Spiders Are a Popular Video Game Monster. They're Also an Accessibility Problem

[Peasant]

It's not a secret.

By the way why do people find spiders repulsive but have no problem with crabs? Crabs I think are the more dangerous arthropods. They have those big, meat, claws just waiting to rip your balls off with.

I don't like spiders or bugs in general, but I think crustaceans are adorable.

Spoiler: Just look at him

 

[Cyclonus]

I'd let him be my giant enemy crab any day.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

I may be scared of spiders, but if we could get Patrick Klepek in a big pit I'd personally carry bucketloads of giant nasty superdeadly spiders to sprinkle over him.

 

[Sable]

Can't personally think of any spiders in games that managed to actually be something to make me tense. They usually just lean on the creepy crawly factor.

I don't know, the spider crabs in Legend of Grimrock can go fuck themselves.

 

[Teadrinkr]

Spiders are terrifying, that's why they are monster- so you can fucking murder them.
Being scared of spiders isn't a disability. Get ur diamond sword, retard.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

The scared of spiders seems like one of those dumb early internet memes, back when le, thank you good sir, nuke it from orbit were popular that a bunch of goons wanted to be more goonier then the last so they purposely played up their fear of spider and it lead to a feedback of it.

Getting scared by a game is fine. Straight up crippling phobia by a game is fucking pathetic.

 

[Annealing Crater]

This is a slap in the face to those of us with a fear of sliders. When will a game accommodate us?

 

[Aib Ld]

All this talk about exposing one's self to spiders in games so the fear lessens and nobody brought it up?

You either play as a spider or scorpion, battling other creatures like a snake, rats, lizards, bugs, more spiders, and so on. Playing as a spider changes the game to a horror, while you just kick ass as a scorpion while the few horror parts can be a surprise since they're unexpected, there's a section where you get in a room full of spider webs with spiders about and you can get stuck on them.

There was a few times where I got uncomfortable but I trudged through. Fun game, got some replays on it. Too bad the company went under, would had liked a sequel on more playable bugs.

 

[DapperShark]

By the way why do people find spiders repulsive but have no problem with crabs?

They can be plenty terrifying.

EDIT: For some reason I can't insert images by URL

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It's not a secret.

By the way why do people find spiders repulsive but have no problem with crabs? Crabs I think are the more dangerous arthropods. They have those big, meat, claws just waiting to rip your balls off with.

Crabs have ten legs. Guess eight is scarier than ten. Might be the eyes.

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What's wrong smoothskin, never seen a ghoul before?

What is it with misery addicts and Code Lyoko-size foreheads?

 

[Jesus Swept]

Having to get close to these fuckers while doing yard work or whatever else scares the piss out of me.

How could you be scared of such a cute face?

 

[OvercookedBacon]

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Ahh, coconut crabs. Have read before that they're delicious.

 

[Red Hood]

This is the kind of pussy that has to call someone to kill a spider in his bathtub.

 

[Maamtis]

I have fear of spiders but spiders in games don't phase me cause more often than not you can kill the little bastards. The creepers in Minecraft on the other hand...

 

[AnOminous]

This is the kind of pussy that has to call someone to kill a spider in his bathtub.

The sad thing is this cunt doesn't believe a word he writes. He is purely a woketard for money. In reality he is a rape joke making shitlord.

 

[Red Hood]

The sad thing is this cunt doesn't believe a word he writes. He is purely a woketard for money. In reality he is a rape joke making shitlord.

I don't doubt it. Just look at his face. I feel sexually harassed just looking at that mugshot.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't doubt it. Just look at his face. I feel sexually harassed just looking at that mugshot.

Here's another. It's already been posted in the thread but really can't be posted enough.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

If anyone actually owns this I'd be curious to see what accessibility spiders look like ingame. We had a shot of the half-spider abomination a few pages back but not if the slider is maxed out.

Anyways, storytime. Many years ago when Dota 2 was new there was a push to censor Broodmother (who is a realistic looking tarantula). One of the figureheads of the modding community took this on as a challenge and decided to replace her with a kitten. At some point during this process he replaced the skill icons with pictures of kittens as well, but this had some.. interesting, side effects in regards to Brood's ability to spin webs.

Spoiler: spawn more overlords

There was also the issue of not being able to directly replace models and reuse animations due to brood having her own rig, being a spider and all. This lead to an odd improvised solution that supplied all of the bones the animations needed to not go berserk. It eventually got replaced with an actual custom cat model, but for a good while you could roll around as this amalgamation of four standard units spitting the web in that spoiler above. Arachnophobics were generally not happy with this change. but everyone else was.



.. then valve added for-pay cosmetics and disabled mods entirely since no fun is allowed. So it goes.

 

[Brain Power]

If anyone actually owns this I'd be curious to see what accessibility spiders look like ingame. We had a shot of the half-spider abomination a few pages back but not if the slider is maxed out.

I don't have the game, but I searched it, and they look like this:

Soulless-looking thing vs spider... I think I prefer the spider.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I don't have the game, but I searched it, and they look like this:
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Soulless-looking thing vs spider... I think I prefer the spider.

That's a Harlequin spider fetus. Not a spider.