Need some advice

Hey All,

I'm wondering whether there are any high quality single-player games with a level of complexity to combat and character development that is similar to what I can get from MMOs. I've never really played many single-player games, so I'm not really sure of what's out there - though I've played a lot of MMOs. I've been working my way through a bunch of MMOs recently, trying them out to see if I really want to play them, but not really finding what I'm looking for.

So trying to branch out in another direction, what I guess I'd like is a game that has a caster class (or the equivalent in another setting), with combat that has you using many different abilities/skills/effects - which may be split across several shortcut bars. I'd like the skill of the player to be important to success. Imagine playing an MMO as a solo player - but have that be a single player game.

I've seen and tried a few single-player RPGs in the past and usually found the combat to be very simplistic, often with just a few abilities available available at any one time. I've also found a couple of single-player games that had better combat - but then really lacked in character development, variability of content and story-line.

So... can anyone suggest a few single-player games that I might want to take a look at, with all that in mind?

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