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[leatherhat]

No sim ant?

Fucking bad news

 

[FaultTolerance]

the camera angle was amazing too, puts the spider right in front of your face... sigh... what happened to Japanese game development...

I know, right? You walk into the room, the camera changes, and suddenly OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK GIANT SPIDER!!!

And you're lucky if it didn't immediately spit acid at you right then and there. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't.

I miss when Resident Evil used to be Resident Evil...

 

[Fancy Clown]

I have no idea why you'd want a shot of this, but here you go...

Fuuuuuuck, I have not gotten to this part of the game yet. Now I have this to look forward to.

 

[Sanke__]

Do human/spider mutants count?

This family scared the shit out of me. When I first played OoT. Thank god they didn't attack like the other ones.

Gets my vote

 

[Capra]

They personally didn't bother me that much, but I know a lot of folks were terrified by the spiders in System Shock 2. They're fast, venomous, huge, and the general scarcity of ammo means that unless you've been very careful with conserving it and have a surplus you can't just unload on them.

Notable especially because of the lengths an arachnophobic modder went to remove them from the game entirely:

I have now set the spiders to be destroyed as soon as they are created. As a safeguard I've also set them to be invisible, completly silent, slower then your avarge dead slug, have one (1) hitpoint, have weapons that make no damage AND they are on the Good team so any other AI's around will slay them!

 

[LDAF]

Define "in a video game"...

 

[tim.mbp]

Legend of Grimrock. Even though you could hear them coming, they almost always made me jump. Example from some random Youtuber:

Legend of Grimrock - Scary Spider

 

[leatherhat]

Define "in a video game"...

I'm not clicking on that without an explanation first

 

[Danny 117]

Scrolled down the thread and saw a pile of spider pics. Don't know what I expected really. Fuck this I'm out.

Spoiler

Those facehuggers in Alien Trilogy for the PS1 coming up on your screen..... *shudders*

 

[NHarmonic.]

The fact babette in Skyrim had one frostbite as a pet freaked me out every time. I'd never sleep in that kind of place.

 

[QuixoticNeutral]

I'm not remotely an arachnophobe, but the spider in Limbo is uniquely terrifying.

 

[Zeuanimals]

Technically a mod but still technically a spider.

 

[Omnii-chan]

Limbo spider was the worst because you needed to "interact" with it.

 

[Elitist1945]

Metro: Last Nope

 

[everyday math]

Define "in a video game"...

Surprise!

 

[FaultTolerance]

Metro: Last Nope

Are those... spider scorpions? Oh, hell naw...

 

[mantidor]

As an arachnologist I strive for a realistic spider depiction. I live my life seeing the critters I've gotten a PhD studying depicted to what amounts to stick figures.

I'd kill for a spider simulator.

You probably should try this game:

No mention of Deadly Creatures, guys? REALLY?

Amazing spider simulator, pretty accurate from what I played, I'm no professional entomologist but it looked pretty damn good and realistic.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

Heard there was some dread connected to the giant spider in Elvira II:

 

[jhawk6]

Maybe not many people will remember this one but it really scared the shit out of me when I played it. In the game Nox, certain treasure chests would turn into mother fucking spiders when you got close to them!

Every time I saw a chest I would approach them really slowly and tried to be ready but anytime it was a spider it freaked me out every time lol

 

[shadowkat]

All of them.

 

[Professor Lich]

One of my favorites.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Define "in a video game"...

This wins.

I'm not clicking on that without an explanation first

Don't click it

 

[Banana Aeon]

Every. Single. One.

First post.

I can't deal with realistic spiders. It triggers a fear I didn't even know I had.

 

[MikeDown]

Probably not the worst but first thing that came to mind was the Limbo spider

edit: changed to a gif because the first time I saw it I fully noped out of there lol

came here to post this

 

[ElTopo]

I agree on the Limbo assessment, the first half is so atmospheric and has the haunting sense of mystery but I feel it loses that as you progress further. Still good but the first half was an amazing experience.

I liked the Industrial/Eraserhead tone of the 2nd half but it felt like they ran out of ideas and had to resort to physics puzzles.

Also, special mention to those giant scorpions (they're arachnids so they count) from Fallout 3. It's not so much their design but just how resilient and persistent they are plus that fucking hiss they make when they're close.

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Any.

 

[Aces&Eights]

As an arachnologist I strive for a realistic spider depiction. I live my life seeing the critters I've gotten a PhD studying depicted to what amounts to stick figures.

I'd kill for a spider simulator.

You sir, need to stay the FUCK away from me please.

Define "in a video game"...

Haha. I know what this is without clicking. NO WAY. I need to sleep tonight and, fuck, I'm ITCHY NOW.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Resident Evil 2

You win this thread.

The camera angles really mess with you, too. When I first saw these bad boys, I just ran the other way and reworked my strategy. Of course, that was to no avail, as the first (and only) time I got acid-sprayed by one of these suckers, I had no Blue Herbs in my inventory.

 

[Brokun]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic did spiders pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53OfdrTFYKY

There's also a spider nest area that's nearly completely dark. The graphics are a little dated now but was pretty terrifying at the time.

 

[fluffydelusions]

From dark souls

 

[Piston Hyundai]

The spiders in Outlaws used to spook the shit out of me.

REmake takes the cake, though.

 

[Trace]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic did spiders pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53OfdrTFYKY

There's also a spider nest area that's nearly completely dark. The graphics are a little dated now but was pretty terrifying at the time.

That pit was so off tone with the rest of the game. Freaky as hell.

 

[DrDrizzay101]

Metro Last Light was the only game that made me question if I had arachnophobia.

 

[NameGenerated]

I remember Unreal 2 had some spiders that I really hated.

 

[Meccanical]

Goddamn fuck this thread I was going to sleep

 

[Elitist1945]

Metro Last Light was the only game that made me question if I had arachnophobia.

Clearly Artyom doesn't.

 

[scytheavatar]

No mention of this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur_mF6eUt-4

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

Amazing spider simulator, pretty accurate from what I played, I'm no professional entomologist but it looked pretty damn good and realistic.

Accurate and realistic? Did... did you miss the part where the tarantula can do like piledrivers and stuff? Unless that's the joke.

 

[SMOK3Y]

Every. Single. One.

agreed

 

[-tetsuo-]

Metro Last Light was the only game that made me question if I had arachnophobia.

Artyom don't give a fuck bout no spiders obviously

Clearly Artyom doesn't.

lulz

 

[BlastProcessing]

Truly terrifying. Where did it even get a boombox?

 

[Vidpixel]

Define "in a video game"...

So yeah, this is pretty much the most horrifying thing ever.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

And all you can do is run.

 

[Toxi]

I don't really find spiders scary in any instance, but I feel video game devs need to look to the real world for ideas more often.

Like look at the assassin spider. This thing is way more eerie-looking than any video game spider.

 

[OldGangWarily]

Muncher Marathon from DK Returns for SURE.

I had to let Super Kong beat that level. Couldn't do it myself.

 

[KiraXD]

coming across one of these early in the game...

or the black recluse in hard mode...

(Terraria spiders)

 

[Intheflorsh]

System Shock 2's spiders. So horrifying there was a mod to patch them out.

The sound they made... ugh.

 

[LargePad]

Artyom don't give a fuck bout no spiders obviously

Such is life in Russia.

Also, seconding Twilight Princess's massive spiders in the forest temple. Lost my save data and on the 2nd go, I counted every encounter with those hell spawn along the game's critical path.
There are 11.

 

[NAPK1NS]

The spiders in Metro: Last Light are just awful. There's a section where you go down the rail way with a few side areas off the path. One of them is a dense little room with the fuckers crawling everywhere. Just the worst.

 

[DrDrizzay101]

Artyom don't give a fuck bout no spiders obviously



lulz

True. If it was me, that gif would just be frantic swiping at the mask while swinging my head and running the opposite direction...