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

[Thingamajig]

no, being alone creates more fear, if you and your friend needs to be in the same mood and be willing to role-play. it would be nice but it would brake the "I am" instead of "*protaganist* is"

and i can't see how they would make it a serious story with you and your friend yapping about and telling jokes, it just wouldn't fit.

no

I hear what you're saying. And sure some fear would be lost when you have a buddy or two to game with, but i still think it would be a fantastic multiplayer experience - especially if the puzzles are multi-player focused. Also, if you "friend" is yapping about unrelated stuff, they're obviously not as engaged as they should be in the game/task at hand, that would just be annoying - not all players are like that.

Perhaps a particular puzzle could involve seperating the players somehow, having to cooperate to complete puzzles in order to reunite? Also, to stop things from going stale, the devs could make monster encounters random (just not too common to make it tedious) - much like that in Left 4 Dead. Hell, perhaps even puzzles too to some degree.

I can also imagine players losing eachother when, mid way through a puzzle, a door suddenly bursts open and a monster appears on the scene, so everyone panics and scrambles to a hiding place xD

Just because it would be multiplayer based doesn't necessarily mean it has to be played out entirely with a teammate

The more i think about it, the more i believe Co-op would be brilliant. I also like Spooder's idea about the voice chat.