Man i find online MMORPG's over rated, i mean come on, the basic structure are all the same! there is rarely any story line involved...I miss the good old days of offline RPGs when people played the game for the story, i mean who played FF7 or chrono trigger just to level up? i have been looking for a new single player RPG but i cant seem to find any good ones, arrrggghhhh, this is so frustrating....can anyone here suggest one?

Morrowind or Oblivion ^_^ Great open ended RPGs

Tales of Symphonia for GC is good, 80+ hours when u unlock everything, plus it has great replay value (can have up to 4 persons playing). Every battle encounter you get a grade which can be used to unlock added features when you beat the game. Best thing i loved about the game was the battle system, very fast and combo heavy some matches can take a few seconds. Excellent game check it out

also FFX is good, Golden Sun 1 & 2 for GBA, i also liked all the Fire Emblem but thoes are more tactics games than RPG

In online games, YOU are the story,
for now I'm palying Odin Sphere and the Iris series...

Try Seiken Densetsu 3 or Secret of Mana, old but very good, Final fantasy tactics advance on GBA, tales of symphonia on GC, Baldur's Gate on PC is excellent but hard, Vagrant Story, the grandia serie and the star ocean serie.

...or maybe not.

Either versions of the Lunar games TSS/SSSC or EB/EBC. (Sega CD/PS1.)
Grandia 1 and 2 (PS1 and 2 respectively.)
Final Fantasy 4, 6 or 9 (PS1.)
Phantasy Star 2, 3 and 4 (Sega Genesis/Megadrive or the Genesis/Megadrive collection on PS2.)
Shining Force 1 and 2 (Sega Genesis/Megadrive.)
Tales of Symphonia (Gamecube.)
Castlevania: Symphony of the night (PS1 or Xbox360 live.)

And if you don't mind going for emulation, I also recommend Secret of Mana and Secret of Mana 2 (aka Seiken Densetsu 3.)