This is almost exclusively a Video Game trope. The picture is just a kid with a heavy backpack load, and is not indicative of its interactive nature.

Is this even pictureable?

Motion to pull

Per OP: Pic doesn't represent the trope at all.

As far as picturing it, I skimmed the page and at least one of the games gives a "you're about to be over-encumbered" warning...if we could get a clean screenshot of that, that would work; otherwise, I'd say not pictureable.

Agreed.

Elder Scrolls, Diablo type games follow this wonder if there is a good screenshot around. Although there has got to be a comic around making fun / lampshading this somewhere.... It's too easy to not make fun of.

If we could find a way, the last few panels of this would work just fine: http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=081511

Well, the kid is from a video game. Still doesn't show the trope, though.

Hold on, there's an Awkward Zombie comic about Fallout3 and looting. Will the first and last three panels work?

edited 27th Oct '11 8:05:33 PM by Ejia

Mere minutes apart for the exact same idea. Weird.

I tought of that exact same pic the moment I saw the thread. the first two panels would be enough.

edited 28th Oct '11 3:55:19 PM by plenum

Bump. So, I don't have the program to crop and add the image. Anyone else feel like taking this up so we can close the discussion?

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I don't think that really demonstrates the trope - there's no indication he could run as fast with one less thing as he could with nothing.

Anyone else voting to go ahead and pull the current pic?

I'm not going to oppose pull, it adds nothing to the page and we seem to have a nice replacement for it anyway. Except for the box that clearly states "you are overcumbered and cannot run"? That's as clear as it gets.

Nothing in that message indicates there's no penalty right up until you get overencumbered(which is the important part).

Seconding motion.

Thirding and pulled:

Hurm. Considering the difficulty of illustrating the trope, and the inability of either image to clearly demonstrate it, then it may be best to just go imageless.

I'd like to hear more "nays" regarding the Awkward Zombie image before. I'm not sold on 20 Log reasoning and still think that pic's awesome.

It's not bad per se, but there's something about it that I'm not liking...I think it may be the sizes of the panels making for a potentially awkward layout for our purposes.

Clock is set. Any more support for the Awkward Zombie suggestion?

edited 5th Jan '12 9:29:08 AM by Willbyr

I think, in principle, the Awkward Zombie comic is a good illustration. There might be some practical issues in selecting one or two panels that get the point across (and it'd be nice to include the "cannot run" caption), but it's theoretically sound.

It's a trope that can almost certainly only be depicted by a Web Comic. I can't think of a single game that depicts encumbrance failure, as opposed to just preventing you from continuing the game until you get rid of something.

I like the Awkward Zombie.

The only alternative I can think of is a screenshot from Quest for Glory's "you are carrying so much you can hardly move" message, but that's really the caption doing the work.

I don't think the Awkward Zombie comic is any better. Without the "you are overencumbered!" dialog in panel 1 nothing else works.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.