Lies of P director more “open” to co-op games after Elden Ring Nightreign test

Lies of P is unashamed of its obsession with FromSoftware video games – the soulslike isn’t solely closely impressed by them, but it surely had the aim of turning into an all-time nice within the style. To an extent, I’d say it achieved that aim – whereas possibly not as distinctive as Elden Ring or Bloodborne, it delivers all of the darkish, difficult RPG motion you’d need, whereas wrapping it up in a novel setting with a definite fashion. With its Overture DLC coming this 12 months, Lies of P’s director has been revealing a couple of extra particulars about it, in addition to admitting how his current admiration for Elden Ring Nightreign has made him “open to contemplating” making co-op video games – and I’m wondering if that could be an omen for Lies of P’s in-development sequel.

As talked about, Lies of P has a DLC on the best way this 12 months which appears very attention-grabbing certainly. However it’s not going so as to add a lot in the best way of gameplay innovation, as an alternative being a story prequel to the bottom recreation with a few new weapon varieties thrown in. Nevertheless, I’ve obtained a hunch that its sequel could look to shake issues up a bit, and these new feedback from the underrated soulslike’s director have me hoping for some co-op motion.

Chatting with journalists at GDC, Choi Ji-won has been gassing up the current public playtest of Elden Ring Nightreign – one thing he totally loved.

“I’ve tried [Nightreign] and it was very refreshing and new,” he tells Eurogamer. “In order that clearly gave me the impression that they’re good builders, they all the time push their boundaries, their creativeness and imaginative and prescient, and it reveals. In flip, that for some cause motivated me to ship the Overture expertise pretty much as good because it may very well be.”

He goes on to say that whereas Overture was all the time destined to be a single-player enlargement that slots into the story of Lies of P’s base recreation, he’s “open” to supporting co-op in “future endeavors.”

Related sentiment arises in Choi’s dialogue with TheGamer, stating: “We needed to actually give attention to delivering a premium single-player recreation expertise. So it actually didn’t come to us in a approach that incorporating one thing like co-op was one thing that we might do. It wasn’t a part of the scope. However shifting ahead, I feel we’re positively open to contemplating that as a result of we’ve extra time.”

Now that is purely speculative on my half, and completely nothing official has been stated about Lies of P 2 (or no matter title it’ll go by), however I’ve obtained a sneaking suspicion Choi could also be eyeing up co-op assist for the sequel. Whereas a lot of the prime soulslikes preserve issues single-player, there are multiplayer bangers like Remnant 2 on the market, and naturally Nightreign will doubtless elevate the profile and demand for extra co-op experiences later this 12 months.

Away from the co-op hypothesis, Choi has talked about that Lies of P’s Overture DLC might be “seamlessly” accessible from chapter 9 of the bottom recreation, and that he expects skilled gamers to get between 15-20 hours of play day out of it.

The Lies of P Overture DLC is about to reach in summer season 2025. Till then, you could possibly dip into another sensational RPGs, or try what else is on the horizon with our upcoming PC video games information.

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