Suggestion: Giant Spider.Video Games

This one is far too easy to go unchallenged on the image suggestion thread.

Original suggestion by Stalker Gamer, from Limbo (2010):

My suggestions:

Minecraft:

Satisfactory:

Crystal Story II:

Edited by RamenChef on Oct 25th 2022 at 4:01:17 AM

These are good for Image Links, but I still prefer 1.1

I still prefer 1.1

1.1 because you can see it's a giant spider with the human for comparison. The other suggestions are spiders of undeterminate size

What Andariel said.

Yeah, 1.1

Edited by rjd1922 on Oct 25th 2022 at 10:03:23 AM

1.1 because it has the advantage of a person for comparison

There's this one◊ from the Image Links tab, from VideoGame.Chaos Heat (awesome game, severely underrated, thank you Taito)

It might need some cropping from the left side, but here goes

Edited by RobertTYL on Oct 26th 2022 at 1:24:39 AM

Duke’s Dear Freja from Dark Souls 2. If this isn’t approved I think it’s better than the image on the character sheet.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Oct 25th 2022 at 2:47:14 PM

I'm still going for 1.1. The rest of the images on OP don't make things clear about the spider's size, and 10 is incomprehensible to me.

Edited by Inky100 on Oct 26th 2022 at 9:42:27 PM

I'm not super fond of 1.1, not gonna lie — the framing isn't great and the spider's probably a bit too stylized to be very illustrative — but it's also the only one with a clear size comparison, so it's technically the preferable one by dint of showing the trope.

A few other alternatives:

A random spider, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Finding a decent shot of one of these was surprisingly difficult for a visual medium.

Like Andariel said, it's clear that the spider is giant in comparison of the boy. I still prefer 1.1

I still prefer 1.1. It just delivers the scale very neatly while still being recognizably a spider. The others are much more cluttered.

Either 1.1 or 12.1 seem best.

One more for the pile, from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones...

(Would need cropped but I'm on mobile)

Edited by ANonagon9 on Oct 26th 2022 at 1:13:30 PM

Crop all the stats, maybe?

Still prefer 1.1.

At this point, a crowner is needed

Is it? Everyone likes 1.1 (me included, it's by far the cleanest and spookiest)

N/m

Edited by oriolecanoli on Oct 28th 2022 at 5:13:00 AM

My vote would be for 1.2. The giant grass in the background of 1.1 (or at least, it looks like giant grass) made me think the boy was in an Incredible Shrinking Man-plot at first glance. The trees in 1.2 make it easier to tell the spider is big.

Still voting 1.1 for reasons already stated.

This Image Is Not an Example isn't a reason why the image can't be used to illustrate. It does perfectly fine at demonstrating the idea of a "giant spider", and since tropes are flexible IDK if a character shrinking down impacts the spider's status anyway.

Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 26th 2022 at 6:11:15 AM

Even if we grant that 1.1 isn't clear, nothing in-frame makes 1.2 any better for anyone unfamiliar with Minecraft.

First Pokemon image would be good as well. Second is a little busy.

Edited by ANonagon9 on Oct 26th 2022 at 12:59:49 PM

I also think 1.1 is the clearest.