Easter Eggs in Video Games
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
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I liked the one in GTA San Andreas, where there was a sign near the golden gate bridge stating some data about it (height, length) which also said "takes up a staggering 2.9 MB of disk storage"
+fravolt If you go to the top of one of the pillars on the bridge, there is a sign stating "There are no Easter Eggs up here. Go Away."
+Flabulo Yeah that one too
That game is filled with Easter Eggs. There's an reference to Max Payne which rockstar only help as being an publisher for the first 2 Max Payne games and then creators, producers, and publishers for the 3rd game in the Max Payne series. And there's also an reference to the previously mentioned Half-Life.
I liked the one during stealth mission in Mad Dogg's house - one guard was playing a game and said "Tanner, you suck!" being an obvious remark to how crappy Driv3r was back then.
Isn't it 2,7 MB?
My favorite easter egg is Earthbound's anti-piracy measure. Enemy encounters become much, much more frequent, making the game a slog. If a pirate still manages to make it to the end, the game freezes in the final few moments before the climax, and deletes the save file
Ｓａｄ Ｐａｎｄａ "easter egg"
Sadistic devs.
+Ｓａｄ Ｐａｎｄａ It only does that if you use a really out-of-date emulator.
My favorite is GTA IV's anti-piracy measure. It makes camera go in drunk mode(shake around much) and if you will be okay with that(hard), there is also thing with cars: when you get in car, it gets uncontrollable, starts driving always forward and getting damaged so small impact will make it explode, making game impossible to complete :D
+Architector #4 Slav-vision
The Megalodon easter egg in BF4 turned out to be true lol.
Yep. I chuckled at “fruitless”.
IIRC, it was patched in later but the people looking for it wasted a lot of time before it was implemented.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix I think you're confusing the megalodon on nansha strike with the one on paracel storm, which was never implemented and wasted everyone's time
...no it wasn't? They only ended up adding it, and not to the actual game only to the community test environment, in a patch after people kept talking about it.
discovered 5 days after he uploaded this too
One anecdote I was hoping he would include in the piracy bit is the story of how Titan Quest completely screwed itself over by making the game buggy and unplayable to anyone with a pirated copy. But the game was pirated so heavily right at launch, that most reviews contained something like "Although I didn't experience any problems, many players report the game is nearly unplayable from bugs".
Oh the humanity. I suppose you should make it clear to the player that the reason for the bad shit happening is because it's pirated.
@@PresidentialWinner _"Yeah right 'PiRaTeD', if your game is buggy admit it"_ pretty sure they would say that
"Nice try, but this is not the real Easter egg."
I downloaded the QR-code reader application just to see that.
So there IS a hidden easter egg in this video
I had to invert the colors of the QR code.
Admiralex91 What do you mean?
There is a QR code at the end of the video
Admiralex91 I know, but what do you mean by inverting the colours?
that assassins creed reference in the witcher is brilliant
yeah i know it was great
that was really good.
Armsauce so is the caveman easter egg in Halo 3 ;) that made me f!cking laugh, though I don't remember seeing it when I played Halo 3
Your profile pic is great. Disasterpeace is amazing
i loved the white rabbit easter egg in witcher 3, damn i laughted my ass off when i discovered it XD
7:05
That's some quite nice graphics for 1996.
Not really, remember thats only 2 years before the launch of half life in 1998
Prince Broly You mean Half-Life looks better than Deus Ex: Human Revolution that actually came out in 2011? I'm not talking about Quake. Look specifically at 7:05. He messed up the year of Deus Ex: HR.
ikr
Human Revolution is the prequel to Deus Ex, after all :)
hristaki99 maybe it’s a remaster?
I like how those hidden messages, for hackers, all had swear words in them.
Probably because they spent an unimaginably large time creating a game, requiring the profits to feed themselves. If someone took that from you it's like robbing you indirectly.
@@johnbean9797 🖤👏🏾
The just cause series has SO many Easter eggs. My favourite is in a building site, after going down a stair level, you can hear the feint sound of ‘take on me’... after entering the room, the screen becomes a drawn filter, like in the music video, paired with the nostalgic rave I had after the music booms through the speakers. Ah good times...
Theres also the warp gate in jc3
the balloon gun I jc3 literally developed a new idea in jc4
the dope fish was fucking terrifying when I plays CK4 as a kid.
Can't beat a good old Zombies "Easter Egg" Although I'm not sure they qualify these days as there are achievements for them which kind of goes against the Easter Egg mentality.
"...Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 1996." - Ahoy, 2014
@7:06 in the header
Well the way to get them isn’t blantently screamed in your face like a lot of other achievements are. You still have to find all of the activations for them.
JayEx23 yeah they are now more like objectives at least the main ones but still there’s the jump scares and the Easter egg songs
If theres an achievement for it its not an easter egg period. Easter eggs are supposed to be secrets. Telling you straight out that they exist directly invalidates it as an easter egg
GTA: SA was a huge deal back in the day. Not only there were tons of easter eggs, people even faked them and claimed they saw Yetti for instance and even made fake pictures from the game with Yetti photoshoped in.
900bot Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch...
+Philip Cooper CJ's mom
Philip Cooper Big Smoke.....
I completely forgot about the SA easter eggs. i remember a buddy of mine being completely obsessed with finding the Yeti, and something about a self-driving car with no driver, can't exactly remember.
My personal favorite easter eggs are the joke endings in the original Silent Hill games. It's such a serious franchise - full of subtlety, genuine emotion and deep symbolism. Then you see that Team Silent was willing to blame all the 2nd game's events on a dog at a generic cold-war era computer. Plus the ridiculous other endings with the protagonists being abducted by aliens just for some dumb fun.
Pirated game copy Easter egg no. 1: Game Dev Tycoon - Your games will be pirated more and more until your company goes bankrupt.
5:09 oh man this one cracked me up real good. damn!
XD
Cracked?
Fucking puuuuuuns!!!
rico it's good to see you here
They also take a cheap shot at lord of the rings in the same chapter earlier. W2 was a great game.
I rather enjoyed the Grammar Nazi reference in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
The new Colossus has a literal grammar nazi
To which BJ reacts properly, and nukes the area
@@elroyscout good riddance lmao
I feel like that’s just humorous dialogue, personally
I'd like to hear more about the bugs game devs put into pirated editions of their games.
Trust that was interesting! The eye patch in Alan wake is clever
In Red Alert 2, if you have a pirated game copy of it your entire base will blow up after you have played for 1 minute and you will loose the game.
In Arma 1, it often says "legitimate copies don't degrade" which made you turn into a seagull after a couple of minutes. They also made weapon dispersion impossibly large, eventually rendering the game unplayable.
+Birdy890
Source? Pics?
In Spyro 3 they just put in text boxes to fuck with you.
I recently happened upon an Unturned Easter Egg in Worms WMD, where you can get three zombie masks for your worms that look identical to the normal Zombie, Hyper Zombie, and Mega Zombie. As someone who's played both games for years, it was quite the pleasant surprise.
Another piracy Easter Egg which I enjoyed was in Game Dev Tycoon. The developers included a "bug" where your company would go bankrupt through piracy. Giving pirates a taste of their own medicine
A favourite of mine is in Zelda OOT, when you visit Princess Zelda as Young Link, if you look through the window there's multiple Mario characters on the other side. I like it so much since my brother actually found it by himself without hearing it as a rumour on the net as we have with others. I've always remembered his reaction when he found it, even though it was years ago. We didn't know that it was such a normal thing to sneak Easter eggs in.
Old versions of Windows had the best easter eggs. From car racing, to flight simulator, to pinball to hall of doom. Windows had it all.
Also the Doctor Who Easter Eggs in the Fallout Series are among my favorite.
The dope fish was the most terrifying thing to me as a child.
one of my favourite easter eggs, because it was I think the first one I stumbled onto wholly of my own accord, is a particular level of Duke Nukem 3D. The level has no jetpacks within it, but if you used a cheat to give yourself one anyway and went to an alcove across the ravine where a cannon was stationed, the wall inside had "You're not supposed to be here - Levelord" written on it
8:39 Ash Ketchum: "Gotta catch em all!" "Even Missingno?" "What?"
"that's one doomed space marine" - DN
+900bot In which game does he say that?
***** But... but... Duke Nukem 3D has been released before Quake, I think? Or am I wrong?
***** I see. Well, thank you.
"We meet again, Dr. Jones", "Terminated", "It's not a Force to be reckoned with"
Gordonkris it was in duke nukem 3d id software had already announced quake years before and considering id would be the main competition no matter what they released they had duke say i aint afraid of no quake since quake was slated to release very soon after
Honestly, this channel was a hidden gem to find in UA-cam. I'm so glad I found it. The thought process and deliverance of the speech is wonderful, the videos themselves are fantastic.
Huehuehue the QR Code is a RED HERRING.
There is an Easter egg in the level of black ops 2 campaign in which you record Raul menendez's conversation, you walk through the room that was the menu screen in black ops 1 as your partner talks about past spec ops missions, he states, "who knows what they did back then" as he pushes aside the TV that you were strapped in front of in black ops 1
While it hadn't been discovered when this video was made, the golden peyote hunt that ends with you fighting Teen Wolf in GTA 5 is a rather impressive, lengthy easter egg, and certainly one of my favourites, just by virtue of its sheer depth.
i really liked some of the easter eggs in watchdogs, especially the hidden QR code challenges in the game, finding the codes in and of itself is fun but you can actually scan them with a smartphone in real life and reveal a bunch of hidden messages
my favorite is in metroid fusion where you get the secret message that even asks how many people will see it, since it requires a particularly difficult shinespark.
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) for PC has an easter egg that occurs on the 19th of September. All English text becomes Pirate English.
ah yes pirate english
7:24
"Hey Niko! It's Roman, let's go bowling"
VinnyHaw "not now Roman, I'm looking at the Statue of Liberty's heart"
I actually like bowling though ^^
My favorite was the actual Easter Egg in GTA Vice City. Literally if you jumped through a window in a building there was a chocolate egg on a pedestal.
Mythical Megaladon? Mythical no more
I love the secret dinosaur mini-campaign hidden in the first Command & Conquer game - their little tribute to the Jurassic Park movie and the whole dinosaur craze going around. And then they did it again in Red Alert 1, giving tribute to classic cold war radiation scare movies with a campaign revolving around giant ants.
Both Easter eggs also have some interesting internal development tales attached to them. The dinosaur missions in the first game were made completely behind the executives' backs, but accidentally revealed in some meeting. In Red Alert, where they had been strictly forbidden from pulling that kind of stunt again, they snuck morse code messages about giant ants into the page decorations of the game's manual, to which they got overwhelming fan response, and thus they managed to 'blackmail' the executives into allowing them to create the ant missions for the first expansion pack.
“Them”
"Nice try, but this is not the real easter egg". Stu, you, are amazing!
they did find the megaladon :P
yep
Not really. It was added in a patch, and only to the community test environment not the actual game, after people kept talking about it.
Stu tweeted that somewhere, hidden in this video, is an Easter egg of his own. That's right, kids. Somewhere in this video there is an image of his face.
April Fools.
Check his twitter.
Cameron Brown 5:26
SamuriLemonX18 That's not him. That's an easter egg made by one of the people who worked on Mortal Kombat. Stu doesn't look like that.
SamuriLemonX18 That isn't him.
There was one Easter egg in Jak 3 that, if I recall correctly, required you to fly as light Jak into some pipes near the Hip-Hog Saloon and there you would find a picture of the Naughty Dog dev team.
There's one room in Super Mario 3D Land that has extinct torches on all four corners. The level is nice because it's in a top down perspective. If you happen to have a fire flower power up, you can light the torches and when all four are lit, you'll hear the Zelda "secret unlocked" theme as a grid opens to a secret room.
As a fan of Dark Souls, I was tickled by the bonfire easter egg found in Borderlands 2. It's hidden under city of Sanctuary and requires you to find a way to get through a large lake of acid to find a hidden island.
The Alien Breed one you showed was great. Also I like the Enterprise one where the developer left a message saying the game was rubbish.
Pirated Earthbound is brutal. Makes the game much more difficult, then freezes and deletes your save during the final boss battle.
"Anti-piracy" easter eggs are a nice idea in theory, but especially with older games where always-online access was far less common, the methods for determining whether or not a game was pirated were... less than perfect.
My favorite mistake 'easter egg' are combos in Street Fighter II. You weren't supposed to originally be able to string together attacks in an unavoidable succession, but players found this and began to use it as a strategy. Capcom recognizing the potential of this glitch and implementing it in further Street Fighter releases was the birth of combos in fighting games.
Nice literal red herring, Stu.
MUD !! i miss you where have you been . you were the first person i subbed too on yt like 4 years ago :/
almostaddictive I'm still here!!
In GTA san andreas, if you get to the top the of golden gate bridge, you will find a message saying ''no easter egg here'' which ironically, is an easter egg
loved the shot at MW2 in BC2. That killed me when i first played it.
102WOLFPACK The one before BF3, great game.
hahaha i love how the megaladon in bf4 is now a real easter egg
One of my favorites is the GTA Vice City one. You had to be on a certain roof & make a leap of faith into the wall of another building to enter a room & see a chocolate Easter egg on a pedestal! Lmao
My favorite Easter egg is in MGS 3, if you call Signet (the firearms expert) when you are inside a cardboard box, Snake starts talking about how great the box is, and Signet gets creeped out. XD
Bird_iz_da_word
Ah, I never played MGS games but it sounds like a funny one indeed!
Totaka's song is a great Easter eggs hidden in a bunch of Nintendo games by sound designer and composer Totaka Kazumi. Definitely cool to look into.
Nice try, but this is not the real Easter egg.
As a long-time Commander Keen fan, my favorite is the boy's helmet on a cartoony skull in Doom 2016. It made me happy to know that iD hadn't forgotten their humble roots.
Hahaha, the BFBC2 one. I remember seeing that years ago and I picked up the reference immediately. Was hilarious
One of my favourites of all time is in The Course of Monkey Island where you had to make Guybrush "look at" the oceans water on Blood Island about 20 or 25 times until he finally answers with "well if you insist..." and you can see yourself in the scene from the very first Monkey Island and Guybrush is floating around dead after being killed.
"Sorry, but this is not the real easter egg."
God damn it...
I was really hoping he would mention how legend of zelda, dragon quest, and final fantasy all reference each other on grave stones throughout the games.
The first Fallout game has a TARDIS. I still can't get over that.
and in fallout 2 there a npc named kenny if u kill him 2 other npcs will say "o my god the killed kenny, those bastards
That's not the only place in video games the TARDIS has shown up, in XGRA on the side of one of the tracks the TARDIS is there.
Saints Row 4 Santa Clause DLC has one too.
My favorite is in Just Cause 2 when u get enough kills with a jet, Rico hums flight of the Concordes.
One of my personal favorate easter egg games is not from a game at all but from microsoft office. In Excel in office 95, 97, and 2000 all had different games hidden inside of them (A mini-doom clone, a flight sim, and a spy hunter clone respectively), See the wikipedia page for List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products for more info
What I love most about those is the sheer lengths you have to go to get to them. I'm convinced no one ever found them by accident, but relied on leaks from the dev team (probably the person responsible couldn't resist showing it off to a friend or family member outside of work, or several).
Operation Flashpoint would restart your whole PC out of nowhere when playing pirated version, i take that as the most brutal and FU approach ever made :D
Video Whizball is a great name for a video game.
I seem to remember X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Singularity having Lost references as well. Something was in the water over at Activision for a bit there.
Origins: Wolverine has a reference to World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (the sword Frostmourne).
There are so many easter eggs videos, but the production value of your videos are always so awesome that I can't stop watching them. It's become one of my favorite channels in a few days haha
I love you, i just wish you uploaded more!
Bungie has tons of Easter eggs in the Halo series, specificity Halo 3. My personal favorites include the red vs blue dialogue marines, the reoccurring Rude Grunt, and the a secret Master Chief aboard the POA at the end of Reach.
In game dev tycoon, if a pirated copy of the game is detected, all of the games that you create are pirated.
oh shit its Richard Conway
and now there is a mode for that
I feel the stanley parable is underrepresented in this list. this game really is filled with stuff to discover and even the developer claims on the steam forums he doesn't know all the stuff and even though a lot has been found there is probably more stuff hidden. Sometimes a complete game is hidden within normal software as an easteregg. for example excel has a flight simulator
Destiny’s “Loot cave” Easter egg. Spooky and nostalgic
Ah man, no mention of the easter eggs from Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics. They had such amazing easter eggs.
Devs should do what Serious sam 3 did more. make an invincible enemy follow them around throughout the entire game if they pirated it.
One of my favorites resides in a point and click game called facility 47. The entire game in text adventure form can be found on a computer later in the game.
Megaladon turned out to be a fruitful search.
Only because DICE included it afterwards
Having Kane and Lynch literally in Hitman Absolution was pretty cool
How about the skulls in Halo? In Halo 3, picking up a skull would give you an achievement and the option to go back to the main campaign screen and manipulate the gameplay. In Halo 2, Picking up skulls would directly affect gameplay. They started appearing in Halo 5, with the same system as Halo 3.
The skulls are good easter eggs and can be fun to manipulate and play around with, but who could forget about the Night Club easter egg in Halo: Reach? Or better yet, the Legendary Scarab Gun from Halo 2?
Nothing beats the absolutely corking Pelican easter egg in Halo Reach on the Falcon patrol mission
My favorite was in Donkey Kong 64 where a special computer let you play the old Donkey Kong game from when it was in the arcade.
You should totally work for Discovery channel
I know right? His voice... my god
Shigani Kanaki #StuForDiscovery
IJUSTWANTAQUIETLIFE hmm yes, he sure is suited for the job
Why? He can make videos on any topic he wants, whenever he wants, without having to convince producers. Fuck TV and fuck those that think TV deserves people like Stuart Brown.
@@nixdy6180 sounds like a call of duty character.
I remember Lemmings for the Amiga - the pirate version wouldn't allow you to see the ending. One of strangest glitches in I game I have experienced was for the Commodore 64 version of Dynamite Dux (1988) - I bought the legal version of it and whenever I played it, it played automatically with a cheat of infinite lives. So I completed the entire game first play.
8:37 Am I the only one who believes Missingno looks like the side of an arcade machine?
The Phantom bow easter egg in BF4 was huge until they released it in a random map
Uploading at this hour? Naughty Stu.
What time is it in the UK?
cs3087 Just gone midnight.
Edwin Scott Wow, it's only 7pm here
cs3087 i'm guessing from the time difference you're from the East Coast US
You'd be right :)
Also, in GTA4, that No Hidden Content sign is a reference to the "There's no Easter Eggs up here." sign in San Andreas
One of my favorites is a poster of Destiny in Halo 3 Odst.
In the old Bungie game, Pathways Into Darkness, there was a hidden room with a long hallway where at the end you found a treasure, a fancy egg aptly titled "Easter Egg" and eating it warped you to the last level
lol at "fruitless" 10:45
That hack n slash game in MGS3 was a pretty cool easter egg. You had to save while in the jail and then load the save and Snake would have a nightmare.
Old School easter eggs are so scary to me. Idk why. same thing with piracy easter eggs.
I agree dont know why though
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem XD
My favorite Easter Egg of all time is finding "Dosh" (Killing floor 1 & 2's currency) in Depth. (The scary shark game)
There are no easter eggs up here. Go away.
Ok
@@LobasTheHokas San Andreas easter egg....
I've heard that there's an Easter egg in one of the battlefield games that in multiplayer you can "blow up" the sun causing the map to go completely pitch black
Final Fantasy VII probably has the Easter Eggs I remember best. So many of them too.
Don't vorget the call of duty zombie mode easter eggs. They tell you a whole new story!
Yeah, you definitely can't leave out those epic experiences.
Pixel you spelt forget wrong
Sam J i know. my bad
I love that the Thargoids actually exist in the game now.
the eyepatch returns in quantum break :D
My favorite egg is in Far Cry 3 where you can find Mclovin's head in the sand. It's a reference to the webisodes of Far Cry 3 where Mclovin explores the islands that inspired the game.
As far as I know, to this day people are still searching for "The Last Big Secret" of Shadow of the Colossus. Didn't ICO have some crazy secret in it as well that people found, or am I imagining things?
+Alexstrazsa If you got a huge grip meter you could climb up the main temple to the secret garden seen at the end of the game.Eating the fruit there lowers your grip gauge which represents "purifying" the daemon from you IMO. The bit that goes into "probable not" was that people thought there was a way to trigger a secret Colossus battle while up there. Due to the plethora of left over in-game assets this wasn't quite as far-flung as most thought but so far no one has triggered this "secret fight".
Also Ahoy I'm surprised during the piracy segment you didn't mention earthbound which was probable the most famous anti-piracy of it's time.
It's over now, but they searched for a hidden colossus.
4:21 there's also a Louis voice line were he says "I feel like Gordon Freeman" when he picks up the crowbar
The Halo: Reach Tribute Room...
and on Halo ODST there is posters for Destiny
FKSPARTO is this actually true?
Kesh yes
Wild Wasteland was an on/off switch for Easter Eggs. Everything from Holy Hand Grenades replacing a couple mini-nukes and Robocop lines in the base game to Cyberdogs Playing Poker and Venture Bros. references in one of the DLCs.
I scanned the QR code at the end and it said "Nice try, but this is not the real Easter egg."
but if that isn't the case... where is it?
I think it’s the design of the yellow cracked egg, with the jagged band, resembling Charlie Brown’s jersey.