"Arachnophobia Mode"

turn on arachnophobia Mode

all the enemies and NPCs turn into spiders

If you're playing horror games they should be an improvement if they trigger your phobias.

spiders in vidya are cute tho

You know what is ACTUALLY deranged?
Thinking that anyone WANTS a mode like this and it isn't just easy social justice brownie points to make you look "inclusive" despite doing fuck all to help anyone.
And then they have slope-headed smooth brained room temp IQ fuckwits like you praising them for it.

He can't kill a spider before it gets a chance to bite him

That's just natural selection, LMFAOOO. A booted foot on average is all you need to kill a black widow dude.

This. Imagine actually caring about this shit. It's pathetic. People need to grow up.

if i ever made a game, i'd put in an arachnophobia mode. but instead of getting rid of spiders it would turn everything into spiders

Nice try faggot, we'll be in your boots before you even put them on.

I need a negrophobia mode

I just recently discovered that Arachnophobia was in fact, a comedy.

Shut the fuck up same tranny

Why would you waste time and effort on that when nobody has ever turned "arachnophobia mode" on in any game, you dumbshit.

Yes

giant EDF spiders do nothing

any picture of a normal spider freaks my brain out

so weird man i hate it

UWU

Why does optional content make some people seethe so much?

Spiders are bros. Except for black widow spiders and brown recluse spiders, the tens of thousands of other species you encounter pose absolutely zero medical risk to humans. They chill out in your walls and crawlspaces while they eat pests that you aren't even aware of before those pests can become a serious problem. They're little eight-legged janitors, and they do it for free.

I think its a good thing, I used to play WoW with one of my friends who is colorblind and sometimes when we were raiding he'd have trouble because of it. Now WoW has a colorblind setting which would've helped him tremendously but we don't play anymore.

always arachnophobia mode

never arachnophilia mode

Get the fuck off my board, tourist.

Arachnophobia? You must want to fuck spiders.

Shadows over Loathing has both

as someone who actually has arachnophobia I have never been scared of a spider or a crab in a game but if I see them irl I am pants shittingly scared

I am convinced anyone that virtue signals about arachnophobia mode in games is just some poser retard and doesn't actually have the phobia

I play games with giant spooky spiders literally all the time and it doesn't affect me in the slightest, northern journey is on my steam wishlist

I can only assume game dev studios are trying their best to run out of money and go bankrupt at this point

people are dumb, arachnophobia makes games with spiders even better, being scared is the point

That's not milk, that's man tit dirt

and they do it for free.

They get free food and housing, which is a better deal than what modern humans have.

The trvke that broke Anon Babble- not videogames.

I don't think many people are actually "scared" of spiders, but startled and unnerved. I mean, those things are absurdly quick and it's hard to keep track of their movements. And they also look like aliens.
Add to that that some are actually poisonous and it makes sense you'd feel uneasy at their sight.

Reminder that spiders kill and eats their mate after breeding

Do I care about that option specifically? No. Is it part of the broader pussification of games and the move to make games cringe, boring, vacuous and unappealing to "own the chuds?" Hell yes. I will not allow a single drop of that shit in any of the games I play, even if it's optional. If a game has even the slightest inclination towards that shit, I skip it entirely. I have a zero tolerance for it, because of what it leads to.

You need to understand that the slippery slope is not a fallacy and never was.

Horror games need to step up and include an arachnophobia mode that adds spiders everywhere.

They need to be worth playing first.

I don't mind fags or dykes that much, hell I can even tolerate troons to a certain extent as long as they stfu about it.
But I swear to God if I ever become dictator "non-binary" faggots and their ilk will be the first in the gas chambers.

lies and slander

Unironically fear of snakes, spiders and sharks is all caused by movies.

Imagine being afraid of a video game

be scared of wasps

like terrified of them

have nightmares about them

see someone my age more scared about them than me

feel embarrassed about my behavior for the past 20 years and not anywhere near as scared of them

Sometimes all it takes is seeing a reflection. The nightmares still happen sometimes though.

Sometimes all it takes is seeing a reflection.

A lot of fatties have started their weight loss journey after seeing a candid photo of themselves.
Food for thought.

hol up, tranny wants to burn game industry to the ground.. but i also want that.. and they doing it while all i do is complain about it.. is tranny better than me?!

used to drink a lot

got drunk at one party

master of the house goes "hey you guys wanna see a tarantula"

fucking brings one out on his hand

it's literally the size of his hand

"anyone wanna have it?"

end up having a picture taken with the spider crawling on my fucking face

anyway don't drink too much kids, it's not healthy

They should add an Arachnophobia Mode to a horror game and legitimately remove and replace the spiders from the game - while adding a one time, non reproducible sanity effect where a realistically scaled for the average TV, photo-realistic spider crawls across the screen but skitters away rapidly off seemingly the screen if the game pauses or the in game character stops moving.
Even better if it's VR compatible.

Arachnophobia Mode

Most Reddit shit I have ever seen. NOOOO! NOT LE HECKIN SPIDERINOS! NOOOOOO! NOT WHOLESOME! THANKS FOR INCLUDING A SETTING FOR MY UNIQUE BRAND OF RETARDATION!

honestly woke isn't really about fags or dykes or even troons
it's about destroying everything anyone finds entertaining, in order to force the entire world to stop having fun
that's the reason woketards won't stop shitting all over everything from video games to movies to kids' cartoons, everything must be ugly, annoying, and most importantly, boring as hell, because nobody deserves entertainment until we become the good little utopian commies they want, so badly they'll even sacrifice their own lives for it, if they can't get it by sacrificing everybody else's

I have a deep fear of the ocean but I love playing subnautica. Arachnophobes are just faggots. How can you be scared of a spider thats not even real nigga HAHAAHAH just close your eyes bro

You retards are doing exactly what they want. They add this shit to make fun of people with arachnophobia and you fall for it, targeting the people being victimised by bullying instead of the devs that make people with arachnophobia look unhinged despite them NEVER EVER asking for any of this shit.

Useful idiot is what you are.

i can stand near a window on 50th floor with no problem
but i get super tense if i need to scale a 20 meter tower that's swaying when i walk up on it
it's not exactly fear of heights, is it

It does matter, when it's not just a joke. There's no such thing as an option that doesn't carry design considerations.
If every game is expected to have an arachnophobia mode, then spiders have to be integrated in a way that makes them easily removable. You couldn't really have just an arachnophobia mode toggle on a major enemy that the player has in-depth interactions with. Furthermore the game still has to be good without them; people who have arachnophobia and turn on the mode aren't going to give the game magic brownie points. Adding such a mode has an obvious effect on the game's design and thus the people here.

Spiders ultimately don't matter that much, and obviously I'm replying to bait so transparent it only exists as a totem for people to throw their mad replies at an easy strawman, but I fucking hate how easily people let this kind of argument get thrown around unchallenged. Accessibility options impact games.

to be fair fuck wasps

The truth behind this is that female spiders are so fucking stupid that they just eat what ever comes near them that is the right size. This fact combined with males of almost all spider species being smaller than the female result in the males getting eaten either trying to smash or shortly after smashing. It's fucking great.

I have a deep fear of the ocean

What a huge fucking pussy faggot you are water can't hurt you you're literally designed to float, you're 80% water you bitch ass crybaby.

If you're afraid of spiders you should not be playing vidya. You should be making your bf a sandwich and then cleaning the kitchen.

There's zero reason to be scared of spiders.

It's a natural fear ingrained in us humans because those small easily crushed things can be venomous.

CUTE!

Sex with spider

that's not what the anon is saying you dumb fuck. i love swimming and swim every week, but fuck the deep water, i ain't gonna get myself eaten by whatever the fuck lurks down there

To be fair a minority of spiders can even hurt humans with their bite. The ones that do are usually forest spiders or live on the equator.

They added it for faggots to make posts about how "seen" they are by the million dollar game dev. That way, those faggy posts can act more like ads for the game.

This meme only works if the game is called “Spiders assfucking you” or something. There are plenty of games that have spiders in them that aren’t prominently shown.
And even then, why should someone be limited on what games they can enjoy? Sometimes a game is good and the only thing holding it back for some people is a pretty common phobia and has an easy solution by simply changing the model/sprite of spiders in the game.
Like imagine if your favorite game had a Job Application enemy. Wouldn’t it also be unfair for you not being able to play your favorite game because such a scary enemy exists in it?

pickme

It's ultimately unhelpful. We cannot mollycoddle people with phobias and expect this to be a lasting solution. Phobias require systematic desensitization so they can be treated and eliminated. They don't need to be accommodated like a disability. Video games are arguably the perfect space to begin this process since it's completely fake and safe.

This guy gets it.

Truth, how are you ever going to cure your phobia if you're too much of a pussy to even look at spiders in a fucking video game?

Its a marketing gimmick.
WoW added Arachnophobia mode right before they released their expansion all about spiders and spiderpeople and it was all over news sights and drumming up discussion about the feature.
Very few people actually use or seriously want it.

sex with right

theres way more dangerous shit in the ocean to be afraid of that will kill you painfully than something like a spider bite.

Based and correct. I am horrified by the concept of enlarged / giant insects but my favorite quest in Fallout 3 is the one with the giant fire ants, precisely because I find them kind of spooky. It helps pull me into the game.

You know what is actually deranged? Caring about people posting a silly thread. It doesn't affect you. But you're mad about it. For no reason.

Shit just doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter. In most of the threads these posts are in it is a joke. But you're mad about this. Posting it constantly. Obsessed over it. Why?

I doubt many people that are afraid of spiders get triggered when they see them in movies/games. Fiction just doesn't overlap with reality like that. They're also usually the size of a dog which hurts any real world semblance.

I thought the lethal company one was funny because it felt snarky and like they were taking the piss

Not even gonna' lie, shit like that is making games lame. "Oh, no. This game is so scary! What's this? Pants Pooping Horror Game 3 lets me remove blood? Yes, please. Remove jump scares? Yes! Turn the night into daylight? Don't mind if I do! No shadows! Yes, sir! Infinite ammo! Hell yeah! Never die!? Fuckin' A! All enemies are no longer horrors beyond my comprehension and are instead replaced by amorphous pink blobs with frowny faces!? Now we're talking! I'm such a huge fan of Pants Pooping Horror Game!"

Yeah because you'll for sure go swimming at the bottom of the mariana trench you giant bleeding pussy softboy. You use that excuse while too much of a bitch to swim in a freshwater lake too.

Speaking of dog sized spiders. Imagine being the first guy to encounter coconut crabs. Because at a glance they kinda resemble spiders.

Expanding on that a little. Imagine the first person to encounter a regular crab. I bet that shit was crazy. No discernable facial expression, just an angry seashell ready to fight you to the death for no reason.

which hurts any real world semblance

Nobody tell him.

It depends on the game. "Giant Spider" types usually don't because they aren't skittery in the way that sets it off for me. The ones in Satisfactory are pretty terrifying (and it feels like that's the game that set this whole arachnophobia mode thing in motion) but having an gun or being able to hit them with a car helps.
The only game I couldn't play because of the spiders was Northern Journey.

I wonder if they boiled one alive out of frustration at some point and found out that way that it's edible. Some crabs are really fucking persistent. I got chased by one at the beach once. Fucker kept trying to snip at my feet.

im piss scared of spiders so i always appreciate stuff like this

It is an unnecessary mode that eats up development time that could've been used to improve other more important aspects of the game. Every time I see a game with an arachnophobia mode, I think about what other part(s) of the game had to forego tweaking and improvement. All for what amounts to a marketing gimmick.

I feel that if someone is truly so terrified of spiders to the point where they refuse to play a game if it has spiders in it, then that is an edge case that could likely be resolved with mods. It's not up to the game developers to deal with that shit. Also where do we draw the line? Will we have a hydrophobia mode for people with that phobia? Acrophobia mode? Claustrophobia mode?

You don't need to keep that fear. Phobias are totally treatable.

Stop making the rest of us look bad you absolute fuckwit.
I hope you get locked in a box full of funnelwebs.

O love spiders.
I make a point of no killing the ones that live around here.
Also the geckos.

Based Druid

I have a fear of heights (not debilitating, but still makes me nervous because of the whole "not the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop" blah blah blah whatever) but it doesn't carry over to vidya because, guess what, it's not real and it can't hurt me. Especially so if the game doesn't incorporate fall damage, like Borderlands. If you don't like what you see, just... play a different game or shut your PC off, or something. Boom, crisis averted.

pussy

I would if I could

I'm just here to mock you fucking pussies.

Brother I was shitting my pants when the giant hornet showed up in washington a few years back but they seem to have been eradicated

activate hydrophobia mode

all of the water in the game disappears

Which game would actually benefit most from such a feature?

so you would be fine with games having homophobia modes?
no, you would shit your pants, cry and try to get the game banned even though it doesn't affect you at all

result in the males getting eaten either trying to smash or shortly after smashing

is that why jumping spiders do their dance to signal 'please do not eat, i just want to get laid'

It is an unnecessary mode that eats up development time that could've been used to improve other more important aspects of the game

I feel this every time I see romance paths as a feature in a game.

someone hates arachnophobes so much for some reason that he's falseflagging to make others hate you too

Wew lad.

You’re a faggot the only reason they made that mode was Redditors crying about Skyrim spiders.

Having a phobia doesn't make someone a pussy. Refusing to treat that phobia does. Ask yourself, anon: what are you afraid of that you really don't need to be afraid of?

playing SOMA

enter underwater cave absolutely fucking FILLED with spiders

freak the fuck out, walking very slowly

as soon as you exit the cave a giant horrific eel monster appears and chases you back in

rushing through the cave, don't care about the spiders anymore

thanks, SOMA!

have a fear of big underwater predators like great whites, leviathans, plesiosaurs, etc

actively look for those enemies while playing vidya

Being mildly scared is fun, not something to be switched off.

Because once it bites you having a sore hand or leg for 1-2 weeks and sleepless night isn't fun.

subnautica

just be glad you're not this frog

It does affect me though. The devs spent time and money on putting this shit in instead of making the game better. The economy of time means anything spent on something besides developing the game takes away from making the game better. This is an insidious lie told by rats and vermin.

So when SE added beefy muscles mode for Tifa?

60% of the human population should be tortured in obsidian zigurrats

Do you even play lineage 2 and kill spiders bro cuz those were the crispiest harriest giant spiders ever and made weird noises

Yeah, but what about Centiphobia mode? I once hit a centipede and two of his legs fell off and he still survived for a bit. Those thing are warriors.

snibbed snab :DDDDDD

and yet many people are afraid of parenthood

I too, watched Eraserhead anon.

I have killed thousands of spiders and have never been bitten once including widows and recluses.

kys, spider
Read the bible, fatass fedora

The Bible literally gives you the authority to trample on those critters tho???

Maybe. There are a lot of different reason behind courtship rituals. I think jumping spiders are one of those species where the males and females are roughly the same size.

My uncle tried to get me to watch it and man, I'm just not cultured enough I guess. I thought it was boring and uncomfortable.

uncomfortable

I've never seen a film that made me feel physically unwell like Eraserhead neither before nor since.

Most coherent and least pushy christian

Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire

I dont have it but I can understand it, they have way too many legs that all move at the same time

hurr durr

i dont logically understand a subconscious psychological response, why can't you just override it with logic?

fuck Anon Babble you guys are ridiculously stupid

Then why aren't you terrified of shit like ants or bumble bees or literally any other insect? Why is it the extra two that irreversibly devastates your bootyhole SPECIFICALLY?

I have an utterly irrational terror but YOU'RE the retard actually!

Nice cope, coward.

spiders have huge legs proportionally

My theory is its something that they can check off on a list and get money from some government program. Like that shit microsoft was going really hard on for a bit with amputees or how vitiligo keeps showing up in character creators for some stupid reason.

I have a HUGE third leg but you don't seem to be all that terrified of ME

heh

Having a phobia doesn't make someone a pussy.

No, but being unable to confront it in a video game does.

We need more spiders to cure arachophobia.

turn on arachnophobia mode

shit only gets scarier

the only time i was ever startled by a vidya spider was when i stumbled upon this guy in terokkar

it doesn't affect you

Neither does it affect you when someone else bitches about arachnophobia mode exisitng and yet here you, niggerposting

You seem to have missed the fact that intelligence is useless in the face of irrationality.

They also have that weird deliberate step unlike a lot of insects. I'm not arachnophobic but a spider on me feels weirder than an ant.

I used to have arachnaphobia but I literally got over it.
The trick is to get pissed that this thing is getting in your way and channel some arrogance on how dare this thing have the audacity to ignore its own survival instincts and make its presence known to me.

Then you flick the fucker or stomp it.

Hate is such a damn good antidote to so much of life's bullshit. People need to learn how to channel it instead of running from it and treating as a bad thing

eats up development time

This coming from the board that misses big head cheats
You have an actual point, but interactions with spiders in games usually aren't that deep. All you interact with is the hurtbox covering the whole model. A simple model swap isn't going to change that. It's not like many games ask you to target the joints in its legs or take out each eye. You just attack the spider until it dies

You never heard of the old addage

those who try to please all, you please none

Or

Jack of all trades master of none

Making a pimp my ride car can have something for everyone but if its still a 10hp slow pos id be mad they wasted time putting an optional ass wiper and bake oven instead of making a good car

Faggots like you are nothing ever gets done and a company has 1000 useless unemployed people with titles such as "coffee stirer" "supervisor of office dustkeeping" and suck up resources money and inflate value

Fucking generic weeb

I am weirded out to creeped out by the things and I kill every spider I see. But I guess in phobes this process is haywire. They are malfunctioning, they dont REALLY have fear

Sounds about on par with human gender relations in this day and age

You definitely have autism (that is both an insult and a fact.)

It doesn't affect you.

The infantilization of society is bad actually

Bait aside I think the trend of designing games with the idea of, "we can't use this idea or this design because it's too scary/offensive to some small group," is inherently restrictive when it comes to art and just means that games will get worse over time. And no some if you designing content in such a way that you can easily avoid it is not a solution either.

Moreover mollycoddling people with phobias isn't the actual way to help them deal with it.

idc if the game has a mode like that because im not scared of spiders. However seeing the spider replaced with the text "spider" is funny

Reminder to have at least one spider in your home. They kill mosquitoes and fruit flies.

*blocks u r path*

This absolutely affects me. Bid head mode died for this. It was one or the other, there are so many resources to waste on meme modes.

Game devs should start putting "Faggot" mode in their games so OP can play them.

play game/level that is meant to be scary

spider enemy

I am afraid of spiders

game scares me

enjoy the game more because it achieved its intended purpose and gave me a thrill from escaping the spiders or killing them

Isn't this supposed to be how it goes? Spiders are commonly considered scary, the developers know this and make them scary on purpose in areas that are also supposed to be scary. I fucking hate spiders but spiders in a video game are intended to scare me so I come out of the experience feeling like it hit its intended vibe.

Why is anyone playing a game that is intended to scare you sometimes and then being mad that they get scared? Even when they show up in fantasy games like Elder Scrolls, Thief, or Dark Souls 2, they're intended as a horror element and those games have plenty of other horror elements.

be me two years ago

notice a daddy long legs hanging out on my bathroom ceiling above my shower

decide to leave him be

sometimes he'd be there when I showered

would chill on the ceiling while I bounced some things off him, he just sat there

I would say hi to him if I walked by him while I was going to take a quick piss

one day he disappeared

still think about him sometimes

he was a good little homie

dev mocks you for having arachnophobia

oh boy contrarian retards on Anon Babble found a new opinion to post everyday. we love looking at spiders now!!

The spiders in this game are just fucking annoying more than anything.

Same but he's besides my bed. I saw him catch a couple mosquitoes, those annoying fucks

I refuse to believe someone's arachnophobia is that strong that they can't handle spiders in a video game. Maybe in VR or a horror game but in like a fucking Zelda game?

Nobody has ever drowned bro, it's literally impossible, your body is designed not to sink, bro

This triggered so many people

Exactly. We're at the point where anything that causes even a mild discomfort has to be scrubbed from media entirely. It's like people forgot that discomfort and fear are part of what make certain games memorable. Not everything needs to be smoothed out into a mass-market therapy session.

Kek

I've always wanted to fuck a spider.

post games that filter arachnophobes

dont want spiders near me

if i see one i do not let it lose from my sight till i either catch or kill it.

also afraid of heights

0 care for it when its in games

Its just another troon powermove to let devs cater to their demands.
Ofc all wrapped up in a victim mentality.
As usual. Yes pixel spiders are not real.
Its just another form of bodytype 1/2 demand.

Anthropomorphic, giant, or real?

I get scared by sharks in vidya, but I'll still play the games with sharks in them. Currently playing the Ecco 3 and the great white boss made my heart race even though he's really not that bad.

when will they make a thalassophobia mode for games like subnautica?
I love the idea but the ocean is too terrifying