That is such a great fucking idea for a podcast theme. My hat's off to the clever little fellow who came up with that.

My question -- What Easter Egg are you most proud of finding all by yourself, or which one was the hardest to uncover?

how about we talk about the easter egg that brings Aerith back to life!!

Question: What's the coolest but (gameplay wise) most useless Easter Egg you've ever heard of/used?

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)

The GBA remake of the original Metroid, Metroid: Zero Mission had a bonus mission after the escape sequence where Samus' ship crashes and you have to get the suit back by being all stealthy. Then after beating that, you unlocked the original NES version. It was friggin' sweet.

What genre if games do feel have the most and/or best easter eggs? To me it seems RPGs fit the bill. Even Super Mario RPG had some great easter eggs with samus in the hotel room!

One of my favorite easter eggs was on Metal Gear Solid, when Psycho Mantis started to "read my mind". I was blown away when he said "Soooo, you like to play Castlevania?", that was a great touch from Kojima and co.

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.

Did you ever find an easter egg and felt it was unrewarding because of what you had to go through to get to it?

It seems cheatcodes used to unlock hidden content isn't being used as much these days. Or Easter eggs in general for that matter. Do you guys miss secret codes to unlock special game modes or characters, for example, the big head mode in Goldeneye? Or do you think it's best that developers are steering away from cheatcodes?

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.

Another question:

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?

Did any of you ever play Rebel Assault 2? The game was pretty bad, and filled with crappy real life actors, but it had so many fun easter eggs, like if you held down the W & B keys, you could watch a stormtrooper fall to his death Wile E. Coyote style.


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...

"TOASTY!!!!"

I like easter eggs that relate to the physical world. Like some janx on the disc or whatever.

Do you think any developers cry themselves to sleep when no one finds their easter eggs? Or do they just pet their cat and laugh ?

Which do you guys prefer: IRL Easter Eggs, or video game Easter Eggs?

I forget what it said, but there was that secret room in Link to the Past

I remember there being a big fuss over Cloud being in Final Fantasy Tactics. Was he actually hidden or was he something you came across eventually.

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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.

I hate this stretch of holidays. I have an inane fear of midgets so all the leperchauns that come up in St. Patrick's Day make it my own personal Halloween. And then for Easter, people always get me those chocolate bunnies and when I was younger, and even to this day, I refuse to eat chocolate bunnies because they're just so damn cute. So my parents would save them and we'd have friggin year old chocolate bunnies sitting on top of the fridge.

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?

Sorry for the sloppy post :.(

Mega Man X2 also had the Shoryuken hidden in a similar manner to the hadoken in X.

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.

Another another question:

Which was the hardest easter egg to get and was it worth it?

The Lunar: Silver Star Story springs were a pretty great fan service style easter egg. (if you found some soap and made it through a really tough area you could get a short cutscene of the girls in your party taking a bath. You could also find a guys spring if you're into that kind of thing, and it was waaaaayy easier to get to)

Question: If you were developing a game, any type of game, and could only put in one easter egg, what would you put in?

Guys do you think that easter eggs are still valid in modern games? The advent of the internet has raped all the surprise out of every game; atlas is fontaine anyone?

I think the Easter egg is alive and well MOO. and yes internet does have a habit of spoiling things for us gamers.

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