Favourite Easter Eggs or Secrets in Games

[aceman67]

Its the little things in games, like how in Sims 2, if you and your sims spouse eat cheese cake before 'woohooing', you'll have twins if one of you becomes pregnant.

What is that an easter egg for? :S

I would guess the sims 2, you know... since I said the Sims 2 in my post. And the thread says Easter eggs and secrets, so this counts.

There are a lot of secret thing that you do to get special things to happen. Like if you look at the stars with a telescope enough, you either run the chance of being abducted or a meteor/satellite falling on you and killing you. If an alive sim is present when death comes to claim a dead sim's soul, you can bargain with him to resurrect them, depending on your charisma skill (if its low, it'll fail and you have a zombie on your hands).

In sims 3, before supernatural came out, if you got far enough ahead in the Science career, you can bring back the ghosts of dead sims, marry them and have ghost children.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Its the little things in games, like how in Sims 2, if you and your sims spouse eat cheese cake before 'woohooing', you'll have twins if one of you becomes pregnant.

What is that an easter egg for? :S

I like the phrasing, "if one of you gets pregnant"

That could be an easter egg in itself

 

[Blunderboy]

Its the little things in games, like how in Sims 2, if you and your sims spouse eat cheese cake before 'woohooing', you'll have twins if one of you becomes pregnant.

What is that an easter egg for? :S

I would guess the sims 2, you know... since I said the Sims 2 in my post. And the thread says Easter eggs and secrets, so this counts.

There are a lot of secret thing that you do to get special things to happen. Like if you look at the stars with a telescope enough, you either run the chance of being abducted or a meteor/satellite falling on you and killing you. If an alive sim is present when death comes to claim a dead sim's soul, you can bargain with him to resurrect them, depending on your charisma skill (if its low, it'll fail and you have a zombie on your hands).

In sims 3, before supernatural came out, if you got far enough ahead in the Science career, you can bring back the ghosts of dead sims, marry them and have ghost children.

Generally Easter eggs are references to other games though, that's what threw me. But yeah, continue to be a dick if that helps.

 

[aceman67]

Its the little things in games, like how in Sims 2, if you and your sims spouse eat cheese cake before 'woohooing', you'll have twins if one of you becomes pregnant.

What is that an easter egg for? :S

I like the phrasing, "if one of you gets pregnant"

That could be an easter egg in itself

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if a guy gets abducted by aliens, he can become pregnant in The Sims 2.

 

[aceman67]

Generally Easter eggs are references to other games though, that's what threw me. But yeah, continue to be a dick if that helps.

Thread title says "Easter eggs and SECRETS". But yeah, continue being dismissive, if that helps.

 

[MoreThanANoob]

I was in a game of Counter-Strike with some friends this one time and someone found a wall in "Office" that breaks away to show a picture of...something. I can't remember what the picture was. All I remember is that no one could organize everyone to find it again before the match was over.

Good times.

 

[etnavningenhar]

In Mass Effect, when you can have a Space Hamster as a pet in the Captains Cabin. This is a reference to Minsc and Boo, from the Baldurs Gate series. If you click the hamster, it also makes the same noise as it does when you try to remove it from Minsc's inventory in the BG-game.

You can also find it running around on the engine room floor in Mass Effect 2.

Another favourite of mine is the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, which you might come across in your adventures through Lord of the Rings Online.

Edit: Also remembered the biggest easter egg in the BG-series, the BMU - Big Metal Unit. I will not spoil where you get its components, but keep hold of any Pantaloons you might come across in BG, BG2, or BG:ToB.

 

[goose4291]

It's an old one, but I chuckled when Max turns up in Dark Forces II.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjhlYY3pmU

Note God I can't believe thats over 10 years ago. I feel old now...

 

[Stryc9]

I've always enjoyed Silent Hill's Silence of the Lambs reference. It's nothing much but it just goes that bit further to adding to the overall horror.

I'll see your news paper and raise you an actual useable item in Torchlight II.

Spoiler

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I've always enjoyed Silent Hill's Silence of the Lambs reference. It's nothing much but it just goes that bit further to adding to the overall horror.

I'll see your news paper and raise you an actual useable item in Torchlight II.

Spoiler

Damn, that's actually pretty awesome!

It's not really an easter egg but it blew my mind when I found out about the links to Kindergarten Cop in Silent Hill as well: http://www.destructoid.com/photo-m.phtml?photo_key=211029&post_key=219513#prevnext

 

[Pink Gregory]

Not exactly hidden, but there is a late game unit in Civilization V known as the 'GIANT DEATH ROBOT'.

Apparently it originated from a thread on Civfanatics.

Awesome.

 

[Scarim Coral]

My is the RoosterTeeth crews cameo easter egg in Halo 3

 

[Omega500]

I loving the ones in Kerbal space program knowing there is one on each planet/moon and looking for them is kinda awesome.
Not using mods to find them makes it more interesting and makes me better at the game.

In GTA:SA on top of a bridge ther was something along the lines of There should be and Easter egg here but they ain't. that was cool

 

[srm79]

32 posts, and nobody has posted this?

 

[Soxafloppin]

I love the secret Ermac fight in Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks, You go to the Warriors shrine, see all the statues of the MK1 Roster and Ermac at the side...You interact with it a few times and you fight Ermac.

This is a reference to the rumour that there was a secret red ninja in MK1 who could be fought, like Reptile. Ermac later became playable in UMK3.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm one for entirely-useful secrets, such as one from MDK 2, in which you have this large and highly-defended irritating-to-climb tower via jetpack...that the developers installed a secret elevator into in order to ease one up high enough to jetpack over to the exit at the top.

 

[TrevHead]

The crazy prisoner Exbob from The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is by far my fave, my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I first saw him.

Spoiler

 

[DoPo]

Generally Easter eggs are references to other games though, that's what threw me.

No, actually, easter eggs are just secrets, they don't have to reference outside media. They could but it's not a requirement - for example, an easter egg could be just the creator's name(s) in big flaming letters, or a tour through the company's offices, or just something wacky - if you're on Firefox, go to

about:mozilla

, also, on any browser type in "recursion" into Google or "do a barrel roll".

OT: I think my favourite one would be finding a predator lair in Blood 2


(skipped over some boring shooting of zombies)

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Portal and Thief references in Dishonoured:

Portal Reference:

On the other side of that wall there is an identical symbol. There is also a book nearby note, as seen in the top right, talking about how "This door will eventually lead to far away places".

The Thief Reference is later in the game, where you sneak up on 2 Assassins. One is training the other and, word for word, it's the same dialogue you hear in the tutorial mission in Thief The Dark Project.


EDIT: I like the classic Sectoid and Mutton target graphics during the cutscenes in the new X-COM, after researching and building laser and plasma weapons.

EDIT EDIT:

I loved the sad troll in Oblivion:

 

[Dark Prophet]

Don't know if it was ment to be n easteregg, but the sound your nanosuit does in Crysis 2 when you engage stealth is a nice touch, when I discovered it I just sat in the corner for a while and switched it on and off just to listen to it and giggled on my own.