Surprise! We're recording a day early. Shocking, right? Kind of like cracking open your chocolate easter egg and finding this flesh-eating Peep inside, waiting to pick your bones clean. Don't front, you know Peeps are evil. Watch, now the Peep fanboys will come out of the woodwork and call me "arrogant" for stating the fact.
Anyway, tomorrow is Easter, and as you might imagine, we'll be busy doing what it is people do on Easter: fighting off hordes of flesh-eating Peeps. So we'll be recording the show a day early, and this week it's all about Easter eggs in games. Secret rooms, hidden cutscenes, and hey -- try hitting that chicken with your sword. No, go ahead, see what happens. Hit the comments with your favorites and your questions for the show. We'll see you tomorrow. If the Peeps don't get us.
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1:29 PM on 03.22.2008
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My question -- What Easter Egg are you most proud of finding all by yourself, or which one was the hardest to uncover?
Not that it's much of an Easter Egg, but I hate the Toasty! one from Stepmania. Nothing quite like losing your concentration when going for AAAs because some bastard pops out on the screen to say hello.
I think the neat Easter Eggs are the ones that somehow involve casts and crews for the game specifically...like in The Immortal for the NES, there was a secret passage you could take and you'd find a break room where the game creators were just hanging around. That's kinda badass.
What's the craziest Easter Egg you guys have ever found? I mean, just plain off-the-wall nuts.
Comments: I remember entering the old Komani code in Gradius III for SNES and becoming angry when my ship blew up. (For those who didn't know, they replaced the Left and Right part of the code with Left Trigger, Right Trigger)
Also, what are your favorite type of easter eggs? Like kind of weapon, a character from another game, honorable mentions for the lulz and other.
Also, Red Hering!
Because to tell you the truth, I really miss hidden content like the paintball and big head modes in Goldeneye. I really wish developers would be less serious and do stuff like that again.
And will Evil Chad make an appearance? He seems to have escaped from Chad's subconcious and is now wreaking havoc on the cblogs.
When a easter egg is put on a game, what do you guys think how a good easter egg is done right on any type of game?
You should also take into consideration all of those easter eggs that turned out to be total FUCKING LIES, but you wanted to believe in them so, so bad...
Have you guys heard of Totaka's song in Nintendo games (I mean you should have)? The little tune that was written by Kazumi Totaka? The most obvious one is in Mario Paint when you click on the O I believe (everything blows up and a little square wave tune appears).
Wikipedia claims theres about a dozen Nintendo games that have this hidden tune, but the circumstances around how to get the tune to appear is pretty crazy. In fact people suspect that he has something hidden in every game he's worked audio on! When I noticed he did audio for Wii Sports I wondered if it was hidden there too.
It almost makes me think if it's too hard to find, is it worth it?
Also I would like to ask for well-wishes for my fiancee ZeroAtma. He had an appendicitis late last night and we've been at the hospital all night (I'm really fucking tired, but I'm sure he's feeling worse). I'm sure well-wishes from you guys would really make his day ^_^
Have you ever completed the Adventure Easter egg yourself? I know I haven't!
My favorite accidental secret discovery, though not really an Easter egg, was when I found out how to shrink your driver in Super Mario Kart all by myself. I believe it was holding Y and pressing A on the controller while on the driver select screen- I don't remember exactly, as I've misplaced my copy of Super Mario Kart for about the last decade or so :(
I enjoyed this one in Mega Man 7 quite a bit.
I know of other Easter eggs but can't think of many at the moment- most of the secrets I'm thinking of are just plain old cheat codes.
And then, there's Rings Of Power.
Wait, where was I? Oh, yes...Easter eggs in games. My mind is drawing a blank right now, unfortunately, but here’s a question:
You guys don’t just consider ordinary cheat codes “Easter eggs”, do you? Like, I always felt that an Easter egg was some sort of cool secret thing that you found in the game, as opposed to something that was unlocked (or changed) by entering a sequence of buttons.
I mean, I’d even count Insomniac’s “skill point” system (or the Medal Points system in Uncharted) as a sort of Easter egg. Unless you looked that shit up, you would have no idea how to do any of it. For example, one of the awards in Uncharted, “Survivor”, requires you to kill 50 enemies without dying. And some of the stuff in Resistance: Fall of Man is nigh-impossible to do on purpose. I mean, really, who would think to “jump at least 50 meters” in a certain level?
Also, regarding naia-the-gamer’s fiancée...I hope that the appendectomy (if he has to get one) goes smoothly! Feel better, ZeroAtma!
And what the fuck is up with cast of F-Zero?! It's like all the rejects from Who Wants to be a Superhero got together for an after party. As far as I recall, these characters were not present in the first game, but they were all over GX. How am I supposed to take a character like Captain Falcon seriously? In that ridiculous getup, and that "I'm Batman" voice?!
I guess my question is: Do you think it's possible for these franchises to be relevant again while still employing the same absurd characters, or do you think that the roster would need a massive overhaul before moving forward? Or, maybe these two franchises were more a product of the times and should just die with the 90s? I can understand that Nintendo is in a unique situation; most of their IPs were developed in the 80s, where cheesy videogame scenarios were the norm. But they've done such a good job making Metroid overcome its corny sci-fi beginnings that it's really just bizarre to see StarFox and F-Zero look as silly as they do. Come to think of it, it's not even so much that both series have ridiculous characters, but more so that they all take themselves soooo seriously. Do...do you think Captain Falcon is cool?
Also, Unrelated, I listened to your Phantasy Star podcast. I have also played Phantasy Star Online and I agree with Colette that there are assholes every quarter inch. Her assessment moved me and I drew her a masterpiece:
I do hope you enjoy it.
The Chris Houlihan Room! There was a contest in Nintendo Power wherein the winner would get their name in A Link to the Past. It really would only appear it the game glitched during a change from room to room. Instead of freaking out, the game would sen you there. And since Nintendo games were genereally so rock solid, it took a long long time before anyone actually discovered it.
"My name is Chris Houlihan. This is my secret room. Keep it between us, okay?"
Just a room full of coins. I never discovered it accidentally, myself. I read about ages ago, and had to basically use a walkthrough to get me there.
One year my cousin took a bit of a choco-bunny's ear and I freaked. Painful memory.
Of course with easter eggs in games there's the beginning with the one in Adventure.
And of course NBA Jam needs discussion. One of the few sports games everyone can enjoy. And if Big Heads and Hilary Clinton jamming on the Utah Jazz's Karl Malone isn't amazing, my life has been a lie.
Mario 64? The infamous message and well, Yoshi, even though he sucked to ride in 3D and there was nothing left to do in the game once you got him.
Do you count the Warp Pipes in Mario as Eggs? That stuff kind of became the norm for Mario but first we'd ever seen it. And then you had the Whistles in SMB3 and then SMWorld took it another step further with the hidden exits and Star Zone blew my mind enough as it is....but once I found out there was a Special Zone and it was hard as all get-out, it was a mind meltdown.
How about the Second Quest in the original Zelda? How many eggs are an entirely new, full game after you beat the original?
Easter eggs are weird.
Are they game cheats or glitches?
Knifing > Forking.
(here I am using a symbol as one syllable because of creative license and the fact that the knifing/forking conversation made me go hysterical and I want to start it up again)
What easter egg did you guys work for the hardest? Are there any you worked hard for only to find out thay weren't worth it/ weren't real? How about the Minus World or the Warp Zone? Did you find them when you were kids, or did you just find it after you knew about it? Did you feel a twinge of happiness as you used the Warp Whistle like in The Wizard? Finally, what was the first easter egg you guys found?
[b]How do you think people find some of these easter eggs? For example, the infamous Mega Man X egg were you could get the Hadouken move for X. It involved performing specific actions in a stage in order for it to be revealed. Oh, and while I am thinking about Mega Man X, wasn't it cool how beating one stage affected another? I always liked freazing the factory and breaking the power plant. You needed to flood the jungle stage so you could grab one of the life ups... So many damn crazy easter egg type things in that game.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, if you finish an airship level while wearing one of the 3 suits the newly restored king will have something different to say, one new phrase for each suit. My favorite is the Hammer Brother suit one.
Unnecessarily hard to reach Easter Egg, or MOST unnecessarily hard to reach Easter egg?
Also, on a scale from 1 to 5 Dolphins, how much do you wish that room had your name instead? I'd say 4 out of 5.
Which was the hardest easter egg to get and was it worth it?
I CAN SEES TEH EESTER EGGZ
Question: If you were developing a game, any type of game, and could only put in one easter egg, what would you put in?
Kumoon - click pic
but my favorite easter egg(if it counts) is in majoras mask when you do the side quest for the hand that comes out of the inn's toilet. His name is ??? and i think you just have to find him some paper but it is still awsome
digg this though, I WAS SHOCKED by HL2 E2 ending. somehow that went by unspoiled
even going back as far as gamepro, they spoiled Aerith in their walkthrough. I'm still miffed about that