Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign Can Only be Played Solo or as a Trio - Insider Gaming
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 days agoFrom the original interview:
IGN: Sure. [Laughs] Back to the game, one thing that wasn’t clear to me yesterday. Do you have to play it online in a group of three, or can you also play it solo or in a duo?
Junya Ishizaki: The game is designed to be played as a three-person team, but you can play it as a solo player.
IGN: Oh, great. Or in a pair?
Junya Ishizaki: No, it’s either one-player or three-player.
So it’s either single player or three humans.
I don’t know what it is with Japanese devs and arbitrary multiplayer decisions. The way Capcom handles Monster Hunter’s multiplayer continues to baffle me.
From a PC gaming perspective, it feels like Western developers decided to just give players multiple options to play together all the way back in the 1990’s. This sort of thing always feels badly regressive to me.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s so weird. Why not give an option for two? What if a lot of players only know one other player? What’s the reasoning for “one, or three players”?
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just their artistic vision and game design philosophy, which I can both respect and go WTF at the same time. Just like their steadfast refusal to provide the option to turn off invasions.
caut_R@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Turning off invasions while still playing coop you mean? Cause offline mode turns off invasions (duh). I guess invasions are part of the thrill in their mind and after a random coop sunbro and I were invaded by a phantom while super low health and outta potions way into a dungeon in Dark Souls and managed to survive by hiding away together with no voicecomms, it‘s hard for me to disagree with them lol
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Because From. That’s the kings of nonsensical stuff like that.