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In the gnolls fight, I believe there is another Easter egg. If you play as Bard and approach the gnoll leader from their back, you get to talk to it. One of the options is to tell the gnolls a joke so good that they all get stunned for 2 rounds laughing, time you can use to kill them one by one without worries of being damaged. That is a reference to a popular Monty Python sketch, "The Funniest Joke in the World". The killer joke.
When first meeting Astarion, he says 'I was ready to decorate the ground with your innards' , in BG2 both Korgan and Renal Bloodscalp[ Or Mae'Var, one of the two] say something about decorating with innards. Elminster, when you meet him, says the *exact* same thing as when you meet him for the first time in BG1 Balduran's butter knife is missing. You can find it on the Werewolf Island in BG1 [TotSC] One of Minsc's Battlecries is 'Can we fight now? Boo is not used to this taking-of-turns', referring to the fact that the originals were real-time-with-pause. Gale refers to Vlaakith as an omnipresent authority figure, a famous line from the Jaheira in the originals Volo reveals that he was present when the Children of Bhaal were going at it - which is actually true. You find him in besieged Saradush in ToB. Moreover, with the original six-cd-set in the 90's, the manual that came along with it was 'written by Volo'. Which, is fun, because he says this as he hands you a 'manual' to defeating the Slayer. Which, of course, covers the villain from BG2. Minthara has a *lot* of Viconia lines and references. The shadow druids are from the Cloakwood sect you can meet in Bg1, with Faldorn mentioned as its founder. Faldorn was a recruitable companion in BG1 [who was incidentally, voiced by the same actress that did Jaheira] You can visit the Jannath Estate, Liia Jannath being one of the Grand Dukes in BG1. Edit: Oh, and all the spellcasting is done in Latin, just like in the originals.
One more Easter Egg: The main Character in BG3 says sometimes: "I shouldn´t have wished to live in more interesting times". It is a reference to Terry Pratchett and his famous Discworld Novels. In "Interesting Times" there is a curse which reads: "May you live in interesting times": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_Times
This video was a lot of fun. As time goes on I am starting to believe that Larian and their work on this game are once in a lifetime occurrence. Baldur’s Gate truly is a labor of love.
I felt pretty similar feelings about the first Divinity OS. It caused my girlfriend to fall in love with me and make me her fiance. At least Larian will continue making games!
OMG Go to the default camp for act I and climb on the ledge behind Astarion's tent (If you have Scratch, he goes up there sometimes) . Once you are up there you will notice the camp ambient music restart....Only this time there are lyrics! It is a song about vampires sung to the ambient music.
There are lines from classic movies that would have been popular when the writers were kids sprinkled throughout the script. For example, the Githyanki creche is referred to as "that wretched little hive" (Star Wars), and Astarion has a line where he talks about him and Tav being lovers forever "until the world falls down" (Labyrinth)
Act 1, other end of the tunnel where the knolls and missing shipment is located, is what I suspect is a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference with a giant boulder.
Another Easter egg that you can find is in the emperor hideout in the elfsong tevran, when you see some of the things from the emporer past, you can find a set of fork and a knife but the emporer will tell you the the butter knife is missing, this is an Easter egg for baldur's gate 1 expansion tale of the sword cost, were you travel to the lost island were baldurun was last seen, and you find his journal and knife butter.
Nine-Fingers Keene seems to me like a reference to Logen Ninefingers, one of the protagonists of Joe Abercrombie’s “First Law” trilogy. What takes it from coincidence to reference for me is the absurd amount of knives you can find on her corpse, as one of Logen’s sayings is “you can never have too many knives”
Not sure if you count them but BG3 has references to Faldorn and Branwen Faldorn is a shadow druid companion in BG1 and the leader of the shadow druids who have taken over the druid grove in BG2 (where you kill her), in BG3 the shadow druids' letter to Kagha ends with "In Faldorn's memory" Branwen is a human cleric who worships Tempus, in BG1 you can find her petrified and when you cure her she can join your party, in BG2 she's part of the characters who teach how to play in the tutorial, in BG3 you can find her grave in the graveyard in the city of Baldur's Gate
Another DOS:2 Easter egg is in the House of Grief reception area. If you read the recent visitor log, you will see mention of a man using a "false name". If you played DOS:2 to its epilogue and Tarquin was still alive, he will talk about going to "other worlds" or planes of existence. The description in the Visitor log is too close to Tarquin (it is suggested that he is not from Faerun, and paid with unfamiliar gold coins). Wish I had the exact quotes from the logs, but unfortunately I don't. Happy Easter Egg hunting! :D
This is the perfect type of video for me. I absolutely loved this. So much better than a typical video. I haven't noticed any of this stuff. Well played and well met!
There is a dead tiefling named Melkor in the caves underneath the temple in BG's during the priest murder investigation quest. Feel like that's Silmarillion reference to the first Dark Lord and Sauron's master.
About the Necromancy and the Evil Dead reference: Both are actually a reference to H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon from the Cthulhu mythos. Given how most of act 2 plays out, I would say at least one person at Larians loves both Poe and Lovecraft plus a good dash of body horror. But especially that abaondoned village with the House of Healing and the other changed citizens, is very lovecraftian. The Necromancy has similar effects as the Necronomicon: you can get powerful knowledge out of it, but the more common outcome will be, that you are not strong enough and will suffer from reading it. If you give Astarion the Necromancy, he starts mumbling about how he hears voices and they are suggesting unhealthy stuff to him. At one point, when he reads it, there are literally shadow tentacles coming out of the book. In EA there was another old companion referenced: Faldorn - in teh book about shadow druids, you can find in Kaghas stuff. Sadly, they took it out.
Doom hammer is underrated. It can't miss (tenacity) and bone chills on hit preventing healing. Super nice for those bosses that like to heal (like the avatar of Merkyl).
Great catches, but a few things worth pointing out: Killing rats in the cellar in the Elfsong Tavern is more than just a reference to the quests in the original Baldur's Gate and Dark Alliance - that also happens to be a common trope in (High Fantasy) CRPGs in general. It's usually one of the first quests you do in your avatar's starting town in many similar RPGs. In addition to Noober in BG1, there was also his relatives, Nuber in Siege of Dragonspear and Neeber in Baldur's Gate II, so Larian deserves props for continuing a running gag throughout the BG series! Also, Aerie's race is called an Avariel, which is a sub-race of Elves distinguished by their wings. Great video, though! Both the classic BG titles, especially BG1 from what I've found, and the Divinity series alike have had neat little easter eggs and pop culture references, too!
In Act 2, there is a Harper named Arthus who checks the prisoners you rescue for infection after you return to the Last Light Inn. I am certain that this is a reference to WarCraft 3's (and of course WoW) Arthas Menethil (AKA the Lich King) who infamously slaughtered the town of Stratholme to prevent the spread of a plague.
Not sure if anyone's pointed this out but in the stairway down to the adamantine forge, the slope is broken up in a way that look just like the stairs in the mines of moria in the fellowship of the ring.
In the Early Access the lady on the nautiloid who was turning into mindflayer looked like Kelly from Mass Effect 2 who was also in a... certain... situation.... There is also that guy in Act 1 named Anders (paladin of Tyr) who is in possession of the sword called Justice... Fans of Dragon Age will know.
So this is why BG3 has become my favorite game of all time! As a Massive BG1 lore fan who went into that game looking for Drizzt, BG3 reminds me of previous fandoms i am a part of. Critical Role, Baldur's Gate Series, DOS2, LOTR, WoW. But I'm also gonnah say one of the biggest Easter Eggs reference is you Wolf! The Wolfheart Wildheart Barbarian Path! Awoooooo!!
Fun fact: Mazzy Fentan and Dynaheir were both voice acted by Jennifer Hale who is famously known as voicing the female version of Commander Shepard from the first three Mass Effect games.
In the Guantlet of Shar, there's a reference to TES III: Morrowind. When you ride the lift down to the floor before going to the Shadowfell, Wyll says "Why walk when you can ride?"
One easter-egg was surely that in the Elfsong tavern the quest that the Inn-staff had for you was to get rid off rats. 🤗 In a much older game which name I've forgotten by now, you also entered this tavern and you had to kill a lot of rats to make them happy. 6:00 I knew it. ^^
So fun! I was wondering if someone else noticed this - early on you get a quote "Goblins hunt in packs" (i think from Lae'zel). I'm like half-sure this could be a Dragon's Dogma easter egg. Companions will say "Wolves hunt in packs" and about goblins stuff like "Goblin packs are ruled by the strong." Edit: Remembered another one! Sceleritas Fel says he is "One Hell of a butler", clearly a Black Butler reference
My contribution: in Baldur's Gate, on the bridge to the House of Grief, there's a woman singing a song that is basically the Skye Boat Song (or the theme from Outlander) but with different lyrics.
Poutine can also be found in Act 3, inside the smuggler's cave. As a French Canadian, was pretty surprised to find that (before I learned Larian had a team in Quebec City). - During my 2nd playthrough, Shadowheart said at one point "you catch more flies with a spoon of honey than a barrel of vinegar" (or something to that effect). Although it's a popular saying, it's also a quote found in one of St. Francis of Sales's books, a late 16th century "cleric", who might have been among the first, if not the first, to say it. - Also love how the magical/Infernal speech is often Latin.
Can you do a reference episode? Sort of lore items from Forgotten realms found back in BG3? I came across a book about house Obaldra, Drizzt, Elminster, even Blackstaff..
I got one for you. Once you know about it, you can't unhear it and I crack up everytime. And that is the "Wilhelm Scream". You can hear it in the opening cinematic when the mindflayer ship is poofing people with the tentacles.
@@jarrodbright5231 I´ve never played those, so thanks for that titbit. I do love a Wilhelm Scream and knew this game was for me when I heard it in the intro.
I guess inspiration points are a gold mine for easter eggs. From the top of my head I can recall "Who let the gnolls out?" when you release gnolls in Moonrise Tower. When it comes to BG2 - I had a laugh while reading a book in which Balduran was bartering with a demon (or devil). IMO Baldurans knowledge about turnip meant that he has been in touch with Jan Jansen
14:35 None of the other references made me bat an eye, but I can't believe BG3 has an Undertale reference. That's really cool and fitting, since they're both games made with heart and that take choice and consequence seriously. Undertale was also advertised as "the friendly RPG where no-one has to die", and that does apply to some extent to BG3 (because of all the skill checks that give you a chance to avoid many combat instances).
As a slight twist to the Raven's name. Death's..... raven in the Terry Pratchett books is also called "Quoth", and he tells you he "Doesn't do the N word".... So it could be considered an easter egg for that instead...
Personally, I think it´s more a Pratchett reference, who in turn was referencing Poe, because Quoth in Discworld was also a familiar. I also vaguely recall reading about other Pratchett references in book titles. IIRC there is a book somewhere about a staff or cane having a knob on the end. A reference to the famous (to Pratchett fans at least) song, "A Wizard´s staff has a knob at the end." I have just started my 2nd playthrough (Dark Urge Bard, because that sounds fun) and will now be scouring every book and manuscript for Pratchett easter eggs. Nice video, that was fun.
It seems like a stretch but I like to think the boar named Tusk, found in the Grove, who’s looking for love is a subtle nod to the smut book Tusk Love from Critical Role. I don’t know if it’s true but it is in my head cannon.
10:09 - they did my boi Ifan dirty with the deluxe items :( we got Beast's hat, Princey's cape, Sebille's dagger, Lohse's lute, and Fane's mask of the shapeshifter, but Ifan doesn't even get a crossbow or hood or something. Not even a wolf in the game references Ifan as far as I've found
I wouldn't call it an easter egg but a pretty cool detail I stumbled across while exploring the camp at the beginning of the game. If you jump/climb up the rock behind Astarion's tent in the first wilderness camp, I Want to Live with lyrics starts playing. This game has such attention to detail, it's impressive!
I don't remember who says it but there is a line of dialogue from the Macbeth that gets quoted. The line that gets quoted is "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" that starts off this famous soliquey ending with "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Sorry I haven't played the game and have just been watching walk throughs so I missed who the character was.
I think there’s also a finding Nemo reference in the Troll conversation where they talk about whether you are friend or food like Bruce and the other sharks did
Deep and Deeper, there's so much to discover! Now, deep into my 2nd play-through I'm trying to play the game as different from the 1st play-through as I can. It's surprising how much new stuff is uncovered.
I got that Haurchefant (FFXIV) inspiration point on my first play through. I had to put down my controller and take that in. Heavensward was such a memorable experience in FFXIV.
At the beginning when you meet Gale he says: "You don't happen to be a cleric, by any chance, do you? A doctor? Surgeon? Uncannily adroit with a knitting needle? maybe the needle part is a reference to Sebille from DOS2 since she is very skilled with her needle.
nobber is voiced by CohhCarnage, and is one of the only people you can kill without people reacting, speaking to him is a laugh as well as uniquely he want shut up!
I didnt catch this in the video, but if you go to Waukeen's Rest. The burned village, there's a haystack that has a reference to DOS2. If you click on the haystack and find the chest hidden inside, if Astarion is with you he'll say "I was expecting a needle". In DOS2 if you click on haystacks 99% of the time they're empty and the narrator will say "were you expecting a needle?".
If you sit on the first title screen (overlooking the city), you get Ultima 7 title screen vibes: peaceful with birds chirping. Also, there is a tune that plays in Act 3, in the city, that sounds exactly like a song from Ultima 3 (fire castle tune).
At sharess' caress, if you go into the room that belongs to the woman that went missing (forget the name of the room), there are a bunch of books in the bookcases and shelves, and they have the MOST ABSURD "fanfictions" of BG1 and BG2 characters lmao. They're obviously made up by the devs, I don't think they're real fanfictions (well at least I hope not) but they're hilarious none the less
Actually I think 'Scratchy' and 'Itchy' are not a shout-out to The Simpsons, but to Gravity Falls. In an episode, Grunkle Stan looses his hands due to a witch's curse. In the end, when he gets them back, he yells 'Scratchy! Itchy! I missed you guys!' At least I THINK so, I could be misremembering this.
Lump and his friends might be a callback to final fantasy 1. A wizard ogre and two normal ogres were a common random encounter. The wizard ogre would cast blink on himself, and Lump casts mirror image, the closest thing to that. Then again, FF1 took a lot of things straight from old DnD, so maybe it's from that.
I just got a PS5, bought this game on Playstation Network, but I can't even play it because the download says 99+ hours left. I guess I might not ever get a chance to play this game.
I loved nuber. Still laugh decades later! I managed to get xp by not killing him. Suprise snd Fuuuun interaction. To just stumble on before internet took off. Lol
Granted some of these are a little more likely than unlikely to be references, most of them seem like loooooong shots. Also... What's your problem with Nabber? He was awesome. That was a funny scene.
I feel safe here. The amount of people hating on the game and the players took me off guard. To the point every bg3 forum that pops up on my google search is almost always toxic (steam and reddit mostly)
Saying "Itchy and Scratchy" as "Scratchy and Itchy" is so eggregiously bad that if it's not comment bait, then you should feel _awful_ about yourself! :(
"Quoth the Raven" might also be a nod to Discworld, which features a character called Quoth the Raven. Which is obviously a Pie reference, but it's a happy little extra link, maybe. The pun us kinda obvious so they might well have come up with it independently, but Discworld is massively popular so wouldn't surprise me if it's not a coincidence.
I was surprised to see that a "teenage" winged elf as Aerie didn't survive. The rest would die from old age or died from the plot. Jan was very old, Keldorn old and human, Mazzy probably died recently, but Aerie should alive and kicking, even if the disfiguration took half of her life.
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In the gnolls fight, I believe there is another Easter egg. If you play as Bard and approach the gnoll leader from their back, you get to talk to it. One of the options is to tell the gnolls a joke so good that they all get stunned for 2 rounds laughing, time you can use to kill them one by one without worries of being damaged. That is a reference to a popular Monty Python sketch, "The Funniest Joke in the World". The killer joke.
When first meeting Astarion, he says 'I was ready to decorate the ground with your innards' , in BG2 both Korgan and Renal Bloodscalp[ Or Mae'Var, one of the two] say something about decorating with innards.
Elminster, when you meet him, says the *exact* same thing as when you meet him for the first time in BG1
Balduran's butter knife is missing. You can find it on the Werewolf Island in BG1 [TotSC]
One of Minsc's Battlecries is 'Can we fight now? Boo is not used to this taking-of-turns', referring to the fact that the originals were real-time-with-pause.
Gale refers to Vlaakith as an omnipresent authority figure, a famous line from the Jaheira in the originals
Volo reveals that he was present when the Children of Bhaal were going at it - which is actually true. You find him in besieged Saradush in ToB. Moreover, with the original six-cd-set in the 90's, the manual that came along with it was 'written by Volo'. Which, is fun, because he says this as he hands you a 'manual' to defeating the Slayer. Which, of course, covers the villain from BG2.
Minthara has a *lot* of Viconia lines and references.
The shadow druids are from the Cloakwood sect you can meet in Bg1, with Faldorn mentioned as its founder. Faldorn was a recruitable companion in BG1 [who was incidentally, voiced by the same actress that did Jaheira]
You can visit the Jannath Estate, Liia Jannath being one of the Grand Dukes in BG1.
Edit: Oh, and all the spellcasting is done in Latin, just like in the originals.
Awesome!
Sceleritas Fel's " I'm one hell of a butler" referencing Sebastian from Black Butler anime 😂
One more Easter Egg: The main Character in BG3 says sometimes: "I shouldn´t have wished to live in more interesting times". It is a reference to Terry Pratchett and his famous Discworld Novels. In "Interesting Times" there is a curse which reads: "May you live in interesting times": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_Times
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Its a traditional Chinese curse which existed way before Terry Pratchett :)
This video was a lot of fun. As time goes on I am starting to believe that Larian and their work on this game are once in a lifetime occurrence. Baldur’s Gate truly is a labor of love.
I felt pretty similar feelings about the first Divinity OS. It caused my girlfriend to fall in love with me and make me her fiance. At least Larian will continue making games!
Asterion often says “I wish I had a skeleton key” which I always assumed was an Oblivion reference.
OMG Go to the default camp for act I and climb on the ledge behind Astarion's tent (If you have Scratch, he goes up there sometimes) . Once you are up there you will notice the camp ambient music restart....Only this time there are lyrics! It is a song about vampires sung to the ambient music.
There are lines from classic movies that would have been popular when the writers were kids sprinkled throughout the script. For example, the Githyanki creche is referred to as "that wretched little hive" (Star Wars), and Astarion has a line where he talks about him and Tav being lovers forever "until the world falls down" (Labyrinth)
the Labyrinth mentin stopped me in my tracks- I just loved it!!! Its my fave movie!
Act 1, other end of the tunnel where the knolls and missing shipment is located, is what I suspect is a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference with a giant boulder.
Another Easter egg that you can find is in the emperor hideout in the elfsong tevran, when you see some of the things from the emporer past, you can find a set of fork and a knife but the emporer will tell you the the butter knife is missing, this is an Easter egg for baldur's gate 1 expansion tale of the sword cost, were you travel to the lost island were baldurun was last seen, and you find his journal and knife butter.
Awesome
Missed Easter Egg: Justen, dead at the very start of the temple of Bhaal. Critical role, He was a Vax fanboy.
Politics?
An empty vial lies next to him and a note reading his vax status
@@NobleLeather how many were prevented?
Nine-Fingers Keene seems to me like a reference to Logen Ninefingers, one of the protagonists of Joe Abercrombie’s “First Law” trilogy. What takes it from coincidence to reference for me is the absurd amount of knives you can find on her corpse, as one of Logen’s sayings is “you can never have too many knives”
Not sure if you count them but BG3 has references to Faldorn and Branwen
Faldorn is a shadow druid companion in BG1 and the leader of the shadow druids who have taken over the druid grove in BG2 (where you kill her), in BG3 the shadow druids' letter to Kagha ends with "In Faldorn's memory"
Branwen is a human cleric who worships Tempus, in BG1 you can find her petrified and when you cure her she can join your party, in BG2 she's part of the characters who teach how to play in the tutorial, in BG3 you can find her grave in the graveyard in the city of Baldur's Gate
Ah yes I remember the Faldorn references in Act 1. Would have been a nice addition to the video!
There’s also the book in Kagha’s chest, “Faldorn’s Canticle”, which outlines the philosophy of the shadow druids.
Another DOS:2 Easter egg is in the House of Grief reception area. If you read the recent visitor log, you will see mention of a man using a "false name". If you played DOS:2 to its epilogue and Tarquin was still alive, he will talk about going to "other worlds" or planes of existence. The description in the Visitor log is too close to Tarquin (it is suggested that he is not from Faerun, and paid with unfamiliar gold coins). Wish I had the exact quotes from the logs, but unfortunately I don't.
Happy Easter Egg hunting! :D
In Loarrakan's (or whatever his name was) vault there is a letter mentioning him too
This is the perfect type of video for me. I absolutely loved this. So much better than a typical video. I haven't noticed any of this stuff. Well played and well met!
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There is a dead tiefling named Melkor in the caves underneath the temple in BG's during the priest murder investigation quest. Feel like that's Silmarillion reference to the first Dark Lord and Sauron's master.
Oooo I gotta go check that out
About the Necromancy and the Evil Dead reference: Both are actually a reference to H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon from the Cthulhu mythos. Given how most of act 2 plays out, I would say at least one person at Larians loves both Poe and Lovecraft plus a good dash of body horror. But especially that abaondoned village with the House of Healing and the other changed citizens, is very lovecraftian. The Necromancy has similar effects as the Necronomicon: you can get powerful knowledge out of it, but the more common outcome will be, that you are not strong enough and will suffer from reading it. If you give Astarion the Necromancy, he starts mumbling about how he hears voices and they are suggesting unhealthy stuff to him. At one point, when he reads it, there are literally shadow tentacles coming out of the book.
In EA there was another old companion referenced: Faldorn - in teh book about shadow druids, you can find in Kaghas stuff. Sadly, they took it out.
Doom hammer is underrated. It can't miss (tenacity) and bone chills on hit preventing healing. Super nice for those bosses that like to heal (like the avatar of Merkyl).
I'm sorry, bone chill works against AVATAR OF MYRKUL??? That's surprising
wait, the avatar heals?
@@steve69man420ayylmaohe can eat the necromites I believe
@@steve69man420ayylmao on tactician, yes.
Isn't the name Mykrul? I feel like the Avatar of Merkyl would be a kebab stand...Or a massively overcrowded Autobahn.
Great catches, but a few things worth pointing out:
Killing rats in the cellar in the Elfsong Tavern is more than just a reference to the quests in the original Baldur's Gate and Dark Alliance - that also happens to be a common trope in (High Fantasy) CRPGs in general. It's usually one of the first quests you do in your avatar's starting town in many similar RPGs.
In addition to Noober in BG1, there was also his relatives, Nuber in Siege of Dragonspear and Neeber in Baldur's Gate II, so Larian deserves props for continuing a running gag throughout the BG series!
Also, Aerie's race is called an Avariel, which is a sub-race of Elves distinguished by their wings.
Great video, though! Both the classic BG titles, especially BG1 from what I've found, and the Divinity series alike have had neat little easter eggs and pop culture references, too!
In Act 2, there is a Harper named Arthus who checks the prisoners you rescue for infection after you return to the Last Light Inn. I am certain that this is a reference to WarCraft 3's (and of course WoW) Arthas Menethil (AKA the Lich King) who infamously slaughtered the town of Stratholme to prevent the spread of a plague.
Another Poe/Raven reference is the lost Lenore in the Arcane Tower in the Underdark- the mysterious tragic love mage who disappears
Cazador's charmed guard at the palace entrance quoting Dracula gave me a chuckle. I love all the literary references in the game🤓
:-D that's a good one Queen!
Not sure if anyone's pointed this out but in the stairway down to the adamantine forge, the slope is broken up in a way that look just like the stairs in the mines of moria in the fellowship of the ring.
Could be a false memory, but I thought at some point also the iconic Star Wars line "I have a bad feeling about this" is said by Gale.
Note: the Necronomicon from Evil Dead is directly taken from the Cthullu Mythos, from writer H.P. Lovecraft.
The cook at Jannath's palace -> Gordon Ramsey when shouting "IT'S RAW" 😆
In the Early Access the lady on the nautiloid who was turning into mindflayer looked like Kelly from Mass Effect 2 who was also in a... certain... situation....
There is also that guy in Act 1 named Anders (paladin of Tyr) who is in possession of the sword called Justice... Fans of Dragon Age will know.
OMG. i noticed the name similarity but i never realized the sword was called justice
I had a bit of a giggle when I found the erotic novel titled "Yoshimo is willing" 😂
So this is why BG3 has become my favorite game of all time! As a Massive BG1 lore fan who went into that game looking for Drizzt, BG3 reminds me of previous fandoms i am a part of. Critical Role, Baldur's Gate Series, DOS2, LOTR, WoW. But I'm also gonnah say one of the biggest Easter Eggs reference is you Wolf! The Wolfheart Wildheart Barbarian Path! Awoooooo!!
Fun fact: Mazzy Fentan and Dynaheir were both voice acted by Jennifer Hale who is famously known as voicing the female version of Commander Shepard from the first three Mass Effect games.
In the Guantlet of Shar, there's a reference to TES III: Morrowind.
When you ride the lift down to the floor before going to the Shadowfell, Wyll says "Why walk when you can ride?"
In the chest next to Itchy and Scratchy, there is a wizard hat with an eye on it called The Pointy Hat, a likely reference to the D&D UA-camr.
One easter-egg was surely that in the Elfsong tavern the quest that the Inn-staff had for you was to get rid off rats. 🤗
In a much older game which name I've forgotten by now, you also entered this tavern and you had to kill a lot of rats to make them happy.
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I knew it. ^^
Killing rats in the cellar of a tavern is just a common CRPG trope in general.
@@bugmite8271 In Icewind Dale, your first quest is to kill beetles in the tavern cellar!
@@evenmoor Correct. That's a case of slightly altering a trope.
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 😊
So fun! I was wondering if someone else noticed this - early on you get a quote "Goblins hunt in packs" (i think from Lae'zel). I'm like half-sure this could be a Dragon's Dogma easter egg. Companions will say "Wolves hunt in packs" and about goblins stuff like "Goblin packs are ruled by the strong."
Edit: Remembered another one! Sceleritas Fel says he is "One Hell of a butler", clearly a Black Butler reference
My contribution: in Baldur's Gate, on the bridge to the House of Grief, there's a woman singing a song that is basically the Skye Boat Song (or the theme from Outlander) but with different lyrics.
Poutine can also be found in Act 3, inside the smuggler's cave. As a French Canadian, was pretty surprised to find that (before I learned Larian had a team in Quebec City).
- During my 2nd playthrough, Shadowheart said at one point "you catch more flies with a spoon of honey than a barrel of vinegar" (or something to that effect). Although it's a popular saying, it's also a quote found in one of St. Francis of Sales's books, a late 16th century "cleric", who might have been among the first, if not the first, to say it.
- Also love how the magical/Infernal speech is often Latin.
Can you do a reference episode? Sort of lore items from Forgotten realms found back in BG3? I came across a book about house Obaldra, Drizzt, Elminster, even Blackstaff..
I got one for you. Once you know about it, you can't unhear it and I crack up everytime. And that is the "Wilhelm Scream". You can hear it in the opening cinematic when the mindflayer ship is poofing people with the tentacles.
The Wilhelm Scream appears in both BG1 and BG2 as well. It's obligatory at this point.
@@jarrodbright5231 I´ve never played those, so thanks for that titbit. I do love a Wilhelm Scream and knew this game was for me when I heard it in the intro.
Wilhelm Scream is my phones text message sound. Drives the family nuts but it makes me laugh.
Sorry if this was already mentioned, but EXVIKKYAP (Dragon kin) and her obsession over a spear is obviously a reference to Lusty argonian maid
I guess inspiration points are a gold mine for easter eggs. From the top of my head I can recall "Who let the gnolls out?" when you release gnolls in Moonrise Tower.
When it comes to BG2 - I had a laugh while reading a book in which Balduran was bartering with a demon (or devil). IMO Baldurans knowledge about turnip meant that he has been in touch with Jan Jansen
You missed the "don't worry I have a permit" charlatan inspiration parks and rec reference/easter egg
So many inspiration point easter eggs.
Sceleritas Fel, Durge’s butler/babysitter, will say something like „I’m one hell of a butler“. I think that’s a nod to black butler :)
Portrait of Fane in the first dungeon in the first room.... lol. that is from early access though.
@@WolfheartFPScool video i missed half of those after 3 runs
Actually the kill rats as the first quest is as old as the first Ultima game that came out in 1981. Allot RPGs sense then has referenced it.
14:35 None of the other references made me bat an eye, but I can't believe BG3 has an Undertale reference. That's really cool and fitting, since they're both games made with heart and that take choice and consequence seriously. Undertale was also advertised as "the friendly RPG where no-one has to die", and that does apply to some extent to BG3 (because of all the skill checks that give you a chance to avoid many combat instances).
So sad that Mazzy isn't around, always was my favorite companion in BG2, Mazzy Fentan, the Halfling who wanted to be a Paladin!
@larianstudios - where is the Easter Egg for Wolfheart? Love this game - just wish I could play it.
Lolll that would be cool! They put me in the credits though twice so I can't complain.
As a slight twist to the Raven's name. Death's..... raven in the Terry Pratchett books is also called "Quoth", and he tells you he "Doesn't do the N word".... So it could be considered an easter egg for that instead...
Personally, I think it´s more a Pratchett reference, who in turn was referencing Poe, because Quoth in Discworld was also a familiar.
I also vaguely recall reading about other Pratchett references in book titles. IIRC there is a book somewhere about a staff or cane having a knob on the end. A reference to the famous (to Pratchett fans at least) song, "A Wizard´s staff has a knob at the end."
I have just started my 2nd playthrough (Dark Urge Bard, because that sounds fun) and will now be scouring every book and manuscript for Pratchett easter eggs.
Nice video, that was fun.
The “a smile better suits” Easter egg caused all the emotions from that scene to come flooding back
Damn you Larian, you brilliant bastards
All right some of your Easter eggs are a stretch
The rats mission is a classic RPG meme
After Astarion ascendance, the Gurs confront you, where you can take a brief dialogue about the Lesser Evil (The Witcher).
It seems like a stretch but I like to think the boar named Tusk, found in the Grove, who’s looking for love is a subtle nod to the smut book Tusk Love from Critical Role. I don’t know if it’s true but it is in my head cannon.
The monster hunter hunting Astarion is well a monster hunter like a witcher, he even describes being called names by citizens!
Missed Nietzsche quote easter egg
I met a Mercer and a Bailey in lady Jannath’s estate - surely not a coincidence!
Wonderful video, thanks! Makes you want to revisit so much.
In act 1/underdarc there're books mentioning drizzt do'urden, coming of a book series with the same name
Omg! I missed so many easter eggs. I didn't notice Swen Vinke on the menu screan till your video! 🤦 Thank you for all eggs! ❤🎉
10:09 - they did my boi Ifan dirty with the deluxe items :( we got Beast's hat, Princey's cape, Sebille's dagger, Lohse's lute, and Fane's mask of the shapeshifter, but Ifan doesn't even get a crossbow or hood or something. Not even a wolf in the game references Ifan as far as I've found
Yeah, Beast is less popular than Ifan but we got his hat.... Instead of Ifan Crossbow?! Or white Wolf toy would be good.
There is a NADDPOD reference. Karlach says “watch this” when ever she attacks. This is Hardwon Surefoot's catch phrase throughout the campaign.
Few real eggs and mostly big imagination.
Aren't you quite the negative Nancy
I wouldn't call it an easter egg but a pretty cool detail I stumbled across while exploring the camp at the beginning of the game. If you jump/climb up the rock behind Astarion's tent in the first wilderness camp, I Want to Live with lyrics starts playing. This game has such attention to detail, it's impressive!
The stuffed bear in Last Light is a companion from BG2
I don't remember who says it but there is a line of dialogue from the Macbeth that gets quoted. The line that gets quoted is "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" that starts off this famous soliquey ending with "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Sorry I haven't played the game and have just been watching walk throughs so I missed who the character was.
I think there’s also a finding Nemo reference in the Troll conversation where they talk about whether you are friend or food like Bruce and the other sharks did
Deep and Deeper, there's so much to discover! Now, deep into my 2nd play-through I'm trying to play the game as different from the 1st play-through as I can. It's surprising how much new stuff is uncovered.
Naaber is also voiced by CohhCarnage aka a big streamer on twitch.
I got that Haurchefant (FFXIV) inspiration point on my first play through. I had to put down my controller and take that in. Heavensward was such a memorable experience in FFXIV.
At the beginning when you meet Gale he says: "You don't happen to be a cleric, by any chance, do you? A doctor? Surgeon? Uncannily adroit with a knitting needle?
maybe the needle part is a reference to Sebille from DOS2 since she is very skilled with her needle.
nobber is voiced by CohhCarnage, and is one of the only people you can kill without people reacting, speaking to him is a laugh as well as uniquely he want shut up!
ah yes I wish I mentioned Cohh. Kinda of an Easter Egg for those who watch him but don't know he's the VA!
Finally finished my first playthrough this morning! Went evil dark urge for my first full playthrough. This game never quits!
Congrats
I didnt catch this in the video, but if you go to Waukeen's Rest. The burned village, there's a haystack that has a reference to DOS2. If you click on the haystack and find the chest hidden inside, if Astarion is with you he'll say "I was expecting a needle". In DOS2 if you click on haystacks 99% of the time they're empty and the narrator will say "were you expecting a needle?".
If you sit on the first title screen (overlooking the city), you get Ultima 7 title screen vibes: peaceful with birds chirping. Also, there is a tune that plays in Act 3, in the city, that sounds exactly like a song from Ultima 3 (fire castle tune).
Who the heck says "Scratchy and Itchy?"
The Itchy & Scratchy Show*
At sharess' caress, if you go into the room that belongs to the woman that went missing (forget the name of the room), there are a bunch of books in the bookcases and shelves, and they have the MOST ABSURD "fanfictions" of BG1 and BG2 characters lmao. They're obviously made up by the devs, I don't think they're real fanfictions (well at least I hope not) but they're hilarious none the less
Actually I think 'Scratchy' and 'Itchy' are not a shout-out to The Simpsons, but to Gravity Falls. In an episode, Grunkle Stan looses his hands due to a witch's curse. In the end, when he gets them back, he yells 'Scratchy! Itchy! I missed you guys!' At least I THINK so, I could be misremembering this.
Lump and his friends might be a callback to final fantasy 1. A wizard ogre and two normal ogres were a common random encounter. The wizard ogre would cast blink on himself, and Lump casts mirror image, the closest thing to that. Then again, FF1 took a lot of things straight from old DnD, so maybe it's from that.
As for "Rats in celler", that goes WAY back to Elder Scrolls Morrlwind, 2004, had that quest, and as a DM, it plays in many a campaign. 6:51
I thought the ogre Easter egg was finding Nemo when the shark says fish are friend not food
Could be both
Funniest thing to me was receptionist at shars temple was the self help books she has that sell for a high price
I just got a PS5, bought this game on Playstation Network, but I can't even play it because the download says 99+ hours left. I guess I might not ever get a chance to play this game.
I loved nuber. Still laugh decades later!
I managed to get xp by not killing him. Suprise snd Fuuuun interaction. To just stumble on before internet took off. Lol
Im gonna rerun the game now !
Granted some of these are a little more likely than unlikely to be references, most of them seem like loooooong shots. Also... What's your problem with Nabber? He was awesome. That was a funny scene.
Bro. Haggis is not popular in England. Im Scottish and moved to England. Good luck finding anyone that whats to have it, or has even tried it
I feel safe here. The amount of people hating on the game and the players took me off guard. To the point every bg3 forum that pops up on my google search is almost always toxic (steam and reddit mostly)
i loved the easter egg too with that one necromancer where you have to search for his organs like harry did with voldemords hocruxes
no because i almost yelled at my pc when i read the M.T. Tombstone. Molly was my favourite of campaign 2...
I found one in the Grymforge. There is a pool of lava with a burned body hanging off the edge, looking an aweful lot like Anikin in Episode III
This vid is cool af bro, boosted
Thank you
Spoilers : It’s my head, Cannon that the dragonborn in the start menu is actually the dark urge since you find his dead body deeper in orins room
You didn't mention it, but for the few left that don't know, Naaber is voiced by Cohhcarnage.
Gale's combat line ä rough tempest I will raise is from.. surprise, Shakespeare's the Tempest
The book of necromancy of thay isn’t a Easter egg its just a dnd magic item the wizards of thay made.
Your cabinets brand a very familiar logo 🤔
YOU FOUND IT (this is actually my Grandmother's house. I film at her house because my kitchen is ugly and she also likes Factor lol)
I love all the little Easter eggs they are so much fun and add so much to the game! Thank you for another amazing video Wolf! ❤
Saying "Itchy and Scratchy" as "Scratchy and Itchy" is so eggregiously bad that if it's not comment bait, then you should feel _awful_ about yourself! :(
yea I feel so so awful. Not sure I can get through the day!
"Quoth the Raven" might also be a nod to Discworld, which features a character called Quoth the Raven. Which is obviously a Pie reference, but it's a happy little extra link, maybe. The pun us kinda obvious so they might well have come up with it independently, but Discworld is massively popular so wouldn't surprise me if it's not a coincidence.
I was surprised to see that a "teenage" winged elf as Aerie didn't survive. The rest would die from old age or died from the plot. Jan was very old, Keldorn old and human, Mazzy probably died recently, but Aerie should alive and kicking, even if the disfiguration took half of her life.
She could still be alive? The wooden carving could just be minsc missing his friends dead & alive.
@@WolfheartFPS It's called memorials and the others are confirmed or pretty much possibly dead (Mazzy), so I don't hold any expectations for Aerie.
I just ran into the Undertale easter egg last night and it made me so happy lol