Co-op horror

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Consider not mentioning a word that you choose not to use fully. Indeed, why use a word if you don't mean it?

You're the one who's only partially using it. I acknowledge the subtle grey area that exists between co-op and single-player. You look at it as a shallow form of entertainment that needs to be kept in a pigeonhole forever, because it can only ever have one definition to you. So you tell me who's using the word fully here.

Also, why the fuck are you bringing marketing into this? Haven't you heard? The mainstream isn't interested in change, or quality. If you consider yourself a proud member of it, begone, we have no reason to be talking. Or is it because the article figuratively mentioned a billion dollars? Because I don't give a shit how potentially profitable this idea is, and I don't want to talk about anything related to marketing. It's not a part of this discussion.

I'm the one that's impressed. I said only one form can ever exist at any one time since they're mutually exclusive. How do you get from that to my statement meaning that a game should only ever have either complete darkness or be completely full of light? Is it because you're stuck on "co-op without co-op"? I would have figured i have plainly explained what i meant by that.

Let me put this in the most polite way I can: There is no such thing as one isolated end of the spectrum dominating. All art (yeah, art, not a fucking product) is a result of some kind of interplay between these two ends of the spectrum and everything in between. I can name you a thousand examples of this from movies, music, literature, poetry, you name it. In fact, it's perhaps the most fundamental part of all art.

Can you honestly not see why I inferred from your statements that you think a game should be either completely dark or light? From your narrow-minded definition of co-op, of course. You don't seem to understand that "partial co-op" is co-op, just like darkness is light. It's the antithesis of light, an inseparable part of it. Darkness is scary because we are used to being in light. Obviously, cats, owls and bats are not afraid of the dark. It's a human fear that stems from the fact that we rely on it. Physically as well as mentally. The contrast between light and darkness is scary, just as a modulation from a major key to a minor key is infinitely more tragic (if done correctly) than a piece of music that is in a minor key the entire piece.

So, it's not a matter of having someone with you in the game or not. It's a question of having someone with you in the game and then not.

Also, I have already said I do not know how to perfectly balance it, so stop bringing that point up. It doesn't mean that the idea is impossible.