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Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:44 am
by chady0101
the game of Grimrock I was at first reluctant to buy and now I have bought i love it soooo much and my friends take the mick coz they say its bad which it isn't. Im currently up and down floor 4 and 5 atm and was wondering why floor 3 was dedicated to those god awful spiders I absolutely hate them, they creep up on you scaring the life out of me and I must have restarted at least 6-8 times on floor 3. Why does there have to be spiders in this game?! WHY! Also the autosave points are a little sparse.

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:43 am
by Neikun
I think they're there to scare you, honestly.
To make the experience frightening/keeping you on your toes/ rushing you so that only if you're quite diligent you might catch a secret or two.

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:01 am
by tantalan
Spiders were really challenging for me :-) It wasnt because they were very quick, even not that they made that scary noise while walking :-) The biggest problem was that there were too many of them and they could poison me and i had only a little amount of antidote. But after completing the game and playing again they werent so hard to beat as in the beginning. I like spiders in this game they perfectly fit there.

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:02 am
by Dr.Disaster
chady0101 wrote:Im currently up and down floor 4 and 5 atm and was wondering why floor 3 was dedicated to those god awful spiders I absolutely hate them, they creep up on you scaring the life out of me and I must have restarted at least 6-8 times on floor 3. Why does there have to be spiders in this game?!
You just stated and confired why they are there: swift scary and posionous. A threat to young parties. What more can one ask for in a good monster? Heck when i met the first LoG spider .. let's just say i was very much awake then ;)

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:42 am
by Ixnatifual
There's no need to rely on autosave. You can save at any point. For convenience you can even press F5 to quicksave. Spiders are a staple of fantasy games :mrgreen:

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:11 am
by Demo_Seeker
chady0101 wrote:Why does there have to be spiders in this game?
Because game designers are not as original and progressive as they would like to be? ;-)

Re: Why does there have to be spiders?

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:28 am
by msyblade
hmm, think the fact that they do frighten and cause the player to scamper hurriedly (the exact nature of this thread), is a good indication that the developers NAILED it.