In 'Tell me why' you can find 3 posters referencing 'Life is Strange', 'Remember me' and 'Vampyr' (all of them by DONTNOD). You also get an achievement called Remember Strange Vampire. Tyler'll comment on them, even saying the line "glass is just tortured sand" to which someone else will promptly ask him if he's huffing paint LOL
There's actually even more Alan Wake in Control. The elderly rock band from Alan Wake "Old Gods of Asgard" play a minor role in Control as a magical music mcguffin to get you through one of the most badass sections of the game. Damn good song.
And more. There is another reference in the Coffee Mug file, which notes Alan's collection of them (an in game hunt) and wonders if one of them might be an Object of Power.
Fun fact: Old Gods of Asgard are actually real life band Poets of the Fall. Who have done music for Remedy games (both as themselves and as their fictional counterparts) from Max Payne 2 onwards. In fact the band was started specifically to create the end credits song for Max Payne 2 and continued from there
There is also the Moonlight greatsword which first appeared in From Software’s kings field games and has since appeared in Ninja Blade, the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, and others.
@The Ferryman but the moonlight greatsword is a unique item that only appears in From Software games. It’s more equivalent to a Halo energy sword appearing in Destiny or a Kingdom Hearts Keyblade (is it spelled X blade?) appearing in a different Nomira game. It may be a weapon but it’s more than a generic weapon being reused.
I think they even managed to put it in the Armored Core series. Though if there was a mecha series that could accommodate giant glowing swords, it would be AC.
The most recent Easter egg of this sort that I encountered was in "It takes two" where in Rose's room in a hidden section, you could find toys of Vincent and Leo from "A way out"
Kane and Alan Wake can both do that classic cutscene trope of expertly narrating their own writing while it’s still being written, But surely everyone that talks out loud as they write should sound like Harry Potter writing in Tom Riddle’s diary “Myy naamee is Aalaan Waakee” “Faaaiideen sssencced aaa drooownningg maan” *sips coffee*
At control,if you look at the case files, you see that Alan Wake was actually a writer and an altered word event caused the things he wrote to became real
@@catinamask5019 Imagine that: it's Alan Wake who had written "Control" to spawn someone capable of containing or even destroying whatever supernatural forkery that keeps him in his writings.
That Dopefish in Doom Eternal scared the hell out of me. The longer I stared at it the more I feared it was gonna blink. I was literally on the verge of sh*tting myself if it actually did blink.
I'll never forget MY first time hearing Molyneux blatantly lie. It was how in Fable you could kill someone's father, and they would grow up seeking revenge against you, one day fighting you.
Still, it's nice that we can finally play it on the PC in an otherwise subpar game. Also, there will be an upcoming fan remake called Timesplitters Rewind.
They actually tried to shop TimeSplitters 4 around to different publishers, but Haze damaged their reputation so bad, nobody took them up on it. WhatCulture covered this in one of their most recent videos.
The outros are why I subscribed 8 years ago and they have just keep filling me with joy to the point where I'd happy splat a rat like a pinata, and enjoy its "candy" remains.
12:28: Actually, the Bureau is more like the SCP Foundation. What you're referring to is actually the Foundation's subpar counterpart, the Unusual Incidents Unit.
It's actually kind of impressive how Control managed to rip off it's entire premise, name and plenty of other things from the SCP universe, without giving a single clear hint as to were those "inspirations" came from. Even the architecture of the oldest house just completely rips off a specific SCP.
Prey (the Arkane Studio one) had it's own in universe RPG book, called 'Fatal Fortress', which was a direct reference to their first original game. There's quite a number of references to it in the game, and a few quests based on tracking down what happened to the players and DM.
Dopefish is basicly the grandfather of all easter eggs - and by the way you can find it in Doom 2016 aswell: You can find a Dopefish drawing in a locker on the Foundry level; you also can find some "Mixom" sport bags, where the mascot for this brand is a Dopefish too The "Grima" drink in some vending machines also have Dopefish on their label - also some red potato chips "Grangles" with Dopefish logo at some places - here and there you can find delivery food boxes with a red dopefish logo and the "Dopechan Noodles" label - the choclet drink "Mudbutt" also has a Dopefish drawn at the backside - same for the "Dr. Bubbles" soda bottles or the "Diet Grulp" cans and the "Grud Light Beer" cans Also one of the runes - the triangular one - on the loading screen for Hell levels looks familiar...
Boo, Minsc's giant miniature space hamster from the Baldur's Gate series is in Mass Effect as a pet for your quarters. He even has the same squeek when you click on him, I believe.
Actually, acorn thing did kind of happen in a game I played. In the end of the first mission, you plant a seed and in the finale depending on you actions it’s either a burnt husk or a healthy plant
Another entry for such a list could be arcade games referencing "The Lost Vikings" franchise by Blizzard in both "Overwatch" and "Star Craft": the former can be found on Hanamura map, while in the latter the game can be accessed in Hyperion's cantina in "StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty".
Seven bosses that you can only defeat with outside assistance, like bowser in paper mario or that government officials with Raiden that you couldn't beat without the robot wolf
Yes! Suggested this myself on the video about friends of bosses, though I phrased it as bosses you can only beat with a friend (Riddler in Arkham Knight and Tyrant in Resident Evil 2 spring to mind) Glad to see others want it too😊
LucasArts had a lovely penchant for adding easter eggs to previous games, other games, and even future games - Monkey Island had references to Loom like when Guybrush is shot out of a cannon and when asked if he's okay, replies "I'm Bobbin Threadbare - are you my mother?"
I would be way too excited to get a remake/remaster/new Timespliters Future Perfect! That plot deserves to come back with glorious graphics, and some of those characters *swoon*
The Dopefish was my childhood's most stressful gaming moments and I was very excited to see it in Deus Ex Human Revolution so, all in all, a 10/10 list.
Behemoth references their old games a lot, like how the alien from Alien Hominid was in Castle Crashers as an enemy, they had a whole stage to themselves!
Yeah ... but I liked Biowares old way better, when each game actually contained a NPC that talked about the next game Bioware were working on. Future Eastereggs!
There's also a statue of an Ogre from Dragon Age in Mass Effect 2. Maybe only an Easter Egg, maybe the same universe or DA is ME fiction like Alan Wake
I was really hoping to see It Takes Two on this list. If you explore Rose's pillow fort you can find Vincent and Leo dolls from A Way Out. You even get an achievement for making them talk to eachother it's great! 😊
My all time favourite is Bungie with Siege of Madrigal. Some old game level with a specific song getting remade into a canon Halo event and constantly appearing Easter egg song. Love the Reach DJ one, that is great.
In the 2016 Doom, there's a lot of stuff that fills that category. There's a helmet in a cranium, from Commander Keen, in the cave with the minigun. Also, there's a skyrim helmet behind a pillar, on top of a sword, if I remember correctly.
Not all Easter eggs, I think that Lucasfilm/Lucasarts has slipped a reference to every game they've ever made into every other game they've ever made. Off the top of my head: --Maniac Mansion has a chainsaw with no fuel, Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders has a can of chainsaw gas but no chainsaw --In the first Monkey Island game, Guybrush gets a concussion and says, "I'm Bobbin Threadbare. Are you my mother?" (Loom). In the third one, he doesn't want people asking him about Grim Fandango. --"I'm selling these fine leather jackets."
From memory, the remake of monkey island has a few. When you are outside the sacred monkey head you see some statues that change when you flip between old and new graphics, Sam and max are statues and also one of the tentacles from day of the tentacle and possibly one from grim fandango
Hey guys. You should do a video countdown on the oldest games still regularly being updated. (You know, like GTA V?). I haven't been able to find a video like that yet. Hope you read this and consider doing it. Thanks.
1. Nice T-shirt Mike, good to know you have great taste in music. 2. I would mention Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and many nods to Castlevania series. Sure, Bloodstained isn't published by Konami, but it has Koji Igarashi name all over it. From the way Fairy familiar sits on your arm just like Fairy did in Symphony of the Night, to the 8-bit hidden level where the boss resembles the final form of Dracula from Rondo of Blood. Also the quests you get from Lindsay asking you to avenge villagers have the names of several characters from Castlevania series, like Simon, Trevor, Sypha and Richter.
Honestly, I think id should revisit Commander Keen, largely because they left the series unfinished after Aliens Ate My Babysitter (aka Episode 6). Imagine a 2D platformer with 3D graphics, like what Epic did with Shadow Complex.
In FarCry 3, at the end of the story, Jason Brody loses one of his ring fingers, which is a clear reference and comparison with the Assassins from A.C. I had finished all of the side-missions by the time of ending the story, so I only noticed that a year later when I revisited the game.
In Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, there's an arcade cabinet in the hub called Lost Vikings. It's a Galaga-style space shooter featuring the Starcraft Viking ship, named after one of Blizzard's original games, Lost Vikings for the Genesis and Game Gear.
I miss commander keen. My grandparents had games on their computer and that was my favorite! Spent hours on that pogo stick. I completely forgot the fish existed and now it's coming back to me in flashes. But tbh the lazers were always what tripped me up. IDK why
What about the easter egg in Baten Kaitos? Where if you played a cherry, strawberry, apple, orange, and melon cards in the same attack sequence you would be get a very retro reward.
Wait wait wait, what the big bloody thing in the water below the cluts fish? In doom it looks like some massive demon fish you can only see like 1/10 of.
Ubisoft also loves to slip Splinter Cell easter eggs into their games while not having made an instalment in the series itself for +almost eight years+. +shakes fist at Ubisoft+
Do the lyrics of the tango in Control count as an Easter egg? Granted, they're in Finnish, but if you do understand our crazy moon language, they reference Alan Wake and Quantum Break pretty directly.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age reference each other a few times. Like when the colonist in Mass Effect 1 says “Thank the Maker” and the Ogre Darkspawn statue in Mass Effect 2, or the mounted Krogan head at the Winter Palace in Dragon Age Inquisition. Lots of fun little references.
I got *so excited* about the Milo game when I was younger - I didn't know any better at the time. At that point, I still didn't understand why people would lie about things that could be so easily held against them
Crash Bandicoot 3 has a level named "Rings of Power", which shares its name with one of Naughty Dog's older games. Took me a long time to get the reference.
I didn't realise Kane and Lynch actually had cameos in Hitman Absolution. What does this make of the two guards playing it in Hitman 2, or the many computer screens it appears on? Is the entire Hitman universe a simulation? Has a game based on two madmen's life been released in universe? Am I over thinking this? Does my head hurt? I have the answer to two of those at least...
The second dumbest creature in the galaxy. The brilliance of that description comes from the fact that id was also referencing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the dumbest creature being the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal).
"Swim. Swim. Hungry." Dopefish has been in so much stuff between id and Apogee back in the day. Also I think Kane and Lynch, or one of them, are at a shooting range in one of the Hitman games on the 360.
What about Obsidian’s latest masterpiece The Outer Worlds? There is a reference to the all the fallout games (the day the Hope went missing is the October 23rd, which is the same day the bombs dropped) and there is also a reference to the first fallout with a hidden vault 13 on the Groundbreaker (which is the vault dwellers vault) Just more reasons to love the The Outer Worlds.
Another Remedy Easter Egg (also Alan Wake in Quantum Break): during the time breakdown event in the corporate HQ, and going through the offices, there's a computer in one of the offices slowly playing out "Children of The Elder Gods" from the Alan Wake soundtrack. Going even deeper, in Alan Wake itself, Poets of the Fall, who play all the music for the in-game band "The Old Gods of Asgard" appear as themselves in the TV interview with Alan Wake that Alan sees on the TV in his apartment in the game.
There are a few more that come to mind; The Pokemon Rotom is actually a reference to one of Game Freaks earlier games, Pulseman. Also, in the game Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Monolith Soft put in a reference to another Nintendo game they worked on, the original Legend of Zelda; Skyward Sword, with their being a Harp Item, most likely like the harp in SS.
Tiny Mike head is tiny yet very obvious XD But hey, I love a good Easter Egg -- though, honestly, that Dopefish looks more like someone's take on Slimer. Two for one ref? :p
7 strangest/ dumbest interactions in point and click games. I'm playing Deponia and there is a lot of that there :D Like that time when you need your girlfriend to be hit by a lightning , to do so you need the innocent Goal, a pool with water, one broken umbrella with small trees attached and ofc the winning lottery ticket on her. Because everyone knows that you have more probabilities to recieve a lightning to the face that to win the lottery. Forget even one thing and she will not be struck with lightning, you will be instead. Makes sense.
More of a shout out to a future title but also a throwback to a previous game's joke, 1997's Curse of Monkey Island had a delightful Easter Egg wherein protagonist Guybrush Threepwood could find a dead (or would it be deader?) skeleton pirate from LeChuck's crew slumped over a table in the perfectly period-accurate Blondebeard's fried chicken shop. The dead man in question resembles Grim Fandango protagonist, Manny Calavera, sporting a pin that read "Ask me about Grim Fandango", which would release in the following year of 1998. This Easter Egg would also reference a similar instance from the very first entry of the Monkey Island series, the Secret of Monkey Island from 1990, where Guybrush met a man named Cobb who wore a similar pin with the words "Ask me about Loom" written on it, a reference to Lucasart's Loom, also from 1990. It's like an inception of Easter Eggs, eggs within eggs within egg.
I think it’s worth noting that the Alan Wake writeup in Quantum Break refers to “Altered World Event”, which is both a big part of Control’s setup and one of the DLC names. It’s almost worth saying that this is less Easter Egg-y and more “All three games exist in the same universe”
Something I noticed in Titanfall 2 (although this might be just because some of the maps were from the first game) but we see images of the old Titans and Spectres
The item Pwnhammer in Terraria, a reference to Redigit's previous game, Super Mario Bros X, which featured a level bearing the same name. An obscure one that most people might not know about.
I vote we have a small shaking Mike head floating about in ALL the videos
I agree with this
That would be cool.😊
I second the motion
10 hr loop please
just put all their heads in there for good measure
Hitman is about an elegant assassin killing only his target in the most undetectable way possible...
...unless you're Mike.
Or Jacksepticeye. They should play together.
or me :D
"47, your target is--"
"TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!"
"Oh, bloody hell..."
@@Brasc that second line caught me so off guard. I laughed way harder than I should have.
Go watch a Bedbananas video. Its like... art.
In 'Tell me why' you can find 3 posters referencing 'Life is Strange', 'Remember me' and 'Vampyr' (all of them by DONTNOD). You also get an achievement called Remember Strange Vampire. Tyler'll comment on them, even saying the line "glass is just tortured sand" to which someone else will promptly ask him if he's huffing paint LOL
14:11 "Beloved VG developer Peter Molyneux" *Ah, this must be the fabled British sarcasm I've heard about...*
Well, he is. People do love his work... even if they wish it was more like what he said he was planning to make.
"Fabled". Nice work.
well he was at one point, then the rest of everything happened
@@prcervi Peter has gone godly wrong
There's actually even more Alan Wake in Control. The elderly rock band from Alan Wake "Old Gods of Asgard" play a minor role in Control as a magical music mcguffin to get you through one of the most badass sections of the game. Damn good song.
And more. There is another reference in the Coffee Mug file, which notes Alan's collection of them (an in game hunt) and wonders if one of them might be an Object of Power.
Fun fact: Old Gods of Asgard are actually real life band Poets of the Fall. Who have done music for Remedy games (both as themselves and as their fictional counterparts) from Max Payne 2 onwards. In fact the band was started specifically to create the end credits song for Max Payne 2 and continued from there
@@rickimaru915 Poets of the Fall also contributed the title song “Grinder’s Blues” to the game “Rochard” and it absolutely slaps.
There is also the Moonlight greatsword which first appeared in From Software’s kings field games and has since appeared in Ninja Blade, the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, and others.
@The Ferryman but the moonlight greatsword is a unique item that only appears in From Software games. It’s more equivalent to a Halo energy sword appearing in Destiny or a Kingdom Hearts Keyblade (is it spelled X blade?) appearing in a different Nomira game. It may be a weapon but it’s more than a generic weapon being reused.
@The Ferryman don't back down, mate. You're absolutely right.
@@baconatorrodriguez4651 No comments from the peanut gallery.
And the fact the f**KING Basilisks keep showing up.
And it triggers my DS PTSD every farking time.
I think they even managed to put it in the Armored Core series. Though if there was a mecha series that could accommodate giant glowing swords, it would be AC.
The most recent Easter egg of this sort that I encountered was in "It takes two" where in Rose's room in a hidden section, you could find toys of Vincent and Leo from "A way out"
Kane and Alan Wake can both do that classic cutscene trope of expertly narrating their own writing while it’s still being written,
But surely everyone that talks out loud as they write should sound like Harry Potter writing in Tom Riddle’s diary
“Myy naamee is Aalaan Waakee”
“Faaaiideen sssencced aaa drooownningg maan”
*sips coffee*
At control,if you look at the case files, you see that Alan Wake was actually a writer and an altered word event caused the things he wrote to became real
“altered word event” Fortuitous typ?
İm confused because this may be the job of an enemy stand or an altered world event
@@catinamask5019 Imagine that: it's Alan Wake who had written "Control" to spawn someone capable of containing or even destroying whatever supernatural forkery that keeps him in his writings.
Wow
That Dopefish in Doom Eternal scared the hell out of me. The longer I stared at it the more I feared it was gonna blink. I was literally on the verge of sh*tting myself if it actually did blink.
"Beloved British game developer Peter Molyneux" Well, he is British...
I'll never forget MY first time hearing Molyneux blatantly lie. It was how in Fable you could kill someone's father, and they would grow up seeking revenge against you, one day fighting you.
Ppppffffttt, beloved is an interesting term for him. Most people I have heard seem to have the same opinion of him as Slopes Game Room...
to be fair he's helped make some incredible games over the years. arguably many of my favourite growing up
Ain't he roasted enough already??
If I know anything from watching Fact Hunt, "beloved" is an interesting term describing Peter.
Mike: Can you spot the mini Mike?
Internet: OnlyFans?
I actually thought he was talking about the ghostly face in the Control clip. :/
But Mike actually has a mini-Mike. Mike has a child
I’m actually mad disappointed they haven’t released a new Timesplitters
Would have been much more fun than Homefront Rev.
THQ Nordic acquired the rights to Time Splitters a few years ago, so there might be a new game in the works.
@@deathbykonami5487 don’t do that. Don’t give me hope. My heart can’t take it.
Still, it's nice that we can finally play it on the PC in an otherwise subpar game.
Also, there will be an upcoming fan remake called Timesplitters Rewind.
They actually tried to shop TimeSplitters 4 around to different publishers, but Haze damaged their reputation so bad, nobody took them up on it. WhatCulture covered this in one of their most recent videos.
The outros are why I subscribed 8 years ago and they have just keep filling me with joy to the point where I'd happy splat a rat like a pinata, and enjoy its "candy" remains.
Wow, that was, paradoxically, cryptic AND graphic at the same time!
Remind me to take my Joy before I read any more comments from you
12:28: Actually, the Bureau is more like the SCP Foundation. What you're referring to is actually the Foundation's subpar counterpart, the Unusual Incidents Unit.
It's actually kind of impressive how Control managed to rip off it's entire premise, name and plenty of other things from the SCP universe, without giving a single clear hint as to were those "inspirations" came from. Even the architecture of the oldest house just completely rips off a specific SCP.
Prey (the Arkane Studio one) had it's own in universe RPG book, called 'Fatal Fortress', which was a direct reference to their first original game. There's quite a number of references to it in the game, and a few quests based on tracking down what happened to the players and DM.
Dopefish is basicly the grandfather of all easter eggs - and by the way you can find it in Doom 2016 aswell:
You can find a Dopefish drawing in a locker on the Foundry level; you also can find some "Mixom" sport bags, where the mascot for this brand is a Dopefish too
The "Grima" drink in some vending machines also have Dopefish on their label - also some red potato chips "Grangles" with Dopefish logo at some places - here and there you can find delivery food boxes with a red dopefish logo and the "Dopechan Noodles" label - the choclet drink "Mudbutt" also has a Dopefish drawn at the backside - same for the "Dr. Bubbles" soda bottles or the "Diet Grulp" cans and the "Grud Light Beer" cans
Also one of the runes - the triangular one - on the loading screen for Hell levels looks familiar...
Boo, Minsc's giant miniature space hamster from the Baldur's Gate series is in Mass Effect as a pet for your quarters. He even has the same squeek when you click on him, I believe.
Actually, acorn thing did kind of happen in a game I played. In the end of the first mission, you plant a seed and in the finale depending on you actions it’s either a burnt husk or a healthy plant
The Roach arcade game in Cyberpunk 2077. Even plays a 16bit version of the theme song while Roach jumps over a griffin 😂
Another entry for such a list could be arcade games referencing "The Lost Vikings" franchise by Blizzard in both "Overwatch" and "Star Craft": the former can be found on Hanamura map, while in the latter the game can be accessed in Hyperion's cantina in "StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty".
@@gsesquire3441 You're not wrong but I personally find it much easier to read when people do so
Seven bosses that you can only defeat with outside assistance, like bowser in paper mario or that government officials with Raiden that you couldn't beat without the robot wolf
I also think this is a good idea!
I think that guys name was Senator Armstrong
A lot of Paper Mario bosses can be on this list lol, especially Super Paper Mario
Yes! Suggested this myself on the video about friends of bosses, though I phrased it as bosses you can only beat with a friend (Riddler in Arkham Knight and Tyrant in Resident Evil 2 spring to mind) Glad to see others want it too😊
Or any boss without your older brother
Mike is such an artist. I'm in awe to be living during the same times as he.
How about a note you can find in the deep roads in Dragon Age Origins that clearly is talking about Mass Effect 1?
Plus the ogre statue in Mass Effect 2: Stolen Memories, and the krogan head trophy in Dragon Age: Inquisition
And the armour in one game that was styled from the other one?
(No, I can't remember which was which because insomnia has eaten my brain cells.)
LucasArts had a lovely penchant for adding easter eggs to previous games, other games, and even future games - Monkey Island had references to Loom like when Guybrush is shot out of a cannon and when asked if he's okay, replies "I'm Bobbin Threadbare - are you my mother?"
In Jedi Knight, there's a hidden room where you can find Max, from Sam and Max.
I would be way too excited to get a remake/remaster/new Timespliters Future Perfect! That plot deserves to come back with glorious graphics, and some of those characters *swoon*
The Dopefish was my childhood's most stressful gaming moments and I was very excited to see it in Deus Ex Human Revolution so, all in all, a 10/10 list.
How about Aiden Pierce killing Olivier Garneau being an easter egg in BOTH Watch_Dogs and AC: Origins? Two for one!
TimeSplitters collection please! How long and how loud must we plead???
Think of the happiness you would spread, and the money you would make!!!
*crying lisa simpson meme*
Oh, yes!
Behemoth references their old games a lot, like how the alien from Alien Hominid was in Castle Crashers as an enemy, they had a whole stage to themselves!
Tom fulp is a legend
I thought the wonderful Space Hamster from MASS Effect was a great call back to Minsc and Boo from the Baldur's Gate series.
Yeah ... but I liked Biowares old way better, when each game actually contained a NPC that talked about the next game Bioware were working on. Future Eastereggs!
😱😱oh PHUK
There's also a statue of an Ogre from Dragon Age in Mass Effect 2. Maybe only an Easter Egg, maybe the same universe or DA is ME fiction like Alan Wake
@@JachAnen I know there's a krogan head in Dragon Age Inquisition.
I haven’t heard that time splitters music In a long time
I was really hoping to see It Takes Two on this list. If you explore Rose's pillow fort you can find Vincent and Leo dolls from A Way Out. You even get an achievement for making them talk to eachother it's great! 😊
Hazelight Studios is a surprisingly good EA game developer studio, I admit.
The first time I found a dopefish it legit scared the shit out of me haha
Jason Jones in Halo 3. Found it at 4 AM.
uuuugh, hope you took a shower after.
5:53 what song is that playing in the background when Jane is talking?
Timesplitters also had the easter egg of breaking people's brains such that they see down as up and up as down.
Easter eggs give me a warm feeling inside.
That's just jizz bruh.
Yay!!! New video! Love you guys, thanks for the fun content in these trying times.
Can't believe you didn't include the Ghost of Tsushima nod to Sly Cooper. There's even a trophy for it!
Wasn’t ready for an upload at this time, but I’ll gladly take it.
I'm not sure if this counts, but one of the cars in Project Cars 2 is sponsored by Aperture Science
Sure does
I see that Dirk Gently reference, Jane
commander keen was the first game i've ever played. just seeing it here... so much nostalgia!
You can still get the first five games in one complete bundle on Steam.
My all time favourite is Bungie with Siege of Madrigal. Some old game level with a specific song getting remade into a canon Halo event and constantly appearing Easter egg song. Love the Reach DJ one, that is great.
Does anyone know the name of the song that is playing in back of Jane when she is talking over the doom eternal gameplay? 5:50 - 6:03
In the 2016 Doom, there's a lot of stuff that fills that category. There's a helmet in a cranium, from Commander Keen, in the cave with the minigun.
Also, there's a skyrim helmet behind a pillar, on top of a sword, if I remember correctly.
No, the iron helmet from Skyrim is on a human skeleton in Hell, with an arrow stuck in the left knee.
Not all Easter eggs, I think that Lucasfilm/Lucasarts has slipped a reference to every game they've ever made into every other game they've ever made. Off the top of my head:
--Maniac Mansion has a chainsaw with no fuel, Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders has a can of chainsaw gas but no chainsaw
--In the first Monkey Island game, Guybrush gets a concussion and says, "I'm Bobbin Threadbare. Are you my mother?" (Loom). In the third one, he doesn't want people asking him about Grim Fandango.
--"I'm selling these fine leather jackets."
From memory, the remake of monkey island has a few. When you are outside the sacred monkey head you see some statues that change when you flip between old and new graphics, Sam and max are statues and also one of the tentacles from day of the tentacle and possibly one from grim fandango
Hey guys. You should do a video countdown on the oldest games still regularly being updated. (You know, like GTA V?). I haven't been able to find a video like that yet. Hope you read this and consider doing it. Thanks.
1. Nice T-shirt Mike, good to know you have great taste in music.
2. I would mention Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and many nods to Castlevania series. Sure, Bloodstained isn't published by Konami, but it has Koji Igarashi name all over it.
From the way Fairy familiar sits on your arm just like Fairy did in Symphony of the Night, to the 8-bit hidden level where the boss resembles the final form of Dracula from Rondo of Blood. Also the quests you get from Lindsay asking you to avenge villagers have the names of several characters from Castlevania series, like Simon, Trevor, Sypha and Richter.
Love the Commander Keen reference. That is the kind of game I played as a kid.
Honestly, I think id should revisit Commander Keen, largely because they left the series unfinished after Aliens Ate My Babysitter (aka Episode 6). Imagine a 2D platformer with 3D graphics, like what Epic did with Shadow Complex.
In FarCry 3, at the end of the story, Jason Brody loses one of his ring fingers, which is a clear reference and comparison with the Assassins from A.C.
I had finished all of the side-missions by the time of ending the story, so I only noticed that a year later when I revisited the game.
In Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, there's an arcade cabinet in the hub called Lost Vikings. It's a Galaga-style space shooter featuring the Starcraft Viking ship, named after one of Blizzard's original games, Lost Vikings for the Genesis and Game Gear.
I miss commander keen. My grandparents had games on their computer and that was my favorite! Spent hours on that pogo stick. I completely forgot the fish existed and now it's coming back to me in flashes. But tbh the lazers were always what tripped me up. IDK why
What about the easter egg in Baten Kaitos? Where if you played a cherry, strawberry, apple, orange, and melon cards in the same attack sequence you would be get a very retro reward.
Genius end link mike. Love your work :D
Wait wait wait, what the big bloody thing in the water below the cluts fish? In doom it looks like some massive demon fish you can only see like 1/10 of.
Ubisoft also loves to slip Splinter Cell easter eggs into their games while not having made an instalment in the series itself for +almost eight years+. +shakes fist at Ubisoft+
WOW, I had completely forgotten the existence of Commander Keen, but that brought it all right back to me! I loved that game when I was a kid! :D
I enjoyed the fact that there's one of the little green humans from Resogun laying on one of the consoles in the cockpit of the ship in Returnal.
You mentioned the Leap of Faith in Legion but what about the article about Aiden Pearce in AC Odyssey?
Do the lyrics of the tango in Control count as an Easter egg? Granted, they're in Finnish, but if you do understand our crazy moon language, they reference Alan Wake and Quantum Break pretty directly.
I can only find mini Mike in 0:38 and 18:44. Can someone tell if there are more? 🤔
14:33 - what is "puntus"?
The in-game notes about the Banopper in Bugsnax is a reference to Octodad, with it saying that it's "natural enemy of all cephalopods"
Not really on Xbox, but there's also that easter egg in What Remains of Edith Finch referencing The first part of The Unfinished Swan.
14:12 "beloved" 😂😂😂
OMG i have been trying to remember what commander keen was called for over 20 years. thankyou for unlocking this memory for me
So, what was that little head doing down there, Mike?
Wait, don't answer that...
When he said he wanted a little head, that's not what he meant.
Raymans severed hand made a cameo in Dead or Alive
That’s a sentence I’d never thought I’d read
Isn't Rayman's hand always severed?
In Day of the Tentacle, you can play the whole of Maniac Mansion by using the computer in Weird Ed’s room.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age reference each other a few times. Like when the colonist in Mass Effect 1 says “Thank the Maker” and the Ogre Darkspawn statue in Mass Effect 2, or the mounted Krogan head at the Winter Palace in Dragon Age Inquisition. Lots of fun little references.
I got *so excited* about the Milo game when I was younger - I didn't know any better at the time. At that point, I still didn't understand why people would lie about things that could be so easily held against them
That Ubisoft joke had me laughing way to hard
Crash Bandicoot 3 has a level named "Rings of Power", which shares its name with one of Naughty Dog's older games. Took me a long time to get the reference.
I didn't realise Kane and Lynch actually had cameos in Hitman Absolution. What does this make of the two guards playing it in Hitman 2, or the many computer screens it appears on? Is the entire Hitman universe a simulation? Has a game based on two madmen's life been released in universe? Am I over thinking this? Does my head hurt? I have the answer to two of those at least...
Infamous managed to sneak a few references to Sly Cooper in their games.
11:22 my parkour instructor calls it a leap of certainty
Commander Keen! There's my hit of nostalgia for the week
The Stake Driver weapon from Bloodborne is almost an exact replica of the mech-mounted Pile Driver weapon from Armored Core, another Fromsoft game.
... the Dopefish Easter egg made me happy. It was a callback to a happier time for me. :D
The second dumbest creature in the galaxy. The brilliance of that description comes from the fact that id was also referencing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the dumbest creature being the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal).
I didn’t find the face, but thank you Mike.
"Swim. Swim. Hungry."
Dopefish has been in so much stuff between id and Apogee back in the day.
Also I think Kane and Lynch, or one of them, are at a shooting range in one of the Hitman games on the 360.
The best part of the video is Mike repping Carpenter Brut. A great artist!
3:55 I thought it was Slimer from Ghostbusters lmao
Also, Lynch's outfit being in the Hitman WoA trilogy.
What about Obsidian’s latest masterpiece The Outer Worlds?
There is a reference to the all the fallout games (the day the Hope went missing is the October 23rd, which is the same day the bombs dropped) and there is also a reference to the first fallout with a hidden vault 13 on the Groundbreaker (which is the vault dwellers vault)
Just more reasons to love the The Outer Worlds.
Another Remedy Easter Egg (also Alan Wake in Quantum Break): during the time breakdown event in the corporate HQ, and going through the offices, there's a computer in one of the offices slowly playing out "Children of The Elder Gods" from the Alan Wake soundtrack.
Going even deeper, in Alan Wake itself, Poets of the Fall, who play all the music for the in-game band "The Old Gods of Asgard" appear as themselves in the TV interview with Alan Wake that Alan sees on the TV in his apartment in the game.
Time Splitters looks like a blast to play....but I really don´t want to have to play Homefront to access it in HD.
There are a few more that come to mind;
The Pokemon Rotom is actually a reference to one of Game Freaks earlier games, Pulseman.
Also, in the game Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Monolith Soft put in a reference to another Nintendo game they worked on, the original Legend of Zelda; Skyward Sword, with their being a Harp Item, most likely like the harp in SS.
Tiny Mike head is tiny yet very obvious XD But hey, I love a good Easter Egg -- though, honestly, that Dopefish looks more like someone's take on Slimer. Two for one ref? :p
7 strangest/ dumbest interactions in point and click games. I'm playing Deponia and there is a lot of that there :D
Like that time when you need your girlfriend to be hit by a lightning , to do so you need the innocent Goal, a pool with water, one broken umbrella with small trees attached and ofc the winning lottery ticket on her. Because everyone knows that you have more probabilities to recieve a lightning to the face that to win the lottery. Forget even one thing and she will not be struck with lightning, you will be instead.
Makes sense.
Carpenter Brut t-shirt!
Well done Mike.
The "hidden" face at the end was funny
What about the space hamster in mass effect 2/3 referencing the beloved boo from Baldurs gate
More of a shout out to a future title but also a throwback to a previous game's joke, 1997's Curse of Monkey Island had a delightful Easter Egg wherein protagonist Guybrush Threepwood could find a dead (or would it be deader?) skeleton pirate from LeChuck's crew slumped over a table in the perfectly period-accurate Blondebeard's fried chicken shop. The dead man in question resembles Grim Fandango protagonist, Manny Calavera, sporting a pin that read "Ask me about Grim Fandango", which would release in the following year of 1998. This Easter Egg would also reference a similar instance from the very first entry of the Monkey Island series, the Secret of Monkey Island from 1990, where Guybrush met a man named Cobb who wore a similar pin with the words "Ask me about Loom" written on it, a reference to Lucasart's Loom, also from 1990. It's like an inception of Easter Eggs, eggs within eggs within egg.
I think it’s worth noting that the Alan Wake writeup in Quantum Break refers to “Altered World Event”, which is both a big part of Control’s setup and one of the DLC names.
It’s almost worth saying that this is less Easter Egg-y and more “All three games exist in the same universe”
Something I noticed in Titanfall 2 (although this might be just because some of the maps were from the first game) but we see images of the old Titans and Spectres
Can't believe Andy took part in this without throwing in a Kojima game or two!
Thanks foe reminding me how much I want a new Timesplitters game.
11:15 Speaking of failed free runners. You can find a dead body in the witcher 2 and it looks a lot like altair of the assassin's creed series.
The item Pwnhammer in Terraria, a reference to Redigit's previous game, Super Mario Bros X, which featured a level bearing the same name. An obscure one that most people might not know about.