Snakes in games.

[Masque]

Why aren't there snakes in more open-world games?

I wondered this after playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, and seeing the coiled snakes in some caves and tombs. Horribly done, too. But at least they're in there. In their sad, limited way.

But no snakes in Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, NV, or 4, RDR 2... I seem to remember seeing them in RDR 1, but I could be thinking of seeing them in Far Cry 3? But they're not in Diablo 3 (are they?), Grim Dawn, or Path of Exile.

In fact I think AC:Odyssey is the only game I own that has snakes.

Are they too hard to animate or something?

What games have you played that feature snakes in the bestiary?

EDIT: Corrected by the community on several games above.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

They're definitely in Far Cry 3.

Agony has huge snakes in one section.

[Starbug]

Arma 3

And there are snakes in red dead redemption 2!

[.: DBM :.]

wtf there are so many snakes in PoE

[Your Cat From 1000m Away]

In Far Cry.
In Metal Gear Solid (No, I'm not joking, not the Snake you control but the slithering animals).

[saranacX]

It doesn't bother me. I don't like snakes.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

in an old hitman game, i encountered and got killed by a wild animal (jaguar?).

i wonder if developer will add random animals in the game.

imagine playing cs: go. you headshot the enemy and then you got struck/killed by a venomous scorpion.

[linis]

Getting flashbacks to both the small, and giant snakes/serpents in classic Ultima Online :X I thought those were done pretty well, for a top-down 2D game.

[fatfluffycat]

Messaggio originale di Starbug:

Arma 3

And there are snakes in red dead redemption 2! :MrSnakey::MrSnakey:

I was going to say Arma 3 too, one of my favorite little details in that game.

[An Irate Capybara]

Play Snake Pass and get your fill

[GuRu Asaki]

Any Indiana Jones Game, should have a Snake near by... Resident Evil 5, I think has Snakes, too...

[Z i o ⚡]

The game Everquest had snakes, but all the animals/monsters in that game just moved around in the environment, not meant to appear highly realistic. In a new game with modern realistic graphics snakes would probably be hard to do and make behave like actual snakes, or fight like actual snakes if it's a realistic game and you have to fight a large snake. Also in real life snakes are pretty elusive anyway, hence the term snake in the grass...

[Et tu, B?]

I guess they don't want enemies too small for the player to notice?

[Gus the Crocodile]

Room of 1000 Snakes is still possibly the best game.

[Zekiran]

Context is important. I wouldn't honestly expect a game set in an urban area to have them.

Sometimes though, even though they might be appropriate for an area in the real world, the game may not need them because they're using something else. For instance: Half Life, taking place in the southwest USA where there are literally snakes as far as the eye can see, already has headcrabs and mines. More foot-height things would just be redundant.

[Holografix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLaX8UvVUQw