Sunday, March 9, 2014

What Easter Eggs have YOU found?

When I started my Facebook site, I wanted to ask and see if my followers if they knew of any Easter Eggs…specifically ones that were not easy to find. I had an idea of what kinds of responses I'd get, but I got something entirely different.

The responses I got really got me thinking that there are a lot more Easter Eggs out there and that people have varying definitions of the term Easter Egg; it's not as simple a definition as it appears.

For Kyle Hoover, Easter Egg just meant something that was out of the ordinary; something that just doesn't fit with the rest of the world that didn't really reference anything.


In the game Call of Duty: Finest Hour (a war game), there appears to be a giant apple in the environment.

Strangely, you can clip (pass through) the apple only to reveal…a UFO?

For Roberto Reynoso, an Easter Egg is something that is already known, but no one has found it yet. In his words:

"Well right now, no one knows where it is. The jet pack's legend started in GTA San Andreas. The jet pack was very easily accessible through a cheat code. In GTA V, we all know that the jet pack is in the game, yet no one has found it despite the many connections to the history of the jet pack being in the game and even real world connections to a jet pack. One of the most popular being 2001: A Space Oddity. There is a shed in Trevor's air field with the name of the company that built the shed (Jack sheep servicing) and even referencing a 90's porn star actor's name of the Hanger (Jake steed as Jack Sheepe). On the bottom of the shed is a letter number combination. (R-108 being the run time of the movie.) Despite a whole community of people looking for the jet pack around the clock, the community has not made much progress as a whole. Rockstar has even come out to say that there are eater eggs hidden in the game we will never be able to find."

Rafael Lopez has a different take on the Easter Egg:

"There is a world that just released for The Sims 3 called Roaring Heights. In the world there is a Town Hall structure and there is a really big easter egg on it, it's not really hidden but it's something that not a lot of people see because it blends in with the buildings deco. The easter egg is basically a big plaque/ sign showing off the new deigns, and art style for the new and upcoming Sims 4, hence this is the last world that will be released for TS3."

This appears to be a foreshadowing of Sims 4. 
In conclusion, Easter Eggs are what we believe them to be. The definitions may be slightly different from person to person, but everybody can agree it's something special that creators put in there for our enjoyment.

So until next time, happy hunting everyone!

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