I would say the perfect game for you is Saints Row 3

Single-player and multiplayer -You can play story in SP or in MP (a friend can join anytime), and it has some other great modes (Wh0red Mode)

Open world (absolute must, I can't stand linearity)- It's a GTA styled game, a big city to explore and missions to complete.

Preferably RPG, though I'm not strongly genre-biased (save for strategy games, I don't really care for those) - Great :D

Multiplayer component, in which you can take your character from your single-player and play with others, not create a new one for multiplayer - Conditions met

Some degree of character customization - Outrageous customization

Would prefer that it be available on Steam - It's a Steam game

SovietsUnited

I agree, and I do already have Saints Row 3, the only thing that stops me from playing it is that my PC can only run it at about 20 FPS on DX9 (even less on DX11), which limits my enjoyment a bit. Also, I would prefer if it had multiplayer for more han 2 players at one time.

Any game with what you have described is going to have that man... They can't have SP/MP crossover without that kind of protection... Otherwise what keeps you from going offline, cheating, coming online and destroying people who played fairly...

And I don't mean "cheat" outright in a literal sense, like spawning items and the likes, but subtle cheating like editing values of items or skills that make rare things drop and the likes... They can't detect and stop that if you are offline or notice it happened after the fact... And that would ruin the entire game given that it has a player run economy of gear and gold selling for real money (or in game)...

C2N2

You do realize people do that all the time in Borderlands, right? WillowTree works just fine in online play, and you can play Borderlands offline. You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Borderlands may well be the only game that fits all of my points. What other game has everything Borderlands has, but isn't Borderlands? lol

There's something else I forgot to mention - no bullcrap DRM (I.E., no D3). Not that D3 doesn't look good, I'd just prefer I was capable of playing it in places I don't have access to the Internet. Or did they take that out?

I've been looking for a game to play, and I want to find a game that meets most, if not all, of the following criteria:

Single-player and multiplayer

Open world (absolute must, I can't stand linearity)

Preferably RPG, though I'm not strongly genre-biased (save for strategy games, I don't really care for those)

Multiplayer component, in which you can take your character from your single-player and play with others, not create a new one for multiplayer

Some degree of character customization

Would prefer that it be available on Steam, though if it's good enough I'll live without achievements :P

I already have Borderlands, but for some reason I can't really get in to it that well. Any other games that sound like this?

Ah ok I see. I might get L4D2 then :D

And actually Borderlands does. It's an open world shooter with co-op and versus, with Survival mode if you have the Mad Moxxi pack. I jut dont want to pay $30 for something I already have lol

Does L4D2 have versus? I thought it only had co-op

Thanks, i'll check those out :D

I'm looking for a good game to play on the new laptop i'm getting in a few days, but I can't find one that looks good. I'm looking for something that has all (or at least most) of the following properties:

Shooter

Survival mode (Waves of enemies, like Horde Mode)

Co-op AND Versus modes

Preferably open-world

Preferably FPS

Available on Steam

Before you say Borderlands, I already own it on PS3 and would prefer not to rebuy it for PC.

Is there any game that roughly fits that decription?