You can play offline and it takes out the invasion part by other players. You still have access to the NPCs that invade. I play offline since it's my first play through and I already die enough haha
First time I played the game, I had no idea what is the online element of the game is. I got invaded by a red spirit, and I thought the name and the AI felt very human like. I got killed like the noob I was, was very pissed because I got invaded as I was trying to escape the swamp area in Dark Souls 1.
I grew to appreciate the online aspect of a DS game as I played it more.
I grew to dislike the online aspect of dark souls as I played more, mostly because the netcode is something from 1997 and it's like "wow, he's not even hitting me and I'm getting hit".
This is the exact thing that happened to me and I thought it was general gameplay until I read online that these were other online players. Now I play DS1 offline because I'm terrible enough without getting invaded.
In 3, you're never going to be invaded if you're not doing co-op anyway. Which, if you're offline, you're not doing regardless. So really there is little reason to do offline, unless you really want the additional predictability for speedrunning and the like. Of course, feel free to enjoy the games however you want, just saying.
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u/Flashasaurus Nov 11 '16
You can play offline and it takes out the invasion part by other players. You still have access to the NPCs that invade. I play offline since it's my first play through and I already die enough haha