Elden Ring Nightreign Can Only be Played Solo or as a Trio - Insider Gaming

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• Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Yay a fromsoft coop game! I sure hope there aren’t any arbitrary rules for online play like they usually do!”

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• eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s still unclear to me if you are always a trio.

  Is “solo” you + 2 bots?

  Can you play as 2 friends + 1 bot or 1 random player?

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From 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.

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    • 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”?

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    • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Quack@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember reading that bosses just scale to the amount of players so my guess is solo is actually solo. This would make the solo or trio only decision even stranger…

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember when Nintendo took the same approach with The Legend Zelda Tri Force Heroes game… I don’t think it worked out that great…

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• wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Game feels like a cash grab.

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nominated for GOTY next time for sure.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Summons were Dark Souls’ easy mode. In Elden Ring summons activate normal mode. Not an improvement.

  Running a single-player melee build shouldn’t be a challenge mode.

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