I hope it's playable solo

[Vesta]

Sadly none of my friends plays Elden rings and they don't even want to try. Hopefully it's still a nice experience solo since Elden rings became one of my favorite games. Can't wait till it's release

[Modus]

It will be! They have confirmed that it's 1 or 3 player experience, but not 2.

[Nihrahk]

You can go solo, but it's likely gonna be a lot more difficult since it's balanced for co-op. But, we're all here for the struggle, aren't we?

[Vesta]

Originally posted by Modus:

It will be! They have confirmed that it's 1 or 3 player experience, but not 2.

Oh sweet that’s good to know

[Vesta]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

You can go solo, but it's likely gonna be a lot more difficult since it's balanced for co-op. But, we're all here for the struggle, aren't we?

Yeah I can’t wait to crash out again

[HFM]

That's good to see. I grey marketed Demon's Souls when it wasn't out in the US and loved it. Finished Dark Souls.. but I got burned out on the formula and bounced off DS2, DS3 and ER pretty hard. I just finally gave ER a new chance last few weeks and my playtime jumped from 10hrs to 100hrs and finally loving a souls-like again. Will want to solo this later this year but I'm probably going to try to replay all the DS games first if I can manage to not get burned out again.

[Welbert Asker]

so it's like Space Marines 2 without bots

[Asset]

Originally posted by SummxnedSkull:

Sadly none of my friends plays Elden rings and they don't even want to try. Hopefully it's still a nice experience solo since Elden rings became one of my favorite games. Can't wait till it's release

That's why there will be matchmaking. It's PvE and you'll likely pretty much be alone up until the boss anyways.

[Mecharion]

Originally posted by SummxnedSkull:

Sadly none of my friends plays Elden rings and they don't even want to try. Hopefully it's still a nice experience solo since Elden rings became one of my favorite games. Can't wait till it's release

Playable solo and fun to play as solo are two different things.

Since this game is designed to be a coop based game your solo experience might be not as good as possible.

This is NOT a classic single player souls like. Dont expect that - you might be disappointed.

[Hollow-Enigma]

Originally posted by Mecharion:

Originally posted by SummxnedSkull:

Sadly none of my friends plays Elden rings and they don't even want to try. Hopefully it's still a nice experience solo since Elden rings became one of my favorite games. Can't wait till it's release

Playable solo and fun to play as solo are two different things.

Since this game is designed to be a coop based game your solo experience might be not as good as possible.

This is NOT a classic single player souls like. Dont expect that - you might be disappointed.

It'd be reasonable to expect that they have considered how the experience for a solo player would be as well.

[Mecharion]

Originally posted by Hollow-Enigma:

Originally posted by Mecharion:

Playable solo and fun to play as solo are two different things.

Since this game is designed to be a coop based game your solo experience might be not as good as possible.

This is NOT a classic single player souls like. Dont expect that - you might be disappointed.

It'd be reasonable to expect that they have considered how the experience for a solo player would be as well.

Source

[Hollow-Enigma]

Originally posted by Mecharion:

Originally posted by Hollow-Enigma:

It'd be reasonable to expect that they have considered how the experience for a solo player would be as well.

Source

I am not suggesting this was something officially stated it’s simply a logical deduction of basic game design principles. When developing a game with both co-op and solo options, ensuring the experience is just as enjoyable for solo players is a natural consideration to have been made.

It'd be a Illogical for them to just slap on a solo mode without giving it any thought no? The idea that they wouldn’t consider how the game plays solo just doesn’t hold up.

[Mecharion]

Of course, of course they do. Like many other devs have shown in the past, right?

The truth is that they want to prevent a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and squeeze a solo mode in to stop the fans from raging.

This game is build arround 3 player coop - solo will be playable but for sure suffer because the focus lies elsewhere.

Belive me or not. Time will tell.

[Hollow-Enigma]

Originally posted by Mecharion:

Of course, of course they do. Like many other devs have shown in the past, right?

The truth is that they want to prevent a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and squeeze a solo mode in to stop the fans from raging.

This game is build arround 3 player coop - solo will be playable but for sure suffer because the focus lies elsewhere.

Belive me or not. Time will tell.

Focusing on whether they could have overlooked it misses the bigger picture. The question isn’t whether they could have forgotten, it’s whether they would have. The fact that both solo and co-op are core to the game’s design means it’s unreasonable to think they wouldn’t have accounted for solo play in their development process. The balance between these modes isn't an afterthought it’s central to the experience, and developers are fully capable of focusing on both without one diminishing the other. Your point assumes that focusing on one automatically means neglecting the other, which isn’t necessarily the case.

[Mecharion]

The core is coop. What makes you belive solo is core? Only because its "playable" solo? Many multiplayer games can be played solo - like helldivers 2 for example - but the solo part is most of the time not nearly as fun or optimised then the core part - which is the coop part.

So if there is no source which tells that they focus on solo equaly to the coop part, i dont belive it. And even if there is a source i will only belive it if i see it (gameplay).

For example there will be a boss who splitts up in three parts - one for each player (its confirmed). How to fix that for solos? Bots?

Even if there is a fix its only a fix and not how it normaly should work. Its a work-arround.

You see my point?

Maybe solo will be as fun as coop - but i dont see that right now.

[Hollow-Enigma]

I get where you're coming from, but Souls games have always been designed with both solo and co-op in mind. They've been tough, to the point where co-op features were designed to help balance the difficulty, like with the summon mechanic or bosses that outnumbered the player, like the Shadows of Yharnam in Bloodborne. The difference here is that instead of having limited co-op, it seems like they’re opening it up more universally, but the core design philosophy remains the same.

So, the concern about solo play not being as fun or optimized is understandable but also overlooks how these games have always juggled both experiences with different mechanics, also including enemy AI.

Ultimately, we’ll have to wait and see. The game will speak for itself, and only then will we know how well they've managed to balance both modes.