Single player games

What would you recommed (has to fall under the following guildlines):

A) no internet connection (so no patches has to run as is out of the box)
B) released within the last 10 months
C) large amount of content (high playtime)

The ones that come to my mind are: Morrowwind, NWN, WC3, Dungeon Seige, Wizardy8.

sooo, what would you recommend of those, or others you know of?

I really enjoy( enjoyed even) Dungeon Siege and Warcraft 3. I have heard lots of good things about NWN and some good things about Morrowind.

Jedi Outcaste is also excellent if you like the first person shooter genre? And I think it's definately one of the best ever, for a Star Wars game.

I really enjoyed Wizardry 8 but you have to be a big fan of party based, first person viewed rpg's.
Morrowind is a solid game if a bit tedious because you can level so easily. This can be remedied with mods but as can be summised from the thread starters post they have no connection to the internet.
Dungeon Siege is another good game but unfortunately I found it to be a little short for my liking.
Freedom Force is a great game, if you liked the x-com series or jagged alliance I think you will like this game. It has the best aspects of those two blended with more rpg stylings and comic book superheroes:).
Medal of Honor: Allied (something forgot full name =x) was also a very fun game to play through til the end. The third campaign which lands you at normandy in a battle scene reminiscent of "Saving Private Ryan's opening scene" is well worth the price of the game alone. One disclaimer though:) : if you do buy this don't get to frustrated in sniper town hehe its worth getting past.
One oldy but goody worth checking out if you never have is Deus Ex. This is truly a classic game and one that does not get old:).

I hope you find what you are looking for Selenajra.
Happy Gaming,
Rease Stormwrath

You don't actually say Fantasy, so Civilization 3. (or 2)

Oh yes, Civ. Yum..

Gryfalia

Real Time Strategy: WarCraft 3
First Person Shooter: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Role Playing Game: Morrowind
Console: Tetris or Super Dodge Ball both on 8 bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)!

Halo is also a great game for the console

Hunter the Reckoning is not bad either.

I saw a bit of Medal of Honor and at some point I wouldn't mind getting into it. Even the PS2 Frontline looked not bad.

Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2) is really fun. Plenty of reply value too, I didn't even mind starting over after a failed mission. Allied Assault (PC) is also nice. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast is another good FPS.

Super Dodgeball for NES owns :D

Heroes of might and magic IV

Medal of honor: frontline for the ps2 was good but the control sucked ass, otherwise a good game.

Or one of the things I used to do...

Read.

Nothing like a good book to occupy the down time.

-Fiz

This is a really tough call as like every game needs a patch as soon as you buy it unless you get lucky and get an already patched version.

Wizardry 8 rocks though. DS is well... a fun diversion. Morrowind is just like they described it. Huge game, but not exactly as well balanced as I would have liked. And a bit slow, but a lot of content there.

I agree with Fiz...books own. If I can find a good series of books, I'm usually not able stop reading until I can't keep my eyes open or something forces me to stop. I found that a really interesting set of books is The Redwall series. A good thing about that series is that there are like 15 or 16 books, and the author is still publishing. :D

Guntak
I forget who, but either the Russians or the Japanese (or both) were incredibly overpowered in Super Dodgeball. Their skill bars were all the way up, with the best other team going about halfway up. Other than that the game is great

Wizardy 8 - gud
Morrowwind - bad, read Tari's post for more info ^^
NWN - Never played
WC3 - gud, but single player? too easy
Dungeon Seige - just like Diablo I, if you liked that, check into it I didn't play it much because so I can't tell you too much about it, it just didn't keep my attention

biggest problem imo with morrowind is the complete and total lack of difficulty for melee classes to beat the game. If you don't mind playing with the editor a tad (doesn't take too long, it's actually pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it) you can make it a bit more challenging without a net connection. The varying plot paths sadly tie into a single linear story, but there's enough variation to keep ya occupied. Oh yeah, the level system does kinda make ya go "um, kay" but you can make it more difficult on yourself pretty easily. Just pick races that have no proficiency in the major/minor skills when you make a char, and stay away from melee if you want challenge. If you do go melee I reccomend flipping the little "auto-best attack" switch or whatever in the game options to off, otherwise it goes from ridiculously easy to knights of the round on sephiroth easy.

If ya got a console, can't go wrong with final fantasy 10 on the ps2, and I've heard a lot of good things about Eternal Darkness for the gamecube (unsure wether or not it's out though) ED is a resident evil type game but it's all medieval, and it's got a unique way of increasing difficulty if you choose a violent path to beat the game.

otherwise, of all the games you mentioned, I'd say Morrowind and wizardy8 are the best bets without a connection, wc3 is basically meant for online play, same with nwn and dungeon siege (as famor said) is glorified diablo /shrug whatever your into I guess~

FF10 = Lose
It was all graphics.~~ Gameplay sucked. I miss Final Fantasy 4 / 5 / 6 Quality Games

7 sucked 8 sucked 9 was decent

FF 1 was awsome for its time.

FF 2/3 never really played. Started them but never really got into much ~.

/shurg I guess I just judge RPG's much differntly then other people as they are really olny type of game I play.

Even thought it was released I few years ago I would really recomment

STAR OCEAN : THE SECOND STORY
Yes game I have ever played its for PS1

pfft, the only problem with ff8 was the magic system, the game was actually tiered in difficulty according to how powerful (levelwise) your chars were, made for a more even challenge. And I didn't list old ps/snes games based on the games listed by selen~

FF1 was all innovative, but it was far from an awesome game, even at the time. It garnered a huge support because it was obscenely difficult at parts, making completing it a matter of pride. I've never been a big fan of games where instant death is pretty much unresistable no matter what level or skill you are, how well you prepare or how well you know the game. For it's time it was nice, but looking back, Dragon Warrior 2 was by far it's superior (roughly the same time on the release chart, I think it might actually have been predated by DW2) The completely random aspect of some battles near the end was a bit of a turn off, because repeating a long, hard fought path to the "end guy" becomes a ton less fun if said bad guy gets preemptive strike and kills your entire party in one round. If you had one turn, he would have died, but with the way the spells worked in Final Fantasy, rub all had a good chance of killing everyone if it was cast on round 1. ff2 and 3 in america were godly, 3 is by far my favorite rpg of all time for all systems. 7 was good, I honestly think they could have done without the retardedly overpowered knights of the round, I got it by mistake on my game (I was breeding chocobos when it was first released just to check it out, got kotr while wandering on disc 2) and ended up getting kinda bored of the game, it would have been far more fun if the spell wasn't in there. 8 I already covered, 9 was good.. kinda, it was way way too easy and linear to a fault almost, 10 I've given my support for already. 11 looks interesting, I just wish the stupid american site would finish construction, it was tedious as hell to translate parts of the japanese site =\

"FF 2/3 never really played. Started them but never really got into much ~."

These were the BEST games in the genre without any doubt.

edit: meant us/euro versions of them that is - in jap they were named FFV and FFVI I believe.

/agree 100% with Khael. :)

Rydia and Terra own!

FF2 is still the best console rpg imo