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

[SHODANFreeman]

Horror games will never be suitable for multiplayer because it takes away the whole atmosphere of the game. END OF DISCUSSION.

You can't just end a discussion just because you believe it's impossible. Furthermore, developers can't afford to write things off as impossible in a form of media that thrives on innovation and new ideas.

If you read my post, and some of the other posts in this thread, there are many great ideas to create the same atmosphere even with two players. Separating the players frequently as well as always on voice chat that can alert the monsters if you are speaking too loudly would be incredible. Whispering an idea to solve a puzzle to your friend while a grunt is patrolling nearby would be nerve-wracking.

I'm sure there are hundreds of other great ideas that could make it extremely enjoyable as well as terrifying to play even with another person, but the true potential will never be discovered if everyone closes themselves off from the idea.

Looking this up, the MafiaIIMultiplayer is not yet out after 9 months, will use a professional networking middleware somehow integrated into the code, and is being developed by a team of people out of Holland, and as an aside making in-game models is also not trivial.

It takes a hell of a lot more time and resources to make a competitive (and balanced) multiplayer game with a dozen or more players simultaneously than it does for a simple 2 person locally hosted game.