Interesting easter eggs in games

[Bertruam]

Always loved these threads, You learn so many cool things.

My favorite has to be when Psycho Mantis reads your memory card in MGS and knows if you played any Konami games, at first I had no idea how he was doing that.

Oh my god that freaked me out when I ran into him. I was playing ape escape earlier, and he asked how far I was in it.

 

[Zaleznikel]

I'll try to minimize spoilers here.

In Beyond Good and Evil, your friend gets kidnapped. When zoom in on the person being taken away at the end of the level, you see a familiar smiley face with a splash of blood on it on his shoulder.

I only noticed it on my latest play through, after I read Watchmen, and thought it was awesome.

 

[Trivun]

Star Wars Homage - Wedge has been in every final fantasy game since about 3 I think.

Actually, he always appears with Biggs. Biggs and Wedge are NPC's in almost every FF game.

 

[Svenparty]

The Cabbit in Saints Row 2 and Zombie homies rule!

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Star Wars Homage - Wedge has been in every final fantasy game since about 3 I think.

Actually, he always appears with Biggs. Biggs and Wedge are NPC's in almost every FF game.

Don't forget Cid!

 

[D_987]

 

[Psypherus]

GTA Vice City. You jump through a seemingly solid wall and walk down a hallway to reveal an actual easter egg

 

[shadow_pirate22]

Perfect Dark has a lot. The Cheese, the bafta, The question mark in Warehouse multiplayer, and the tiny pistol ammo in the first level to name a few.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

San Andreas Glass company: Max Payne
Loved that one

Didn't know about the Beyond Good and Evil one - will replay it to have a look.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

The Locust Toaster in Gears of War 2. Aaww man that was fuckin' awesome.

"WHO WANTS TOAST?"
"I like mine without the crust!"

 

[Clemenstation]

I used to love this game Myth (real-time strategy, Bungie) and my friend showed me an out of the way area in Halo 3 where you can hear the theme music from Myth playing in the background.

Nostalgia Blast!

 

[willard3]

Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time had a lot of easter eggs, some of which poked fun at the developers, but others were just odd. You almost always had to hold the E key in order to find them.

If you warped to Shangri-La, then held E and moved forward, there would be a random can of Mountain Dew sitting on a pedestal behind you.

There was also a part in the game where if you mouthed off to Genghis Khan, he would punch you out. There was a steam vent behind him in his tent; if you climbed up from there and hung around for too long, he would backfist you down into the tunnel. Got that? Good.
So there's also a part in El Dorado where you look down a well-type thing to see your final objective. If you had already gotten punched out by Khan, you could hold E as you looked down. Your character would fall into the hole, get propelled through a bunch of fiery caves, come out the steam vent, get backfisted, and then fall back through the world and back up the hole. Trippy.

 

[pieeater911]

In Fallout 2 you come across the bridge of death from Monty Pythons Holy Grail, and you have to answer the questions correctly. That one was great.
Also, when you come across that time-portal thing from an early episode of Star Trek and you accidentally break the water chip in Vault 13, thus causing the events from Fallout.

And Duke Nukem 3D is littered with so many 90's references. My favorite reference, although not from the 90's, was at the end of the first level in the fourth act where you walk down the hallway and all the different doors open automatically and you go down an elevator hidden in a telephone booth. Get Smart reference, yay!

 

[Gormers1]

In Guildwars: Eye of the North if you follow a white rabbit (duh) then you end up in a cave full of enemies.

Thats awesome.

 

[fat american]

I like the "Who wants toast?" easter egg from Gears of War 2 because it's just completely unexpected.
I also liked the Lost references in Half Life 2: Episode 2.

That's one of my favorite too.

Going along with the Rare Easter eggs, in the bathroom save slot on Conker's Live and Reloaded in the main menu you can see the guy from Grabbed by the Ghoulies takin' a piss. The heart of the city on GTA 4 is pretty cool too.

 

[Jamash]

In Saint's Row 2, I took the effort to dress my character up like The Blues Brothers (black suit, white shirt & black tie, black Fedora, black sunglasses, black dress shoes).

Coming back from my little shopping diversion, as I entered my crib, one of the strippers said "I wonder how Jake and Elwood are doing".

I think it's cool how the game recognised the clothing combination and look I was going for, and made a NPC comment appropriately.

 

[Kayevcee]

In Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight you're on a mercenary-killin' rampage through a village and a civilian sees you coming and runs and hides inside his house. He locks the door behind him, but if you hit Force Speed before you get to him and Force Jump over the river nearby instead of going over the bridge you can enter the house ahead of him. Inside is Max from the Sam & Max adventure games, also by Lucasarts. He just stands there, and appears to be invulnerable, but he's still an awesome inclusion

-Nick

 

[Kukakkau]

Always loved these threads, You learn so many cool things.

My favorite has to be when Psycho Mantis reads your memory card in MGS and knows if you played any Konami games, at first I had no idea how he was doing that.

"So.. you like to play Castlevania??"

Gears 2 - the toaster and cowboy hats
Halo 3 - RVB door

Spiderman & Spiderman 2 : Enter Electro for the PS1 - had a cheat code that would alter the game to a more comical setting. Explosiv barrels become bananas, god appears befoer you and torture becomes being force to dance

 

[johnman]

I liked the portal one. Where all the letters highlighted red on the Keyboards spell Adr Shep, intitals for corpral shepard from opposing force. nd l4ds adverts "We got pills here!"