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.

Actually I hope they will get bigger each level thanks to level scaling.
And when they die thousands of mini spiders burst out and will walk over your screen...

Well that makes it easy then- since mods aren't an option, your choices are:

A: Get over the phobia and enjoy the game...or

B: If unable to get over the phobia, don't bother buying the game...or

C: Start saving for a PC that can handle the game so you can mod those buggers out.

so i was looking through the gameinformer info and saw that one of the enemy types is giant spiders. Well the problem with that is i have very severe arachnophobia. Every time bethesda comes out with a new game, i hope they leave out spiders but it looks like i know i wont be getting this game months before it comes out. I guess the point of this thread is to ask bethesda to remove spiders from the game... or even just reskin them to look like some other insect.

I fully agree to the fullest. I mean why the Deadra would they include spiders! Spiders aren't supposed to survive in a cold climate like Skyrim. Spiders don't fit in, really.

It would kind of ruin the atmosphere... you're like running around minding your own buisness when suddenly a giant spider with 10 legs show up! They are ugly and not fitting!

I cannot believe the amount of people demanding the removal of spiders, so arrogant. Leave them in Bethesda, leave them in.

I like spiders, though I do not want them in our bedroom but I won't kill them. Just capture them and throw them outside. The ones in your house can't hurt you, but YOU can sure as hell hurt them, given the size difference they have more reason to fear you.

Killing a wolf spider always boosts the ego.

There are many phobias out there - there are people who are afraid of hight, so we should remove mountains, thous who are afraid of water, so no lakes, people who are afraid of rodents, so anything resembling a rat has to go, reptiles would have to be sacked to... Should I continue?
Phobias can, and should be dealt with - you get over your fear, not cater to it. I say it as a person who dealt with phobias of my own, it took time, effort, occasionally some professional help and a lot of willpower, but I'm over it. You can't change the world around you, but you can change yourself, and your perception of it.

i think they look rather sixy

It's not my fault if a giant spider races across my bedroom floor and I get scared to death because of my arachnophobia;

my arachnophobia;

yes. It is your fault.

I think you're going a bit too far. It's not my fault if a giant spider races across my bedroom floor and I get scared to death because of my arachnophobia; but if a person who's afraid of heights go rock climbing, then it's his/her fault.

You're right, however. Phobias should be dealt with if possible. I hope you don't me asking, but what phobia did you get over? Just interested, it doesn't have to do with anything really.

so i was looking through the gameinformer info and saw that one of the enemy types is giant spiders. Well the problem with that is i have very severe arachnophobia. Every time bethesda comes out with a new game, i hope they leave out spiders but it looks like i know i wont be getting this game months before it comes out. I guess the point of this thread is to ask bethesda to remove spiders from the game... or even just reskin them to look like some other insect.

Three of them - I was deathly afraid of wasps, cockroaches and hot water. Started to panic when seeing a wasp or a cockroach, shaking all over and ruining away, which was quite a fit since we have plenty of wasps around in a summer. Going to the open market where fruits are sold was the worst nightmare I could think of... Well except for the cockroach cowling in to my bed when I sleep - often couldn't sleep because of that. And you can guess what the fear of hot water meant for my cooking skills. Ultimately I decided that enough is enough, I want to live my live, not shake in fear over something. I'm quite calm about all of thous things now, will not appreciate a wasp in my hair of course, and very careful when cooking, which is simply a smart thing to do in my opinion, but that's it.

I have the same phobia man i hate those tiny eight legged bastards.
But i am just going to kill them with my bow or magic from afar.
Off topic i scream louder then my wife when i run into a spider is that a bad thing?