Spiders? NOt this early

[Starchild]

There are alot of spiders in this game. I dont mind it, but it doesn't really follow the timeline does it. Its Hagrid who brings Aragog to Hogwarts and the forbidden forest, decades later to this game's events, if not a century at least. The game is great none the less.

[EricHVela]

It's difficult to say what the environment was like 100 years before Potter. I think that's why they chose that period of time.

There are reasons why the Hogwarts Express shouldn't exist yet, but "a wizard did it" is as good as an excuse as any.

Who is to say there wasn't an infestation that was later rectified causing the forbiddance of importing spiders?

I don't try to question it too much when writers gave themselves and easy "out" with setting it 100 years earlier than the books.

[Sasheria]

Spiders are all over ;) (I dislike spiders it does gives me the heebies jeebies)

It is a magical world so anything goes.

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by Sasheria:

I dislike spiders it does gives me the heebies jeebies

Orbweavers and trappers are a no-go for me. Too stimulus-response. They sit and conserve their energy to attack whatever comes their way. I'll kill these if they're in my way at all.

Predators like jumping spiders (think Lucas the Spider), wolf spiders, and certain predatory tarantulas that don't build webs and nests can't waste their energy on things they can't eat and are must less prone to biting. They're smarter. They're thinkers and not just stimulus-response.

I'll catch and release these predators if they wander into my space (and local wolf spiders can get quite large making you have to hit them with a quick squirt of canned air to stun them for catching without injuring them because they'll try to run).

However, a giant spider could eat a person. So, even predatory giant spiders are a hazard. Sure, they'll be smarter than the orbweavers, but a Human-sized creature would still be prey. It would just be more difficult to evade them compared to the sit-and-wait weavers and trappers.

[Maestro Rugosa]

Originally posted by Starchild:

it doesn't really follow the timeline does it. Its Hagrid who brings Aragog to Hogwarts and the forbidden forest, decades later to this game's events, if not a century at least.

Fair point! It never occurred to me, but your calculations seem correct!

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Maestro Rugosa:

Originally posted by Starchild:

it doesn't really follow the timeline does it. Its Hagrid who brings Aragog to Hogwarts and the forbidden forest, decades later to this game's events, if not a century at least.

Fair point! It never occurred to me, but your calculations seem correct!

Isn't it possible that Hagrid brought Aragog to a place he knew was already a haven for spiders?

Aragog found a wife in the forest... that seems to tell me there were others.

[Stan]

They are probably offspring of The Absconder that for reason unknown arrive in Britain.

Other explanation could that spiders ware smuggled in Highlands by Mary Portman, who was breeding spiders in her cellar to get poison, which then eventually broke out. (Side mission: Tangled Web)

[Maestro Rugosa]

Speaking of spiders, what does Arachnophobia mode change? Never checked it out, but I'm curious since spiders are so central to so many action scenes.

[Stan]

Originally posted by Maestro Rugosa:

Speaking of spiders, what does Arachnophobia mode change? Never checked it out, but I'm curious since spiders are so central to so many action scenes.

Turns them into little raymans on roller skates. (Colorful creatures with no legs)

[Coffee Addict]

Originally posted by Starchild:

Its Hagrid who brings Aragog to Hogwarts and the forbidden forest, decades later to this game's events

correct acromantula didnt exist in the forbidden forrest until hagrid brought aragog there

this game is full of lore inaccuracies

Originally posted by EricHVela:

There are reasons why the Hogwarts Express shouldn't exist yet

this is lore accurate, the hogwarts express was a top of the line train created in the 1800s however wizards used the memory charm then stole it and turned it into the hogwarts express

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Coffee Addict:

Originally posted by Starchild:

Its Hagrid who brings Aragog to Hogwarts and the forbidden forest, decades later to this game's events

correct acromantula didnt exist in the forbidden forrest until hagrid brought aragog there

this game is full of lore inaccuracies

Originally posted by EricHVela:

There are reasons why the Hogwarts Express shouldn't exist yet

this is lore accurate, the hogwarts express was a top of the line train created in the 1800s however wizards used the memory charm then stole it and turned it into the hogwarts express

Woooww! ::bows in respect::

Let me guess, Ravenclaw like me?