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

[LSunday]

Amusingly, the only sentence of your post that came off as weird was the one hoping it wasn't weird.

And, like I've said a few times, it's not necessarily about getting the fear in the exact same way; just getting the fear. I mean, how many reaction videos are there of two people playing together and both being scared shitless when something happens? Sure, there's also a bit of laughing at each other, but even then they're still unnerved and, with the idea of cutting off the microphone as they separate, most of the time when they'd be making fun of each other and laughing at each other is cut off by the microphone anyway. Plus the ability to punish players for making too much noise- if monsters could 'hear' the noise being made in the microphone as well, so hysterical laughing and joking at each other would get them killed.

And then there's the immersion it would add. If you force a player to be quiet in the real world when a monster's nearby, it would certainly help with the fear of monsters (if making LPs an adventure of their own) and worrying.

And, given Frictional's seeming ability of using psychology against the player(s) (That note on torture being a near-perfect descriptor of the game's pacing), they could even manage to make players act 'properly' to different things.