To be fair, if I recall, the room didn't show up in the X-Ray vision so there was no indication to try anything on that specific wall and besides that, the wall required three uses of the batgel simultaneously to break which had not been a thing anywhere else in the game, usually one was enough. So the method required doing something seemingly random somewhere seemingly random. It doesn't surprise me people didn't find it fast enough.
A lot of people forget that Brutal Legend had probably the most misleading marketing of any major game up until that point. It was an era where you had to rely entirely on magazines and journalist websites to describe games to you, and whatever small trailers they decided to give these outlets. Up until release it was marketed as a Zelda knockoff with a metal skin, and indeed that's pretty much what the first hour is. About a third of the way through the game you find out it's more akin to Pikmin/RTS, which wasn't shown or talked about _at all_ leading up to its release.
I basically begged for the game as a kid and was so disappointed when the RTS started. I still played it and was even more upset that I never could finish the last battle. It was so hard from what I remember
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="383">6:23</a> Don't know if this was intentional or a well placed but there was a ad right after he said "This will happen"
@Captain Eggcellent For the Last of Us Easter egg, That's an upside down screen shot of a bullet ant affected with the cordycepts fungus in an episode of BBC's Planet Earth. It was the very inspiration of the infected in this game. RU-vid Channel: Playstation Video: Grounded: The Making of Last of Us Time Stamp: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="807">13:27</a> (mentions of inspiration from BBC Planet Earth) RU-vid Channel: BBC Earth Video: Attack of the Killer Fungi | Planet Earth | BBC Earth Time Stamp: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="23">0:23</a>-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="24">0:24</a> (screen shot in those frames that was used in the easter egg) I recalled Neil Druckmann mentioning this in the making of and i recognized that ant still as it seemed awfully familiar. lol I hope that brings this easter egg to total light. If already explained somewhere, whooops I didnt know.
@@Vub. lol thanks, I never watched Columbo but I have watched the first couple episodes of Mrs. Columbo out of curiousity of Kate Mulgrew from 1979. I mostly knew this actress from Star Trek Voyager from the 90s and her voice acting as Flameth in Dragon Age Origins, II, and Inquisition.
can you imagine how many of this easter egg's people found & thought it was nothing new & forgot about until years later on. until someone brought it up years later on
@@Not-TheOne It's an easter egg, on an easter egg focused channel, I think most people watching this video would find it relevant to the channel's content. Also I HATE the rhetoric that old = bad/non-relevant and it's an extremely immature mindset to have and guarantees you'll miss out on something you would've loved had you given it a chance.
I don’t think that’s true, I don’t recall seeing the picture anywhere else in the game. I discovered the dev picture myself when I was a kid. I believe the door on the rooftop slides open if you spend at least 2 minutes and ten seconds in the level. It might swing open when the timer hits 2:30 actually, I’m unsure.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="86">1:26</a> Why is the picture in the Reddit post different from the one you found? Did they include a different picture depending on what console you played it on or something?
I found the batman one naturally in my run, its one of those things i think about so often because i had no clue what i was seeing until the devs revealed it existed
I always love seeing you mentioned about the Last of Us easter eggs, because when I first saw the post by IGN (or from another source, probably a guy from Twitter, as they tends to take sources from social medias), I always felt weird how wild it feels when they told it, while us being confused because some of us had been seeing it in your channel like a year before they covered it
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="651">10:51</a> It's the _Cordyceps_ fungus. Quadriceps is a muscle-the big one on the front of your leg, opposite the hamstring. Jsyk 🙃 *Edit:* In the game, the infection is called "Cordyceps Brain Infection (CBI)" in a collectible medical pamphlet. So it is confirmed that the apocalypse is canonically caused by Cordyceps. The Last of Us pt. 1, "Museum" section of the third chapter, "The Outskirts." "The Cordyceps mushroom is a parasitic fungi that can take over a host's mind and alter its behavior. Until recently it has only affected insects and some arthropods. A new species has emerged with he ability to target human hosts." ~ Centers for Disease Control [In Universe] I haven't watched the HBO Max series yet personally, but I've also heard that they've expanded upon this explanation in the diegesis of the franchise. Anyways, it's obviously still not confirmed that *this* is the explanation for the ant TV easter egg. But it's worth mentioning that the Cordyceps connection is confirmed.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="152">2:32</a> this zombies easter egg was only found because a modder decompiled the game and found the steps to the easter egg there. then did it in game and found them. He is the same modder who found the very hard to do easter egg in BO4's werewolf map about vases. I don't remember this one all that much
There are some similar secrets that are easier to find, including one you have to find to finish the Riddler quest. It involves some writing on the floor (and I think on the walls) indicating Sharp's mental breakdown & secret motives, which get further elaborated on in the sequel. I think there might also be blueprints near a gas bomb on a wall in the room where you fight two titans. And if I remember right, the secret boat room in Akrham City is similar too.
I'm pretty sure it was discovered that you don't actually need to do any of those steps for the last of us easter egg. You just need to get far enough in the prologue then reload the save. That is assuming it is an easter egg in the first place, the game director indicated it was a default shader test that get triggered by a bug rather than being an intentionally place thing.
@@CaptainEggcellentI remember finding that dev picture when I was a kid. I believe you have to spend a little over 2 minutes in the level for that door to automatically open.
Did not know the Spider-man easter egg was that unknown. I've discovered it ages ago (like I was 12/3-ish? Am 33 now.) But I'm not one to make videos of anything or stuff like that either. Nor did I manage to figure out what triggered it, but I do feel it was time sensitive. Considering where it is at.
Same! I was around the same age and didn’t think much of it since the game had a million Easter eggs! Plus I had dialup so looking this up wasn’t in my mind.
I think part of it is just that a lot of Double Fine's games are really well made, but they're all a bit weird and as a result they don't get the recognition they deserve at the time. Some become cult classics though like Psychonauts and Brutal Legend because the people who played them know how good they were and talk about it.
For the Batman Easter egg, what I heard was the devs were shocked nobody found it, so they told people how to find it. Not sure if true, but that’s also why it was so soon
my favorite was the Naboo Starfighter cheat in Rogue Squadron that managed to elude everyone until after Ep 1 was released. Devs would've been in huge trouble otherwise
I remember I got my first job at 16 working at Arby's. I applied for the job solely to purchase my first ps3 and to get Arkham Asylum! And I got Platinum on that game! One of the few I've ever tried to get.
As far as I knew, I was the founder of that "easter egg" as I'm the one who found it 7 years later in 2020, which is what caused it to blow up. Kinda sad someone else actually discovered it atleast a year prior to me, but regardless, I'm the one that made it very widely know. That being said, though, I can confirm it wasn't an EE, it was actually a glitch. The NDA crew member who put it there was simply using it as a placeholder (as you mentioned) for the female broadcast lady. As for why those specific steps triggers the ant to take over the TV, I, nor the dev who put it there don't know
When i was 6. My unle and aunt came to visit from america, they brought us each a gameboy and a ps1 and a bag of video games and one of those games was spider-man. I remember coming across that picture of the dev team but was too young to understand what it was, i just thought it was creepy and forget it until today when youtube algorithm decided to explain to me what that picture was lmao
@@ilcattiveria6008 Oh, I was wondering why the concept was so familiar. I'm subscribed to both of them. I think I also read a Cracked article with the same topic though. It makes sense a lot of people who talk about stuff like this would eventually think to do this topic.
For the Brutal Legend one, this has to be related to a similar easter egg in Psychonaughts. Both are games by Double Fine. Random picture of a girl that Google says is the girlfriend of a developer that worked on the game, Fred Selker. Might still be more instances of this not found yet in some of their other games.
Funny thing about the last easter egg was that it was actually known about for a very long time. people had been able to see it by looking trough the wall. But it wasnt until very much later the actual trigger mechanism to acces the easter egg was found.
I remember finding the picture on Spiderman when I was a kid and literally thought nothing of it and never shared about it considering I was a child and didn't know about easter eggs and such.
I quickly wanna send out a little piece of dialogue I found on Titanfall 2, in the ‘into the abyss’ mission if you jump into the water at the start, right at the start, this dialogue will come up: BT: “Be careful, Pilot.” And you have the option of saying 2 things, one I forgot the other is “jump in, the water’s fine!”
The fact it took so long for the Black Ops II Thor Hammer discovery that it could be picked up makes me wonder if in a few years time it'll be re-discovered again when someone finds out that you can become 'Worthy'.
I remember watching your other video about the ant zombie on Joel Miller's TV -- Yeah, people aren't working with the source material, they fib for some "Stem" authorship of what they saw in your video, only to be the type of author that has another actual King Author.
Just to add to the Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville easter egg, the same dinosaur fossil can be found buried in the yard during the intro levels from Plants vs Zombies 2: It's about time.
Watching this again to offset the gamer*nx video, really appreciate all the work you put into your videos unlike some others... You're always fantastic to watch and incredibly entertaining!
I remember finding the dev team picture in spider-man when I was just 4. I’m 27 now. I didn’t know what I was doing back then and was confused to why I was looking at a photo of group of people in this random spot.
I'm curious did anybody else notice that the dev picture he references for the Spider-Man easter egg is not the same picture that he caught in gameplay????
I'm still impressed by the water simulation in wave race. Even today, water effects are usually an afterthought and don't even look this good. Idk, maybe it's just me.
They might've just programmed Homer to track the beat of the music currently playing so if something like lag or pausing too much caused the the music to desync with him him, he'd adjust, even if they expected it to always be the same music. Similarly, in Undertale & Undertale Yellow, if you do pretty specific things in situations where music is slowed down, you can hear music slowed down that normally wouldn't be playing at the time anyway. Like if you're doing a genocide run in Undertale Yellow & you leave Mo's room & come back, he won't be there because he already left but if you go back in, his theme will start playing again for some reason but it'll be slowed down. I always find that kind of thing neat though.
You don’t need to change the piano sound in pvz to get the Dino to appear, and the notes you play are the beginning of The Entertainer by Scott joplin. If you play it with normal piano you actually hear more of the song when the Dino appears. Such a specifically weird EE
I believe that exact same photo in Brutal Legend was used as an easter egg in the black velvetopia or Lungfisholpolis level of Psychonauts. Iirc it is also one you have to turn the camera around to see the woman. Both done by Double Fine so not a huge leap
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="485">8:05</a> maybe you gotta go through the level more and then maybe pick it up. I have a feeling there’s more to it. Cuz you can customize your inventory yk.
I saw the Last of Us one the day the game came out. Didn't know it was supposed to be an Easter egg. I don't remember going back to the main menu either. I just remember going into Joel's room and that was the image on the television. I don't remember seeing the live news feed either, so maybe it glitched?
I generally have easter eggs in my games and a lot of them haven't been found... There are ones in Jungle & Urban Strike that I don't think people have found, as well as in Strider 2014.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a> he may have discussed the location.. but the picture found is a different one.. surprised you didnt mention that
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="642">10:42</a> I didn't know it was an Easter egg but I didn't do all them steps. I went akf and when i came back that picture was on the TV.
The first time i played gears 3 me and a buddy did couch co-op and he spotted one of the coins. We figured it out and shot all the coins and did the easter egg. Im surprised so many people had no idea.
like, how do people even find these? do they just spend days/weeks of their lives roaming around aimlessly and trying everything until something just.. works? 😂😂
The die eisendrach Easter egg was only for his wife (for either her birthday or Valentine’s Day I think, I’m pretty sure Valentine’s Day) that’s why it’s so complicated and random, so no normal player would come across it
The hit and run one might be a glitch. I can totally see the developers making something to animate to a music track automatically rather than doing it manually
The ant image in the last of us has a mushroom coming out of its head…which is the final stage of that ants life with that fungus, it doesn’t need to be confirm or denied when it literally is what you said it was lol