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[Frybread76]

I'm not scared of most spiders, I'm just tired of them being used in games as enemies and evil creatures.  Humans have an instinctive aversion to spiders (and insects and snakes), but they've been overused in games, movies and TV to scare and gross out people.

[thats1evildude]

Do we remove the walking corpses for the people with necrophobia? How about the mabari for the people with cynophobia (fear of dogs)? Do we take mounts out of the game for the people with equinophobia?

 

What is funny is that I really hate... moths and butterflies.  They freak me out and I curl up in the fetal position if one gets in my condo.  I make my husband kill them.

 

I hate moths too. I can't stand them.

[wintersdreaming]

I'm not scared of most spiders, I'm just tired of them being used in games as enemies and evil creatures.  Humans have an instinctive aversion to spiders (and insects and snakes), but they've been overused in games, movies and TV to scare and gross out people.

 

Do we remove the walking corpses for the people with necrophobia? How about the mabari for the people with cynophobia (fear of dogs)? Do we take mounts out of the game for the people with equinophobia?

 

Well no, but I think frybread76 up there has the best point. Spiders, rats, zombies: they're all a little overused in games at this point. People expect to see them as some of the earliest enemies in any game. Writers and game designers don't necessarily have to take them out entirely, but it might be time to see something new.

[Frybread76]

Do we remove the walking corpses for the people with necrophobia? How about the mabari for the people with cynophobia (fear of dogs)? Do we take mounts out of the game for the people with equinophobia?
 

 
I hate moths too. I can't stand them.

I doubt they'll be removed but it's too bad BioWare doesn't support modding, because modders have been known in past games to create mods to remove or retexture spiders for arachnophobes.

[Forsythia77]

I don't think we see enough trolls.  Or make the enemies unexpected like in the movie Labryrinth how the fairies were biting pests that Hoggle was spraying with insect spray.  I don't have issues with dogs and wolves and bears and the like. Although I think we need more cougars or something (no, not THOSE kind of cougars).. Big cats y'all!

[Lady Luminous]

I don't think we see enough trolls.  Or make the enemies unexpected like in the movie Labryrinth how the fairies were biting pests that Hoggle was spraying with insect spray.  I don't have issues with dogs and wolves and bears and the like. Although I think we need more cougars or something (no, not THOSE kind of cougars).. Big cats y'all!

 

Part of why I loved the "children" in DA:A was that they were original. They were still gross and creepy, but at least they were something new!

[wintersdreaming]

I don't think we see enough trolls.  Or make the enemies unexpected like in the movie Labryrinth how the fairies were biting pests that Hoggle was spraying with insect spray.  I don't have issues with dogs and wolves and bears and the like. Although I think we need more cougars or something (no, not THOSE kind of cougars).. Big cats y'all!

 

Labryrinth, yesss. I like the way you think.

 

I really want to see more Fae based creatures period actually. There are a lot of things in Celtic (and Norse there are some interesting crossovers) mythology that are absolutely terrifying. And while Celtic lore has been making a bit of a comeback in media, it's still been absent and underrepresented for a long time - there are so many new and strange creatures you could base off of it. Plus the Dragon Age universe seems like a great place for it. Re-read some of the stories from the elven pantheon - and David Gaider's own interpretation and hints at their role in the world of Thedas - and tell me they don't start to sound a bit like the Sidhe.

 

Also, another place to find terrifying monsters that need more game representation? Slavic mythology. Absolutely full of crazy and horrifying things.

[Humakt83]

Most spiders in RPGs and other games are pretty tame compared to ones in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and Metro Last Light.

[leaguer of one]

Most spiders in RPGs and other games are pretty tame compared to ones in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and Metro Last Light.

most spiders are tame when compared to this...

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[wintersdreaming]

most spiders are tame when compared to this...

 

Damn it. At least someone went there so I didn't have to.

 

Not like I was planning to sleep this month anyway...

[Wissenschaft 2.0]

I like spiders because they keep annoying insects like mosquitoes away from my house. Amen. Eat up, my little friends.

[wintersdreaming]

I like spiders because they keep annoying insects like mosquitoes away from my house. Amen. Eat up, my little friends.

 

So do geckos, but they're adorable.

 

(I have an accord with the spiders. They can exist and thrive with my blessing as long as they do so away from where I can see them. It's when they break this accord that we have a problem...)

[Forsythia77]

At least Bioware has a sense of humor about their spiders.  "Snowball".  And "Ironically, Spiders".

 

 

Labryrinth, yesss. I like the way you think.

 

I really want to see more Fae based creatures period actually. There are a lot of things in Celtic (and Norse there are some interesting crossovers) that are absolutely terrifying. And while Celtic lore has been making a bit of a comeback in media, it's still been absent and underrepresented for a long time - there are so many new and strange creatures you could base off of it. Plus the Dragon Age universe seems like a great place for it. Re-read some of the stories from the elven pantheon - and David Gaider's own interpretation and hints at their role in the world of Thedas - and tell me they don't start to sound a bit like the Sidhe.

 

Also, another place to find terrifying monsters that need more game representation? Slavic mythology. Absolutely full of crazy and horrifying things.

 

I think it is easy to phone it in with  certain monsters/critters being your sort of standard scary fare.  Zombies? Check.  Spiders?  Check.   Obscure mythological creature from Norse mythology.. not so much.  But I think a lot of games (not necessarily BioWare ones) dumb stuff down and go with the lowest common denominator.. which is in this case.. spiders.  Since so many people fear them, you get a hell of a lot of games with them. And if you don't even know what el cuhpacabra is, how do you know to fear it?

[wintersdreaming]

That's part of why it may not be reasonable to remove those things entirely, but I think the mark of a good game is when the story can introduce something new and make me scared of it.
Like Lyrium, I'm real wary of that **** now.

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A probable living hive mind that spans at least two worlds, and I've been drinking it.

No thank you pls

[Lady Luminous]

That's part of why it may not be reasonable to remove those things entirely, but I think the mark of a good game is when the story can introduce something new and make me scared of it.
Like Lyrium, I'm real wary of that **** now.

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A probable living hive mind that spans at least two worlds, and I've been drinking it.

No thank you pls

 

I know, I kept on trying to shoo my soldiers away from the red stuff.

 

It's pulsing, why are we camping here??

[Inverse_Twilight]

I'm not exactly scared of spiders but they do gross me out quite a bit with their creepy legs. I can tolerate them in game. I just vent my anger at them and try to kill them as fast as I possibly can. I think that the best you can do is avoid them or kill them fast. Or pray for a mod that turns them into mabari.

[Frybread76]

I'm not exactly scared of spiders but they do gross me out quite a bit with their creepy legs. I can tolerate them in game. I just vent my anger at them and try to kill them as fast as I possibly can. I think that the best you can do is avoid them or kill them fast. Or pray for a mod that turns them into mabari.

 

Not be off topic, but one thing that disturbs me are the white scorpions in "Fallout 3."  Maybe it's their multiple eyes and how they just seem to come out of nowhere and attack me in the back.  I always us the console to remove them.

[DeadEyeMaster1]

Just touch a spider or staring them....

 

Well I'd rather not spoiler anyhow, there is a path in the hinterlands like at the middle of the map near a camp, full of red stones aside the path. It automatically regenerates white spiders.

[KaiserShep]

I'm not exactly scared of spiders but they do gross me out quite a bit with their creepy legs. I can tolerate them in game. I just vent my anger at them and try to kill them as fast as I possibly can. I think that the best you can do is avoid them or kill them fast. Or pray for a mod that turns them into mabari.

 

I think it's the multiple eyes and that giant bulbous abdomen. It's serious junk in the trunk, and that junk is made of pain and nightmares. I actually kinda love spiders, yet at the same time the big ones freak me the hell out. It's a weird dynamic.

[wintersdreaming]

It's the little ones that get me. You never see them coming until they're already on your face.

Plus I grew up in a place with record numbers of brown recluse spiders. The smallest ones are often the deadliest.

[fhs33721]

Giant spiders are awesome. When will a Dragon Age protagonist finally be able to ride one into battle?

[Call Me Jord]

I'm more of a Bee's fan myself

 

 

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Screw Bee's

 

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And screw Spider's

 

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Also screw you fhs33721, that idea of a ridable Spider will make me sleep every night with the light turned on

[Wissenschaft 2.0]

OMG, I want a rideable spider mount now! Behold, the nightmare is REAL. MUHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA!

 

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[EmissaryofLies]

Bioware hates people that don't have tarantulas crawling all over them in their spare time, at least that seems to be the case.

 

It's very petty, but smashing the disgusting creatures helps me.

 

As for people who cannot seem to understand the fear of them, think bad childhood experiences.

 

You might have to Batman and flood yourself if you ever want to rid yourself of the fear entirely.

[fhs33721]

OMG, I want a rideable spider mount now! Behold, the nightmare is REAL. MUHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA!

 

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Hey it has been done before:

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In Sacred 2. Inronically the spider mount was for the Inquisitor-class only