The Escapist Presents: Starcraft 2: Easter Eggs
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How the heck did you guys miss Optimus Prime?! I know it's alright to miss the dancing Night Elf in the corner of the bar, it's fine to miss Level 800 Elite Tauren Chieftan and iPistol because they were both commercials... but I can't believe you missed Optimus Prime...
On Mar Sara, in the first mission, JUST to the RIGHT of the Toshi's Station you see in the video, you will see a semi-familiar semi-truck... Don't you think? Zoom in to the license plate to reveal "OPTIM-S1."
I wonder where they put megatron then...
On Mar Sara, in the first mission, JUST to the RIGHT of the Toshi's Station you see in the video, you will see a semi-familiar semi-truck... Don't you think? Zoom in to the license plate to reveal "OPTIM-S1."
I wonder where they put megatron then...
I can sympathize with Team Hollywood for trying to come up with content for the video clip, but I guess it was too early after StarCraft 2's release, because some of those seem to be grasping a bit.
I guess the main thing that bugs me is that Easter Eggs (as pertains to software) require you hunt for them - they're hard-to-find surprises that the players have to do something relatively unusual to access (in the more extreme cases, actually hack the game to access). The Tauran Marine and Diablo definitely qualified because they were well off the beaten path. However, the rest are right out there in the open.
"Tashi's Station" and the "Terrible, Terrible damage" (though I find that one to be really vague) would qualify in non-interactive media, where the best they can do is an in-joke.
- * The mining laser's "blue screen of death" is a bit too vague to really make out as definitely being that so much as text in roughly the right places.
* Lost Vikings - less an Easter Egg and more a fairly-prominent surprise minigame. Though the reference to the long-forgotten game would have made a good quality Easter Egg reference.
* Peanut Butter Jelly Time Emote - They just decided to put in a /dance emote to let players show off to other players in multiplayer. Not an Easter Egg because the only thing they didn't do is bother to add an easier emote GUI. It's grasping a bit to say for sure that's Peanut Butter Jelly Time so much as a generic dance emote -- maybe if they played the music or something.
* Egon's shirt - Come on, we're supposed to say that the pattern of his shirt is automatically a nod towards the Horde because it has a tribal pattern? Could be that was deliberate on Blizzard's part, but it's mighty vague, not a very effective link.
I guess the main thing that bugs me is that Easter Eggs (as pertains to software) require you hunt for them - they're hard-to-find surprises that the players have to do something relatively unusual to access (in the more extreme cases, actually hack the game to access). The Tauran Marine and Diablo definitely qualified because they were well off the beaten path. However, the rest are right out there in the open.
"Tashi's Station" and the "Terrible, Terrible damage" (though I find that one to be really vague) would qualify in non-interactive media, where the best they can do is an in-joke.
The breakdancing zergling is pretty awesome, as well as the michaeljackson dance hydralisk.
The mercenary goliath portrait is Dustin "Terrible, terrible damage" Browder and the standard goliath is Brian Sousa, the senior 3D artist for SC2.
I didn't quite get the Queen joke in the video though...
The mercenary goliath portrait is Dustin "Terrible, terrible damage" Browder and the standard goliath is Brian Sousa, the senior 3D artist for SC2.
I didn't quite get the Queen joke in the video though...
its also one of egons "under attack" quotes if i remember rightDavid Gravely said:
btw i can swear the dark voice didnt say "i love it when a plan comes together" on any difficulty cept brutal for me on the last zeratul mission, can anyone check? thatd be an easter egg
It's hard to tell because of the constraints video quality, but if you zoom in on the mining laser it is unquestionably the BSOD, and in high-quality video caps Egon's shirt is also unmistakably the Horde symbol. I assure you.geldonyetich said:
As for the rest, well they were still little funny things and in-jokes we noticed, not so much easter eggs per se. As for Terrible Damage... watch this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZlcgOzi_E].
Alright, fair enough.John Funk said:
Heh, okay, that makes sense to me now, especially seeing how it apparently reached meme territory with everything from Chuck Norris to Hitler doing/receiving Terrible, Terrible damage.As for the rest, well they were still little funny things and in-jokes we noticed, not so much easter eggs per se. As for Terrible Damage... watch this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZlcgOzi_E].
