There's a rather ambitious independent CRPG in the words from Prairie Games, showing a few screenshots of Minions of Mirth, a massively single player CRPG. Here's the list of features ripped from there:

• Massively Single Player gameplay!!!
• 15 character careers from 3 character archetypes. Multiclass characters with primary, secondary, and tertiary class
• 8 playable character races
• 16 incredible zones to explore
• A persistent world where your actions have lasting effects
• Over 10,000 frames of rendered game graphics!!!
• Alignment system for playing either a good or evil character ...
• Epic battles rage across the land... you can fight for either side and the outcome of the battle can affect quests, etc
• Immersive first person gameplay!
• Slick game GUI that never gets in your way
• Quest system supporting multiple quest and reward items as well as triggered events
• Bounty system dynamically generates bounties for you to hunt ... bounty rewards can be money and items!
• Vendors across the land selling many assorted goodies
• Track monsters from great distances
• Melee and ranged combat
• Vast outdoors (oceans, mountains, jungle, forests), sprawling dungeons, and zones that mix the two!
• Various modes of transport including boats and airships.
• Full blown weather system with climates, seasons, cloud cover and varying precipitation!
• Day and night cycles, with monster spawns and world events tied to time of day. Beautiful star gazing at night!
• Many types of flora and fauna
• Players have many wearable inventory slots, quick slots, carry slots, and a vault to store game items
• Phat Lewt! Robust game items with stats, spell effects, procs, special flags like artifact/indestructible,
  usage requirements/recommendations, and a nifty bonus/penalty system...
• Game items may also have quality associated with them from Crappy, Shoddy, Normal, Superior, Exceptional.
• Hundreds of spells... including combat, pet/monster/item summoning, etc .. spell effects include levitation, blindness, paralysis, charming, etc
• Level cap of 100 with over 80 character skills!
• Full engine + game source code available for modding
• Compatible with Windows + MacOSX
• Cooperative (and PVP) multiplayer coming in 2005

There's also an 8 minute video in Quicktime format that's 60MB. Of course, they offer a smaller version of the same video for the bandwidth challenged.

Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?

Spotted at: DIY Games