418959Even MMOs can't achieve this nowadays. Everyone just plays the same daily content, usually instanced. Games have been steadily downgrading in every aspect beside graphics (and file sizes/hardware requirements, as a result)
>>743418959>Do you think a single player game will one day be able to achieve this?The answer is yes.Search "WoW SPP" in google.
>>743418959The Old Republic has you feeling like an actual character within the setting, rather than some nameless grunt.
>>743418959I miss it every day
>>743418959Eve is the last MMO left for this. Which is kind of sad really when you think about it and easy to forget about if you get caught up in the space politics.
>>743419383none of the repacks had functioning auction house
>>743418959You have not played X3 or X4
The Long Dark does the first one plentyWhole frozen world full of abandoned towns, old cabins, remote locations off the beaten path, all without meeting another living soul
>>743418959Peculiar that you post Booty Bay which is the first zone where you no longer do what you've described to instead boat and zeppelin from there to Desolace and back again. But yes, pre level 40, there is magic in wow
>>743422315So it *doesn't* do the first one because there's no living bustling world to create the contrast
>>743422375The first thing op listed was 'feel like you're stuck in a forgotten corner of the planet', that made me think of TLD
>>743421892AzerothCore_npcbots_transmog_ahbot_solocraft
>>743418959You can just play Classic/TBC/WotLK offline and singleplayer or with friends over lan today, shit has literally never been easier.https://github.com/DadsMmoLab/dads-mmo-lab
>>743418959Starfield is the answer to this dilemma, the feeling of being lost in the great grand universe is greatest.
>>743423306Fuck off nigger
>>743423306Actually audibly laughed out loudThanksLaughing is good for the soul
>>743418959Instead of pursuing a literally unachievable dopamine high now lost to time, learn to let goOvercome the junkie pursuit, move on, just be glad that you got to experience it in this time and this lifeIn this time and space in infinity, because not many people know the true emotion or human condition you experienced -- this thread is full of those sad people chasing the simulacrum in a burnt out world just to feel even a modicum of what youre describing
>>743423151>just play is a dead, empty world that once existed in the past, with only ghosts and shattered memories from a lifetime agoNigger faggot this is the saddest fucking shit i've read on this entire board and website in all of 2026Just MAID yourselfHoly shit, vaxxie
>>743423306they hate you because you speak the truth
>>743424467Look around you anon. It's either necromantically bringing back the corpse of a long dead era with a facsimile of life, or playing your choice of modern sanitized scripted adventures that don't even attempt to be a living world. The genuine experience simply cannot be had anymore
>>743424646>>743423151MMOs like wow gatekeep far too much content behind player interaction to be enjoyable or even playable singleplayer. And then there's the fun stuff like battlegrounds, world pvp and arenas which are totally broken.
>>743418959MMO’s are a dead genre sadly, only 40yo millennials play then anymore
>>743424467>Just MAID yourself
>>743424467>Just MAID yourselfNot here to feed your fetish, freak
>>743418959No I'm not buying an ad, you should play Erenshor. It's basically a single player classic everquest / WoW populated with tons of npc bots that function as other players. You can invite them into your party and guild. The graphics are trash but it's honestly one of the most fun indie games I've played in a long time. They also just recently added raids.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/
>>743425187BasedI'm waiting for good sale to buy it
>playing old WoW but without the crowd of idiotsPerfect
>>743423151This is the best shit ever especially>with friends over lan Or just set it up so they can connect online. Let's not pretend that modern players aren't basically retarded bots anyways>but muh battlegrounds, world pvp, arenaWhy would I give a shit about the worst parts of WoW and I say that as someone who pushed to Glad as Pally going Ret/Restro, back in BC Season 3-4That kind of insanity is really just wort doing once.
>>743423306Starfield is frighteningly dead and empty
>>743425187>"MMOs would be fun if you took the other people out" is such a funny and probably accurate take
