25 Secret References In Video Games

Assassin's Creed 2 is arguably one of the most loved games ever made but it turns out the devs might be even bigger fans of Super Mario Bros but Ezio makes his escape from Florence he seeks the help of his uncle and the introduction does not disappoint don't you recognize me it's a me Mario when it comes to Hitman 3 the story can sometimes be dramatic and that's why fans were never expecting this Easter egg if you collect the bird eggs went to the Biker's Hideout and then threw them into a frying pan the bike will become an Escape Route I know it seems random but this is a reference to the famous bike scene from E.T and one of the craziest misdirections I've ever seen is in Goat Simulator 3. around the map you can find a tape for a movie named where the heck is Steve it's obviously a not defining Nemo which makes you want to watch it even more pop it in and things take a brutal turn meet Steve a playful little fish on his way of becoming sushi thank you the last place you'd expect to find references is in the Talos principle but it's actually hiding quite a few of them and my favorite has to be when you jump down this Cliff Walk Through The Hidden cave and as you turn the corner you'll find Han Solo frozen in carbonite single player games always have the best secrets and Kingdom Come Deliverance hithers in ridiculous places as you explore the map you might stumble across an unmarked grave most of us would just walk past it but if you're curious enough to hit it with your shovel and start digging up a body pretty underwhelming it's just he's holding a broom is a red cape but that could mean anything until you look at his hand revealing the golden snitch from Harry Potter yeah this is a quidditch player who had a really bad day then we have Siri Sam which is the first place you would expect to find some secrets so playing Siberian Mayhem most people would see an outhouse and a swap and immediately think yeah that's totally a Shrek reference but if you wanted actual confirmation just look at the back where it says I mean you get it over in Payday 2 they love messing around with hidden items like the parody of ash from Pokemon but something just as ridiculous as the psycho knife which is made by Norman B and Chucky any horror fan will know these guys Norman Bates is from psycho and Chucky is he's Chucky but if that wasn't already obvious just use the knife [Music] something even more obvious is in Goat Simulator 3. once you leave the map in the payday DLC you'll find an entire biome inhabited by rocket League cars yeah you can join in and basically play an entire match with the other drivers the more recently fortnite added Nemo called toasted coconut you basically crack it open put a straw in there and toast at the camera if this was any other game no one would look twice but it's fortnite so obviously there's some kind of reference here compared to the toe scene from Great Gatsby and it is an exact replica they even added fireworks in the background of one of the trailers something more on the nose is a man-eater basically this game lets you play as a shark and you just gotta go around eating people pretty fun but you're so distracted by your Killing Spree that it's easy to miss a secret on the ocean floor dive all the way down and you could find SpongeBob's house but there is an unbelievably small Easter egg and Dying Light most of the secrets in this game are pretty obvious so I'm shocked that people found this one in the pit Mission you'll explore huge headquarters but on one of the desks there's a pencil covered in blood feels like a random detail and it's so easy to walk past it but this is a reference to The Dark Knight where Joker makes his pencil disappear I'm gonna make this pen back in cyberpunk one of their most obvious tributes is in the night cities PD laboratory right there on the Shelf is a BB unit from Death stranding this ain't even a parody that's just there this would appear references video if we didn't talk about Just Cause 3 because there's more Easter eggs in this game than actual content one of the most underrated is when you visit Reno on top of this building two NPCs are looking over the balcony one of them wearing this dress and the other with a black and blue one if you get it you get it but this is actually an homage to the dress that broke the internet a few years back with everybody seeing like two different colors from the most famous dress in the world to the most iconic movie scene in history if you explore the Misty swamps of Fallout 4 you'll eventually find two skeletons on a wooden door yeah of course this is the ending of Titanic where Rose and Jack are stranded in the ocean you're probably surprised I haven't talked about GTA 5 yet a don't worry I'll get into it yeah this whole game is made of references to pop culture but one of my favorites is at the bottom of the ocean once you scuba dive all the way down here you'll find the hatch from Lost that most people assume it ends here but that is a total misdirection if you listen closely someone is banging on the window from inside now some players wondered if this is Morse code and translated it only for the knocking to say hey you never call how'd you fancy going bowling now of course if you play GTA 4 it's a nod to Roman Bellic and how he'd always ask you to go bowling no matter what the code to skip the phone calls and I guess being 100 feet underwater it still doesn't protect you let's talk about Spider-Man PS4 because if there's one game that delivers on fan service it is this one but there is one Easter egg that nobody talks about if you go to the Trinity Church and look at the clock tower the hands are stuck at 1 21 PM this is a subtle nod to Gwen Stacy's death scene from The Amazing Spider-Man where she falls off a tower in the film and the clock also gets Frozen at 1 21 pm and in the comics Gwen dies in issue 121 so it's all connected and while that was insanely easy to miss Borderlands 2 doesn't care about being subtle on your way to the highlands you can find a double rainbow projected in the distance pretty cool I guess but Handsome Jack is super excited the way yeah it's a perfect tribute to the Double Rainbow video from 13 years ago double rainbow oh my God it's a double rainbow all the way something a little more modern is in World War Z horde mode in the New York level you can stumble across a shipping container with a radioactive vault door a dead guy in a blue jumpsuit and bottles of soda lying around of course the referencing Fallout which is known for its vaults jumpsuits and nuka-cola moving on to Elven ring this doesn't have a ton of Easter eggs but when you find them they're amazing if you manage to kill blive you learn his armor set and a royal Greatsword but before you equipped his chest armor read the description which says blive with the blade of Ronnie but the cold bothered him anyway so yeah it looks like one of the developers is a big fan of Frozen not exactly subtle but this NPC from cyberpunk 2077 went over everyone's head during the Big in Japan Mission there's a surgeon who says one day tiger kropos needs surgery but both die on table but there is sacred I killed tiger kropos on purpose and this guy is way too familiar it's a reference to Hyatt from the office a surgeon who killed the Yakuza boss and fled to America my big secret another game that references iconic franchises is Assassin's Creed Odyssey if you head to this small island you'll realize no one's here but as you walk to the edge of the cliff there's a circle of rocks on the ground in the middle one of them has a leaf face and two arms yup it's a Cora from Zelda then the rock circles a nice touch but you gotta appreciate the subtle movie reference in crisis Warhead as you walk through a frozen tunnel there's a way to Circle back and climb the upper levels and here you'll spot a squirrel in the ice with an acorn many of you grew up watching Ice Age this will be pretty familiar it's a tribute to scrap from the movies but was Infamous for collecting acorns and putting his life in danger with every single attempt unfortunate news looks like it ran out of luck this time now look I gotta bring up cyberpunk again because they are killing it with the Easter eggs and the desert outside of night City there's a random underground bunker that you can walk straight into good amount of in here but if you look at the bodies on the ground they've died in a pretty strange way once you watch tank Cloverfield Lane and see what happens to Howard it all makes sense now a game you likely haven't heard of is pseudocats it's an indie game where you play Sudoku with a bunch of cats I mean you probably could have guessed that from the name but it takes place on apartment buildings in a city and guess what there is a chance you can look at one of those windows and spot a familiar face and her full Glory it's the Lo-Fi girl studying for a test clearly Indie Games have some underrated Easter eggs like Five Nights at Freddy's obviously it's mainstream now but at the beginning this was just a horror parody of Chuck E cheese so to pay homage the franchise's origins and diss the restaurant at the same time security breach has an amazing reference you can find a customer complaint that says the pizza we ordered was weird some pieces were different sizes or didn't fit together did you recycle the old pizza from the trash weird comment to make but it's based on real conspiracy theories about Chuck E cheese they claim to put their slices together and they didn't line up causing the old recycled Pizza Theory to be born now we have a FNAF movie coming now this game has come a long way so to pay tribute to the community that made it successful look in the background of the trailer you could just make out FNAF YouTubers on the employee of the month board including Taco 8-bit Ryan fusionzygamer and more but of course most of the spotlight was taken by Corey Kenshin who has an entire cameo role as a cab driver why do I always get the weirdos you want to be Employee of the Month play for Sarah clean up detail because he spent hours being the best janitor in the world in the robot Factory level you walk into the bathroom to clean it and could dig out a case from the toilet inside is a red pill and a blue pill yup it's the infamous Choice from The Matrix and it looks like someone at the robot Factory chose to flush it instead those are 25 secret references in video games it's been Tommy and keep it here on t5g

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Length: 9min 17sec (557 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 15 2023