KoA was not intended to be an MMO, the MMO was being developed big 38 Studios, and was code-named Copernicus. However, 38 studios bought Bug Hugh and it was up to them to make KoA. It's world and setting was going to be the same, (to draw on the work Salvatore and McFarlane did) and KoA was intended to bring in monies to keep 38 Studios floating long enough to get the MMO done. So while there is ties between them - KoA was never designed to be an MMO, it was always intended to be a single player ARPG.

Have you played WoW? Gathering quests in WoW make sense, too. One of the first quests in Darnassus is that spider spider something antidote business. That's half the reason I love it: it's not players running around grinding abstract XP bags for XP, it's the whole fictional NPC economy running on loot drops from monster spawns. We need some beer brewed, go beat up malfunctioning robot scarecrows for hops!

It activates 'Fate Mode'. The reason it didn't work all the time is likely because your Fate Meter wasn't full. Check the Amalur Wiki for details. :)

Seeing as you are pretty much just starting out, may I make a suggestion to you KneeTheCap, If you do all the side quests, you will be incredibly over levelled and hit level cap very quickly and the combat will become nearly pointless, so what I did in subsequent playthroughs was just do the minimum required quests and concentrate on the faction quests, they are more interesting, the vanilla quests are fine too and I think get alot of undeserved complaints, but thats just down to personal taste I guess.

Hope your having fun either way :)

Been quite some time since I played, but if memory serves, you can continue after the final main quest.

I would guess you can, (havent played it since release) because of the two new DLC questlines (which are quite good).

Okay, thanks! Will be quite some time till I get to play it, though :D

I knew about the DLCs, but usually that's not reason enough, since you could as well have to play them before the final quest.

Heres a quote from another forum ( I made new characters for the dlc) :

"You can keep going after completing the main questline to do more stuff that hasn't been completed yet, in addition to new content that only opens up after finishing the main story".

Hope that helps :)

This article really shows John Walker has no idea what makes singleplayer RPGs enjoyable for most gamers.

I've played many SP RPG's - and I really liked Amular. I spent 72 hours or so w/ the base game, which I did like a lot.
But in some areas, the base game lacked some personality w/ the NPC's and the game is NOT difficult at all w/ what the game ships w/ for "difficulty" options.

One might want to look into HeartCore Mod, if you want a more difficulty Amalur.
(I might check it out, once I finally decide to look through Teeth of Naros DLC).

Though, Dead Kel DLC is AWESOME and has lots of personality, humor, and actually a great story - with LOTS of stuff to actually care about. An excellent 10 hour DLC, if you ask me - even despite it NOT being difficult.

Well you kept playing despite that stuff but I couldn't. Obviously a lot of others agreed... depends on the person I guess.

I feel the need to say it was not just story. The plot was fine, it was poor writing. Also the quest design was terrible. When I play a great RPG like New Vegas or BG2 I don't just care about the context and story, I also enjoy the quests because they offer options, unique settings or tricky twists. Reckoning offered none of that in the first 20 hours.

The reason people call it an offline MMO is because everything is busy-work to get more loot and XP, which is boring by yourself.

IMHO, Amalur is a lot like Skyrim - an offline MMO, more or less. Of course, Amalur's combat feels MUCH better than Skyrim. Skyrim's combat feels clunky, while Amalur doesn't. Actually, the actual feel of the combat - especially w/ a gamepad - Amalur's better than 90% of the ARPG's out there, except maybe Dark Souls: PTD.

If you don't like these type of games that are mostly about you leveling your character up; the loot + quest grinding; getting lots of new loot to upgrade & swap out (Amalur does this better than Skyrim) - then I really just don't know why you're playing these games.

Though, I think Amalur's writing is better than Skyrim's. Bethesda just...never were good at the writing, prose, & dialogue thing - that's a BioWare and Obsidian expertise thing, honestly. It's probably why BethSoft's games usually are NOWHERE as wordy w/ the prose & dialogue as some games like GoT: RPG & Amalur - b/c these guys (at BethSoft) know they will just give you enough info so you can go ahead yourself to move onto the next area + quest.

Cool, thanks! Didn't know there's even additional content after finishing the main story! :)

No, see, Skyrim is one of my favorite games of the last 5 years.

Skyrim's quests, dungeons and areas are much better designed. The plot isn't any better, but the writing is quicker and more to the point, and the lore is arguably far more interesting. Also the combat in Skyrim is ten times better for me because it's first person and based on movement and choice, rather than combos and special moves like a console action game, which I tend to hate.

Everything is subjective ;)