I actually knew the Metal Gear thing, but I never noticed any of that other stuff, especially the SotC thing... I love when a game drops some sweet references, but keeps it hewn subtle so you don't have it thrown in your face.
MGS had so many ridiculous and hilarious easter eggs and hidden features that you'd think Kojima is crazy for making such complex and advanced games, hours of cutscenes, and then putting in a hundred easter eggs into each game.
The End dying after a week, Psycho Mantis controllers, Hideo 2, Codec "thoughts", Psycho mantis reading your saves, Camera zoom-ins, ZOE marks everywhere, bikini posters, and so many other things.
lol I know right, an easter egg which refers to a previous easter egg.
I liked how there is an easter egg conversation which I know of but never actually found successfully, a conversation in MGS3 via codec, you need to call right after fighting Ocelot, and you get information about Ocelot, that he was born on a battlefield, the same battlefield The Boss gave birth at, same year, which was the confirmation that Ocelot is The Boss' son.
I freaked out when I heard you could kill The End by changing your clock on your playstation or sniping him earlier in the game...hideo you're a nutball
Sniping him, and then watching the wheel of his chair after the explosion come flying towards you is one of the best lol situations I've ever had in a game. Good times.
Wow, I need to go back and replay some of those games. Why don't developers put stuff like this in games anymore so people have a reason to go back and play again?
That effort is either put into tacked on multiplayer or overpriced DLC these days..... :/
That or publishers are pushing for such tight timeframes and yearly releases that its simply just hard to get this deep. Heck a lot of games release broken because of this, let alone wanting them to add in small details lol
because why have hidden things you can feel proud of when you find it (or stupid for never noticing it the first couple times you play) when you can have an Achievement for them telling you where to look and how to get it!
Seriously though, hidden stuff is why I use to love talk to friends about gaming. Tell them something they didn't or learn something new. Good Times, Good Times
The internet is a wonderful thing but unfortunately today, it does ruin everything about a game almost immediately after release. It would b hard to hide anything these days. Seriously, I avoid looking at any news sometimes just to avoid ruining my experience...mass effect 3?
Lol, I agree; There was a time when secrets & easter eggs were hot, before they were even called "easter eggs". Which reminds me of a very funny story; I remember a friend of mine could never really find a secret 1st to brag about, so one day, be had cut out an image of Raiden & the Mortal Kombat 2 logo (from an EGM mag) & pasted it on a Sega Genesis cartridge, like the official game, before it came out. He then carried the game around boasting that he had it 1st & no one else does. Then he would tell you to call him if you wanted to hear it, then he would "remix" the sound test from MK1 & other games to make it sound like a new game, @ most. We got our biggest laugh when the glue he used did'nt hold up well, which began to peel away, revealing a Mega Turrican cartridge! Lmao!
metal gear is filled with easter eggs such as what was mentioned in the article. cool thing is even tru repeated gameplay some of which are easy to miss...
He's holding two on the game title screen though. That's probably what everyone is used to seeing. They probably should have included that in the article.
The Duke Nukem and DOOM entries were originally separate, but since they both dealt with artwork they ended up being combined. So there's still technically four entries, just two of them are in the same category.
it's 4... However I'm not counting Doom and Duke Nuken as there not secrets in the games but promotion art work... Though I still didn't know about any of them other then MGS.
Great article. Wish that there was @ least 10 on the list, but 4 is fine to start with. This article also reminds me; I still have to get the Ico/SotC collection. I beat both games already, but they are pure-classics, they belong in my home.
PS; random easter egg Who remembers that Contra: Hard Corps easter egg/secret ending, where you climb 'that' wall out of sheer curiousity (you know which wall), then you meet that skeleton guy in a tuxedo who wants to recruit you for a fight in an arena, which eventually gets you blasted back in time & you're forced to marry a ape & rule prehistoric time? Lol! I hated that the 1st time I experienced it, because I had no idea it was gonna end my game.
Oh, PPS; Did you know that Fortunes' father, Scott Dolph, is the real name of one of the voice actors? It's in MGS2:SoL credits!
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Seriously though yeah I do remember it and it was fantastic, also amusing on Twin Snakes.
The End dying after a week, Psycho Mantis controllers, Hideo 2, Codec "thoughts", Psycho mantis reading your saves, Camera zoom-ins, ZOE marks everywhere, bikini posters, and so many other things.
I liked how there is an easter egg conversation which I know of but never actually found successfully, a conversation in MGS3 via codec, you need to call right after fighting Ocelot, and you get information about Ocelot, that he was born on a battlefield, the same battlefield The Boss gave birth at, same year, which was the confirmation that Ocelot is The Boss' son.
That or publishers are pushing for such tight timeframes and yearly releases that its simply just hard to get this deep. Heck a lot of games release broken because of this, let alone wanting them to add in small details lol
Seriously though, hidden stuff is why I use to love talk to friends about gaming. Tell them something they didn't or learn something new. Good Times, Good Times
There was a time when secrets & easter eggs were hot, before they were even called "easter eggs".
Which reminds me of a very funny story;
I remember a friend of mine could never really find a secret 1st to brag about, so one day, be had cut out an image of Raiden & the Mortal Kombat 2 logo (from an EGM mag) & pasted it on a Sega Genesis cartridge, like the official game, before it came out. He then carried the game around boasting that he had it 1st & no one else does.
Then he would tell you to call him if you wanted to hear it, then he would "remix" the sound test from MK1 & other games to make it sound like a new game, @ most.
We got our biggest laugh when the glue he used did'nt hold up well, which began to peel away, revealing a Mega Turrican cartridge!
Lmao!
Also that third one is a lot like Dead Space 1 where the word of each letter of each level spells out a secret in the game.
With various random military vehicles.
*clicks on "gamepodunk.com": Story quality? Excellent.*
lol
I thought this article was going to mention the secret garden in SotC, but yeah, the Nimrod thing's pretty widely known.
Wish that there was @ least 10 on the list, but 4 is fine to start with.
This article also reminds me;
I still have to get the Ico/SotC collection.
I beat both games already, but they are pure-classics, they belong in my home.
PS; random easter egg
Who remembers that Contra: Hard Corps easter egg/secret ending, where you climb 'that' wall out of sheer curiousity (you know which wall), then you meet that skeleton guy in a tuxedo who wants to recruit you for a fight in an arena, which eventually gets you blasted back in time & you're forced to marry a ape & rule prehistoric time?
Lol! I hated that the 1st time I experienced it, because I had no idea it was gonna end my game.
Oh, PPS;
Did you know that Fortunes' father, Scott Dolph, is the real name of one of the voice actors?
It's in MGS2:SoL credits!