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[Fetunche]

I like spiders, but I dislike the the way the media portrays them in a negative way. We need more friendly spiders.

[Ridwan]

Why are you lot so afraid of spiders? We look like freaking Gojira to them and not only are they afraid of us, they catch and eat all those annoying flies and mosquitoes.

[Battlebloodmage]

M25105 wrote...

Why are you lot so afraid of spiders? We look like freaking Gojira to them and not only are they afraid of us, they catch and eat all those annoying flies and mosquitoes.

Do you do gardening often? 

[Azaron Nightblade]

Jake_Cerberus wrote...

OHHHH COME ON! SPIDERS ARE AWESOME! and when you have shapeshift or summon spider we can control then and they make like those cute noises of their paws walking on the floor! well... at least i think its a cute noise... like: tec tec tec tec tec

Spiders are our friends.
They protect us from the insidious (buzzing) flying vermin.

[Dio Demon]

Spiders? SPIDERS! KILL THEM ALL WITH FIRE! Commit spider genocide! *Actual arachnaphobe* 

Modifié par Crazy Eyed One, 06 septembre 2013 - 03:25 .

[Battlebloodmage]

It has been documented that spiders are not the menace we thought they were.

[The Twilight God]

Must suck being a fly in your past life.

[Ridwan]

Battlebloodmage wrote...

M25105 wrote...

Why are you lot so afraid of spiders? We look like freaking Gojira to them and not only are they afraid of us, they catch and eat all those annoying flies and mosquitoes.

Do you do gardening often? 

Sometimes, currently I'm mostly outside sawing wood.

[Dutchess]

crimzontearz wrote...

renjility wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

renjility wrote...

I don't have a problem with fighting spiders pe se, but I do hate the way they suddenly appear with that sound. Every damned spider attack comes with an increased chance of a heart attack. I'm not playing a horror game, so go away with  those cheap shock moments.

you going to say the same about Mass Effect?

I don't recall a similar enemy type in the ME series? Husks were creepy, but they didn't have a habit of jumping down from the ceiling.

They did in ME2, ME3 had many attempts at cheap scare moments especially with banshees

The ORIGINAL adjundants (back then pariahs) were meant to be horror-like enemies too

Well, I never jumped in my chair or gasped because ME enemies managed to scare me. Only happened with the spiders, primarily DA2's. Banshees' screams never startled me either, just warned me they were coming. I don't know if that's something on my end then, or that there's still a difference in the way the games handle these things. I think it might be what happy_daiz said, about how the spider's sound is so loud compared to everything else. Banshee screams were not that loud.

[I Like Cats And]

The spiders in DA2 were legit probably the scariest moment in any video game I'm ever played, well that and the atrocious writing.

[aries1001]

I agree that spiders have been overdone a lot in rpgs and other games as well. I also agree that the sounds the spiders make in the DA games are a bit too much, and very scary, imo. I would also agree that it is the surprise e.g. that gets me everytime. And by that I mean this: spiders suddenly dropping from ceilings, popping out of the caves in the ground etc. etc. At least in Fallout it made sense they would have this ability since there were radiated spiders and thus huge.

In the DA universe - or in other rpgs as well - I haven't the reason behind why giant spiders behave this way. Unless it is the standard explanation from long ago i.e. A wizard did it...

Rats have also been overdone in rpgs; at least PS: Torment turned this around and made rats clever, intelligent animals. And Oblivion had a clever , intelligent quest which had a different take on them as well. (rats I mean).

As for spiders in the Dragon Age origins games, I think they are in there for two reasons:

1) to scare people - a lot.
2) every house in every time period has had spiders; the houses and castles in Dragon Age games shouldn't be any different...

[The Six Path of Pain]

hhh89 wrote...

The Six Path of Pain wrote...

OK, so why don't people like the giant spider? I really don't get the hate. Is it arachnophobia or something along those lines? /:

For most people, I think it's arachnophobia. Others might not like how they ambush the party.
I think that for some people things will be worse with the new engine, since spider might be more realistic, both in appearance and movement.
Not to mention that we migh even get a new type of spider, other than the common one and the varterral.

I like spiders and am currently in the process of getting a tarantula > But I can understand the people who are frightened of them. I mean I hate potato bugs and would hate to have them in the game...*shrugs* 

[crimzontearz]

renjility wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

renjility wrote...

crimzontearz wrote...

renjility wrote...

I don't have a problem with fighting spiders pe se, but I do hate the way they suddenly appear with that sound. Every damned spider attack comes with an increased chance of a heart attack. I'm not playing a horror game, so go away with  those cheap shock moments.

you going to say the same about Mass Effect?

I don't recall a similar enemy type in the ME series? Husks were creepy, but they didn't have a habit of jumping down from the ceiling.

They did in ME2, ME3 had many attempts at cheap scare moments especially with banshees

The ORIGINAL adjundants (back then pariahs) were meant to be horror-like enemies too

Well, I never jumped in my chair or gasped because ME enemies managed to scare me. Only happened with the spiders, primarily DA2's. Banshees' screams never startled me either, just warned me they were coming. I don't know if that's something on my end then, or that there's still a difference in the way the games handle these things. I think it might be what happy_daiz said, about how the spider's sound is so loud compared to everything else. Banshee screams were not that loud.

not the point, just because the spiders scared you more effectively that does not mean the intention was different in Mass Effect

[Karlone123]

If anything the spiders need to BIGGER!

[Taleroth]

We need more spiders! And snakes! Heights! Enclosed spaces!

Clowns!

[crimzontearz]

Data7 wrote...

Bedevil123 wrote...

huge spiders = huge cliche

Completely agree.
Can't be put better.  

zombies = huge cliche
dragons = huge cliche
wild beasts = huge cliche

can you point out something in DA that someone would not call a huge cliche?

[phunx]

Taleroth wrote...

We need more spiders! And snakes! Heights! Enclosed spaces!

Clowns!

You're a monster!

[septembervirgin]

Carnivorous horses. Two headed cows. Giant blight corrupted spiders possessed by confused Pride Demons.

[Battlebloodmage]

septembervirgin wrote...

Carnivorous horses. Two headed cows. Giant blight corrupted spiders possessed by confused Pride Demons.

Your mother-in-law. 

[Angrywolves]

Peter Jackson is afraid of spiders.
There are spiders in ther Desolation Of Smaug movie.Jackson says spiders are scary.lol.There are production videos onn youtube you can watch.

The black widow I killed, black with a red hourglass on her abdomen, was the scariest spider I've seen, because a bite can kill you.
I doubt we see that kind of thing in DAI, but who knows.

[Neverwinter_Knight77]

If Bioware refuses to get rid of them, then I will wait and see if there's a mod that gets rid of them.  If there isn't one, I will not buy this game at all.  I HATE spiders, to the point where merely seeing a picture of one, or seeing one on TV is enough to make me jump.  In Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3, I only tolerate them because they're only in the game very briefly.  In those instances, I take the most powerful weapon in my arsenal (usually the magnum; limited ammo be damned, I don't care) run up to them, and blow the suckers away.

This is one thing Mass Effect did better.  They had no spiders.  Sure there's rachni, but I don't view them as spiders.

[Angrywolves]

spiders are supposedly among the scary enemies to be in DAI.

[Neverwinter_Knight77]

You know, if they were realistically sized, I might not have such a problem with them.  For me, most of it is arachnaphobia, but part of it is how ridiculous the idea of a tank-sized spider is (giant rats are ridiculous for a similar reason).