The Escapist Presents: Starcraft 2: Easter Eggs

[gamegod25]

If you launch the tauren marine, you can see the "ship" flying in space outside the windows of the Hyperion and in the background of missions that take place in space.

@thereapist: I thought that name sounded familiar but couldn't place it. That's pretty awesome that to still honor the memory after all this time and more than once.

 

[wibbit]

The list of prison inmates on the prison break mission are blizzard employees

 

[tzeneth]

Although definitely not an easter egg. I just love the commercial for "Nuclear Noodles. Call down the flavor"

 

[Weaver]

As with all blizzard RTS games you can repeatedly on a single unit unit to hear extended dialogue.

 

[Esseff]

Not sure if this has already been said, but I've been screwing around in the Galaxy Editor and I just found a "Carbon Block Marine" in the neutral units... lol

Spoiler: Han Solo frozen in carbonite, for those who dont know...

[img=http://trickyourblog.com/uploads/user_8/han-solo-frozen-in-carbonite_3.jpg][/img]

 

[bacondeity]

You guys don't even read each others posts, haha! People keep repeating the same thing. No one besides me, though, mentioned the Optimus Prime Easter egg.

 

[Eric the Orange]

I dunno if you would count this as an easter egg, but the holographic dancer in the cantina does the same dance as the Night Elf dance in WoW.

EDIT: Ah I see this has already been mentioned, I should read all the other posts first.

 

[jamesj223]

OPTIM-S1

 

[zwober]

well. what i found cant be that much of an easter-egg but i do find it odd that nobody had mentioned it so far.

i mean.. the terran wraiths and apparantly the ravens are doing Barrel-Rolls from time to time.
too obvious ?

 

[UnlikeLobster]

The song playing in the background during the fight in the bar after "Maw of the Void" is curiously similar to the song played during the first episode of Firefly...

 

[clank1013]

lame.... and stop being so mono tone...........

 

[Huginn]

helps to have a kid sister for this one
There's also a picture of this in the artbook if you have the collector edition

at the beginning where you have the movie of tycus getting "freed"
he's inmate 626
stitch from the disney movie... is experiment 626

 

[Squeegeez]

In the Nova Ghost mission (not sure which stage), in the top left corner you can see the Tauren Marine shuttling about in his rocket outhouse.

In Media Blitz to the south, before the science lab island, there is a truck that reads "Crazyhorse APT", although i don't know what it's referring to, probably a touring band.

 

[LtWiesel]

at 0:11 in the top left corner...female nightelf dance!

 

[Mischiviktus]

Nova occasionally appears in the engineering bay, as well as the tauren space marine in his flying outhouse will occasionally pass under debris in space station-like missions.

 

[rodeolifant]

In the secret mission, one of the scientists talks to you. His portrait has Geordi LaForge's visor. Also, in between the end missions, Finlay talks about him not trusting the alien artifact; and that for all he knows, it could upset the entire space-time continuum. Another Trek reference, to which Raynor replies; "Don't worry, this is not science fiction." One more, the medic says "please state the Nature of the medical emergency"

Now I'm not sure whether 'in the pipe, five by five' is an actual Alien reference, as Alien took it from fighter pilots, where it means something like 'successfully going through the gap in the enemy's air defenses'

Edit: oh, and the 'Welcome to the Jungle' mission, and all it's achievements, are nods to Guns and Roses; the Rift-Field Generator-mission's achievements are all nods to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

 

[PurpleSkull]

I loved the extra responses most units got.

Medic:
"Oh stop crying, you sound like you lost BOTH legs"
"WE'VE BEEN HIT, GOING DOWN, WE WILL DIEEEEEE....Haha, just kidding"

Or the MCV response if you tell him to attack:
"What, you run out of Marines?"

 

[Beeskee]

The armory bay is labeled "Bay 12", it's either a reference to Bay 12 Games, the makers of Dwarf Fortress. Or it's an "Aliens" reference.

 

[TheEndlessGrey]

The music that plays when you're introduced to the mercenary broker is from Desperado. Pretty sure it's Desperado anyway... might be mashing the music together with Pulp Fiction for whatever reason, and I'm not prepared to plug up the VCR and watch either one to confirm that.

 

[VoidEternal]

Did anyone else get sad when Nova appeared in the Tosh/Nova mission?

Starcraft: Ghost... what ever happened to you?