Why does there have to be spiders?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Dr.Disaster]

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

[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

[Demo_Seeker]

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? ;-)

[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.