Bioware you sneaky...

[BiscuitTrouser]

A few days ago i did i finally finished my second play through of mass effect 1 and sat to watch the credits roll as i love the song that goes with them. To pass some time i read some of the names rolling down the credits and I was certain that a few were made up. One name however stood out to me and it took two reads before i worked out why.

Alister Duncan.

Mass effect was made far before origins, it made me wonder if they named the characters after an employee or if they snuck it in there as a future easter egg.

Have you seen any games that have very clever references or easter eggs, too subtle for 99% of people to notice? Im curious to see if another company has tried the same or a similar little trick to catch out the more observant gamers.

EDIT: I now know that both games were in production at the same time, still a nice little easter egg.

 

[dragonslayer32]

cant say that i have noticed anything like that. congrats btw

 

[Mr Companion]

All the names for villagers in black and white were employees at lionhead. I think.

 

[socialmenace42]

Not like that,

Spoiler: spoiler

though I absolutely LOVED the Schroedinger's cat refference in Bioschock 2, a nice tip of the hat to the fans of quantum theorists among us.

 

[The Red Spy]

Playing through Halo: CE (the first of the series)

Spoiler

You are trying to escape the Pillar of Autumn on a warthog, and Cortana announces that there is a Longsword fighter still docked in hanger 7. Incase anyone doesn't know, Bungie has an affinity for the number 7 (Look at their logo, with seven pillars, or the number 117 = 1*1*7)...Not great, but the first thing I ever began to notice.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Well, Ol' Painless from Fallout 3 shares a name with a doctor from Fallout 2.

And someone in Bethesda is an industrial metal fan, as there are Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad lyrics on terminals in the game.

Ooooh now I want to play Fallout 2.

 

[PoliceBox63]

Not like that, though I absolutely LOVED the Schrödinger's cat refference in Bioschock 2, a nice tip of the hat to the fans of quantum theorists among us.

I love when people put things in spoiler boxes... also i'm not a ****

Spoiler: and here's proof

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

A few days ago i did i finally finished my second play through of mass effect 1 and sat to watch the credits roll as i love the song that goes with them. To pass some time i read some of the names rolling down the credits and I was certain that a few were made up. One name however stood out to me and it took two reads before i worked out why.

Alister Duncan.

Mass effect was made far before origins, it made me wonder if they named the characters after an employee or if they snuck it in there as a future easter egg.

Have you seen any games that have very clever references or easter eggs, too subtle for 99% of people to notice? Im curious to see if another company has tried the same or a similar little trick to catch out the more observant gamers.

Round of applause for Chris! Woooo!

That's cool, I hadn't noticed that. Dragon Age was actually started at the same time as Mass Effect 1, but it came out around the same time as Mass Effect 2. Weird that.

 

[Thaius]

I found a lot of entertainment in the nods Bungie puts in the Halo games toward their previous games, like sprinkling the Marathon logo throughout Forerunner structures, and naming their naval intelligence unit ONI. Very interesting stuff in an expansive and truly fascinating sci-fi universe.

 

[afaceforradio]

Awesome, I bet there's a tonne of stuff like that we never notice. Would be interested to hear any more!

 

[socialmenace42]

*snip*

I love when people put things in spoiler boxes... also i'm not a ****

Spoiler: and here's proof

HUGE CRUD: I totally forgott, know it's too late for you but fixed now, Sorry!

 

[tehweave]

Well, Ol' Painless from Fallout 3 shares a name with a doctor from Fallout 2.

And someone in Bethesda is an industrial metal fan, as there are Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad lyrics on terminals in the game.

Ooooh now I want to play Fallout 2.

Did this doctor have a blue box?

 

[templargunman]

I'm sure someone has already said this but dragon age was in production for something like 7 years before it was released. They had plenty of time while making the credits of ME to add in names from that game.

 

[archvile93]

Wasn't there a newspaper in one of the Hitman games stating that Kane and Lynch escaped from a prison bus before that game was announced?

 

[PoliceBox63]

Did this doctor have a blue box?

^ YAY cookie for you

Spoiler

 

[Willis_D]

Well done mate, that is really well spotted. I would never spot anything like that, hence why I cannot post anything I've spotted, as they are non-existent.

 

[Ambitious Sloth]

In borderlands there a type of graffiti which says, "Turtles all the way down" as far as I know it refers to a very archaic theory that the Earth is supported on the backs of 4 elephants who in turn stand on the back of a turtle what's under the turtle is anyone's guess but some say it's just turtles all the way to infinity. I thank Terry Pratchett's Discworld series for that tidbit.

Anyways it kind of fits for a game world in which most of the population is as illiterate as medieval peasants.

 

[HT_Black]

You remember Pvt. Roycewitz from CoD4? You remember, that guy you have to save from the knife-wielding insurgent in "War Pig"? He was named after one of the development team.

Trufax. His name is on the opening credits.

ALSO, the Portal reference at the end of DA:O.

 

[kalakashi]

You remember Pvt. Roycewitz from CoD4? You remember, that guy you have to save from the knife-wielding insurgent in "War Pig"? He was named after one of the development team.

Trufax. His name is on the opening credits.

ALSO, the Portal reference at the end of DA:O.

That reminds me! I might be mistaken, as I only saw it fleetingly, but I swear that on MW2, the level you ride into town on the big gun thing (stop me if I get too technical) that one of the soldiers that runs past was called Sgt. Roycewitz or something. Anyone confirm this? Or otherwise?

 

[Tharwen]

Almost every squad member in the Call of Duty series is named after a member of the team.

Also, who's Alister Duncan?.