Giant Spiders

Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:40 am

Yeah, I'm terrified of spiders, real or imaginary. Though, strangely, Shelob didn't bother me much. Getting rid of these monstrosities will be one of the earliest and most demanded mods, though, I can guarantee it. ;) I swear spiders are evil incarnate. Vile, disgusting demons. :(
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:18 pm

This huge house spider lives in my kitchen. For its size (like an inch and a half) it's really fast; sometimes I just glimpse it skittering off somewhere from the corner of my eye. I've always been somewhat fascinated by them...

... Can you imagine fighting a car-sized spider? The danger presented to a humanoid body (even a heroic one) by one of those things is hugely underestimated by most game designers. I hope Skyrim's can rip low-level PCs to pieces.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:44 pm

Hm? I've heard people talking about them, but which page is it on? (describe the page, don't give a number)
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:12 pm

Yeah, I'm terrified of spiders, real or imaginary. Though, strangely, Shelob didn't bother me much. Getting rid of these monstrosities will be one of the earliest and most demanded mods, though, I can guarantee it. ;) I swear spiders are evil incarnate. Vile, disgusting demons. :(


Naw your thinking of http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KS3vsU0VQV8/SwSnmcXRldI/AAAAAAAAB8g/mN6NDCSchjs/s1600/Potato_bug_3.jpg
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:35 pm

I woulda thought killing them would be theraputic for people with arachnaphobia.

Besides. I don't like zombies (I don't think I'd say I have a phobia exactly, but they freak me the hell out), but I enjoy killing them in games for exactly that reason.


Yeah, but you have to worry about zombies crawling around in you basemant apartment... at least not yet.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:49 am

I used to be extremely afraid of all bugs until I had to live in my garage while I remodeled the house..... woke up with a bunch of fuzzy, soft shelled spiders running around on me quite often. Now only scorpions and really huge (tarantula or larger) spiders freak me out. I almost could not stand playing FO3 and NV because of the radscorpions, but I got used to them.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 5:46 pm

woke up with a bunch of fuzzy, soft shelled spiders


I cringed just reading that.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:01 pm

I think that’s the point of Giant Spiders there supposed to be scary. If there freaking people out than Bethesda did them right.
I hope you can get past them and still enjoy the game though
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Post » Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:46 am

i love me some spiders. every time i see a spider chilling in the air watching me play videogames i go, "hey bro, wanna play some videogames?"

then he'll hop down and we'll have a quick match in street fighter or something.

hopefully i'll be able to extend an invitation to play videogames to the giant spiders in skyrim.

i'm really glad Skyrim is shaping up to have silly fantasy creatures again. Oblivion had way too many furry forest animals.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:35 pm

I want a spider mount :)
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:44 pm

Naw your thinking of http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KS3vsU0VQV8/SwSnmcXRldI/AAAAAAAAB8g/mN6NDCSchjs/s1600/Potato_bug_3.jpg


you should be banned for making me click on that :shakehead:
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:23 pm

Aren't there spider daedra in oblivion?

yes
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:07 pm

you should be banned for making me click on that :shakehead:


Just don't squish em' :dance:
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:12 pm

I cringed just reading that.

same
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:55 pm

I want a spider mount :)

i want a dragon mount
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:46 am

Just don't squish em' :dance:

dont squish em ... eat them
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:57 am

I understand fear in video games, I mean there is one part in the first Gears of War game that I had to get my brother to play (the part with the big beserker thing). However, I do find it ridiculous that people are scared of spiders, I mean they are for one: tiny and aren't there other more realistic fears to have, like that of disease or death? or nuclear war or something? I read somewhere that people are more afraid of spiders and public speaking than their own deaths! Also, I've read that if it weren't for spiders that 1/5th of the earth's surface would be inhabitable because of all the other bugs that there would be. Now, some of this might not be true, but I think if you are scared it might add to your experience, cause I mean if you were actually in a cave fighting giant anything, wouldn't you be extremely scared?
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Post » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:17 am

IMO giant spiders are one of the worst enemies ever.
Never liked them in video games.
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Post » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:06 am

However, I do find it ridiculous that people are scared of spiders, I mean they are for one: tiny and aren't there other more realistic fears to have, like that of disease or death? or nuclear war or something? I read somewhere that people are more afraid of spiders and public speaking than their own deaths!

I think the point of it being a phobia is that it's an irrational fear. Otherwise we'd all have Deathophobia, Beingeatenalivebygiantleechesophobia, and so on. Although ironically, fear of a giant spider would also be perfectly rational.
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:16 pm

Hell yeah, I've wanted to see a well done giant spider in recent games. I hope it has paralyzing poison, like in Daggerfall.

As for those of you with arachnaphobia, I can understand your issue. Perhaps you can simply mod them out of the game. But hey, at least it gives you a chance to face your fear and beat it mercilessly with an axehead!
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:22 am

woke up with a bunch of fuzzy, soft shelled spiders running around on me quite often.



I cringed just reading that.



same


Thirded... :eek:
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:58 pm

I don't like spiders, but they don't bother me in video games. Think of how immersive an encounter with them would be. Imagine this:

Spoiler

You enter a dark, slimy cave full of giant cobwebs. Within the cobwebs, you notice the skeletal, armor-clad corpses of dead adventurers and perhaps even the skeletal corpses of a few non-humanoid creatures here and there. You go further into the cave and notice clusters of slimy eggs the size of basketballs. The eggs start shaking and they pop open as many spiders proportional to the eggs in size pop out and start crawling towards you. You kill them all with ease and continue along your path. You get to a dark part of the cave and don't have a torch, yet continue going on, anyway. You hear crunching with each step you take and finally find a torch in your inventory. As you light it, you notice thousands of little spiders below your feet and on the walls of the cave and you realize they are what you have been stepping on. As you run away as fast as you can, you trip as the spiders crawl all over you. Suddenly they run and scatter away very rapidly as you stand up. You continue to go through the cave very cautiously and, after a short while, you believe you hear something behind you. You turn around and see nothing, then continue walking, think you hear something again, and turn around to find nothing, just as before. You repeat that process one more time, but this time, you notice something strange. There is a puddle of transparent goo on the ground. You look up only to have some similar goo fall on your face as you see a giant, furry spider twice your size clinging to the wall with its eight, giant, black eyes staring at you and the goo dripping out of its mouth. It drops down, lands on you, and bites you. You get knocked unconcious and regain conciousness to find yourself in a giant web. As you try to move, the spider and several of its children draw near, mouths open, and prepare to feast on your flesh. :P

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Post » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:18 am

I don't like spiders, but they don't bother me in video games. Think of how immersive an encounter with them would be.


:cold:
I clicked on the spoiler and immediately closed it. That was really mean, Seti. I'm confiscating your PS3 for a week while you think about the consequences of your actions.

*hugs knees and rocks self back and forth*
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:35 pm

I understand fear in video games, I mean there is one part in the first Gears of War game that I had to get my brother to play (the part with the big beserker thing). However, I do find it ridiculous that people are scared of spiders, I mean they are for one: tiny and aren't there other more realistic fears to have, like that of disease or death? or nuclear war or something? I read somewhere that people are more afraid of spiders and public speaking than their own deaths! Also, I've read that if it weren't for spiders that 1/5th of the earth's surface would be inhabitable because of all the other bugs that there would be. Now, some of this might not be true, but I think if you are scared it might add to your experience, cause I mean if you were actually in a cave fighting giant anything, wouldn't you be extremely scared?

Ironically, the smaller the spider the more terrifying it is for me. :( I HATE HATE HATE spiders and will promptly be modding them out of my game if possible. :(
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Post » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:41 pm

I like spiders in real life anyway.
but having them really big in a game where you could battle them is scary but also really thrilling.
I can't wait.
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