It’s insane that the channel doesn’t do this themselves. They do it, but say “number 1, number 2” etc. it’s like, name the game so we can choose to skip to the named ones we want!
@ImJake50 it force us to finished the whole videos because we just want to know if our favorite game is on the list yeah so it help them when we watch it all the way through I know it's annoying as fuck but at least this channel usually have time stamp most don't even bother with that
I put close to 500 hours into Valhalla from 2020 to 2023. As someone who works long hours it was so nice to be able to come home and just play the same game over and over with new content. I know most everyone craps on that game, but I loved it! Been an OG AC fan since the first game, and I still loved Valhalla. It was nice paying $60 plus $30 for the DLC and getting years worth of enjoyment from it.
@@IAmWhiteEagle It's definitely not worse. I beat both and I didn't see much that could be considered worse. Odyssey is a great game. If Odyssey had the same camera angles as Valhalla, it would be even more similar. Valhalla's environment is better when it comes to detail tho, I'll admit that. Combat doesn't feel much different. Running and climbing didn't feel much different. Valhalla is just a reskin of Odyssey with a few tweaks.
Played that, didn't like the constant pay walls the game threw at you constantly. Also, the mission design was extremely repetitive. Not something to play for endless hours.
@@MrH4RR7 To be fair, SWTOR is not the kind of game you play for the quest design or gameplay (which is very classic) but for the story. And imo most MMOs have the same kind of quest design.
FF XII is still to this day my favorite FF exactly because of the reasons brought up in the video. I've spent hundreds of hours in the first playthrough alone. Good times.
@@oliver6257 There is a entire "Level 1" mode if you want a challenge. You can also explore many places in the open world being severely under-leveled. When I played the original it was one of the best and hardest experiences I had, and I was one of those "nerds" who completed everything on max difficult (not anymore, I don't have the time, just want to chill and experience the vibes). I replayed this game a few times but not recently and never felt "empty", but lacking in many aspects because the game was... halfway done when some of the heads quit =/.
I'm actually so glad they brought Kingdoms Of Amalur back and made a new DLC. That game is so much fun, and I hope to see a future instalment that fleshes out its world
@@cristiansosa1512Nah. I don't like it. They went all "Baldur's Gate 2" with it instead of keeping the more unique and tighter camera view of Neverwinter Nights 1. I prefer my series of games doesn't all of a sudden become a different game series from the same franchise. It would be like if the Halo Infinite had released but was Halo Wara gameplay instead of FPS.
Cool to see Sacred 2 mentioned. I always loved this game since it dropped and I couldn't find anyone who had even heard of it let alone played it. Such a great game that was lost to history.
Sacred 2 was always a diamond in the rough. I grew up as a console player so a single pre-owned copy of Sacred 2 was my first intoduction to the entire Diablo-style ARPG genre, to which I'm still hooked to this day and as now a pc player have yet to recover.
It deserved so much more. I loved it from the day it released (before really, it was the playable demo that hooked me). By far my favourite worldbuilding in a fantasy game, I totally fell in love with the world design and general atmosphere. Nowadays the game is almost entirely forgotten and it breaks my heart to think of what could have been.
@@defconn100 can’t believe it almost bankrupt a state. Was originally intended to be an mmo and is still such a good game. I recommend that game for everyone.
I just started Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning yesterday for the first time ever and I'm blown away, game is so much fun! Can't believe I waited this long to play it!
Thank you for mentioning White Knight Chronicles 2!! It's such a good game despite its jank. Admittedly it got overshadowed by a lot of other RPGs around that time, but the MMO singleplayer feeling is incredibly present in this, and the ability to create not only your own custom character, but your own knight was so much fun
Finally, Xenoblade gets some love here. XCX might have an incomplete story, but it absolutely needs to be remade like the original was with an additional chapter to wrap up the cliffhanger ending.
While a number of the Sword Art Online games would qualify for this, my recommendations are SAO:Hollow Realization for a fantasy theme and SAO:Fatal Bullet for a sci-fi third person shooter. In both you are essentially playing a fictionalized in-world version of a VRMMO and thus they play a lot like a regular MMO. But in reality are singleplayer games.
Kingdoms of Amalur was instantly the first game that came to my mind. I remember playing it 10 years ago and very early on I realised: ''It's a singleplayer mmo.''
Sacred 2! I haven't thought about that game in forever! It was really cool for it's time. I loved how it got a little sci-fantasy in there as well. Such a shame that Sacred 3 was so crummy.
I absolutely loved just visiting and exploring different Regions when I first played it, finding Clues about Different cultist and finally revealing their faces was so satisfying for some reason, not to mention world is gorgeous
I recently bought it on sale for and I've spent like 40 hours in the first week. I don't know why I'm enjoying it so much because a lot of it is repetitive, but it really feels great to explore ancient greece.
OMG, the white knight chronicles 2 was a game that has been slipping my mind for years since I played it during my time in college. Nice feeling being informed about it being a ps3 exclusive, definitely explains why I could not find a port to a more recent console for it.
I retired in 2018 at the age 48 due to a medical condition. I took to gaming (xbox) as a full time hobby (to keep from going insane from boredom) and bought Odyssey, and all of it's DLC, in 2019. I still play it to date and have 12 play throughs equalling just over 4000 hours. The world is absolutely beautiful, massive, and highly detailed. There is so much to explore that I still find new things from time to time. The only thing it is lacking is a home base like in any other AC game. The ship is supposed to be home base but that is ridiculous. It would be great to build a settlement similar to AC 3's, Black Flag's or Valhalla's. Even just a mansion like in Rogue or Unity would be cool. Seasons would also be nice instead of just parts of the map trapped in perpetual fall, spring, or summer.
I love Odyssey. I rarely finish games because I tend to get bored pretty quickly. Something about Odyssey though...I played through the entire game and all the DLC, and still re-install it every once in a while, to play a bit.
One of my favorite single player MMO's was Minions of Mirth. Fully playable offline where you could control 6 characters and each character could be 3 classes. The Online version you play a single character that also has 3 classes.
The combat in KoA is better than any MMO I've ever played. You can rotate the camera so it's very fun cinematic action. If you liked KoA go play Biomutant which is criminally underrated. Grim Dawn is amazing and the most customizable ARPG out there. Probably even more builds than PoE and def more viable builds than any ARPG. Also shout out to No Rest for the Wicked which can be played offline and feels like it could be an MMO at some point.
Biomutant got its list of issues, but it's kinda sad that many people refuse it just because it's $60 but isn't for everyone. But like why should games be made for everyone though.
@@Justforvisit the "great potential" would probably just turn into some sort of grind fest anyway. Therefore, I'd say having good environmental story telling and some mystery of what's going on is good enough, with combat and occasional parcore being good complementary. Not all $60 game has to have infinite amount of filler contents, I'd say. The best we can hope for, as of now, is really that they take the R mark in the title seriously, and expand this title into a whole franchise.
DO A list of best game ever made by a studio we NEVER heard about! That would be a good list, like how Stellar Blade just came out for PS5 from some random mobile game company and the game slaps on every level imaginable like they've been making hits for decades.. I think studios like this need a shout out!
KoAR was one of my favourite games when it came out. Played the campaign multiple times with all the regular classes and then tried to mix things up by going into multiple options.
HECK YEAH, Strong opening. Kingdoms of Amalur is one of my favorite games. And FF XII, when it came out I was hooked. I bought the collector's set, the box was made out of metal. I wish I hadn't lost it to a hurricane ripping my house apart.
.Hack// is a JRPG series of single-player games, and its story takes place inside an MMO, similar to Crosscode, but it gives you a more accurate feel of playing one, with its aesthetics and design.
CrossCode does a fantastic job of replicating the idea of playing an MMO with a group of friends in an purely singleplayer experience. For a brief moment, it did in fact feel like the characters within the story were real people that were playing the same game that I was. I also think that it’s just simply one of the best games _ever,_ and it deserves to have so much more notoriety than it currently does. It’s a game that shows that narrative driven experiences don’t have to be shallow or basic in their mechanics, that you can have deep and engaging gameplay that is enjoyable on its own and doesn’t exist purely to carry the player to the next cutscene or dialogue interaction. If you like indie games that people consider to be 10/10 masterpieces, you should absolutely play CrossCode.
I just recently tried playing it And while I agree it’s pretty cool I just couldn’t get into it because within the first 10 minutes (after the prologue ish part) I had like 12 quests and the game did nothing to explain to me how to proceed in actually doing the quests Really frustrating I have a low tolerance for games that tell you very little So that’s my fault But I think cross code is really fun to play when it comes to the combat and the puzzles Just got overwhelming for me way to quickly
@@Novskyy621 I would argue that Valhalla is not a bad game at all in fact its very good however it is a bad AC game, I think if it wasn't related to the assassin creed franchise it would have stood out on its own
@@MegaHassan3000 Na man i think Valhalla is a bad game. It's tedious, boring, combat is bad (especially the janky animations), story is bad, characters have no soul. The only good thing is the graphics in certain scenerious, atmosphere is there if you disable all hud and play slowly but thats about it
Fun and very unique game video. Thanks. The graphics of Amalur always gave me Fable vibes. And thanks for the White Knight Chronicles 2 recommendation. Ordered a copy straight away.
And the gameplay from Monster Hunter: World was the Witcher 3 crossover quest, fighting the ancient leshen while wearing the Geralt set and with the Witcher 3 music playing XD
I love team ninjas action RPGs like nioh 2, stranger of paradise, wo long and rise of the ronin, its like dark souls meets diablo, two of my favorite RPG franchises, and the build variety in these games is far beyond any other soulslike, definitely the 4 games that i will never uninstall
My childhood best friend is the definition of an “MMO guy”. He is running and assisting guilds, leading raids (online, in-game, not in people's homes), helping new players and shedding tears over the FF14 storyline whilst moaning to me about Blizzard and how his heart turned cold ever since “New WOW” entered the chat. 😆
Actually if Kingdoms of Amalur looks familiar it's because Todd MacFarlane creator of the Spawn comic series and writer/ artist for The Amazing Spiderman for a time, was responsible for the art style.
the entire xeno-franchise should be on this list. especially xenoblade chronicles x. biggest offline mmo world without loading screens i ever played. and you can fly in mechas and fight airborne and landborne superbosses within and without the mechas too. the only reason i have a nintendo wiiU is for that one game. its worth it! edit: didnt know this was number 1, but XCX is defacto the best Xenoblade game bar none.
@@cykeok3525 No it’s not, even if you are playing a mmo solo there are still multiple other players around you that’s what a mmo stands for. Not single player offline game or better yet rpg.
white knight chron 2 wow what a hell of a throwback. did not expect that. i am very sad that game has never was been picked up by a company and brought over to pc. i use to play the hell out of that game. absolutely loved it. thanks for that nostalgia trip gameranx!
Glad to see FF XII getting the praise it deserves Also sure the story takes a bit of a back seat but is no less epic than other FFs My mind was blown of the reveal that basically Alien god-like being were working in the shadows to shape the destiny of a world by maniplulating the desteny of people to become kings of entire continents
Kingdom of amular is one of those chill rpgs you play when you want to just quest and such. I keep kitting a wall though with item weight at some point , and extra storage was a micro transaction maybe? I forget. But I've played it twice now. The remaster is pretty cheap. Definitely an great pickup if you haven't given it a go
I feel like these are mainly just RPGs. Most MMOs are RPGs but I wouldn't say most RPGs are like MMOs especially when they have fluid combat, that's a big distinction for me.
I’ve scrolled for so long hoping someone actually knew the 50 states I even saw someone from New Jersey saying New Jersey was broke before that game bankrupt them saying he’s from new jersey not even realizing Rhode island is a totally seperate state 200 miles away oh my
You forgot Final Fantasy VII remake .Hack GU. Neverwinter nights but you get props for Kingdoms of amalur reckoning being the first thing you mentioned best one out of the list. Thanks for the awesome video.
Ff12 gambit system was so ahead of its time. That sort of AI editor to me, is a must have for any crpg like game thats playable RTwP. The ai editor is one of the big reasons Pillars of Eternity 2 is one of if not my favorite crpg. There is something so satisfying to me taking hours to perfect the ai editor and then just watching the combat happen flawlessly.
The game that feels the most like an offline MMORPG experience is Dragon Age: Inquisition. The combat works on a variation of the tank-DPS-healer logic typical of classic MMOs. The maps are big stanced areas and it guides you towards events, points of interest and NPCs, reminicest of Guild Wars 2 map progression system. When im on a mount walking across a large area, simply looking for things marked on the map, collecting resource nods and stumbling upon quests and objeticves, it feels like playing a really good MMORPG in the 2010's.
You guys should do your best ps2 games man, i just found mine in my closet (im 26) and bought everything for it and it worksss!! Even had my old memory card and all my old game saves as a kid, im going around collecting as many games as i can bro and i would love to know jake and falcons fav ps2 games (ive collected about 60) since i found it 💀
Final Fantasy XIV Online is great for people who like to solo MMOs. While not technically single-player, the game has a great storyline, and you can play most of the game solo. FFXIV also has a good matchmaking system that automatically pairs you up with people for the dungeons. Square Enix often makes almost the entire game free-to-play, too. Servers are likely to become membership-only for a while starting in July once the new Dawntrail expansion releases.
Final Fantasy 12 reminds me a lot of The Last Story. Which was also a game where you play single player but you can pause and give commands to your party members. It's a ton of fun.
1:10 10 - Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
3:15 9 - Assassins Creed Odyssey and Valhalla
5:20 8 - Monster Hunter World
7:15 7 - Nioh 2
9:09 6 - Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age
11:28 5 - White Knight Chronicles 2
13:32 4 - Dragons Dogma 1
15:27 3 - Grim Dawn
17:14 2 - Sacred 2
18:21 1 - Xenoblade Chronicles Series
It’s insane that the channel doesn’t do this themselves. They do it, but say “number 1, number 2” etc. it’s like, name the game so we can choose to skip to the named ones we want!
Thank you!
@ImJake50 it force us to finished the whole videos because we just want to know if our favorite game is on the list yeah so it help them when we watch it all the way through I know it's annoying as fuck but at least this channel usually have time stamp most don't even bother with that
@@ImJake50 if we don't watch the videos then soon enough there won't be any videos, just sit and enjoy, they put effort into this
Tnks men
I put close to 500 hours into Valhalla from 2020 to 2023. As someone who works long hours it was so nice to be able to come home and just play the same game over and over with new content. I know most everyone craps on that game, but I loved it! Been an OG AC fan since the first game, and I still loved Valhalla. It was nice paying $60 plus $30 for the DLC and getting years worth of enjoyment from it.
Have you played Odyssey? IMO it's much better than Valhalla.
@@fastica its really worse in almost every way. people only say this if theyre obsessed with kassandra and never played valhalla
this guy
@@IAmWhiteEagle It's definitely not worse. I beat both and I didn't see much that could be considered worse. Odyssey is a great game. If Odyssey had the same camera angles as Valhalla, it would be even more similar. Valhalla's environment is better when it comes to detail tho, I'll admit that. Combat doesn't feel much different. Running and climbing didn't feel much different. Valhalla is just a reskin of Odyssey with a few tweaks.
That's even more hours than I put in some of Bethesda open worlds.
For an actual MMO that you can play like a singleplayer game, I would highly recommend SWTOR
If only that was on console
FFXIV you can play solo nearly entirely nowadays
Played that, didn't like the constant pay walls the game threw at you constantly. Also, the mission design was extremely repetitive. Not something to play for endless hours.
@@MrH4RR7 To be fair, SWTOR is not the kind of game you play for the quest design or gameplay (which is very classic) but for the story. And imo most MMOs have the same kind of quest design.
Or FF14 👌
FF XII is still to this day my favorite FF exactly because of the reasons brought up in the video. I've spent hundreds of hours in the first playthrough alone. Good times.
Same. I love the Zodiac Age. I played FFII on the PS2. I have Zodiac Age on Switch and really like the changes.
yep i got my original steelbook ps2 copy 100% completed all hunts, espers, bosses, items, everything. best FF for me hands down.
It was good for it's time, but on the replay it's empty and void of any real challenge.
nice! i loved that game but everyone seems to hate it, it's so cool to see people who also like it, and even recommended on Gameranx channel
@@oliver6257 There is a entire "Level 1" mode if you want a challenge. You can also explore many places in the open world being severely under-leveled.
When I played the original it was one of the best and hardest experiences I had, and I was one of those "nerds" who completed everything on max difficult (not anymore, I don't have the time, just want to chill and experience the vibes).
I replayed this game a few times but not recently and never felt "empty", but lacking in many aspects because the game was... halfway done when some of the heads quit =/.
I'm actually so glad they brought Kingdoms Of Amalur back and made a new DLC. That game is so much fun, and I hope to see a future instalment that fleshes out its world
Neverwinter Nights is also such a huge game and then you get into mods. There's so much content for such an old game!
NwN 2 is another league, it survives all tests of time.
@@cristiansosa1512Nah. I don't like it. They went all "Baldur's Gate 2" with it instead of keeping the more unique and tighter camera view of Neverwinter Nights 1. I prefer my series of games doesn't all of a sudden become a different game series from the same franchise. It would be like if the Halo Infinite had released but was Halo Wara gameplay instead of FPS.
nwn2 was bad for the modding community
Cool to see Sacred 2 mentioned. I always loved this game since it dropped and I couldn't find anyone who had even heard of it let alone played it. Such a great game that was lost to history.
Great to have some lan gaming sessions with
Was one of my favourite games on PS3. Great game!
Sacred 2 was always a diamond in the rough. I grew up as a console player so a single pre-owned copy of Sacred 2 was my first intoduction to the entire Diablo-style ARPG genre, to which I'm still hooked to this day and as now a pc player have yet to recover.
Kingdoms of Amalur is such a hidden gem.
One of my all time favorites
@@That1DogGuy Absolutely. Its the kind of game I still come back to every year or so to run through again.
I was so addicted to this game. I finished it twice. It took me over 100hrs each time. So I'm so with you on this one mate.
I need to play it again, been too long honestly lol
I’ll take your word and give it a shot. I think I owe Rhode Island that much if it almost bankrupted the state.
The Dot Hack saga Is literally a single player offline MMORPG
Great series in need of modern new releases.
@@fakenamerton2568 they would just butcher it nowadays
Piros is my man! Such fond memories of those games.
It's like a 20 years old MMORPG.
That's what thinking
FALCON, you're my Hero.
Kingdoms of Amalur was an incredible game. One of the best in years. I still play it. Wish more people did.
You earned your like because of KoA reckoning. One of the best games to ever come out.
It deserved so much more. I loved it from the day it released (before really, it was the playable demo that hooked me). By far my favourite worldbuilding in a fantasy game, I totally fell in love with the world design and general atmosphere. Nowadays the game is almost entirely forgotten and it breaks my heart to think of what could have been.
@@defconn100 can’t believe it almost bankrupt a state. Was originally intended to be an mmo and is still such a good game. I recommend that game for everyone.
So open world ARPGs..?
I thought it's a list for actual mmo but solo friendly. But i got bamboozled.
@@wilyamchiu4772ong
He clearly explained it
@@johnsavage2083 im talking by just reading the title, obviously know what he means after watching for like 15 secs
@@wilyamchiu4772 oh my misunderstanding have a good 1
I just started Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning yesterday for the first time ever and I'm blown away, game is so much fun! Can't believe I waited this long to play it!
If Skyrim hadn't come out a few months before it, Kingdoms of Amalur would probably have been a success.
Thank you for mentioning White Knight Chronicles 2!! It's such a good game despite its jank. Admittedly it got overshadowed by a lot of other RPGs around that time, but the MMO singleplayer feeling is incredibly present in this, and the ability to create not only your own custom character, but your own knight was so much fun
Finally, Xenoblade gets some love here. XCX might have an incomplete story, but it absolutely needs to be remade like the original was with an additional chapter to wrap up the cliffhanger ending.
While a number of the Sword Art Online games would qualify for this, my recommendations are SAO:Hollow Realization for a fantasy theme and SAO:Fatal Bullet for a sci-fi third person shooter. In both you are essentially playing a fictionalized in-world version of a VRMMO and thus they play a lot like a regular MMO. But in reality are singleplayer games.
Kingdoms of Amalur was instantly the first game that came to my mind. I remember playing it 10 years ago and very early on I realised: ''It's a singleplayer mmo.''
Sacred 2! I haven't thought about that game in forever! It was really cool for it's time. I loved how it got a little sci-fantasy in there as well. Such a shame that Sacred 3 was so crummy.
Have nearly 1100 hours on AC: Odyssey. I used to play that game just to walk around, doing absolutely nothing in particular.
I absolutely loved just visiting and exploring different Regions when I first played it, finding Clues about Different cultist and finally revealing their faces was so satisfying for some reason, not to mention world is gorgeous
I recently bought it on sale for and I've spent like 40 hours in the first week. I don't know why I'm enjoying it so much because a lot of it is repetitive, but it really feels great to explore ancient greece.
Because there actually is nothing to do.
@@Defort-jd8xe "Oh boy, another cookie cutter world to explore!" - Ubisoft fanboys, frothing at the mouths.
@@TornadoWhirl33Imagine being the way you’re being now because of a single game that people enjoy.
OMG, the white knight chronicles 2 was a game that has been slipping my mind for years since I played it during my time in college. Nice feeling being informed about it being a ps3 exclusive, definitely explains why I could not find a port to a more recent console for it.
I retired in 2018 at the age 48 due to a medical condition. I took to gaming (xbox) as a full time hobby (to keep from going insane from boredom) and bought Odyssey, and all of it's DLC, in 2019. I still play it to date and have 12 play throughs equalling just over 4000 hours. The world is absolutely beautiful, massive, and highly detailed. There is so much to explore that I still find new things from time to time. The only thing it is lacking is a home base like in any other AC game. The ship is supposed to be home base but that is ridiculous. It would be great to build a settlement similar to AC 3's, Black Flag's or Valhalla's. Even just a mansion like in Rogue or Unity would be cool. Seasons would also be nice instead of just parts of the map trapped in perpetual fall, spring, or summer.
I love Odyssey. I rarely finish games because I tend to get bored pretty quickly. Something about Odyssey though...I played through the entire game and all the DLC, and still re-install it every once in a while, to play a bit.
One of my favorite single player MMO's was Minions of Mirth. Fully playable offline where you could control 6 characters and each character could be 3 classes. The Online version you play a single character that also has 3 classes.
Grim dawn is amazing and heavily underrated. They're coming out with a new expansion soon too. The devs are great.
Curt Schilling was also a main backer of Kingdoms as he was a huge MMO player, I believe he played EQ.
It was his company that made the game. I have a copy of it for 360 that's signed by him lol He was there at the local GameStop midnight release for it
The combat in KoA is better than any MMO I've ever played. You can rotate the camera so it's very fun cinematic action. If you liked KoA go play Biomutant which is criminally underrated. Grim Dawn is amazing and the most customizable ARPG out there. Probably even more builds than PoE and def more viable builds than any ARPG. Also shout out to No Rest for the Wicked which can be played offline and feels like it could be an MMO at some point.
Biomutant got its list of issues, but it's kinda sad that many people refuse it just because it's $60 but isn't for everyone. But like why should games be made for everyone though.
@@FlameRat_YehLon Nah, played it, BioMutant has great potential but completely wastes it unfortunately.
@@Justforvisit the "great potential" would probably just turn into some sort of grind fest anyway. Therefore, I'd say having good environmental story telling and some mystery of what's going on is good enough, with combat and occasional parcore being good complementary. Not all $60 game has to have infinite amount of filler contents, I'd say.
The best we can hope for, as of now, is really that they take the R mark in the title seriously, and expand this title into a whole franchise.
DO A list of best game ever made by a studio we NEVER heard about! That would be a good list, like how Stellar Blade just came out for PS5 from some random mobile game company and the game slaps on every level imaginable like they've been making hits for decades.. I think studios like this need a shout out!
I've spent so many hours playing White Knight Chronicles 1 + 2. I love those games to tears.
KoAR was one of my favourite games when it came out. Played the campaign multiple times with all the regular classes and then tried to mix things up by going into multiple options.
HECK YEAH, Strong opening. Kingdoms of Amalur is one of my favorite games.
And FF XII, when it came out I was hooked. I bought the collector's set, the box was made out of metal. I wish I hadn't lost it to a hurricane ripping my house apart.
You can find that edition for pretty cheap in the wild. I picked it for about $15 at a game store a couple of months ago.
as a guy who hates playing with people but likes the genre, thanks for this.
.Hack// is a JRPG series of single-player games, and its story takes place inside an MMO, similar to Crosscode, but it gives you a more accurate feel of playing one, with its aesthetics and design.
CrossCode does a fantastic job of replicating the idea of playing an MMO with a group of friends in an purely singleplayer experience. For a brief moment, it did in fact feel like the characters within the story were real people that were playing the same game that I was.
I also think that it’s just simply one of the best games _ever,_ and it deserves to have so much more notoriety than it currently does. It’s a game that shows that narrative driven experiences don’t have to be shallow or basic in their mechanics, that you can have deep and engaging gameplay that is enjoyable on its own and doesn’t exist purely to carry the player to the next cutscene or dialogue interaction.
If you like indie games that people consider to be 10/10 masterpieces, you should absolutely play CrossCode.
I just recently tried playing it And while I agree it’s pretty cool I just couldn’t get into it because within the first 10 minutes (after the prologue ish part) I had like 12 quests and the game did nothing to explain to me how to proceed in actually doing the quests Really frustrating I have a low tolerance for games that tell you very little So that’s my fault But I think cross code is really fun to play when it comes to the combat and the puzzles Just got overwhelming for me way to quickly
Grim dawn is such a good game. Can't wait for it's new expansion.
Thanks for covering the offline games!! I’ll be looking into these!
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KoA Reckoning, DD Dark Arisen, AC Valhalla, this is a banger list.
AC Valhalla? 😂
Not ot mention Xenoblade.
Not mmos
@@Novskyy621 I would argue that Valhalla is not a bad game at all in fact its very good however it is a bad AC game, I think if it wasn't related to the assassin creed franchise it would have stood out on its own
@@MegaHassan3000 Na man i think Valhalla is a bad game. It's tedious, boring, combat is bad (especially the janky animations), story is bad, characters have no soul. The only good thing is the graphics in certain scenerious, atmosphere is there if you disable all hud and play slowly but thats about it
Fun and very unique game video. Thanks. The graphics of Amalur always gave me Fable vibes. And thanks for the White Knight Chronicles 2 recommendation. Ordered a copy straight away.
How was Geralt in Monster Hunter?
If I remember correctly, it was a crossover event
Cross over event. Just like the resident evil cross over and the final fantasy cross over
@@kalandarkclaw8892 And another one with Horizon Zero Dawn on PS4
Awesome video I'm always looking for good offline games so thank you!!!
I love the subtle, "there are ways to do it," at the end, because Falcon can't legally tell us to emulate it
I play WoW solo, does that count?
Same. I'd say it counts.
It does, if really does
It counts.
Me too. And yes, it counts
He clearly specifies you must be able to play it without a internet connection, so no.. it does not count.
So happy to finally hear someone appreciate KoAR (besides Ellen from Outside Oxtra 😂) ❤❤❤
I think Dragons age inquisition could be included in this list.
Yeah, everything outside of main quest was pure MMO trash...
Not an mmo
@@ht-rm4uu None of the games on the list is an MMO if you haven't noticed. That's the ENTIRE point of this video.
@@gearzdesignhaha 😂
@@ht-rm4uu It was originally supposed to be one, and boy does it feel like it. It feels like a dead MMO.
You guys mentioned Grim Dawn. I love you
Dot Hack series easily comes to mind
1:10 Thank you for mentioning this game. It one of my favorites.
Reckoning was sooooo damn good! Ton of fun.
For anyone interested in sacred 2, there is a mod to make the game third person and not top down and it makes it so much better imo
And the gameplay from Monster Hunter: World was the Witcher 3 crossover quest, fighting the ancient leshen while wearing the Geralt set and with the Witcher 3 music playing XD
I love team ninjas action RPGs like nioh 2, stranger of paradise, wo long and rise of the ronin, its like dark souls meets diablo, two of my favorite RPG franchises, and the build variety in these games is far beyond any other soulslike, definitely the 4 games that i will never uninstall
Love Falcon videos. Keep em coming. You and Jake are Awesome
My childhood best friend is the definition of an “MMO guy”. He is running and assisting guilds, leading raids (online, in-game, not in people's homes), helping new players and shedding tears over the FF14 storyline whilst moaning to me about Blizzard and how his heart turned cold ever since “New WOW” entered the chat. 😆
I feel like Swort Art Online deserves at least a mention. The whole point of the series setting is to play virtual MMOs, lol.
Actually if Kingdoms of Amalur looks familiar it's because Todd MacFarlane creator of the Spawn comic series and writer/ artist for The Amazing Spiderman for a time, was responsible for the art style.
the entire xeno-franchise should be on this list. especially xenoblade chronicles x. biggest offline mmo world without loading screens i ever played. and you can fly in mechas and fight airborne and landborne superbosses within and without the mechas too.
the only reason i have a nintendo wiiU is for that one game. its worth it!
edit: didnt know this was number 1, but XCX is defacto the best Xenoblade game bar none.
What a fantastic and cultured list, not only Xenoblade, but Grim Dawn and White Knight Chronicles
You guys really cranked the music.
Reckoning is also hailed as a hidden gem of a game by many
Single Player MMOs? something's not right here :D
The "MM" part is just a suggestion for you, not a rule :D
not multiplayer or online. just really big and long games
They couldn't think of what to do, so they came up with this shit. 😂
@@cykeok3525 No it’s not, even if you are playing a mmo solo there are still multiple other players around you that’s what a mmo stands for. Not single player offline game or better yet rpg.
It's your close mindedness
white knight chron 2 wow what a hell of a throwback. did not expect that. i am very sad that game has never was been picked up by a company and brought over to pc. i use to play the hell out of that game. absolutely loved it. thanks for that nostalgia trip gameranx!
I can not believe you did not mention the biggest single player mmo ever made. ./hack series
Glad to see FF XII getting the praise it deserves
Also sure the story takes a bit of a back seat but is no less epic than other FFs
My mind was blown of the reveal that basically Alien god-like being were working in the shadows to shape the destiny of a world by maniplulating the desteny of people to become kings of entire continents
AC Oddysey was the first AC Game ive played and spent 320 hours on the first playthrough. Amazing experience
Kingdom of amular is one of those chill rpgs you play when you want to just quest and such. I keep kitting a wall though with item weight at some point , and extra storage was a micro transaction maybe? I forget. But I've played it twice now. The remaster is pretty cheap. Definitely an great pickup if you haven't given it a go
I think maybe I don't know what an MMO is, it just sounds like a list of games with huge open worlds to me.
fun fact: this video acted as a random reminder that i didn't imagine the Witcher/monster hunter crossover in a fever dream, it actually did happen.
I'm currently playing assassin's creed Odyssey one of the best games I have ever played
I feel like these are mainly just RPGs. Most MMOs are RPGs but I wouldn't say most RPGs are like MMOs especially when they have fluid combat, that's a big distinction for me.
The .//Hack series definitely belonged on to here... but I guess it was kind of obscure for most players.
I LOVED White Knight Chronicles 1, bought 2 but never got around to playing it, loved exploring other people's city builds in multiplayer
@Gameranx - One note: Kingdoms of Amulur: Reckoning was funded by the state of Rhode Island, not New Jersey.
I’ve scrolled for so long hoping someone actually knew the 50 states I even saw someone from New Jersey saying New Jersey was broke before that game bankrupt them saying he’s from new jersey not even realizing Rhode island is a totally seperate state 200 miles away oh my
Thank you for this! You guys are the BEST!
Can't believe .Hack isn't on this list or Dragons Age Inquisition.
This is good to know ... too bad I despise MMOs, but I love me some Gameranx videos, whatever the topic
Love me a White Knight Chronicles shout-out
Holy crap, that Amalur review was absolutely accurate
Dragon Age: Inquisition could be on this list too
Very good shout, it reminds me a lot of Guild Wars 2 in terms of combat, it just has the real RPG dialogue and romance along with it.
I love kingdoms... officially spent over 1000 hours over multiple devices on this game.. my Co Fort game for sure! Love AC odyssey too, so enjoyable
You can spend hours, months even years in a Rockstar designed world.
You forgot Final Fantasy VII remake .Hack GU. Neverwinter nights but you get props for Kingdoms of amalur reckoning being the first thing you mentioned best one out of the list. Thanks for the awesome video.
Ac odyssey was so good!
Yeah man. It was the shyt especially with the atlantis DLC
I wish that I could give Falcon a tasty field mouse for yet another great episode.
wakeup babe. gameranx dropped a new vid !
Yeah but it’s a falcon☹️
@@genkigirl4859 go back to sleep then babe :(
Lost in the world in Odyssey
Tales Arise definitely fits the description
I love Nioh 2.
"her all did" as a good thing? You mean heralded? Silly Falcon. We love you.
Darksiders 2, AC odyssey , ghost recon wildlands
I'm older so my mind immediately went to Phantasy Star Online, which; despite it's title, could be played entirely offline.. truly a classic
Wait.. Geralt is in Monster Hunter? Am I high?
A collab
Ff12 gambit system was so ahead of its time. That sort of AI editor to me, is a must have for any crpg like game thats playable RTwP. The ai editor is one of the big reasons Pillars of Eternity 2 is one of if not my favorite crpg. There is something so satisfying to me taking hours to perfect the ai editor and then just watching the combat happen flawlessly.
Nobody has ever used ''Single Player MMO''
The game that feels the most like an offline MMORPG experience is Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The combat works on a variation of the tank-DPS-healer logic typical of classic MMOs. The maps are big stanced areas and it guides you towards events, points of interest and NPCs, reminicest of Guild Wars 2 map progression system.
When im on a mount walking across a large area, simply looking for things marked on the map, collecting resource nods and stumbling upon quests and objeticves, it feels like playing a really good MMORPG in the 2010's.
You guys should do your best ps2 games man, i just found mine in my closet (im 26) and bought everything for it and it worksss!! Even had my old memory card and all my old game saves as a kid, im going around collecting as many games as i can bro and i would love to know jake and falcons fav ps2 games (ive collected about 60) since i found it 💀
Kingdoms of Amular: Re-Reckoning is the greatest game ever made. Unfortunately I don't think we will ever get a sequel.
Man i loove Kingdoms of Amalur. Glad it got an mention.😊
Rogue Galaxy, Ps2. One of the most fun games I've ever played. It was like a comedic version of FF 12. I logged 260 hours.
It was crazy how many similarities that game had with FF XII. Even Jaster's final outfit looked like Vaan's look.
Final Fantasy XIV Online is great for people who like to solo MMOs. While not technically single-player, the game has a great storyline, and you can play most of the game solo. FFXIV also has a good matchmaking system that automatically pairs you up with people for the dungeons. Square Enix often makes almost the entire game free-to-play, too. Servers are likely to become membership-only for a while starting in July once the new Dawntrail expansion releases.
Fantastic list 🔥 thanks gameranx
Final Fantasy 12 reminds me a lot of The Last Story. Which was also a game where you play single player but you can pause and give commands to your party members. It's a ton of fun.
Favorite list of the year so far ❤