Multiplayer/Co-Op & Frictional Games? NO!!!

[Kman]

Well then that's their fault. There will always be people that will "experience it the wrong way", whether it's through multiplayer or not. Just think about the Dark Descent and how many people have said it's not a scary game, yet they didn't even attempt to immerse themselves/play it as it was intended to be played. If they use Skype or some other way to talk to each other, then that's their loss, but I don't think they should completely disregard the idea because there are going to be players that won't play it as it was intended to be played.

I actually had the same idea a while back, but I think the main problem would be if you separated the players there's a good chance that one of the players will progress through a certain area much slower than the other, making the other one have to wait for them to catch up (that is assuming certain levels require two players to be completed, and if there weren't any like that then I think multiplayer would be pointless). The only way I could think of to get around that without breaking the immersion (like teleporting one of the players forward after a certain amount of time) is to never separate the players, and then the whole idea of proximal voice chat would be pointless because you'd always be near each other. It's an interesting idea, but I think it would need a lot of fleshing out before it could work.