Spiders

[gbee]

I completely disagree. The terror of being helpless and chased is something that no other games do anymore....except Penumbra. But in Overture, killing the spiders is really quite easy. Just crouch and swing your pickaxe away.

The great thing about personally held opinions is that we're both right No, I'm not a big horror fan, I loved the Penumbra series but different reasons. The monsters, particularly towards the end of Overture/Requiem were more of an irritation to me. I don't mind being scared, or a creepy atmosphere, or even being helpless but in small doses otherwise the effect is quickly replaced with indifference.

Fwiw, I just couldn't get the timing right to kill spiders effectively, they'd strike and back off between my swings, maybe because the games didn't run that smoothly on my computer (can't explain why, it should have been fast enough). I could sometimes kill individuals before they killed me, but more than one and it was certain death if I chose to fight, where possible my preferred tactic was just to run. Running was also what the designers wanted you to do in most cases so ...

More importantly I guess I'd have to say seeing spiders, which the first game made clear were specific to those caves in Greenland re-appearing in an old gothic castle in Europe (well you don't find such buildings anywhere else) would hurt immersion and the story IMHO.