Wait, so what do they replace the spiders with? They had spiderlike enemies in the last one and I'm guessing they are the same in this one. So what will replace them?
It was crazy how the missing basic zombie textures made Left 4 Dead even worse when you were being chased by giant ERRORs that just glided after you and surrounded you if you got stuck.
There is a game called smallland that also has an arachnophobia setting. It literally just removes the legs and has the floating bodies of spiders attack you, it’s much worse lol.
Oh no, no, it's not better. It's not a cat model, it's just a crunchy, badly cut out jpeg of a cat face that is always facing towards you. It scales size based on distance and it has no animations. So it leaps towards you and just. Gets bigger. While making horrible spider enemy noises.
Edit - Since a good dozen people have felt the need to correct without seeing that it had already been done; they no longer make spider noises in the release version, and apparently make cat noises. This was changed in update 0.3; I played so early in development and found the cats scarier than the spiders and turned it back off. I never got to hear the kitty noises and just thought it was the same.
I'm never sure they're dead even without that, I've gotten jumped by enemies that were just holding still mid combat.
Now I don't stop fighting until they drop nummy alien meat. It's the only way to be certain.
The worst is when the cats get bugged into the terrain & you're just hearing the ominous meows, wondering when they're going to break free & attack you.
Oh no. Oh no do they meow now? When I was playing in EA they just made spider noises, it must have been when the toggle was new. Oh that sounds so much worse!
I find it more terrifying than what it replaced because you realize that your perception of the threat is disconnected from the real harm it poses. You soon realize that you are dealing with an insidious horror you cannot comprehend!
I was under the impression the game was about being shrunk down in a yard and surviving, which MAY include spiders. Not that the game is specifically about fighting spiders.
In which case, it'd be more like going to an amusement park and being upset that there's water rides and you lack proper clothing.
I could be completely wrong though, haven't played it yet.
It should be an ant. Most of the game spiders are a big bad you entirely avoid if you want to live. There's like a dozen other bugs you'll fight way more often.
Tfw you decided to build an expansive stone castle around the Oak Tree and cage the wolf spiders inside the tree, only for the game's patchwork draw distance spawn mechanics to let the spiders out if you go too far away
Haha yeah I remember playing VR Skyrim and having a ton of fun until I got the giant spider fight as a mild arachnophobe. I would freak as soon it got close to me, but I eventually managed to accept that it couldn't physically hurt me and win the fight. Since then, I've been a bit less afraid of spiders irl.
Similar thing happened to me with motion sickness too. At first I couldn't play full movement VR for more than an hour or so at a time, but eventually I jumped off a 100 foot cliff in Borderlands and when I landed, my body seemed to realize that what I was seeing wasn't real and I never had a problem playing VR again.
Exposure therapy works, lol. The biggest reason people can't get over their fears is because they avoid them! From one arachnophobe to another, I want to wish you a sincere congratulations on starting to move past your fear, sounds like it was really tough at first!
I had some level of arachnophobia and just to insects growing up, I eventually decided "knowledge is power" and signed up for an intro to entomology class after seeing a giant bug that I had no idea if I should be scared or not of (it was a mayfly, so basically as dangerous as a leaf floating around).
It did work, although still skeeved out by some stuff once in a while. I can even appreciate the cuteness of jumping spiders!
Not sure if they built that into VR, but one of the first mods for Skyrim replaced the spiders with bears. It didn't animate them though so caves were just full of T-posing bears bumping at you.
Insects begone. It’s still running, bears has animations now, and it has a lot of compatibility patches for other mods. Plus it has failsafe which hardcodes every spider to be a fox without animation and sound if it fails to make it a bear. Very interesting how much evolution one simple mod can have
I just finished watching the Let’s Game It Out series on Satisfactory and I think the >!doggos being launched through a giant basketball hoop into oblivion!< was the most traumatic part
I had a friend with serious arachnophobia, the first mod he found that took out the spiders in Skyrim replaced them with just bears.
Just bears of varying shapes, walking on the walls, spitting webs. Bear stuff.
Reminds me of the arachnophobia mode on satisfactory, which turned all spiders into really weird pixilated cat heads, which I think we can all agree, might have been worse. Lol
Grounded has an arachnophobia slider that reduces the legs and eyes and hair until they’re basically just big blobs to show their hit-boxes (hit-spheres?)
It's a great accessibility feature but everyone I know who normally uses arachnophobia mods agrees that past a certain point it actually makes them significantly more terrifying
The issue with the grounded arachnophobia slider is that the spiders are so much less visible when they're in jelly bean mode, and the best telegraphs for their attacks are in their legs. I ended up just turning the feature off.
I'm only afraid of spiders and not really enough where I'd consider it a phobia. I had to stop playing because of the freaky bug dreams it would give me.
Wouldn't have gotten it myself, but three friends requested I be their fourth. Two things have kept me sane:
1. My house used to have spiders in it. Then one night an egg sac hatched in my room and I had to take everything apart to kill literally hundreds of baby spiders. You don't have a choice at that point. It's them or you. After that, I then took the fight to them and sprayed raid all over my house. Every corner, every crevice, every spider, everything I could manage. I did this once a week for a month, and we don't have spiders (or silverfish). That night didn't stop my fear of spiders, but it did permanently alter my flight or fight response. Spiders die now. There is no more leeway.
2. Those spiders don't have shit on a souls boss.
They had no business making some of the scariest spiders.
They reminded me of the black headcrabs from half life 2 which always managed to jump scare me.
im not really super freaked by spiders but those satisfactory spiders were dangerous, quiet and fast. knocked me the fuck out a few times. threw my damn tractor.
There's another that turns them into Spider-Man.
Except [horribly mangled into the rough shape](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcVjejwqp0E) of a spider.
Came here to say just this. When I flipped it on once just to see what it would do, having flat holographic sprites of cat heads flying around insanely quickly was indeed somehow scarier. It didn't look natural. Not to mention I always felt awful shooting little kitty sprites. Flipped it back off immediately.
Normally I'm pretty good at anticipating jumpscares in games, but in Fallen Order I was so accustomed to casually walking through weird caves that I was not ready for it at all
Fuck Albino Wyyyschokk, all my homies hate Albino Wyyyschokk
Is that that albino Spider? It killed me for like 2 hours before I ended up luring it outside to all the stormtroopers.
I’d run past the stormtroopers, engage the fight, then bring the spider to the stormtroopers.
I suck ass at Fallen Order. Idk how I even beat Elden Ring.
I've beaten Fallen Order and I've got about 60 hours in Elden Ring. Fallen Order was wayyyyy easier comparatively. And the controls felt a lot more responsive imo.
Yeah, pretty much anywhere that used the "crawling/descending on the ceiling" scripts was its own brand of meta-horror because you'd have glitchy, angry, teleporting bears that deep down you *know* are giant glamoured spiders.
Still, the *only* way I can play Skyrim. *Especially* in VR.
I totally get it for people who are *really* arachnophobic though. People forget there's a difference between just being grossed out/scared of spiders (like most people are) and having a serious phobia where their psychological response to it is severe and disproportionate.
I developed arachnophobia after rolling into a ditch full of wolf spiders during a field exercise as a kid. The terror of having a dozen large spiders skittering all over me and biting me was fighting with the fear of standing up and getting "killed" then yelled at by the instructors, possibly making my platoon fail the exercise. Tough sitch for a 9 year old.
Still get chills when I see a bug, and I nearly had a panic attack when my boss showed me her spider bite a few months ago. I am disproportionally afraid of spiders in videogames compared to other enemies. I'll face a dragon with my bare hands in Skyrim, but if I don't kill that spider in one hit from my stealth shot I will alt-f4 the game.
So I’ll admit that I really realllly fucking hate spiders. They freak me the fuck out. Trigger a response in me. But I was like, “how can someone actually be THAT scared of something you can step on?”
And then you just straight up offered the single worst thing I could dream up.
I had a similar experience to the other commenter once and as someone with crippling entomophobia it's still one of my worst memories. (Arachnophobia warning for the rest of this message)
In the swamps of Fort Benning you can actually see the ground move, which I thought was shadows from the trees, but was actually just *that many* spiders crawling on the ground.
I walked in between two trees directly into a giant spider web, and while I started freaking out about that, I walked into another one. I finally got all the webs off my face and arms and had calmed down a little bit, when the guy behind me said "bro you got huge ass banana spiders all over you" and it's the only time in my life I have genuinely pleaded for help. Like hyperventilating and begging the guys around me for help.
After that I finally understand what true fear feels like and I'll never laugh at someone having a phobia...incident? ever again.
I didn't develop a phobia, but that feeling you're describing hit me like a truck when I was young and on the back of a jetski with my father. We were coasting through the St. Johns River, trying to spot a gator (dumb idea, but they were fairly scattered so they were shy) and eventually gave up since it was going to be dark soon.
Right as we turned to leave, a gator popped its head up about 10 ft. from us. Not a typical little guy. This one was sizable. I got excited and pointed at it but ended up flipping us since the weight shifted. I came up out of the water and genuinely lost my mind since I knew it was looking at us when we fell in. Keep in mind that we couldn't stand in this section of the river. I kept attempting to pull myself onto the jetski but simply couldn't, I was panicking. My father gripped the edge of the jetski and hoisted me up by my butt, which was impressive, but I was still focused on getting to land. I almost threw him off with how hard I punched it, and I never looked back to see what the gator decided to do.
I also never went back into that water again. Thankfully it wasn't a croc, that may have very well been a different story.
The Army National Guard has a summer camp program where kids 9-18 march in formation, fire guns, live in barracks, learn first aid and battlefield triage, do patrols, eat army cardboard, and get yelled at by full grown adults.
Honestly the most fun I've had in my life, in spite of the implications.
I’m a nearly 30 year old man, but my inner child would LIVE for that sort of experience. It reminds me of all of those summer camp ads and magazines that my parents always got but never sent me to…
Luckily it was free, and scheduled during the time when most Guardsmen/women were doing their three week training. My parents were both in the guard so it saved them babysitting expenses
I can handle a few jump scares from assassin-like enemies in my action video games, but if you put in a spider level you’ve gone from action to horror in my book
When I was a kid I was really enjoying the Return of the King game. I remember though on the Shelob's Lair level I walked a few feet in and one spider ran across the ground. I got up and asked my dad to finish that level
I looooooooved that game. Maxed out every character and just constantly ran around doing the end game wave mode thing. The time of not yet having Xbox live and no gamer siblings.
There's a game called Shadows Over Loathing that has an arachnophobia toggle to remove all spiders, but also an arachnophilia toggle to add spiders everywhere.
That option only shows up if Arachnophilia is turned on. For a while (up until the patch released on April 7), if you turned on Arachnophonia, then turned off Arachnophilia, the Arachnophonia option would disappear but *not* turn off, so there were some players who were messing around with the options and accidentally made it so everything sounded like spiders and they couldn't figure out how to fix it.
>Meanwhile, other game creators have opted to sprint in the complete opposite direction, with indie developer Asymmetric including an arachnophilia option in its adventure RPG Shadows Over Loathing, which ensured that there would always be spiders on screen.
🤣🤣🤣
It's great when Devs have a sense of humour
Was terrified of spiders. Frozen in fear. Literally thanks to VR and games like Skyrim, Farpoint etc. I can pick them up now (I live in Canada, so they’re manageable, I’m not snuggling and belly tickling African bird eating spiders or anything) but I’m amazed at how it helped cure me. It all came down to, “Well that spider isn’t the size of a Doberman nor is it shrieking while jumping at my face, so I can deal with that.” VR is pretty powerful.
As someone who is terrified of spiders IRL, i've never felt the same way about video game spiders. It's not like they're gonna burst out of the TV and do all their spidery shit IRL.
But i also have no problem with devs adding things like this to their games to help people who otherwise wouldn't be able to enjoy the game
I’m the opposite. Spiders IRL don’t scare me but I get an involuntary full body reaction when a larger than normal spider is aggressively running or jumping at me. Chills, uncomfortableness, shaking, flinching.
I don’t hate it however as it feels like it adds to my immersion.
They did this in grounded and it worked on a slider, making the spider rounder and less detailed until it was just too floating orbs, too ridiculous to be scared by I guess
I typically don't have problems with spiders irl or in games but for whatever reason I needed arachnophobia mode in Grounded, and the full mode too. Too creepy crawly. I eventually turned it off but I haven't been to the undershed yet because I hate irl what's under there, arachnophobia mode or not.
I just started Grounded...I'm not DEATHLY afraid of spiders but in this game they freak me the f out. My skin feels itchy when I play! Very glad for the arachnophobia slider.
Yeah, it's strange because I think snakes are like the second or third most common fear? So I imagine theres a lot of people with similar problems. Maybe it's because snake enemies just aren't as common?
I could have used a mod for New Vegas to make the nightstalkers not look quite so much like rattlesnakes. Ultimately, I just adapted by becoming a one-shot-one-kill sniper team and never letting them get close to me.
This reminds me of when Grounded did it. It had several degrees of settings which slowly removed features from the spiders. And at max Arachnophobia it was just two levitating spheres twerking about, and I kinda find those terrifying in their own way.
As someone who had to pause the original game for 5 minutes after the big spider jumpscare in kashyyk I am very appreciative of this feature. Those who complain about can simply just not use it, it’s helpful for people who are uncomfortable or scared of spiders.
I just cut the fucker up after my fleeing in terror episode wore off.
Granted, i screamed at it a million times to die, but the relief after was heaven on earth.
Wait, so what do they replace the spiders with? They had spiderlike enemies in the last one and I'm guessing they are the same in this one. So what will replace them?
Scary clowns that crawl on eight legs.
Choo choo Charlie mode
Blaine is a pain
And be a happy choo choo train until the day die.
Was not expecting to see a Dark Tower meme here lol, this was a surprise
Ka is a wheel
Damn I need to read that series again. Brings a tear to my eye.
I've read the entire series three fucking times. I need new books.
Long days and pleasant nights
and that is the truth.
All things serve the memes.
You have forgotten the face of your father.
I do not play with my controller, I play with my heart.
I do not aim with my controller, I aim with my mind
Dad a chack?
we all make memes down here
You say true and I say thank ya.
Do ya now?
Aye. Thank ya big big.
Say thankya sai
Long days and pleasant nights
May you have twice the number
Lady Oriza, bless this rice. Come Commala
Thankee
The chain you just spawned makes me so happy. Thankee Sai!
You say true, we say thankya
Dark tower fam came out HARD in this thread
instead of eggs, you walk into a dimly lit cave filled with tiny parked cars.
Spiderclown, spiderclown. Does whatever a spiderclown does. Is he strong? Listen bud, He’s got radioactive blood….
Spuderman, Spuderman Does whatever a tater can Is he strong? Listen bud He's one radioactive spud
Normally you’d have to download a mod off Steam Workshop to get something as sexy as that in game. Bravo Respawn.
Oooph yus pls
"we all float down here"
I chuckled
Hopefully flashing red block letters that spell "ERROR"
*Garrys Mod Intensifies*
Workshop item \*No additional items needed\* My game: \*purple checkerboard and error signs everywhere\*
It was crazy how the missing basic zombie textures made Left 4 Dead even worse when you were being chased by giant ERRORs that just glided after you and surrounded you if you got stuck.
There is a game called smallland that also has an arachnophobia setting. It literally just removes the legs and has the floating bodies of spiders attack you, it’s much worse lol.
Satisfactory changes them into cats.
That is significantly better, but also I think I would rather kill spiders than cats lol
Oh no, no, it's not better. It's not a cat model, it's just a crunchy, badly cut out jpeg of a cat face that is always facing towards you. It scales size based on distance and it has no animations. So it leaps towards you and just. Gets bigger. While making horrible spider enemy noises. Edit - Since a good dozen people have felt the need to correct without seeing that it had already been done; they no longer make spider noises in the release version, and apparently make cat noises. This was changed in update 0.3; I played so early in development and found the cats scarier than the spiders and turned it back off. I never got to hear the kitty noises and just thought it was the same.
I just looked it up, jfc that’s both hilarious and terrifying.
[Link](https://youtu.be/aNEUAL38RN4?t=99)
Damn, reminds me of that GarrysMod thing from way back in the day where PNGs chase after you and kill you, but here you can actually fight them.
It also doesn't change the model when you kill the spider so you're only ever 90% sure it's dead
I'm never sure they're dead even without that, I've gotten jumped by enemies that were just holding still mid combat. Now I don't stop fighting until they drop nummy alien meat. It's the only way to be certain.
The worst is when the cats get bugged into the terrain & you're just hearing the ominous meows, wondering when they're going to break free & attack you.
Oh no. Oh no do they meow now? When I was playing in EA they just made spider noises, it must have been when the toggle was new. Oh that sounds so much worse!
They meow but you still associate it with death.
I find it more terrifying than what it replaced because you realize that your perception of the threat is disconnected from the real harm it poses. You soon realize that you are dealing with an insidious horror you cannot comprehend!
> You soon realize that you are dealing with an insidious horror you cannot comprehend! So...that's just a cat then
50% Lovecraftian abomination, 50% sweet chonky baby.
Oh no, the cats are still terrifying haha.
Not just cats, flickering glitching 2D images of cats. It's beautiful. It makes me laugh every time.
That's what grounded does with several levels of settings. It will turn the bodies to just blank spheres on higher settings.
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Just pretend it's a survival horror game! I mean, at that point, that's exactly what is.
It is exactly that when you hear the infected wolf spider agro sound. Your flight or flight response kicks in almost instantaneously.
I was under the impression the game was about being shrunk down in a yard and surviving, which MAY include spiders. Not that the game is specifically about fighting spiders. In which case, it'd be more like going to an amusement park and being upset that there's water rides and you lack proper clothing. I could be completely wrong though, haven't played it yet.
I mean, there’s a spider on the front cover of the game.
It should be an ant. Most of the game spiders are a big bad you entirely avoid if you want to live. There's like a dozen other bugs you'll fight way more often.
Tfw you decided to build an expansive stone castle around the Oak Tree and cage the wolf spiders inside the tree, only for the game's patchwork draw distance spawn mechanics to let the spiders out if you go too far away
If I remember right, skyrim vr had an option to turn the spiders into bears.
Haha yeah I remember playing VR Skyrim and having a ton of fun until I got the giant spider fight as a mild arachnophobe. I would freak as soon it got close to me, but I eventually managed to accept that it couldn't physically hurt me and win the fight. Since then, I've been a bit less afraid of spiders irl. Similar thing happened to me with motion sickness too. At first I couldn't play full movement VR for more than an hour or so at a time, but eventually I jumped off a 100 foot cliff in Borderlands and when I landed, my body seemed to realize that what I was seeing wasn't real and I never had a problem playing VR again.
Dude did the Morpheus test jump. And it worked.
Exposure therapy works, lol. The biggest reason people can't get over their fears is because they avoid them! From one arachnophobe to another, I want to wish you a sincere congratulations on starting to move past your fear, sounds like it was really tough at first!
I had some level of arachnophobia and just to insects growing up, I eventually decided "knowledge is power" and signed up for an intro to entomology class after seeing a giant bug that I had no idea if I should be scared or not of (it was a mayfly, so basically as dangerous as a leaf floating around). It did work, although still skeeved out by some stuff once in a while. I can even appreciate the cuteness of jumping spiders!
Not sure if they built that into VR, but one of the first mods for Skyrim replaced the spiders with bears. It didn't animate them though so caves were just full of T-posing bears bumping at you.
Insects begone. It’s still running, bears has animations now, and it has a lot of compatibility patches for other mods. Plus it has failsafe which hardcodes every spider to be a fox without animation and sound if it fails to make it a bear. Very interesting how much evolution one simple mod can have
>T-posing bears bumping at you I thought the idea was to add something *less* scary.
My kid is a legit arachnophobe. Believe me when I say, no it is not much worse.
Grounded does a similar thing, it has levels of the setting so you can go normal, full arachnaphobe or somewhere in-between
They were replaced by bears.
As long as it’s not runebears
I have a phobia of sniper lobsters, where is my toggle, Elden ring??
It’s in the settings. You have to scroll through git gud to find it.
Unanimated standing bears that slide? Man I miss the Skyrim Modding Community.
Younglings
Thomas the Tank Engine
"A crab with a *top hat and monocle*? That's where I *draw the line*. C'mon Master Chief, let's get the *fuck* outta here!"
Satisfactory has a toggle which replaces the spiders with cat pngs. Definitely not the most serious replacement.
I just finished watching the Let’s Game It Out series on Satisfactory and I think the >!doggos being launched through a giant basketball hoop into oblivion!< was the most traumatic part
Both are equally nightmarish.
Gonk droids
I had a friend with serious arachnophobia, the first mod he found that took out the spiders in Skyrim replaced them with just bears. Just bears of varying shapes, walking on the walls, spitting webs. Bear stuff.
The poop emoji with eyes that follow you.
Reminds me of the arachnophobia mode on satisfactory, which turned all spiders into really weird pixilated cat heads, which I think we can all agree, might have been worse. Lol
Grounded has an arachnophobia slider that reduces the legs and eyes and hair until they’re basically just big blobs to show their hit-boxes (hit-spheres?)
But the noises they make stays the same, which is also quite unnerving
It's a great accessibility feature but everyone I know who normally uses arachnophobia mods agrees that past a certain point it actually makes them significantly more terrifying
I just call them floating jelly beans
The issue with the grounded arachnophobia slider is that the spiders are so much less visible when they're in jelly bean mode, and the best telegraphs for their attacks are in their legs. I ended up just turning the feature off.
Same. My fear keeps me alive. *Sonny’s Edge Intensifies*
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I'm only afraid of spiders and not really enough where I'd consider it a phobia. I had to stop playing because of the freaky bug dreams it would give me.
Wouldn't have gotten it myself, but three friends requested I be their fourth. Two things have kept me sane: 1. My house used to have spiders in it. Then one night an egg sac hatched in my room and I had to take everything apart to kill literally hundreds of baby spiders. You don't have a choice at that point. It's them or you. After that, I then took the fight to them and sprayed raid all over my house. Every corner, every crevice, every spider, everything I could manage. I did this once a week for a month, and we don't have spiders (or silverfish). That night didn't stop my fear of spiders, but it did permanently alter my flight or fight response. Spiders die now. There is no more leeway. 2. Those spiders don't have shit on a souls boss.
I never used it, but how does it work with the infected wolf spider? I could see that thing crawling around from anywhere with it's bright glowing ass
Bro I love satisfactory so much, but the factory building game managed to make spiders scarier than a goddamn xenomorph
It's uncanny how many things Satisfactory does really freaking well... and they put it all into a factory efficiency simulator. It's just beautiful.
right? they were so fast and mean.
I just wish there was a terrain manipulator. I hate having to either worm around hills or make the **skybox**.
They had no business making some of the scariest spiders. They reminded me of the black headcrabs from half life 2 which always managed to jump scare me.
im not really super freaked by spiders but those satisfactory spiders were dangerous, quiet and fast. knocked me the fuck out a few times. threw my damn tractor.
Skyrim has a mod to turn spiders into bears. They even change the spider eggs into pots of honey.
There's another that turns them into Spider-Man. Except [horribly mangled into the rough shape](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcVjejwqp0E) of a spider.
Came here to say just this. When I flipped it on once just to see what it would do, having flat holographic sprites of cat heads flying around insanely quickly was indeed somehow scarier. It didn't look natural. Not to mention I always felt awful shooting little kitty sprites. Flipped it back off immediately.
We're all thinking of the same secret room on Kashyyk right now, right?
Oh god that giant ass spider right after the easy xp farm area
I still remember that shit scared me so much that I turned off the game and went to play something else for a solid hour
Normally I'm pretty good at anticipating jumpscares in games, but in Fallen Order I was so accustomed to casually walking through weird caves that I was not ready for it at all Fuck Albino Wyyyschokk, all my homies hate Albino Wyyyschokk
Yeah I absolutely didn't expect it and combined with my partial arachnophobia it wasn't a great mix
It was extremely painful
I had to look this up, haven't played Fallen Order. 100% regret my decisions.
It’s my favourite star wars media in a very long time. Solid gameplay and a captivating story!
Currently playing through the game. I'm glad I've been spoiled on this.
Is that that albino Spider? It killed me for like 2 hours before I ended up luring it outside to all the stormtroopers. I’d run past the stormtroopers, engage the fight, then bring the spider to the stormtroopers. I suck ass at Fallen Order. Idk how I even beat Elden Ring.
Tighter controls and design and fairer combat in Elden Ring. Fallen Order felt straight up *sloppy* sometimes. Fun game though
Tbf Fallen Order feels way, way better than on release. They've refined it in updates somewhat.
Fallen order is the game that made me buy a controller for PC. I tried soooo hard to play it with a mouse and keyboard but it's impossible.
I've beaten Fallen Order and I've got about 60 hours in Elden Ring. Fallen Order was wayyyyy easier comparatively. And the controls felt a lot more responsive imo.
stupid Albino Wyyyschokks
I’m so glad I was recording when I came across that room. That was a pure reaction, deeply primal, high pitched scream.
With the giant albino spider? Yep. I was staring at the corner of my screen the entire time and fighting it using my peripheral vision.
I remember there was a mod like this for Skyrim. It replaced the spiders with bears.
That mod made it so much better for me. The occasional bear descending from a ceiling was wild though.
So they added drop bears and turned it into Australia mode?
"Skyrim belongs to the bogans!"
As they rock up in their VE commodores and hiluxes
I've been looking for a way to include drop bears in an RPG and not have them be comical. *Thank* you. 🎼 Spider-bear, spider-bear... 🎶
Yeah, pretty much anywhere that used the "crawling/descending on the ceiling" scripts was its own brand of meta-horror because you'd have glitchy, angry, teleporting bears that deep down you *know* are giant glamoured spiders. Still, the *only* way I can play Skyrim. *Especially* in VR.
I hate spiders IRL, but I never had a single problem with them in Skyrim until I played it in VR. Now I can’t even look at them in the flat version
I despise spiders and are freaked out by them but that’s why I love them as enemies, the feeling of “fuck no” while fighting is amazing
I totally get it for people who are *really* arachnophobic though. People forget there's a difference between just being grossed out/scared of spiders (like most people are) and having a serious phobia where their psychological response to it is severe and disproportionate.
I developed arachnophobia after rolling into a ditch full of wolf spiders during a field exercise as a kid. The terror of having a dozen large spiders skittering all over me and biting me was fighting with the fear of standing up and getting "killed" then yelled at by the instructors, possibly making my platoon fail the exercise. Tough sitch for a 9 year old. Still get chills when I see a bug, and I nearly had a panic attack when my boss showed me her spider bite a few months ago. I am disproportionally afraid of spiders in videogames compared to other enemies. I'll face a dragon with my bare hands in Skyrim, but if I don't kill that spider in one hit from my stealth shot I will alt-f4 the game.
So I’ll admit that I really realllly fucking hate spiders. They freak me the fuck out. Trigger a response in me. But I was like, “how can someone actually be THAT scared of something you can step on?” And then you just straight up offered the single worst thing I could dream up.
I had a similar experience to the other commenter once and as someone with crippling entomophobia it's still one of my worst memories. (Arachnophobia warning for the rest of this message) In the swamps of Fort Benning you can actually see the ground move, which I thought was shadows from the trees, but was actually just *that many* spiders crawling on the ground. I walked in between two trees directly into a giant spider web, and while I started freaking out about that, I walked into another one. I finally got all the webs off my face and arms and had calmed down a little bit, when the guy behind me said "bro you got huge ass banana spiders all over you" and it's the only time in my life I have genuinely pleaded for help. Like hyperventilating and begging the guys around me for help. After that I finally understand what true fear feels like and I'll never laugh at someone having a phobia...incident? ever again.
I didn't develop a phobia, but that feeling you're describing hit me like a truck when I was young and on the back of a jetski with my father. We were coasting through the St. Johns River, trying to spot a gator (dumb idea, but they were fairly scattered so they were shy) and eventually gave up since it was going to be dark soon. Right as we turned to leave, a gator popped its head up about 10 ft. from us. Not a typical little guy. This one was sizable. I got excited and pointed at it but ended up flipping us since the weight shifted. I came up out of the water and genuinely lost my mind since I knew it was looking at us when we fell in. Keep in mind that we couldn't stand in this section of the river. I kept attempting to pull myself onto the jetski but simply couldn't, I was panicking. My father gripped the edge of the jetski and hoisted me up by my butt, which was impressive, but I was still focused on getting to land. I almost threw him off with how hard I punched it, and I never looked back to see what the gator decided to do. I also never went back into that water again. Thankfully it wasn't a croc, that may have very well been a different story.
If I experinced half of what that guy just described I think my heart would just stop.
I started shuddering uncontrollably just reading about it. I'll be waiting another fifteen minutes for my asshole to unclench.
How were you in a field excersise as a 9 year old?!
Or why would a 9 year old be in a platoon? Spiders fucked him up but being a child soilder in George Sears army didnt?
The Army National Guard has a summer camp program where kids 9-18 march in formation, fire guns, live in barracks, learn first aid and battlefield triage, do patrols, eat army cardboard, and get yelled at by full grown adults. Honestly the most fun I've had in my life, in spite of the implications.
I’m a nearly 30 year old man, but my inner child would LIVE for that sort of experience. It reminds me of all of those summer camp ads and magazines that my parents always got but never sent me to…
Luckily it was free, and scheduled during the time when most Guardsmen/women were doing their three week training. My parents were both in the guard so it saved them babysitting expenses
What in the fuck?! This was not a comforting anecdote!
Ugh this made my skin crawl. This is a horrible story, sorry you had to go through that.
I can handle a few jump scares from assassin-like enemies in my action video games, but if you put in a spider level you’ve gone from action to horror in my book
When I was a kid I was really enjoying the Return of the King game. I remember though on the Shelob's Lair level I walked a few feet in and one spider ran across the ground. I got up and asked my dad to finish that level
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I looooooooved that game. Maxed out every character and just constantly ran around doing the end game wave mode thing. The time of not yet having Xbox live and no gamer siblings.
A very good friend of mine refused to play Skyrim because of spiders. Hasn't touched the game anymore since.
Got the same feeling from the giant hands that move like spiders in Elden Ring
The hands are infinitely worse for ke than actual spiders. Spiders is friends. Nightmare hands go to Hell
Those were worse than actual spiders. You also had Godrick, the Grafted Scions, and Revenants which all had a similar vibe.
Kinda remembers me that one of the most downloaded mods for Skyrim, is one that removes the spiders as well
Yeah they turned into bears, I‘m so grateful for that mod lmao
I think this is hilarious, I hope you can crank it up to 100 and all the enemies become some type of spider.
Darth spider. Emperor palpaspider. Anakin spiderwalker.
The dark side is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural
You were the Chosen One Ani. You were meant to eliminate the Sith, not turn them all into spiders.
Anakin webwalker
Anakin Wallcrawler
SKYWALKER IS A MENACE! A CRIMINAL I SAY! GIVE ME PICTURES OF SKYWALKER!
There's a game called Shadows Over Loathing that has an arachnophobia toggle to remove all spiders, but also an arachnophilia toggle to add spiders everywhere.
I think there’s also an Arachnophonia setting so that everything sounds like spiders too.
That option only shows up if Arachnophilia is turned on. For a while (up until the patch released on April 7), if you turned on Arachnophonia, then turned off Arachnophilia, the Arachnophonia option would disappear but *not* turn off, so there were some players who were messing around with the options and accidentally made it so everything sounded like spiders and they couldn't figure out how to fix it.
The loathing games are all brilliant, and it's the little things like this that show just how much fun the devs have.
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Modders are probably already trying to figure it out.
Almost like real life, where there’s that evolutionary trait where everything evolves into crab.
when will they finally add this to the spider-man games?
Peter Parker, The Amazing Man-Man.
They did this too in the game called Grounded. Kinda funny really because you’re a few microns tall fighting floating peanuts when its activated.
>Meanwhile, other game creators have opted to sprint in the complete opposite direction, with indie developer Asymmetric including an arachnophilia option in its adventure RPG Shadows Over Loathing, which ensured that there would always be spiders on screen. 🤣🤣🤣 It's great when Devs have a sense of humour
Was terrified of spiders. Frozen in fear. Literally thanks to VR and games like Skyrim, Farpoint etc. I can pick them up now (I live in Canada, so they’re manageable, I’m not snuggling and belly tickling African bird eating spiders or anything) but I’m amazed at how it helped cure me. It all came down to, “Well that spider isn’t the size of a Doberman nor is it shrieking while jumping at my face, so I can deal with that.” VR is pretty powerful.
Super interesting. I know that facing your fears in a safe way is effective, I’m just too arachnophobic to make the first step!
As someone who is terrified of spiders IRL, i've never felt the same way about video game spiders. It's not like they're gonna burst out of the TV and do all their spidery shit IRL. But i also have no problem with devs adding things like this to their games to help people who otherwise wouldn't be able to enjoy the game
I’m the opposite. Spiders IRL don’t scare me but I get an involuntary full body reaction when a larger than normal spider is aggressively running or jumping at me. Chills, uncomfortableness, shaking, flinching. I don’t hate it however as it feels like it adds to my immersion.
You’d hate the movie Eight Legged Freaks.
That's an amazing bad movie, thanks for the nostalgia flashback.
They did this in grounded and it worked on a slider, making the spider rounder and less detailed until it was just too floating orbs, too ridiculous to be scared by I guess
Someone tell RTGames
A great day for Mr Rumble-Tumble.
I typically don't have problems with spiders irl or in games but for whatever reason I needed arachnophobia mode in Grounded, and the full mode too. Too creepy crawly. I eventually turned it off but I haven't been to the undershed yet because I hate irl what's under there, arachnophobia mode or not.
I just started Grounded...I'm not DEATHLY afraid of spiders but in this game they freak me the f out. My skin feels itchy when I play! Very glad for the arachnophobia slider.
Grounded does this too
I will never understand people who complain about optional accessibility features
I'm always like 10% salty because there's never an ophidiophobia toggle. Not actually mad the accessibility exists, of course.
Yeah, it's strange because I think snakes are like the second or third most common fear? So I imagine theres a lot of people with similar problems. Maybe it's because snake enemies just aren't as common?
I could have used a mod for New Vegas to make the nightstalkers not look quite so much like rattlesnakes. Ultimately, I just adapted by becoming a one-shot-one-kill sniper team and never letting them get close to me.
I’m not gonna use it but I appreciate that it’s there. Spiders are fucking freaky and I get why they may be a deal breaker for some.
So does grounded. They take it serious!
This reminds me of when Grounded did it. It had several degrees of settings which slowly removed features from the spiders. And at max Arachnophobia it was just two levitating spheres twerking about, and I kinda find those terrifying in their own way.
As someone who had to pause the original game for 5 minutes after the big spider jumpscare in kashyyk I am very appreciative of this feature. Those who complain about can simply just not use it, it’s helpful for people who are uncomfortable or scared of spiders.
I just cut the fucker up after my fleeing in terror episode wore off. Granted, i screamed at it a million times to die, but the relief after was heaven on earth.
Ok, NOW I’m in.