In Sinking City you can find a poster that says “Sherlock Holmes Mystery of creepy Watson” This is a reference to The game Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments where in the game Watson has no walk animation, witch means that if you turn you back on Watson and walk to a different room or location you will see him just standing there
Almost! "Creepy Watson" was in Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis. When Crimes and Punishments came along, Frogwares made a trailer to show off the new engine for the games, making fun of Creepy Watson. I didn't know about the Creepy Watson easter egg in Sinking City; that's neat.
I remember that. Don't know what caused such a massive oversight but he literally never moves about. He just teleports closer the minute you're far enough away and your line of sight hides it from happening.
It's a good thing he clarified that. Otherwise we'd all be left thinking it was an ordinary weapon - you know, the kind that are famously mild and gentle when used on living things.
I always assumed he was emphasizing that as a way to hint the player to use the acid rounds against living enemies like Hunters, spiders and such. Given how they were trapped in a mansion with a bunch of unliving things that were still roaming about, that's actually one of the more reasonably odd lines of dialogue from that game.
Another to add onto the Resident Evil Revelations 2 one: After Barry gets a gate open by ramming a boulder into it, he says, "HA! Who's the Master of Unlocking NOW?"
If we're going to talk about Mass Effect what about when Garrus mentions the elevator conversations you had in me1? Or when Shepherd says "remember when you could just slap omni-gel on everything?" during the Shadow Broker DLC
i may be among the few that ENJOYED those little worldbuilding conversations... maybe not all the dead air that would fill lifts afterwards, but the conversations were a nice touch in making the universe feel lived in EDIT: Garrus is the best
In the Bank mission in Chaos Theory, it's Sam who roasts the alarm system in previous games. When you get.4 out of the 8 fake emails, Lambert says "That's half of the emails, 4 more to go" to which Sam replies "Thanks, I've always found it hard to count past 3."
It’s been alleged that M’aiq the Liar refers to Michael Kirkbride, the sort of former main lore author of the Elder Scrolls. Some of his ramblings are metaphysical enough that I understand why he’d get that kind of representation. And also explains why M’aiq seems to possess some information beyond the fourth wall.
Owning your mistakes is part of being an adult eh. I mean Luke would be the best person to consult on this topic surely. I mean "HE'S A NORMAL ADULT MAN WHO DOES NORMAL THINGS!" 😁
@@Endoptic maturity is measured in how crazy one can be for furry little animals and desiring to crush all enemies like the dark monarch we know her to be Associate to whom you will
About the Spiderman Webs on invisible things, there was an easter egg about that in a comic with Iron Man. Tony and Spidey teamed up and had to go to The Raft which is in the middle of the ocean (funny you mentioned that...) and Tony gifts Peter a few cool drones. They look like flying Spiders and have arc reactor thrusters and track Spideys webshooters. As he goes to swing, the drone anticipates where his web will go, catches it and acts as a floating platform for Spidey to swing from, I think there were like 6 and by the end he only had 1. Anyway, Tony makes a joke "You'd be pretty useless anywhere outside Manhattan, unless you can stick your webs to the clouds..." lol I always thought that was a really cool idea, and of course it is never mentioned used or seen again as far as I know. Spidey even mentions how the drones make his swinging faster and a bit floaty-er... and he could web swing at over 150mph with the drones because they would catch his web while flying forward, kinda like running on a conveyor belt.
I remember in the second Spider-Man game (the one in which most players found fun by grappling a helpless thug and swinging to the top of the highest building they could find, only to spinning piledriver the opponent all the way to the street) that one mission had Spidey needing to go out to the Statue of Liberty and, to facilitate that (since it was still located off the coast and too far to jump), they put in either drones or alien ships or something for him to use as anchors. Anywhere else, I just head-canoned it that he was anchored temporarily to the skids of a helicopter that was passing by...
16:14 Fun fact, if you like completing all the side missions like me you’ll have also saved a female bartender in the first game ( or something along those line ) who’ll reappear in this moment to technobabble the gun saving Connor’s (?) life and they presumably life happily ever after depending on your choice of ice cream. Edit: literally heard his name several times before writing but still forgot it was Conrad.
In Morrowind, the only truth M'aiq spoke (that I was aware of) was about a temple that had sunk into the ocean. If you found it, you could start a quest to rebuild!
Scene: Barry buys a round of drinks for his colleagues after a long day of work Barry: (for the 50th time) We find ourselves in this crazy mansion...(some 40min later) I hear someone yell for help, I open the door and find Jill close to being crushed, and I told her (starts to giggle) I say (laughing uncontrollably) “You were almost a Jill Sandwich!” (laughing so hard breathing stops) Everyone else at table: ......yea good one Barry
In Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, Kyle Katarn mocks the franchise's longtime over-reliance on switch puzzles when he and the protagonist come across a locked door: "The console to unlock the door is probably hidden in some room twelve floors up or something… how does that make sense?"
There was that one time where he was both stealthy *and* was in an explosive situation...I still don't know how he didn't end up with non-target kills, though (the celebrity chef elusive target). There was also the 3 ways to play where he took out Vanya Shah and only got one non-target alongside her...though he'd done a few others up to that point.
This is more of a shady dig at other games, but I love the games seller in ME2, specifically when he talks about how violent the "Grim Terminus Alliance" games are. I admit, it took me a minute to realize what game they were talking about.
There's a novelisation of the first RE game that reinterprets Barry's "Jill sandwich" comment as weird in universe, Jill notices he says it in a suspiciously tense way, hinting at his betrayal later in the story. That's actually kind of genius, I'd love to see how the author would explain the dialogue YIIK but let's not ask for miracles.
Here’s an idea for a list: “Characters that we can’t believe we were happy to see again” Think the returns or cameos of those weirdos from old games that we surprisingly missed, like meeting Harold in Fallout 3 or Tingle in Wind Waker.
I'll give you Harold (he's definitely something), but who the hell missed *Tingle*? I hadn't played MM (and still haven't), but he really got to me in WW (which was the first LoZ game I 100%...including all the damn figurines and the pit)...
I mean, can you count all of the Citadel DLC as an Easter egg? Because, if so, the whole thing roasts the mass effect series repeatedly. “I should go” “... do I really sound like that?” My favorite might be Wrex and Grunt just repeating “Shepard” in slightly different ways over and over until I was worried my game was glitching 😆
The voice actors of the first Resident Evil game have talked about their famously weird performances - allegedly, the Japanese voice director was selecting for performances that sounded cool to a non-English-speaking audience. Furthermore, some of the lines were "frankentakes" that were spliced together from more than one read. It's such a wonderfully bizarre story.
Did you know that the 3rd Bioshock: Infinite delay was in order to insert the reference to the 3rd delay. Probably. Edit: Whenever I hear riffs on the invisible latch points for Spiderman I remember a passage from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Dahl's sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Willy Wonka informs his passengers that the elevator is attached to the sky using "Skyhooks" but doesn't answer the question as to what the skyhooks are attached to.
I loved how even in the tutorial for the first spider man game they point out the web thing. The narrator says something along the lines, “don’t ask me how it works” or something like that. It was perfect and made me not even question it
The best was Geralt talking to Roach in Blood and Wine. "Why do you get stuck on the smallest thing.. and when I whistle you always appear even across tbe sea."
I can remember getting one of the most hilarious corpse launches I have ever seen, on a grunt, during a Firefight match, in Halo:Reach. Grunts were hilarious.
When I saw ME3 on this list, I was expecting Citadel's mocking of the "I should go" line and references to super long elevator rides. This is cool too, but if you do another edition you have to mention, well, basically the while Citadel DLC. Unabashed fan service FTW!
One subtle dig I love is the Pattern Bush from Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green. The original Generation 1 pokemon games were a buggy mess in Japan, including a glitch that could softlock you because you could swap a key item in your pack permanently with one of your party pokemon. The grass in that area is made to look like a circuit board from the original generation 1 games... and the wild encounters in that tall grass? Nothing but bug-type pokemon.
If there's ever a part 2 for a commentator's edition I elect Kingdom Hearts 3 where it flashes Kingdom Hearts II.9 cheekily near the start of the game to mock the ridiculous names of all the previous spin off titles.
So fun fact about the lore of Mass Effect switching from heating to thermal clips: the gets used thermal clip guns during the assault on the citadel at the end of Mass Effect 1. The security team sent to do cleanup found that using clips was vastly more efficient because instead of waiting for the gun to cool you could simply discharge the heated clip and pop a fresh one in to contain the gun’s heat once more.
It's absolutely astounding just how much Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's graphics still hold up today and how much the first 2 game's graphics really don't 🤣
Was playing Death Stranding and was in the Vietnam section when I walked into a tent and found a horror book on a table by one Stephanie Queen, not sure if slight reference to Stephen King, but nonetheless found it amusing
Man, did anyone ever play Splinter Cell double agent back then with the OG Xbox? I remember playing the multiplayer with my cousin so much that we actually stumbled on to a seals Easter egg. Like actual seals that spoke were hidden around in the levels and then at the end you save their seal princess. We were so shook that we scoured the internet for answers but didn’t find any videos or anything and still to this day rarely hear about it.
Fun fact: you can save Conrad from death, if you save/help another character from the second or earlier in the third game (I think it was Miranda's sister from ME2).
@@jasperzanovich2504 Her sister is the one who gives you the quest. Jenna is working undercover for C-Sec and her sister wanted to get her pulled from Chora's Den.
I found that kinda funny, because he can die in the first game. Initiative left at the end of the second game, so if she had to get away she sure wasn't paying attention lol 🤣
@@JeedyJay I think it's about you telling him he is not Spectre material and he goes off to proof you wrong, attacking a random group of turians and get shot.
God, I was already sick of Andromeda seeming unable to do its own thing and constantly referencing characters from the old games, so when Conrad's sister showed up I almost smashed the PS4.
Speaking of Grunts, my brother and I are making a Legendary difficulty campaign run on Halo 3. We're used to playing on Easy, so imagine our surprise when a Grunt came waddling at us with a plasma grenade in each hand.
Just remembered Old Snake's nightmare in MGS 4. I remember having tears of joy and nostalgia in my eyes when he returned to Shadow Moses Island....god, I love that franchise!
It's neither an easter egg nor a game roasting itself, but the Spiderman 3 entry reminded me of the somewhat recent Spiderman puddle controversy and how Insomniac added those puddle stickers to their photo mode :D Y'all remember that, right? Pretty funny.
At least one of the Mass Effect sequels had Garrus mentioning the "chats during the elevator rides", which were slow compared to current elevators despite being on one of the most technically advanced stations when they were used in place of loading screens.
@@BogeyTheBear Still more advanced than anything the humans naturally came up with. That elevator stuff may have been added in by one of the alien races too.
you may have been traveling hundreds of meters which even fast elevators take time when not squashing the people inside. consider there is only 1 elevator we are given a true scale of.
@@trinalgalaxy5943 That might apply when going to the council spot. Most of the other places were not that far apart. Maybe 3 floors tops depending on where the elevator was. In short, you could still walk to pretty much each location in the first game.
@@azuredragoon2054 your not wrong. lets remember that Mass Effect is not only a case study when it comes to poorly hidden loading screens, it is THE study, THE prime offender, and THE reason such activities have almost completely stopped.
Especially Maiq when he jokes about them taking out content that made Morrowind so much fun which made later games lack as much. But are still fun games regardless.
In hindsight, I can't believe I didn't think of the tabletop RPG in Fable 3 where one of the players will ask you "What kind of game lets you kill the final boss in one hit?" Fable 2 is the answer to that...
I got another one: "7 Games that depressed us as heck, but we still love to play" - With games like "The Last of Us", "What remains of Edith Finch", "That Dragon Cancer", Every Quantic Dream Game, Mass Effect Trilogy (if you end it like you should)...
I agree, Jane. Show that neighbor's kid! How dare he like Charizard... Edit: He likes Bulbasaur?? I take it all back. Shame on you, Jane. Bulbasaur is our lord and savior.
Battlefield: Bad Company. There were only 2 but the second one ends on a cliffhanger clearly leaving room to round out the trilogy but it never happened.
No-One Lives Forever. Ownership of the IP is now so confused no-one is sure who actually owns the rights, to the point that not only is there never going to be a third game, the first two can't even get a re-release!
Came across a fun little easter egg playing The Sinking City - a poster near one of the phone boxes advertising 'The Mystery of the Creepy Watson'. Seem to remember you featuring the teleporting Watson a while back xD
In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, at the convention centre, you come across a technician working on a broken escalator who says something about "damn budget cuts", which I'm guessing means the escalators were originally meant to be functional.
In Fable 3, the gnomes scattered across Albion yell a bunch of insults that differ depending on what kind of Hero you are. If you're a male Hero, a gnome could yell "Look at those rippling muscles, those broad shoulders, that squared jaw... You are one weird looking lady!" in reference to a fully leveled female Hero of Bowerstone in Fable 2 looking very masculine just like the description.
I would love to see a list of soundtracks that make you feel empowered. My personal picks would be the Republic commando theme or "hunt or be hunted" from witcher 3. I need to add more songs like them to my playlist
There's another one from Mass Effect 2's Shadow Broker DLC in a conversation between Shepard and Liara when you infiltrate the Broker's ship Shepard: "Remember the old days when you could just slap omni-gel on everything?" Liara: "That security upgrade made a lot of people unhappy" That's a reference to the first game's hacking system that could be skipped by using said omni-gel, which was no longer a thing in ME2
@@SgtKOnyx you must still be able to play it. Playstation 3 players never got to experience Pinnacle Station and some on Xbox 360 experienced the red ring of death
@@joenesvick7043 All three are backwards compatible on Xbox One. Pinnacle station is an add on, and while that's not ideal for PS players, it isn't the same as the game never being available, is it?
@@SgtKOnyx not everyone has an Xbox One you know, remasters always include the addons. You might not want a remaster, but most fans do. They would not only buy it, they would involuntarily cum
Mass Effect roasts itself a lot. Just about everyone makes fun of Shepard's dancing. Eg, When asking Jack to dance; she laughs and says "Shepard, everyone knows you can't dance!"
Man, Mike is so awesome he started his LHC repair using a common smartphone, but given the worry he left of, it seems the problem was bigger. Go there and solve it mike, we believe in you.
I don't remember if it was mentioned in a previous video: but in RE 7, one of the antagonists kidnaps a "friendly NPC" (right in front of you while you are armed) and pauses for a moment before disappearing, looking you dead in the eyes and saying "Well? Don't just stand there, DO SOMETHING!"
"you were almost a Jill sandwich" is weird as a comment, but "you would've fit NICELY into a sandwich" is a much creepier way to say a weird comment
Exactly! I remember when it came out and everywhere was playing that clip as an example of how the dialogue was improved. I was so confused.
I mean it definitely sounds less corny than the original version. Honestly it being creepy sounds like a reach.
I feel like “You were almost a Jill pancake” is the least weird this food metaphor can be
I don't think how the that would be considered creepy.
@@JoahTheThread5ive "Sandwich", when applied to a person/people, can also be a reference to a menage-a-trois.
In Sinking City you can find a poster that says “Sherlock Holmes
Mystery of creepy Watson”
This is a reference to The game Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments where in the game Watson has no walk animation, witch means that if you turn you back on Watson and walk to a different room or location you will see him just standing there
Almost! "Creepy Watson" was in Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis. When Crimes and Punishments came along, Frogwares made a trailer to show off the new engine for the games, making fun of Creepy Watson. I didn't know about the Creepy Watson easter egg in Sinking City; that's neat.
Oh, that's a favorite of mine xD
I remember that.
Don't know what caused such a massive oversight but he literally never moves about. He just teleports closer the minute you're far enough away and your line of sight hides it from happening.
''Do you remember being more purpler? Maybe it's just my eyes getting smarter'' - Greatest.Video.Game.Quote.Ever.
Well Halo 5 had to give us something good.
Right? "More purpler" is now my favorite description of anything Halo xD
The Maw Birthday Grunt.
I NEED TO SEE THIS BUT I CAN'T FIND IT ONLINE, PLES HALP
edit: should've just watched on lol now i feel dumb
@@callumdonington2227 I mean just on the averages
"It's a weapon, its really powerful, especially against living things"
"I....would hope so..."
It's a good thing he clarified that. Otherwise we'd all be left thinking it was an ordinary weapon - you know, the kind that are famously mild and gentle when used on living things.
This weapon works exclusively against inanimate objects
I always assumed he was emphasizing that as a way to hint the player to use the acid rounds against living enemies like Hunters, spiders and such. Given how they were trapped in a mansion with a bunch of unliving things that were still roaming about, that's actually one of the more reasonably odd lines of dialogue from that game.
@@Dargonhuman That's what I assumed from context alone. Never played the game.
To be fair, in other games, it might be a context about how it might not work just as well against undead like skeletons and zombies.
Another to add onto the Resident Evil Revelations 2 one:
After Barry gets a gate open by ramming a boulder into it, he says, "HA! Who's the Master of Unlocking NOW?"
It was ACTUALLY a bundle of logs. But that's semantics
Nice, I forgot all about that one!
I love that
Barry always gets the best lines
@@DocDevious23 Yeah.. Chris is the boulder specialist.
"Mike the liar, who is witty, handsome, and the Prime minister of Norway." hmmm, I wonder which one he could possibly lie about?
I bet his name isn't even Mike.
His name is Mick.
Can confirm Mike is in fact the prime minister of Norway, so it must be something else, but what...
Hmmm...On a guess, I'm gonna say handsome. He's far too modest to say a thing like that.
I am hoping it isnt the one about him wearing Sam Fishers rubber suit under his jumper.
If we're going to talk about Mass Effect what about when Garrus mentions the elevator conversations you had in me1? Or when Shepherd says "remember when you could just slap omni-gel on everything?" during the Shadow Broker DLC
Liara: That security backdoor made a lot of people unhappy.
Garrus: "Tell me again about your immune system again..."
Tali: "I have a shotgun."
i may be among the few that ENJOYED those little worldbuilding conversations... maybe not all the dead air that would fill lifts afterwards, but the conversations were a nice touch in making the universe feel lived in
EDIT: Garrus is the best
You’re making me want to do another play through of Mass Effect 😅
And pretty much everything about the Citadel DLC party.
In the Bank mission in Chaos Theory, it's Sam who roasts the alarm system in previous games.
When you get.4 out of the 8 fake emails, Lambert says "That's half of the emails, 4 more to go" to which Sam replies "Thanks, I've always found it hard to count past 3."
It’s been alleged that M’aiq the Liar refers to Michael Kirkbride, the sort of former main lore author of the Elder Scrolls. Some of his ramblings are metaphysical enough that I understand why he’d get that kind of representation. And also explains why M’aiq seems to possess some information beyond the fourth wall.
Owning your mistakes is part of being an adult eh.
I mean Luke would be the best person to consult on this topic surely.
I mean "HE'S A NORMAL ADULT MAN WHO DOES NORMAL THINGS!" 😁
Luke let this man go dont do anything rash
Obviously Jane and Ellen are the mature ones of the bunch
@@deathbykonami5487 Well, that's dark.
@@Endoptic maturity is measured in how crazy one can be for furry little animals and desiring to crush all enemies like the dark monarch we know her to be
Associate to whom you will
The whole "Roach Side Mission" in The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine is basically one big roast of the game. And it was brilliant!
Also the "Damn candles!" moment during the heist in Hearts of Stone. TW3 actually has quite a few fun little moments like that ^^
It was even more freaky in the Polish dub since they got a famous Polish celebrity to voice Roach. With a very deep voice.
@@ThePreciseClimber id love to hear that.
Geralt: Run Roach!
Roach: WHAT THE F*CK DO YOU THINK I AM DOING!?
About the Spiderman Webs on invisible things, there was an easter egg about that in a comic with Iron Man.
Tony and Spidey teamed up and had to go to The Raft which is in the middle of the ocean (funny you mentioned that...) and Tony gifts Peter a few cool drones. They look like flying Spiders and have arc reactor thrusters and track Spideys webshooters. As he goes to swing, the drone anticipates where his web will go, catches it and acts as a floating platform for Spidey to swing from, I think there were like 6 and by the end he only had 1.
Anyway, Tony makes a joke "You'd be pretty useless anywhere outside Manhattan, unless you can stick your webs to the clouds..." lol
I always thought that was a really cool idea, and of course it is never mentioned used or seen again as far as I know.
Spidey even mentions how the drones make his swinging faster and a bit floaty-er... and he could web swing at over 150mph with the drones because they would catch his web while flying forward, kinda like running on a conveyor belt.
I remember in the second Spider-Man game (the one in which most players found fun by grappling a helpless thug and swinging to the top of the highest building they could find, only to spinning piledriver the opponent all the way to the street) that one mission had Spidey needing to go out to the Statue of Liberty and, to facilitate that (since it was still located off the coast and too far to jump), they put in either drones or alien ships or something for him to use as anchors. Anywhere else, I just head-canoned it that he was anchored temporarily to the skids of a helicopter that was passing by...
16:14
Fun fact, if you like completing all the side missions like me you’ll have also saved a female bartender in the first game ( or something along those line ) who’ll reappear in this moment to technobabble the gun saving Connor’s (?) life and they presumably life happily ever after depending on your choice of ice cream.
Edit: literally heard his name several times before writing but still forgot it was Conrad.
And then there's the bonus he gets you if you bought a weapon license and finished a fetch quest in Mass Effect 1.
*live
In Morrowind, the only truth M'aiq spoke (that I was aware of) was about a temple that had sunk into the ocean. If you found it, you could start a quest to rebuild!
Yeah, I found that by accident afterwards.
Dragons were indeed never gone. There was at least one still alive in the world the entire time. He was very, very quiet.
@@BogeyTheBear Indeed!
Down in the deepest black, beneath the frozen land
There rests a golden star, cry out for its light
Then you too shall see! ;)
"Hey, we just did a complete sports metaphor! That counts as my physical activity for the week."
Right, I'm officially using this in everyday life.
Scene:
Barry buys a round of drinks for his colleagues after a long day of work
Barry: (for the 50th time) We find ourselves in this crazy mansion...(some 40min later)
I hear someone yell for help, I open the door and find Jill close to being crushed, and I told her (starts to giggle) I say (laughing uncontrollably) “You were almost a Jill Sandwich!” (laughing so hard breathing stops)
Everyone else at table: ......yea good one Barry
Cut him some slack, he's a dad.. Dad jokes come with the territory
7:35 As someone who lives near Colonial Williamsburg, they know FULL WELL what they did and don't DESERVE Spidey's protection.
as do i, im right down the street. let them burn spidey, let them burn!
In Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, Kyle Katarn mocks the franchise's longtime over-reliance on switch puzzles when he and the protagonist come across a locked door: "The console to unlock the door is probably hidden in some room twelve floors up or something… how does that make sense?"
Mike the Liar... I hear he is great at stealth, and rarely gets into explosive situations.
There was that one time where he was both stealthy *and* was in an explosive situation...I still don't know how he didn't end up with non-target kills, though (the celebrity chef elusive target). There was also the 3 ways to play where he took out Vanya Shah and only got one non-target alongside her...though he'd done a few others up to that point.
This is more of a shady dig at other games, but I love the games seller in ME2, specifically when he talks about how violent the "Grim Terminus Alliance" games are. I admit, it took me a minute to realize what game they were talking about.
ill admit that while i dont know how many times i have heard that line, it was not until reading your comment that i realized what the joke was.....
...I literally just got that.
I feel stupid now.
:(
@@LtBasil Don't feel stupid! That game has so many details. If anything, I just paid too much attention to things that didn't matter.
My favorite is the guy trying to make a return without a receipt. He's in all three games.
Can't you convince him to leave/tell the cashier to let him make the return in ME3?
two antennas got married.. The wedding went ok but the Reception was Amazing
Ba dum tiss!
There's a novelisation of the first RE game that reinterprets Barry's "Jill sandwich" comment as weird in universe, Jill notices he says it in a suspiciously tense way, hinting at his betrayal later in the story. That's actually kind of genius, I'd love to see how the author would explain the dialogue YIIK but let's not ask for miracles.
Well, Conrad, as anoying as he was, seing him asking if he finally helped with his last breath actually broke my heart.
But he didn't die though, the chick from Feros sabotages the Cerberus agent's gun
@@deathbykonami5487 I know, but I didn't got that timeline the first time.
Here’s an idea for a list:
“Characters that we can’t believe we were happy to see again”
Think the returns or cameos of those weirdos from old games that we surprisingly missed, like meeting Harold in Fallout 3 or Tingle in Wind Waker.
I'll give you Harold (he's definitely something), but who the hell missed *Tingle*? I hadn't played MM (and still haven't), but he really got to me in WW (which was the first LoZ game I 100%...including all the damn figurines and the pit)...
Having never played any of the previous games, I was very confused when I first ran into M'aiq the Liar.
Jill sandwich > fit into a sandwich
A universal truth in gaming.
._.
More like deli meat! Whoop
I mean, can you count all of the Citadel DLC as an Easter egg? Because, if so, the whole thing roasts the mass effect series repeatedly.
“I should go”
“... do I really sound like that?”
My favorite might be Wrex and Grunt just repeating “Shepard” in slightly different ways over and over until I was worried my game was glitching 😆
In Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Dark Prince mocks the Prince for talking to himself. Which he did a lot of in the first two games.
@topple buttmunch
The voice actors of the first Resident Evil game have talked about their famously weird performances - allegedly, the Japanese voice director was selecting for performances that sounded cool to a non-English-speaking audience. Furthermore, some of the lines were "frankentakes" that were spliced together from more than one read. It's such a wonderfully bizarre story.
Did you know that the 3rd Bioshock: Infinite delay was in order to insert the reference to the 3rd delay. Probably.
Edit: Whenever I hear riffs on the invisible latch points for Spiderman I remember a passage from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Dahl's sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Willy Wonka informs his passengers that the elevator is attached to the sky using "Skyhooks" but doesn't answer the question as to what the skyhooks are attached to.
These are very impressive skyhooks since he uses them to get into outer space.
Serendip
The sky! Duh!🤣
I thought M’aiq was metacomentary on Bethesda’s relationship with telling the truth
I loved how even in the tutorial for the first spider man game they point out the web thing. The narrator says something along the lines, “don’t ask me how it works” or something like that. It was perfect and made me not even question it
"I hope this is not Chris' blood." will always be my favorite line from any video game.
The best was Geralt talking to Roach in Blood and Wine. "Why do you get stuck on the smallest thing.. and when I whistle you always appear even across tbe sea."
I can remember getting one of the most hilarious corpse launches I have ever seen, on a grunt, during a Firefight match, in Halo:Reach. Grunts were hilarious.
When I saw ME3 on this list, I was expecting Citadel's mocking of the "I should go" line and references to super long elevator rides. This is cool too, but if you do another edition you have to mention, well, basically the while Citadel DLC. Unabashed fan service FTW!
Jane: "...arguing with 10 yr olds who think Bulbasaur is the best..."
Me, 31 yrs old, who thinks Bulbasaur is the best: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
Yes, Bulbasaur ain't as showy as Charmander or has cool sunglasses, but you could beat up the first 2 gyms easy!
@@AldoLop And all the rest after that! *dabs with vine whip*
One subtle dig I love is the Pattern Bush from Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green.
The original Generation 1 pokemon games were a buggy mess in Japan, including a glitch that could softlock you because you could swap a key item in your pack permanently with one of your party pokemon.
The grass in that area is made to look like a circuit board from the original generation 1 games... and the wild encounters in that tall grass? Nothing but bug-type pokemon.
"Fitting nicely" into a sandwich is quite a bit dirtier than simply "being" a sandwich. Bravo, writers.
If there's ever a part 2 for a commentator's edition I elect Kingdom Hearts 3 where it flashes Kingdom Hearts II.9 cheekily near the start of the game to mock the ridiculous names of all the previous spin off titles.
Hey... Splinter Cell, remember that game? I love how much OXBOXTRA content we get per week now 🥰
IF THINKING BULBASAUR IS THE BEST IS WRONG THEN I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT
CHARIZARD FOR LIFE!!!!
SQUIRTLE SQUAD REPRESENT!
I have to appreciate that not only are all Kanto starter lines represented here, but they're repped in Pokedex order ^_^
Bulbasaur the ailment and tanking god
I'm the best there is at what I am.
So fun fact about the lore of Mass Effect switching from heating to thermal clips: the gets used thermal clip guns during the assault on the citadel at the end of Mass Effect 1. The security team sent to do cleanup found that using clips was vastly more efficient because instead of waiting for the gun to cool you could simply discharge the heated clip and pop a fresh one in to contain the gun’s heat once more.
I like how she calls Grunts pint sized, when they're probably taller than her
I mean isn't Jane pretty tall?? Ellen probably lol, but not Jane
Approximate heights:
Grunts - 5'
Ellen - 5'2"
Jane - 5'7"
Andy - 5'11"
Mike - 6'
Luke - 6'2"
Master Chief - 7'
It's absolutely astounding just how much Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's graphics still hold up today and how much the first 2 game's graphics really don't 🤣
Was playing Death Stranding and was in the Vietnam section when I walked into a tent and found a horror book on a table by one Stephanie Queen, not sure if slight reference to Stephen King, but nonetheless found it amusing
I've been listening to too much Critical Role recently. I recognised Liam O'Brien's voice as the Cotton Candy Seller in the Bioshock bit.
I'm over here laughing about how they're using a pug for the new Halo sound effects. I hope his owner is being paid well to spoil that pug.
Man, did anyone ever play Splinter Cell double agent back then with the OG Xbox? I remember playing the multiplayer with my cousin so much that we actually stumbled on to a seals Easter egg. Like actual seals that spoke were hidden around in the levels and then at the end you save their seal princess. We were so shook that we scoured the internet for answers but didn’t find any videos or anything and still to this day rarely hear about it.
Fun fact: you can save Conrad from death, if you save/help another character from the second or earlier in the third game (I think it was Miranda's sister from ME2).
I had to check for this: It's the Stripper from Chora's Den in ME1, Jenna. She has some kind of quest for you I don't remember.
@@jasperzanovich2504 Her sister is the one who gives you the quest. Jenna is working undercover for C-Sec and her sister wanted to get her pulled from Chora's Den.
Conrad actually has a sister... that travels to Andromeda to get away from him and becomes very ..erm... enthusiastic once she meets the pathfinder
I found that kinda funny, because he can die in the first game. Initiative left at the end of the second game, so if she had to get away she sure wasn't paying attention lol 🤣
@@joenesvick7043 He can die in the first game? I didn't think that could happen until the second.
@@JeedyJay I think it's about you telling him he is not Spectre material and he goes off to proof you wrong, attacking a random group of turians and get shot.
@@jasperzanovich2504 Got it. I think I didn't remember that because it's not as _elaborate_ as the ME2 version.
God, I was already sick of Andromeda seeming unable to do its own thing and constantly referencing characters from the old games, so when Conrad's sister showed up I almost smashed the PS4.
I assume Jane meant the kid is the one who made the mistake of getting into an argument with her, and not the other way around.
I'm Conrad Verner, and Commander Shepard told me this was his favourite video on The Citadel.
I've watched it 136 times now.
Getting into arguments on which Pokemon is the best? That's how they get you, quickly Jane! Get out of there!
To be fair that is not just a problem with kids.
Besides, the best Pokemon is Squirtle. Ah I see what you mean.
Just say the best Pokemon is Wargreymon and end the discussion
Speaking of Grunts, my brother and I are making a Legendary difficulty campaign run on Halo 3. We're used to playing on Easy, so imagine our surprise when a Grunt came waddling at us with a plasma grenade in each hand.
Just remembered Old Snake's nightmare in MGS 4. I remember having tears of joy and nostalgia in my eyes when he returned to Shadow Moses Island....god, I love that franchise!
That was incredible. Then Snake wakes up to enter the base and you realise just how far we've come, in terms of story and graphics.
I can remember my first ResE play-through. Barry’s reaction to the first zombie “What IS it?!” just cracked us up
Jane: "That's going to make them much harder to shoot."
You're not fooling anyone, Jane!
We not gonna talk about how that ungoy apparently saw the gravemind and lived to gossip about it? Twice?
His name is Yip-Yap, and has been present in nearly all Halo games. 😊
@@gundamheavyarms4879 no one told me he was a true veteran!
@@gundamheavyarms4879 That was Yip-Yap?! The little guy made it!
Jane, your smirk at the end is adorable
"Shepard, did I help?"
Am I the only one who gets big F.L.U.D.D. vibes from that scene?
Roasting ourselves is the greatest form of self-deprecation.
In my second playthrough I deliberatly made my Shepard look as much like Conrad Verner as I could...
So he would look like he was going all Stan on you?
@@insaincaldo yup, I thought it was hilarious later in the other games too
It's neither an easter egg nor a game roasting itself, but the Spiderman 3 entry reminded me of the somewhat recent Spiderman puddle controversy and how Insomniac added those puddle stickers to their photo mode :D Y'all remember that, right? Pretty funny.
At least one of the Mass Effect sequels had Garrus mentioning the "chats during the elevator rides", which were slow compared to current elevators despite being on one of the most technically advanced stations when they were used in place of loading screens.
The Citadel is an old space station. Incrediably old. After all, the elevators still play music.
@@BogeyTheBear Still more advanced than anything the humans naturally came up with. That elevator stuff may have been added in by one of the alien races too.
you may have been traveling hundreds of meters which even fast elevators take time when not squashing the people inside. consider there is only 1 elevator we are given a true scale of.
@@trinalgalaxy5943 That might apply when going to the council spot. Most of the other places were not that far apart. Maybe 3 floors tops depending on where the elevator was. In short, you could still walk to pretty much each location in the first game.
@@azuredragoon2054 your not wrong. lets remember that Mass Effect is not only a case study when it comes to poorly hidden loading screens, it is THE study, THE prime offender, and THE reason such activities have almost completely stopped.
Wow, I think this is the first time I've been mentioned in an Outside Xbox video, thanks guys.
Same!
As soon as the Jill sandwich section ended, the following ad for Popeye’s started:
“Have you heard about the sandwich?”
Well yes. Yes I have.
Especially Maiq when he jokes about them taking out content that made Morrowind so much fun which made later games lack as much. But are still fun games regardless.
Conrad should be all: "You know, with all this advanced technology, you'd think the elevators would be faster...or like gravity lifts or something."
I really enjoyed Mike this episode!! First with Mike the liar, and then with his obsession with the tight rubber suit!! We need more Mike!!
"That guy rules"
*Me* : "Hail to the king, baby!"
Groovy
The line about invisible dragons is very good and I like it a lot
In hindsight, I can't believe I didn't think of the tabletop RPG in Fable 3 where one of the players will ask you "What kind of game lets you kill the final boss in one hit?" Fable 2 is the answer to that...
As an actual grown up i have to say... Bulbasaur is the best!
Nah, squirtle is. It's final evolution is such a blast.
No. I belive you mean wabafett
Says the person with Pickachu as their picture
@@tertiaryfriend3002 * Lanturn will remember this *
I got another one: "7 Games that depressed us as heck, but we still love to play" - With games like "The Last of Us", "What remains of Edith Finch", "That Dragon Cancer", Every Quantic Dream Game, Mass Effect Trilogy (if you end it like you should)...
But bulbasaur is the best starter. Fight me, Jane.
Dragon Age: Origins contains a codex entry that pokes fun at Mass Effect's terribly slow elevators/loading screens.
I agree, Jane. Show that neighbor's kid! How dare he like Charizard...
Edit: He likes Bulbasaur?? I take it all back. Shame on you, Jane. Bulbasaur is our lord and savior.
Here’s an idea for a video, 6 video games that were good and were gonna be a trilogy but didn’t.
My entry
Warhammer 40k space marine
Battlefield: Bad Company. There were only 2 but the second one ends on a cliffhanger clearly leaving room to round out the trilogy but it never happened.
KOTOR. At least they got to game #2?
No-One Lives Forever. Ownership of the IP is now so confused no-one is sure who actually owns the rights, to the point that not only is there never going to be a third game, the first two can't even get a re-release!
Baldurs gate dark alliance they set up the third but it never got made
Came across a fun little easter egg playing The Sinking City - a poster near one of the phone boxes advertising 'The Mystery of the Creepy Watson'. Seem to remember you featuring the teleporting Watson a while back xD
Fun fact: Bruce Campbell is a huge Spider-Man fan and has cameos in all three Sam Raimi Spidey films.
So proud of Mike. I didn't think they'd let someone who loves explosions that much repair something that could wipe out all of existence.
That's what the "this is no video game, Fisher!" was talking about?! I thought it was just a quick 4th wall break! That's awesome!
In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, at the convention centre, you come across a technician working on a broken escalator who says something about "damn budget cuts", which I'm guessing means the escalators were originally meant to be functional.
I remember playing Chaos Theory, hearing Lambert say "this isn't a video game", and going "aaaah! I see what you did there
In Fable 3, the gnomes scattered across Albion yell a bunch of insults that differ depending on what kind of Hero you are. If you're a male Hero, a gnome could yell "Look at those rippling muscles, those broad shoulders, that squared jaw... You are one weird looking lady!" in reference to a fully leveled female Hero of Bowerstone in Fable 2 looking very masculine just like the description.
11:40 Gyoza is doing the voice of the grunts (we are soo lucky to have access to this professional )
I think Halos 2-5 each have a special unique Grunt that goes around talking about different things.
CE has one in The MAW. easily miss able he hides in the second shortcut tunnel during the Warthog Run
I would love to see a list of soundtracks that make you feel empowered. My personal picks would be the Republic commando theme or "hunt or be hunted" from witcher 3. I need to add more songs like them to my playlist
There's another one from Mass Effect 2's Shadow Broker DLC in a conversation between Shepard and Liara when you infiltrate the Broker's ship
Shepard: "Remember the old days when you could just slap omni-gel on everything?"
Liara: "That security upgrade made a lot of people unhappy"
That's a reference to the first game's hacking system that could be skipped by using said omni-gel, which was no longer a thing in ME2
Am I the only one that heard Andy say “Commander Shepherd-stan” instead of “fan”??
I loved Saints Row 4 making fun of Splinter Cell and Metal Gear in the loyalty mission for Asha.
As a Norwegian, I welcome our new president!
Barry sounds like the best (or worst) Adam West Batman impression.
I hope the Mass Effect trilogy gets a remaster soon
That would be a sure thing, fans would totally buy it
@@joenesvick7043 ehhhhh, maybe not. While an updated graphics version sounds nice, I wouldn't buy it unless it was on a steep sale.
@@SgtKOnyx you must still be able to play it. Playstation 3 players never got to experience Pinnacle Station and some on Xbox 360 experienced the red ring of death
@@joenesvick7043 All three are backwards compatible on Xbox One. Pinnacle station is an add on, and while that's not ideal for PS players, it isn't the same as the game never being available, is it?
@@SgtKOnyx not everyone has an Xbox One you know, remasters always include the addons. You might not want a remaster, but most fans do. They would not only buy it, they would involuntarily cum
Mass Effect roasts itself a lot. Just about everyone makes fun of Shepard's dancing. Eg, When asking Jack to dance; she laughs and says "Shepard, everyone knows you can't dance!"
Awesome video Mike, Andy and Jane! Keep up the great work!
Man, Mike is so awesome he started his LHC repair using a common smartphone, but given the worry he left of, it seems the problem was bigger.
Go there and solve it mike, we believe in you.
I love whenever Andy wears blackcraft stuff in the videos. A true man of culture
I don't remember if it was mentioned in a previous video: but in RE 7, one of the antagonists kidnaps a "friendly NPC" (right in front of you while you are armed) and pauses for a moment before disappearing, looking you dead in the eyes and saying "Well? Don't just stand there, DO SOMETHING!"