Talk:God Eater (Anime)/Episode 3: Alisa Ilinichina Amiella/@comment-5180556-20150727003030/@comment-1419424-20150727004433

It's a matter of scale. They're described as being the size of mountains, but there's no way they could have actually made them that big in the games without specialized fields to hold them. They'd be far more resource-intensive, probably resulting in lag (LAG CITY!) and strange camera errors and stuff. Basically it wouldn't be feasible to actually fight an enemy that large in the confines of a game.

That's why it's so terrifying to see it in the anime. It's like being underwater and seeing the shadow of a huge blue whale below you. That level of size, especially in a living creature, is not something the human mind is used to or generally capable of understanding.