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[Black]

But I don't mind spiders in games at all. They're just 3D models that mostly don't even look realistic. And they're usually not the really repulsive type of spider, anyway, mostly they're the plushy ones. But even the Thief ones commie mentioned aren't really creepy to me.

So you're incapable of being immersed by video games, is that right?

 

[Overweight Manatee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia

 

[Thrasher]

Thanks for making my day.

 

[Volourn]

"Seems like a lot of the Codex is enjoying this game though, judging by the shit in GRPG right now."

Don't mistake spam for love. Oblivion, FO3, NWN, and DA2 all got emga spam from the Codex too.

Then again, I bet most Codexerrs lvoe those games too but are too EXTREME to publically admit it.

 

[Morbus]

It makes me sad to think of a how sad a person needs to be to think of the sadness that is people not admitting on the internet that they like a game, because they don't want to be publicly known to like said game even though they use a nickname and the internet isn't really public...

Volourn, if you were a big eyed japanese anime moe female character I'd hug you.

But I don't mind spiders in games at all. They're just 3D models that mostly don't even look realistic. And they're usually not the really repulsive type of spider, anyway, mostly they're the plushy ones. But even the Thief ones commie mentioned aren't really creepy to me.

So you're incapable of being immersed by video games, is that right?

your comment also makes me said.

 

[commie]

Thats sad they never take into account digital sales , 14% only on the pc is really grim and as a businessman id thought the platform is irrelevant for gaming. Why bother to cope with allt he hardware configurations and problems just for so few sales.
For arachnophobia, theres a treatment invovling watching alternatively,naked women pictures and spider pictures, hope it will help.No, no its really a true treatment, youll thanks me later.

Thanks for the tip bro! I'll save this so that my wife will understand....

 

[Rhalle]

As usual, the "bugs" talk is overblown-- not that Skyrim's perfect in that respect.

I'd be curious to see a side by side comparison of "bugs" in Skyrim vs New Vegas, at release.

I'd be willing to bet they are about the same.

Probably fairly close. For me, neither were that bad.

In Skyrim there's some clipping and weird NPC responses every so often-- but that's to be expected in a giant non-linear open-world game.

Frankly, FO3 feels tighter-made to me than either NV or Skyrim. Not that that means it's better, of course.

The only truly glaring bug I've seen in Skyrim is an elk spawning in mid-air and falling to its death, which was hilarious enough that I could overlook it. And that was after playing it for a couple days.

 

[Vibalist]

Spiderbro

 

[Angelo85]

Thats sad they never take into account digital sales , 14% only on the pc is really grim and as a businessman id thought the platform is irrelevant for gaming. Why bother to cope with allt he hardware configurations and problems just for so few sales.

Considering the number of units we are talking about, 14% of it is still a lot of money. Maybe even enough to dedicate more time for a decent port when it's time for Elder Scrolls VI (hey, you can still hope, can't you?)

As for the spider thing I have to admit that I'm somewhat afraid of them... well not the little one's but the big, hairy ones at least.
When I encounter them in games though it's not that bad, but fighting against them is more tense than against other monsters most of the time.
And then there was this one time when a buddy of mine rick rolled me with that infamous spider porn video - seriously had a nightmare after that.

 

[Captain Shrek]

We want the audience of TES: Skyrim.

-Bioware

:poop:

 

[BLOBERT]

LOLLO;LOL AT THE CONSOLETARD RAGE IN THIS TOPIC CONSIDERING YOU PCTARDS ARE LAPPING UP SKYRIM

BROS MY HOMEMADE CURE FOR ARACHNOPHOBIA IS MIDOL

 

[ortucis]

And the UI is consolated crap. But, truth be told, it's not much different from FO3.

Fallout 3's inventory was just fine for PC. For example, to set a item to hotkey all you had to do was to press a number key and click the item and viola, you're done. In Skyrim you click item > press F to favorite > quit inventory > press Q to bring up favorite list > scroll to the item you want to bind to hotkey > pres the key to bind.

Not to mention pressing F1, F2, F3, F4 bought up inventory, journal, stats, map quickly just like they patched in Oblivion.

Skyrim's UI is designed to wow the retarded console crowd while FO3 UI was at least tweaked to be PC friendly.

 

[Excidium]

I don't mind spiders. They mostly keep to themselves and eat the annoying insects.

Moths are bastards, though. Big, ugly, furry things frantically flying around and being a general pain in the ass. You turn the lights off for five seconds and they're nose diving the computer screen.

LOLLO;LOL AT THE CONSOLETARD RAGE IN THIS TOPIC CONSIDERING YOU PCTARDS ARE LAPPING UP SKYRIM

BRO you know the hip thing is to like shit ironically.

 

[Thrasher]

Not to mention the mouse pointing inaccuracy when you click. I've misclicked so many times, I've resorted to only using the keyboard during dialogue and inventory interactions. Wow factor is eclipsed by bugged control.

 

[DakaSha]

6. No Spider Mod

Arachnophobes like PC Gamer contributor Richard Cobbett have a hard time with games like Skyrim. Which is why No Spiders patches are so useful. This first attempt at a spider free Skyrim is particularly hilarious, as it replaces the models of the spiders with hilariously out of place bears.

Are they for real?

Somebody that is truly arachnophobic will NOT play a game with spiders.. they def prefer the out of place bears believe me lol

 

[Jaesun]

Spiders.

 

[SCO]

I'm a rather heavy arachnophobe

Hey there hi there!

Give a little hug to charlotte

 

[SCO]

Black widows are pretty beautiful in a stylized way.

 

[Excommunicator]

Spiderbros indeed

 

[DakaSha]

im not arachnophobic but fuck em anyways

 

[InspectorRumpole]

 

[rebert]

So the interface is painful when dual weilding a mouse and keyboard, but the level scaling and voice acting have improved over the last game.

How is the quest compass? Is it intrusive or do some quests offer directions based on the terrain and such.

What about armor and weapons classes, are pauldrons and spears back.. or have they been condensed even further - more importantly have they fixed axes yet or chosen persist in their classification as "blunt."

Any news on spell creation and enchanting? They were the most interesting part of MW, besides the books. And stealing and orcish cuirass from under Meldor's nose as a low level character..

 

[Gragt]

Just noticed that Spiderbro misses one leg on the left side. I wonder if it happened when he nearly drowned and I saved him or if it's unrelated. Still, he lives.

 

[Shannow]

And the UI is consolated crap. But, truth be told, it's not much different from FO3.

Fallout 3's inventory was just fine for PC.[No, it was a trainwreck. Worse than FO's and that was already bad. Though the character screen made up for the inventory in FO.] For example, to set a item to hotkey all you had to do was to press a number key and click the item and viola, you're done [And what is special about quick slots? If anything FO3's way is less intuitive than eg. NWN's.]. In Skyrim you click item > press F to favorite > quit inventory > press Q to bring up favorite list > scroll to the item you want to bind to hotkey > pres the key to bind. [Nobody said Skrym's UI was good ]

Not to mention pressing F1, F2, F3, F4 bought up inventory, journal, stats, map quickly just like they patched in Oblivion. [As opposed to "i", "j", "c" and "m", you know, like every other PC game... ]

Skyrim's UI is designed to wow the retarded console crowd while FO3 UI was at least tweaked to be PC friendly.[FO3's was an ineffective mess that hid information that could have been provided in 2-3 screens in >5 screens + various tabs and highlights + lots of scrolling and consolized text. It wasn't "tweaked" at all, it was just absolutely shitty and made to "wow" the retard gamer crowd. Obviously worked with some... ]

You've posted lots of nonsense (and lots ok stuff) in your time but this truly has to be your low point

 

[Coyote]

So the interface is painful when dual weilding a mouse and keyboard, but the level scaling and voice acting have improved over the last game.

How is the quest compass? Is it intrusive or do some quests offer directions based on the terrain and such.

What about armor and weapons classes, are pauldrons and spears back.. or have they been condensed even further - more importantly have they fixed axes yet or chosen persist in their classification as "blunt."

Any news on spell creation and enchanting? They were the most interesting part of MW, besides the books. And stealing and orcish cuirass from under Meldor's nose as a low level character..

I haven't played the game, but based on the impressions I've read here...

1) Quest compass is the same as always but can be turned off in the ini. I thought I saw someone mention in an early thread that NPCs give directions, and some of sea's posts seem to support this, but I've seen little mention of this since then despite opponents of the game frequently claiming that being able to disable the compass is not a point in its favor due to the lack of NPC directions. So I'm not sure.

2) No pauldrons (in fact, they reduced the number of armor slots from Oblivion; now there's a single set of armor for the torso and legs, though there are still separate gauntlet, helmet, and boot slots) or spears.

3) No spell creation, but enchantment is still in, as is a simple crafting system.

I'm semi-arachnophobic IRL(I don't know, I fear most spiders except the really tiny ones and daddy longlegs) but I don't mind pixellated spiders for the most part. The only computer game spiders that instill a real sense of revulsion are those in Thief and System Shock 2. Those spindly, low poly things are just so unsettling, mush like most of the bestiary in those games.

I'm a slight arachnophobe,* and I've had a similar experience with spiders in games. 99 percent of them don't bother me at all, but there were some optional areas in Outlaws I refused to visit when I first played it despite being a completionist because the spiders freaked me out. I think it's partially because they were smaller and faster than most games' spiders - closer to the size of tarantulas rather than the giant spiders of fantasy fare, which also made them harder to hit when they darted at you. That was a long time ago, though; doubt I'd have the same reaction today.

* Well, not exactly. I'm not afraid of spiders so much as I'm a bit OCD and hate the idea of crawly little bugs in general. I don't have any problem dealing with them when it's necessary, so it doesn't really meet the criteria for a phobia.

I'm a rather heavy arachnophobe (that daddy longlegs Commie mentioned is actually one of the worst for me)

Blargh, daddy longlegs. I once visited a cave as a child and brushed up against the ceiling while entering, only to feel something moving. Half a second later it was raining daddy longlegs all over me. (They're apparently less solitary than other spiders, often gathering in dense clusters on the walls and ceilings of places like caves and garages.)

For arachnophobia, theres a treatment invovling watching alternatively,naked women pictures and spider pictures, hope it will help.No, no its really a true treatment, youll thanks me later.

Not sure if serious, but I doubt that would work; IIRC, behaviorists did a lot of experiments along these lines (attempting to use classical conditioning to cure phobias), and generally, pairing a pleasant stimulus with a phobia would either have no effect or actually cause the pleasant stimulus to elicit fear/anxiety rather than causing you to grow accustomed to the feared stimulus.**

What does work is exposure therapy, which gradually inures you to an unpleasant stimulus by forcing you to confront your fear in a safe environment until it dissipates. This process is repeated several times while slowly increasing the intensity of the stimulus used. For example, a severe arachnophobe might start out staring at very abstract, static drawings of spiders for several minutes at a time, waiting for their fear to die down, heart rate/breathing/galvanic skin response to return to normal, etc. After repeating this exercise to this to the point that their fear response is minimal/nonexistent, they'd move to a slightly more realistic picture, then maybe a moving picture, etc., slowly working their way up to, say, petting a real, live tarantula.

** In particularly severe cases (such as when a patient can't even stand the first step of exposure long enough for the fear to dissipate), a treatment similar to what you described may be used. However, rather than pairing a fear stimulus with an erotic stimulus, which involves two different forms of limbic system arousal, they'd pair the fear stimulus with a relaxation technique in order to reduce such arousal.

P.S. This thread is now about spiders. (Not that it wasn't before.)