Current Events > A good MMO for someone who has only really ever played single player games.

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I've heard FFXIV has taken off but I don't know anything about it or the genre.

Was mildly curious in ESO but I heard it was not similar at all to the main series in terms of gameplay so I lost interest

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ESO does have similarities and it's probably the most single player friendly console mmo

Whoever told you that is full of shit

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Star Wars The Old Republic you can play like 80% of the content including the entire story completely solo

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Guild Wars 2 imo is the best MMO out now but it's PC only

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just start ff14. it's free for about a month's worth of dedicated playing and has an upcoming expansion.

buying the newest expansion also nets you each previously released expansion(fucking ALL mmos should do this).

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Everytime I try an MMO, I just remember how not for me they are. It seems like you have to build a community around yourself to enjoy them and I never did that. There's too much downtime to sit there without that community keeping you company. Maybe one day I'll try to push myself into a community.

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Doom_Art posted...

Was mildly curious in ESO but I heard it was not similar at all to the main series in terms of gameplay so I lost interest

If you're a huge fan of the series there's a lot of lore and previously-unseen locations to explore. That said, it's one of the most dull, boring MMO's I've ever played. There's nothing inviting about it, every single area in the game looks dismal and muddy, and the overall gameplay loop isn't that special.

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Aren't FF14 and ESO single player most of the time an6way?

FF14 does make you play with other people sometimes, and it has tab targeting as well as a ton of different abilities to keep track of, and very little voice acting. At least in vanilla. I can't ever make myself play it past like level 10

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Crossout is insane awesome.

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Background_Guy posted...

Aren't FF14 and ESO single player most of the time an6way?

I've played 80+ hours of ESO and I've only interacted with other players a handful of times. It's not really a social, welcoming game.

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CRON posted...

If you're a huge fan of the series there's a lot of lore and previously-unseen locations to explore. That said, it's one of the most dull, boring MMO's I've ever played. There's nothing inviting about it, every single area in the game looks dismal and muddy, and the overall gameplay loop isn't that special.

The vanilla areas aren't great I'll give you that. But the dlc areas, Morrowind and Summerset in particular, are great and showcase how good the game can be. The dungeons are fun as well

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FFXIV is great and I highly recommend it to....well, literally anybody even remotely interested in story.
ESO on the other hand....I would steer clear of.

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SW:TOR is pretty great up until the second expansion, where on the quality changes quite sharply. Before, it has some top quality, personalised stories to your character/class before they all get smashed together. Classes like the Imperial Agent I think rank as some of Bioware's best stuff, imo.

Basically never have to interact with another person if you don't want to either at pretty much any point.

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Secret World Legends.

It plays like a singleplayer game but will help you understand basic MMO mechanics. Also it's just a really awesome ass game.

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FFXIV is very good and its story is top notch. Also the base game and first expansion are part of the free trial.

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PSO2:NGS is a great game for solo play and easy and fun pick up multiplayer with a low committal on time

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