Dark Souls. In other words, yes.

Hunter:The Reckoning did it pretty well

Co-op horror will never be as effective as an isolated, singular experience.

Part of what makes singular horror experiences so effective is the fact that you're alone. You don't have anyone to find comfort with, there's only yourself. Humans are social creatures and crave contact. Singular horror experiences prey on this by denying us this contact.

This factor of isolation is often why victims of solitary confinement often come out so affected; many suffering from some syndrome or depression.

Yeah.

You have an AI partner ( not Shiva and who is somewhat smart, not AMY ) No health regeneration or packs, no guns or ammo unless happen to stumble upon one and only able to use what resources you find. If your AI partner gets attacked and is wounded, you'll have to help them either by carrying them or helping them walk.

If they become mortally wounded. Well you're on your own then.

If the for mentioned happens to you then you could switch over to your AI partner and control them. Or you do it co-op with a friend but the same rules apply.

No saves, continues or anything. A 3 hour game maximum with one shot to beat it or start all over again but the game resets everything to different places every time you start over. Like the game is playing even when you are not.

It is easy to overcome fears when in the presence of others, unless their presence is the source of your fear.

If co-op horror is to succeed, it must alienate each player from the other (even if it means communication).

Only one game did it right, Resident Evil Outbreak.......

Games have a hard enough time beig scary as a single player experience. Fatal frame 2 and ameisia have been the only games to mess with me and freak me out and I play those types of games at every chance. Movies and games creators need to remember its not about making someone jump when you have something pop out "unexpected", and I say that loosely because they are blantently obvious, but about getting inside someone's head and messing with them. That's real fear.

So no coop can not be done.

look @ where DS & RE are now. Did Co-op do them more harm than good? I would say it did, just look at how the sales got less & less the more they strayed from the original formula.

If any dev has a series they want killed just put in the hands of Acti, EA or Crapcom to publish & they will butcher it so bad noone will want it anymore.

I would also like to thank EA, Acti & Crapcom for saving me a bunch of money by turning certain series/games into something I don't want anymore.

I've had an idea about how this would work for quite a while. build the horror game with parallel elongated levels with exposed section facing each other(maybe an old mansion with destroyed walls and windows?), but do not connect. Each player(2 player) will have their own separate play experience but can at most times see their coop partner across on the other side and they can communicate by yelling(thought it may be hard to hear if distance/noise/obstacles are a factor) and expressions (like the taunt system in dark souls) to try and tell your partner something. You can try to warn them of a threat, secret, help with puzzles, etc using these features. Puzzles throughout the game will require actions from both sides for each to progress, and each can help the other out with enemies/dangers but with limited resources it can be a hard choice. The goal of tha game is to make it safely out of the mansion(or whatever it is you guys are in) alive, heloing the other player stay alive has pros and cons(they can help you, but they also require more resources from you) but it's ultimately your choice. for this to work i think mic support will have to be disabled though, so it may not sit right with everyone

The only way a co-op experience can be done well is if it were online co-op rather than couch co-op and that I don't really support since there's barely any games to play with your buddy in the same room outside of CoD and sports games.

What could be done is one person is in one campaign and the other is in another, but they interlock; both have real branching paths and what one person does can certainly affect the other and what both people do can royally screw one or both of you up. P1 blocks the doors and so the zombies go for P2, who chose to run&gun and make a bunch of racket fighting his horde; this results in P2 being overrun with even more but a still well-balanced number. The two meet occasionally to fight big bosses but generally work together by working separately. If the story is done right, it can really make it so two buddies working separately makes more sense than working together.

Re5 getting a remake is still...gunna be a tough one lol. I do still want that and 6 remade. Well, 6 needs a reimagining more like and I believe the current Capcom can make it into a great game.

Let’s wait till Q4 ;)

Wait I thought the guy had already said that Code Veronica and Zero were the next remakes?? Now it's CV and 5?!?

didnt the voice actress of Sheva hint at something this year?

we'll see.