As someone else said:

1. Get someone to mod them out.

or

2. Get a huge satisfaction when you blow them up.

True. In fact, it might be the only exciting thing in the game if they include level scaling... But fortunately, it seems they won't, at least not as badly as before.

This is the second or third arachnophobia thread. They should all be merged.

That word doesn't make sense. Hippo means horse. Why the hell did they use that as their word for fear of long words? Should have at least made it make sense, even if it is a joke.

If your serious well.. how do you think everyone else would feel if they got no spiders because of a few arachnaphobic players?

Spiders are cool in video games. The more you fear them in reality the cooler they get in games. The only thing that makes them ridiculous (in games and particularly in movies) is the sounds they make. Being mute would be a lot more frightening because a spider is a stalker by excellence. Well, when they scream like horny pigs they make me laugh instead of be afraid.
I agree with Alois Hammer, these concerns are particular and do not serve the general interest.

I want a spider mount. I want to ride a gigantic, hairy, creepy, spider with lots of eyes.

Exactly.

I can't believe people are requesting for Beth not to include spiders. You know what? I LIKE spiders. They won't be cut out of the game.

I know an arachnophobic guy and if your reaction to a virtual spider is similar to his reaction to a tiny real one, I really hope Bethesda get rid of spiders. As this obviously can't be granted and you can't mod your game, the best idea I had is to use the promised radiant gameplay in your favor.
If the game will adapt the enemies to your gameplay surely there will be a way to make the game consider spiders aren't appropriate to your character. Maybe being immune to poison or extremely vulnerable or who knows. The best thing you can do, is read guides when the game is released to learn how this system works, in order to avoid spiders appearance for you.

Imagine if you played the FO series.

Radscorpions reign supreme.


You just need to get over it. I want to slay giant spiders.


Slaying giant spiders might help coping with your fear......or not.......but hey.......slaying giants spiders!!!!! Huh? Huuuh?

How do you people go outside? Spiders are everywhere.

Leave them in. Imagine the heart pounding excitement, the sudden encounter, the intense battle, killing the eight legged beast and the sigh of relief after. A great gaming moment you can boast about and rightly so. I'll take a game that can generate excitement over boredom any day.

Who knows? Playing this game might be the way you get over your fear of spiders?

Then you'll have Bethesda to thank for both giving you a great game and helping you get over your fears.

How's that sound?

Because, ultimately, they're not going to take them out. It would be almost in the same league if they took out the Throat of the World (a major part of the story) because a large majority of people have a fear of heights.

And honestly, I'd rather face my fears head on than miss out on playing a great game just because of one single enemy.

I can understand how horrible a situation this must be to be in. And everyone who's essentially saying 'man up' obviously doesn't realise what phobias entail or how they can control your life.

I remember an official patch being released for System Shock 2 because of one section where there was an influx of spiders. They recognised that it's a fairly common phobia and it was hindering people's progress in the game. I doubt Beth will follow suit though because they didn't do anything about the Spider Daedra in Oblivion did they?

I think they should remove them or have an option in a menu to disable them as Arachnophobia is one of (if not THE) most common phobia in the world. But when I get the game, first thing I'm doing is checking for a "Disable Spiders" option in the menu.

I had actually never thought of this issue until this topic. My guess is nobody could even try Dragon Age, there are tons of spiders in that game. Worth noting, though, is that there is an average of one spider per square foot in an American home. There's no way to avoid spiders, which svcks.

I certainly did not enjoy ever having to go out on the 10th floor balcony in the apartment I lived in a few years ago due to my fear of heights, but I had to deal with it occasionally. It's simply the basic question of whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Is fear worth avoiding what you want?




PS: Spiders in games should ONLY, ONLY make the sounds they made in SimAnt: BOOM BOOM DADADADADADA GNASH GNASH! Playing that game, killing the spider, and then playing as the spider was possibly the greatest power up ever and it partially decreased or increased my increasingly controllable fear of spiders... I am still not sure which.

phobias are something irrational. Nobody chose to have a phobia and pretending that someone could considere the benefits of avoiding or not their phobias is overoptimistic. Else, phsychology wouldn't exist.

I have dovaphobia; the fear of dragons. I'm going to curl up into a little ball when Alduin turns up

There's what?

I know i hate them by damn do i fear them.
But i am going to max out my fire spells and i am gonna cook'em in their damn caves like napalm!
or i am going to shoot their eight eyes out with arrows.
i posted before i fear them but they are not going to take them out of the game because of our fears.
and me being a role player that adds to the challenge by making me face my own fears to go up and attack them.
Before the attack me.

I lol'ed, really. How about removing everything that has political implications, because, we all know it, almost everybody hates the politicians. Oh, and don't forget the gross meat that we saw in the artwork. Remove it fast, because millions of people are having digestion issues. It's a game for Christ's sake! I can bet there are more people in the world terrified by the sort of crimes we did in the Dark Brotherhood.

Too bad, spiders are in, deal with it :mellow:

Reduction to absurd? I don't think there is any need to be mean.

:chaos:

Spiders? One might think that Bethesda might be trying to scare players.

I have gone from someone who as a kid would instantly shriek, tear off my clothes, start slapping myself everywhere, and run away frantically looking for a spider if someone pointed one out on me (and then I would have trouble sleeping and have nightmares about spiders for a few days), to someone who can calmly take a notecard, get a spider to walk onto it, and take it outside. Without therapy. However, I am still very uncomfortable around spiders and when it comes to bees I must stand completely still if one comes near me until it leaves. At least I don't run away. There are limits, but effort is worth something.

I try to kill spiders in games as quickly as possible, but at this point their graphical presence doesn't bother me at all. A big monster spider getting up in my face the way some enemies do in the darkness of caves, given Skyrim's visual fidelity, certainly raises the chilling possibility of a few heartracing scares.

However, there is something to be said about being desensitized to something by experiencing it a lot. I always thought spiders in games were a given, so I dealt with them. I actually do think games helped with my fear of the svckers.