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

[SHODANFreeman]

Haha well i will try to explain myself, I just don't think multiplayer would work well in Amnesia as to me the whole point of the game is the immersion and isolation which would be ruined if there was another person within the game at the same time. Also, simply keeping the players apart would kinda defeat the whole point of a multiplayer game. I do like the idea of the voice chat alerting the monsters though, although i'm not sure how you could really implement that effectively.

But hey if Frictional Games want to prove me wrong then DO IT!!

I don't think immersion and isolation are sacrificed unless you're screwing around or something, but if the voice chat alerted monsters, I don't think there would be as much screwing around.

Also, picture this: The players come upon a room filled with monsters, and a critical puzzle element inside, like, a wheel that you have to continually turn for a few seconds to raise a gate, for example. If you try to just run in and turn it, the monsters dismember you. So one player has to run in, get the attention of the monsters, and lure them down a different corridor, at which point the second player can go in and open the gate. Once the second player opens the gate, they will have a false sense of security built up, so they turn around to head towards the gate and there's a hallucination of a monster coming right at them, which would almost certainly horrify them. The other player manages to run back somehow with the monsters in tow, and they both run through the gate and hit a switch to drop the gate, blocking the monsters from chasing them.

Given their mastery of the genre, I'm sure Frictional can come up with something even more terrifying and intense than the little scenario I just came up with. I just think it would be foolish to ignore the possibility present in the idea.

Even if it just turned out to be a slightly more puzzle-y slightly less action-y version of "Half-life: Decay", it would still be great fun as a co-op game, and would in no way diminish the quality of the existing single-player game, imo.