inselaffe on 21/10/2010 at 23:48
So after seeing (
http://www.cracked.com/article_18801_9-video-game-easter-eggs-that-took-years-to-find_p1.html) this and finding some of them interesting but a lot quite dull and actually not hidden for that long i thought perhaps people might be able to share some of the secrets that really did take ages to find. Or simply just very interesting secrets in themselves.
Of course, there is the thief 2 bank vault secret, which is a longer than lots of them on that list but that isn't really news to anyone here. However that was undiscovered for so long, it had to be pointed out to the community.
However, reading through the comments of that article, i discovered this:
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Does the Mew Glitch in Pokemon Red and Blue count?Nintendo denied for years the fact you could get Mew in the game, and there were bogus 'cheats' on how to get him on every s**tty Geocities site ever. Then years later, when some guy named TheScythe on GameFAQS said he found a way, it was such a ludicriously retarded elaborate way to do it that nobody believed him. Until a mod posted two simple words: "It works." Nerds everywhere went hog wild.
Now, going back to try that out now seems rather unappealing due to the dull grinding nature of the game, but it's still an extremely cool secret given how much every child wanted that creature at the time and the amount of made up rumours rife about it, that when you discover what you actually (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkF7Xjxn9jc) have to do, it's quite ironic.
Something i was made aware of a while back was a secret in mafia that was only discovered last year due to someone going through the executable with a hex editor or some such. They found a load of "cheat codes" and one of them actually happens to be (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTPHPLWWiSE) an interesting secret.
Hidden and dangerous 2 has some quite nice easter eggs ((
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ZhZDLW4qw) this being the first), however you have to play the game unpatched to be able to achieve them as far as i can remember.
I guess the most satisfying easter eggs/secrets are extra hidden content not used elsewhere that is quite unique and interesting, as opposed to those that just give you an extremely powerful item.
So, do you know of any games with particularly interesting easter eggs or secrets? Or simply ones that weren't discovered for a long time.
ANTSHODAN on 22/10/2010 at 00:32
You know what, I can hardly remember any Easter Eggs at all. I've been sat at this thread, browsed a few easter eggs websites to refresh my memory and still - nothing.
The best I can come up with is seeing the computer from LOST in one of the Half Life episodes - that was pretty cool, but hardly well hidden. Goddammit there must be more!
Shadowcat on 22/10/2010 at 03:57
Being able to play Maniac Mansion on a game-world computer within Day of the Tentacle has to classify as a great easter egg (if not a hidden one).
Vernon on 22/10/2010 at 05:31
On Game Boy Zelda you could run around that guy in the shop seven times or something then steal whatever you liked but if you did it again he'd zap you t
van HellSing on 22/10/2010 at 08:52
Some of my favourites are from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
- Throughout the game, you can encounter human vampire hunters, who normally will attack you. However, if you ignore the first one you meet and just go on without fighting him, the next one (and any further humans) will instead drop on their knees and worship you...
- ...which comes useful when you reach a hidden human city...
- ...which is only one of numerous large, detailed hidden and entirely optional areas in the game. Others include the ruins of Nupraptor's Keep (this one is actually smallish, but a very cool shout out to the first LoK), and the Lighthouse, which has some of the most interesting puzzles in the game, and rewards you with the most powerful glyph.
nicked on 22/10/2010 at 12:19
Thief - basketball court - nuff said.
There's the old Zelda classic of attacking the chickens loads, and eventually they'll gang up and fight back.
And of course (
http://www.dopefish.com/) this guy... In fact id have some good ones - the final boss of Doom 2, the room with a tank and his sexy iron maiden honeys in Quake 2, the hard-to-find Nightmare difficulty in Quake 1, even Doom 3 has a hidden little PDA with dev thanks on it near the end.
I also remember a fun little cheat where you could replace every texture on every surface in Deus Ex with green flowing code like the Matrix.
Koki on 22/10/2010 at 12:49
Or does it.
d0om on 22/10/2010 at 14:46
SS2 basketball court Easter egg was good. You had to carry that ball a very long way to get it. I remember spending quite a long time throwing that damned ball trying to get it into the hoop though :)
Thief2, when you are trying to open the bank vault since its on a time-lock according to the books it opens if you spend more than 10? hours in the level by itself. (Although the day shift of guards don't turn up too!)
Sulphur on 22/10/2010 at 15:02
Ultima VII: The Black Gate?
Meeting the farmer who's lost his Hoe of Destruction, hearing his harrowing account about meeting a 'tiger-lion' and then seeing that a Kilrathi spaceship had crashlanded on his farm. And the bit where double-clicking on it (IIRC) plays Wing Commander 2's Kilrathi theme.
The bit where you can kill Lord British by clicking on the plaque in the garden just as he passes under it.
Realising that all the people you meet in Britannia, 200 years after Ultima VI, take rather strongly after their forefathers.
Casting Armageddon and finding Batlin and Lord British are the only ones left alive, and what they have to say about what you've done.
The Gurdian's generators that you had to find (sphere, cube, tetrahedron) were EA's logo at the time. (Also, in Ultima VIII there's an object in that old hermit's extra-dimensional house that the Avatar can't use because he 'doesn't have the strength to master it', which looks like an ever-morphing cube-sphere-tetrahedron).
The Quoted Out of Context hidden credits page.
And that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. (There's a Star Trek reference I'm forgetting somewhere, too.)
Sigh. Ultima VII. So much to love. When will we ever have anything like it again?
