Any other games you could recommend that have a lot of dialogue/language? I can check if they’re dubbed/subbed.

Disco Elysium but only subtitles are in Spanish. Voice acting seems to only be available in English.

I don't want to scare you too much: it's not as difficult or punishing as Dark Souls. Just that it has that similar style where you spend ~75% of your time or more in combat waiting to attack.

As for other games, I see someone else responded with Disco Elysium, which is fantastic. I'd also recommend the Yakuza series. Unfortunately most of the games only have Japanese voice acting. They are also lighter on the RPG elements than those other games you mentioned. But they're overall a lot of fun. Tons of chill vibes, great characters, good music. The combat is just solid brawling: nothing I would say is particularly unique or interesting, but it's not bad and fits the games well. The writing is mostly great as long as you can excuse the occasional bits that I refer to as "anime bullshit": the characters occasionally seem to be supernaturally powerful in order to advance the plot in what is mostly a grounded and realistic setting. I'd say it's kind of like Metal Gear Solid in that respect. The Witcher is based on pulp fiction noir novels, just in a fantasy setting. Yakuza has similar roots from Yakuza crime drama and films.

The combat is fun and forgiving enough to allow you to learn the ropes. The fights are pretty epic and when you get the monster right where you want it it feels Soo rewarding. Definitely better in multiplayer but solo is fun too. Also the exploration aspect is amazing in world. They really went all out with the level design. It's a gorgeous game and really makes it feel like you are exploring a new world. They design a lot of the monsters to be semi-docile in that unless you are up in their shit for a while in their territory, or actually attack them, they won't immediately attack you. You can walk around and hide and basically watch the giant dinosaurs go about their day. They walk around, eat, drink, poop, leave footprints and track behind that you collect and use to track the monster. It's its own leveling system where the higher you level up tracking a monster the more you learn about it and the easier it is to track later on. The cameral angles make the monster FEEL epic. The weapon selection is vast and you can do some amazing stuff. Also you get a little cat helper friend that makes constant cat puns and you can outfit them in gear and have different support items. They can then befriend local cats and other wildlife to fight with you so solo mode doesn't have to feel super lonely.

There is also MH Rise which is a faster paced version imo and also a bit easier... Imo. It's much more fluid with movement and it's probably the games biggest leg up over world. It also has better solo play and you can build teams of sorts with NPCs in the expansion. I think you can now do that in the base game too but not entirely sure I never played through the main game a second go.

Also Multiplayer in these games has two different forms.

So first is the group sessions in World, MP sessions can have up to 16 members, in Rise it's 4. You post quests the same as in Solo but the people in your suspension can also see and join if you make the quest to allow for other to join. A hunt can only have 4 players and everyone can post their own quests and anyone can join any open quest. It's more fun in world because you can feel like part of a big guild just doing you thing. You can also open the quest up so that others from the server as a whole can join in once you depart which is where the second form of MP comes in.

So let's say you don't want a session but would like to play with others for a hunt or two. You can join in process quests that are open to that or open you quest to do the same. In World this is done with a "SOS flare" which you fire at any point during the quest. You fire the flare. The game is opened to anyone on the server looking for quests. They can see your party and join you for that single quest then you go back to town afterwards and never see them again (you can friend ppl too). You also have control over who joins. You can set it to auto allow ppl to join or make it so that you have to accept them first.

In Rise the only big difference is you have to decide before you leave on the quest if you want it to be open to randoms.

I'm both modes you are free to kick other played from your group or leave groups without penalty. I rarely have left groups. About as rarely as I have had to kick.

Rise also has fewer western players imo and thus fewer elitist types. Not that world was all that bad but if I had to pick which had fewer it's Rise.

As far as the community is concerned the end players are two version of one thing. Fashion hunters. You either want to look cool as heck fighting giant dinosaurs or you want to look as silly as possible. I go for the latter. If I can't make giant monsters run in terror of my oiled up, nearly naked, buff rubber chicken head wearing hunter, then what even is the point?

I like a lot of similar games as you. I enjoyed both Horizon games, mostly for the main story. I did very little side quests. The Norse arc of God of War also had a pretty good story. Neither of these are RPGs in the traditional sense, but they are similar.

Many people say FF14 is one of the best, but may take upto a few hundred hours to get good. I'm not there yet.

The Legends of Heroes series is supposed to be good, but I haven't gotten into them yet. Same with Mass Effect.

I also just realized you asked about World, but my comments apply to Rise. My mistake, sorry.

I love Sekiro. It's one of my favourite games of all time.

It's story IMO is amazing. But the thing is the story is not delivered to you through exposition. Sekiro has cutscenes and the cutscenes are actually more descriptive than Dark Souls games. But still the cutscenes only tell you a part of the plot. The story is instead pieced together by reading item descriptions, paying attention to the surrounding, etc. so it is a very unconventional way of storytelling in video games. This is what almost all From Software games do. You can always watch videos like THIS to understand the story in depth which do a very good job.

The combat is still the primary focus of the game. If you don't enjoy the combat I doubt you will want to enjoy the story.