Spiders

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I am arachnophobic, but it doesn't stop me from playing games: I just freak out completely and run like crazy. When I was about 10 or 11 and playing Diablo 2 for the first time, I could only get past Act I as a necromancer because I could summon an army that would be a buffer between the giant spiders and myself in the Catacombs Level 2. The maggots also freaked me out. Argh. Those maggots still freak me out.

The spiders in Overture were scary, and the various spidery environments you had to explore were really creepy. The eggs were ingenious. I never did kill any spiders in Overture, just ran from them and shone a flashlight on them to keep them at a distance.

I hope there are no spiders or creepy-crawlies in Amnesia, mostly because I can't imagine how they'd fit in. Caves are one thing, but haunted manors / castles are quite another. A well-made survival-horror game set in a castle is basically my dream come true. Especially with that map editor. I've always wanted to design my own haunted mansion. I'm going delirious just thinking about the possibilities!

Oh and I live in Australia, goddamn poisonous spiders! Censorship too...

Frictional Games, you rock. Thomas I love reading your blog posts.