I'm looking for a very specific game, does it exists?

[Devonax]

Hello Everyone,

I'm hoping that with the help of the Steam community I will be able to find the game I have been waiting for. I want to play this very specific game for almost 8 years now and haven't really found anything that comes close to it (80% and above).

so let's cut to the chase, shall we.

I'm looking for an MMORPG or a singleplayer game with a mmorpg vibe (gameplay style) that is the same as all those open world mmorpg with fatast style, dungeons, doing quests, getting better gear, buying a home, furnishing your home, getting awesome looking gear or just use a costume system to look good, with the option to dye your gear aswell. you know what im talking about.. I'm looking for that.. BUT WITH A TWIST..

I want it to be a shooter! I want it to be a current time, modern time or sci-fi themed game where I can have the same things as mentioned above. I want to do quest, run and gun, get new weapons, buy them from shops, put attachments on them and do some dungeons etc.

It doesn't matter if it's 3rd person or 1st person but I just want an open world shooter with housing, dungeons, a good story, LOTS of customization options etc. Think World of Warcraft, Elder scrolls online or black desert but with guns (and action/aiming based).

And please.. It has to thick all the boxes or be at least 80% (or higher) to what im looking for.
games like:
- Destiny 1 or 2
- The Division 1 or 2
- Wildlands
- Planetside 2
- Borderlands 1 and 2
Are not what I'm looking for (I own them and have tried them), so please don't mention games like that. Reason: they are not RPG enough. No deep character customization, no "build your own role/playstyle" style gameplay that you always get from those medieval MMORPGS.

I tried Fatal Bullet because I REALLY love the concept of the Anime but that game is just sooo boring and nothing like the feeling you have from the anime. It's a talking simulator with short burst of clunky shooting.

I want to travel the ingame world (open world or zonebased like WoW), go from city to city and planet to planet. talking to NPC's and getting quests. Get some money and go to the weaponshop (no micro-trans ♥♥♥♥) and buy my weapons, upgrading them and then put some attachments on them and go do some dungeon clearing for a nice ornament (boss head) to place in my base.

So.... Does this game exist?
It doesn't have to be an MMO, it can also be a single-player game that gives the same gameplay feel of an MMORPG. It's not about playing with others but just being in a game that feels wide and open and diverse with hours and hours of content. making your base and putting furniture in it, doing quests for money and xp, getting an awesome build together and doing boss runs, looking the way YOU want to look, with a deep character creation system.

I really don't understand why (if the game isn't made yet) why it has never been made, It's freakn 2019! I can not be the only person on the planet that wants to play a game like this. I like MMORPG's but I'm kinda sick of the fact they are ALWAYS fantasy based with swords and shields and magic and bows...

Did I missed something, does this game exists??
Please let me know, I need this game in my life!

[Zekiran]

.... Fallout.

[Devonax]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

.... Fallout.

This is also a game that I own and played and totally not what I'm after. This is very far from what I'm describing as an MMORPG, but with sci-fi theme and guns.

But thank you for your input anyway.

[Devonax]

Just to clarify further;

- Open world or zonebased (prefer open world)
- character creation and customisation (armor, skin color, race, body height etc.)
- Housing system (buying a house/base or building one and then furnish it your own style)
- questing
- dungeons
- boss battles
- different types of weapons WITH weapon attachments
- Skills and gadgets to create specialized "builds" (like dropping a shield or having an attack
drone or other "tools"to help in combat or support)
- rpg elements like attributes (strenght, agility, etc.) that you can improve
- mmorpg type feel of gameplay like the tradinional fantasy style
- weapon shops, armor shops, gadget shops
- gear crafting (materials drop from enemies)
- weapon/armor dye
- mounts (or in this case vehicles)
- bounty hunting system or other side activities that you can do
these are the ones that are at the top of my head.

Like I said earlier.
the things you always see in those medieval/fantasy MMORPGs but then in a guns tyle game. For anyone that watched the Gun Gale anime, I'm looking for something like that but more in line with our western type MMORPGs.

All the games I already mentioned have SOME elements of what I'm looking for but never have I found a game (I can't follow/play/test them all) that has all those elements combined like the normal traditional MMORPGs that are always fantasy themed.

I think this would be so amazing to play, I find it very hard to believe not a single game studio would have made something like this?

Open world + true RPG elements + Guns + Customisation + Gadgets + Questing = Goldmine!

[Devonax]

Originally posted by Random Hajile:

Phantasy Star Online 2 checks all your boxes, but you'll be waiting a while for the official English release.

A fan made translation patch exists if you want to create a Japanese account and you don't mind jumping through some hoops.

I have indeed looked at that game not a long while ago. Problem with that game is that there are monsters/enemies in there that belong in a fantasy style game. there is also an elven race (also belongs in a fantasy game) and there are very very few guns in this game. most of them are melee or bows. Its more like a normal fantasy game but with a sci-fi theme (and sci-fi swords).

I does check alot of boxes but certainly not all (or enough) of them..
I really appreciate your input aswell, Im really gratefull.. maybe with the community's help I will be able to find the game im looking for..

or else maybe have a studio take this up as their next project haha..
Im hoping (burning candles, praying to the game gods etc.) that the upcomming Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be THAT game, but I already noticed that it also does not thick all the boxes.

EDIT: Firefall and Defiance 2050 are also games that I have tried and played. They both came VERY close but both felt off in a way.. they are abandoned almost and firefall is even closed. and they lacked things like housing, gun customisation and other true RPG elements to flesh out your character, make a specific "build" or playstyle.

[Pixleator]

Warframe.

[knolle]

It's a bit older but how about Anarchy Online?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/396280/Anarchy_Online/

[RogeHen]

Sounds like you're waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 like the rest of us!

Until then Sleeping Dogs has some of those elements. A lot of side quests, missions, clothes/equipables that boost various stats etc. in an open world take on modern Hong Kong as an undercover cop.
There are safe houses, but I think the customization is pretty limited. Also the combat is mostly focused on brawling, but there are guns.

[M4tt]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/
Pretty much this game. Although it takes quite some time to get into it.

[Revalopod]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/215280/Secret_World_Legends/
Seems like a typical MMORPG but in modern time, but I haven't played it so IDK

[Devonax]

thank you all for your replies.

Secret world Legends is a game I have indeed tried already and is not really what I'm looking for because of how the gameplay feels. There is also no costumization of weapons, no gadgets, no housing etc.

Warframe is also a game I have tried. There is a lot dof things I like about it but the gameplay, movement feels weird. It's very fast paced and lots of things need to be done with other players. I would want to be able to play the game I'm looking for completely solo (except for maybe some insane raids or dungeons). It's also a hard game to sink your teeth into and that's also a reason for me that I gave it up. It didn't feel good to play. There is also no attributes, skills, gadgets and other stuff that you can equip/buy to make personalized builds.

The thing I'm just longing for is a game where we can choose how to play and then go the way we want to go. The thing that always pulled me in when playing those fantasty mmorpg was the sheer amount of content. different races, different armors, different playstyles, different types of magic and swords and other weapons, housing, dungeons, raids, questing, banking, bounty hunts etc. That is something that would also be awesome in a sci-fi gun type of game.

Imagine you can create your character from scratch. body height, weight, arms lenght, leg length, head size, eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, you name it.. then you are in the game and start out in a city, there your story starts and things get explained to you in a briefly manner.

there are choices to make now. where do you go? what are you going to do? do you start doing dungeons to earn some sweet loot and cash? to you go for bounty hunts and get more rewards but also a higher challenge?

Which weapon will you bring along? Are you a sniper or are you going for a agile SMG build or a assault rifle build. Maybe you want to have a grenade launcher as your secondary. You walk the open world solo with your own chosen weapons. maybe have a healing drone and a static turret strapped to your back as your support gadgets. You have been playing for a long while now with a sniper rifle so that specific weapon skill (each weapon has his own tree) has been leveling nicely and you slowly become better with the sniper rifle compared to the other weapons. you start to specialize yourself in a more ranged high damage build.

You feel free, you can do anything you want to do in any order you want to. If you favor bounty hunting then you can be a dedicated bounty hunter and get yourself a license to hunt bigger targets. Some might love treasure hunting or dungeon clearing and that is fun and lucrative too.

oh man... open world, free to explore and play the way you want to.. customize your avatar the way you want with choices out dozens of gadgets and hundreds of weapons. Learning special jobs like weapon crafting or bullet making that can be used to make money. Participating with 1 vs 1 and 2 vs 2 tournaments (both against npcs or actual players).

Anyway.. I can go on and on about this hahaha.. It's just that I have been wanting to play a game like this for so long and sure there are games that sometimes thick some of these boxes but never have I found a game that is completely this, which is weird because we get repetitive games over and over.. zombie game after zombie game, card game over card game, battle royal after battle royal.

and all the mmorpgs that come out are all magic, medieval, fantasy or a mix of this.. we need a better created gun gale online game, something that mixes destiny with wildlands with borderlands and the division.

I want to thank everyone for replying. I don't think the game I'm looking for exists yet. I'll wait until I can finally play this.. thank you all for the suggestions. I was hoping I might have missed something and the game went under my radar.

[El-Bluntorino]

WoW / Black desert Online as a first person shooter in a modern / futuristic setting? Nope doesnt exist. thats what i was hoping destiny would become in like 2013 but it was disappointing. Sorry but the game you are looking for does not exist.

[M4tt]

Warframe is also a game I have tried. There is a lot dof things I like about it but the gameplay, movement feels weird. It's very fast paced and lots of things need to be done with other players. I would want to be able to play the game I'm looking for completely solo (except for maybe some insane raids or dungeons). It's also a hard game to sink your teeth into and that's also a reason for me that I gave it up. It didn't feel good to play.

Its difficult to get into it because there is so much to do. However, you actually can play the game completely solo. There are people who have done even the endgame boss raids alone. The only thing you could not do alone was raids (these contained puzzles that require multiple players), which have been removed.

There is also no attributes, skills, gadgets and other stuff that you can equip/buy to make personalized builds.

Actually there are alot of these options. Its actually a core part of the game which you cannot get around. While playing the game you will collect mods. Mods can be equipped on your warframe to provide bonuses to their stats. This includes such things as health, armor, shields, energy max, ability strength, duration, range or cost. Then there are also augments that change how your abilities work.
Overall there is a lot of customization options.

[Devonax]

Originally posted by Elne:

Defiance
https://store.steampowered.com/app/224600/Defiance/
It's free, too
Edit: Not sure if it has housing, though

thanks but I already mentioned this.. it's ok if you didnt read the comments but I mentioned Defiance 2050 already. I have been a player of the older version since the show was still life and the game in beta. It is one of the games that game pretty close though..

[Devonax]

@M4tt

Are you talking about the "cards" in the modding screen? Although I get what you are saying, I was more talking about:

Attributes: having health, dexterity, agility, Awareness stats and stuff like this that each have an impact to your character. Like maybe having higher agility will improve dodge chance.

Skills: Having a multitude of options of skills that you unlock with skillpoints or character points (CP) which gives you the option to flesh out your build even more. maybe a sniper skill that will let you tag 3 enemies in 5 seconds and will then fire a split bullet that will hit all 3 characters at once <- just an example here of a skill. but it is YOUR choice of what skills to pick, so nothing that is tied to a class or character or hero etc.

Gadgets: having tools, machines and/or other gadget-type things that you can buy or build. something you choose to have with you, something you equip in your gadget slot or something.
think about a healing drone, assault drone, shield bubble, shield wall, sticky wall camera, spiderbombs etc. things that you can bring with your that really rounds out your build or playstyle.

although warframe has indeed alot going for it.. the feel or fun im searching for (that i can find in the game im looking for) is not the same as you get from warframe. It IS a good game but there are things that are just not for me. it's fast paced with all the twirling around (its mentioned alot that its a "space ninja"game and I agree with that) and its very constricting in my opinion.. you are locked to a certain number of warframes (classes) and you either have to buy the others or build them which can take ages.. and you are right there is alot to do and that is overwhelming too.

thing is, I like freedom in games.. Classes constrict gameplay, what if I wanna do DoT damage with a healer class? most times you can't because each class has his/her own skills, perks, attacks and weapons.. what if I want to look like Ivara but want to have powers like nova? Again not possible.. this constriction is why I quickly burn out on games like that.

I really want to create my own character with my own look. My own set of weapons that you can train individually from the others. create your own "class"without actually having classes. and then go where I want to go.. do missions that I want to do.. in my own time in the order I want to do them, no restrictions and no penalties..

I think that it's the core what im looking for in a game, the freedom of choice.. to make anything in the bounderies of that game's theme/genre and be free to do what you want.

for the people interested; If you look at skyrim for example.. you pick your race and can make it look how you want to (in the bounderies of that race) and then you start your journey. no class, no locked armors or weapons.. you can be anything you want. sorcerer in heavy armor with a dagger? go for it! maybe a warrior in leather armor and 2 swords? go for it... You want to start in riften? or maybe start at the college of winterhold? you pick, just start walking.

that is a sliver of the freedom im looking for, basically.. I know it can be done. We have the game engines and the skilled developers for it. So it strikes me so weird that no one has ever made something like this...


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Anyway.. thank you all for responding.. I really appreciate it!!!

[M4tt]

Attributes: having health, dexterity, agility, Awareness stats and stuff like this that each have an impact to your character. Like maybe having higher agility will improve dodge chance.

I think you really didnt get far into the game. You do not need something such as a dodge chance because your movement is how you dodge shots. What you are asking for are the type of stats you would see in a turnbased rpg, not in a looter shooter.

Skills: Having a multitude of options of skills that you unlock with skillpoints or character points (CP) which gives you the option to flesh out your build even more. maybe a sniper skill that will let you tag 3 enemies in 5 seconds and will then fire a split bullet that will hit all 3 characters at once <- just an example here of a skill. but it is YOUR choice of what skills to pick, so nothing that is tied to a class or character or hero etc.

There are over 40 different warframes and 300+ weapons. There is no need for such skills simply because theres either A) a weapon that does it or B) a warframe ability that does it.

Gadgets: having tools, machines and/or other gadget-type things that you can buy or build. something you choose to have with you, something you equip in your gadget slot or something.
think about a healing drone, assault drone, shield bubble, shield wall, sticky wall camera, spiderbombs etc. things that you can bring with your that really rounds out your build or playstyle.

Already in the game. They're called companions and come in different shapes and different abilities.

hing is, I like freedom in games.. Classes constrict gameplay, what if I wanna do DoT damage with a healer class? most times you can't because each class has his/her own skills, perks, attacks and weapons.. what if I want to look like Ivara but want to have powers like nova? Again not possible.. this constriction is why I quickly burn out on games like that.

Again: you can freely mix weapons and warframes. Literally every weapon can deal dot by adding elemental mods that apply dots on status effect.