I'm actually kinda concerned about the inclusion of spiders in Skyrim, as sad as that sounds, haha. Of course I'll just svck it up and buy Skyrim anyways. But do any of you hate spiders as much as I do?

Well, if you hate them so much, one more reason to cut them in half with a battleaxe...

I was afraid that we would get Tarantula-looking spiders (the big, furry ones) but these ones are okay, I think, they look all crusty and pretty amusing.

P.S. I am arachnophobic.

I'm extremely arachnophobic, and I freak out when I see spiders usually, if not my heart just starts rushing. Even in movies if there are spiders (giant or regular sized) I get freaked out, and fidgety. But in video games I just got used to it. Like in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, they've had spiders, and I didn't mind them too much. It's not really going to bother me in Skyrim, I might get a little freaked out fighting them, but it's not something that's going to bother me much.

Well I am pretty scared of spiders but not scared enough to get me concerned about them being implemented into skyrim, even though they are like 100 times bigger than irl a flamethrower spell should take care of em.

I have more of a problem with small spiders... giant ones I would gladly keep as a pet >_>

Im not overly afraid of spiders. Like i will probably flip out if one is on me. But for sure in Skyrim they are going to scare the crap out of me.

Spiders rock!

I want to slice them up.

No. I'm hemophobic, though. The inclusion of blood in video games has never bothered me, however. Is this really a big deal? I don't mean to sound ignorant, but even to the arachnophobic, how does a video game spider bother a person?

I love to kill things like a spider in a game, makes me feel that my character is seasoned badass that seen everything.........Giants! Bring it on! :mohawk:

Not bothered about spiders, just shark phobic

Ah, you are a fellow selachophobic person, I see.

AHH, don't spoil it for everyone else.

Sharks are nice... just try not to look like a fish, try not to bleed around them, and do not act odd or they will bite you to see what the hell you are... which will in turn lead you to breaking rule 2... then you will be fine around them >_>

The same way a real one do. Spiders with few exceptions aren't dangerous, but it's a irrational issue. Besides not all arachnophobics fear them in videogames.

It really depends for me on how realistic the spiders look and act.

In Zelda games spiders don't even remotely trigger my arachnophobia. Some of them like the skulltulas look outright silly to me. Armogohma (the spider boss in Twilight Princess) shoots a freaking energy beam at you so his behavior lessens any fright factor he may have had.

Vindictus ( a free to play online game) has spiders left and right, but they don't even make me flinch. Not sure what it is, maybe their looks, maybe the fact they don't do anything really scary. And aside from boss giant spiders, they only have one attack and they don't jump far or walk on walls, etc.


Now, Dark Messiah, spiders scare the bloody hell out of me. Minus the size and with the exception of the giant spider, they look frighteningly realistic. They crawl on walls, lunge at you, etc. Plus its in a first person perspective (which makes it seem less like a game and more like "HOLY **** SPIDER GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!") The one level where you literally have to enter a cave full of them set my arachnophobia into overdrive. I don't know how I managed to push all the way through to the end.

Not sure how I'm going to react in Skyrim. The spiders don't look like the ones in real life or in Dark Messiah. But what I've read in passing about getting stuck in webs and such, that's pretty scary. If they can drop down from above, trap you, basically do anything that is an arachnophobe's worst nightmare, then I'm really in trouble >_<







You guys would hate playing Crysis or Endless Ocean :laugh:

I don't understand any of this...You vocal minority should use the game as interactive therapy.

I'm one of those people that put a tarantula up my rectum and have it come out my mouth.

jk :rofl:

My only fear is death.

YEah nightHuntsman, they could use it as a type of cognitive behavioral therapy and possibly bring down their anxiety levels.

I'm not a big fan of spiders either irl, but in a game these rules don't apply at all.

I'm not worried about death, just the means of how I'll die and wether it will be graphic or painful. Will it be painful burning? Or will I just fall asleep never to wake again?

Seriously though....this is the 3rd thread by a third seperate member on this forums about arachniphobia.

I hate spiders... in real life or games.

But at the same time, I'm kinda glad they're going to be in Skyrim. I think it will be fun to have some fear of the creatures you fight. It will make the game more intense and memorable for me anyway.

The screenshots I've seen remind me of that Lord of The Rings movie scene with the giant spider.... which is a good thing since I liked those movies.

That said, I did not enjoy fighting the spider daedra in Oblivion... they still creeped me out despite their obviously "fake" appearance with the human-like torso attached. I thought they were stupid looking, but they were clearly inspired by the real life Black Widows. I especially hated the little spiders they spawned because they looked more convincing and lacked the human torso.... not to mention their paralyze effect, small size(making them harder to hit and see), and speed.

Sorry, I looked for other threads on spiders and such and found none. And while I'm sure plenty of arachnaphobics don't mind spiders in games, movies, pictures, etc., I sure as hell am not one of those people. I'm praying that spiders act goofy or cartoonish or at the very least are easy to kill so I don't have to bear the sight of them for long. Seriously, [censored] spiders.

I hated the Daggerfall and (escpecially) the Arena ones. They looked too realistic, whereas these don't.

Whoa that's what that's called. Hemophobia? I actually have that, just never knew what it was called.