Why did so many devs back in the 90s/2000s like to put weird, creepy shit as easter eggs? Is there some kind of fun is scaring people whose reactions you'll never see?
Why did so many devs back in the 90s/2000s like to put weird, creepy shit as easter eggs...
Gabriel Green
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Easton Adams
It's the best kind of creepy that you can't get out of a horror game since you go in expecting it. Who expected the ghost of some bitch to be on a random mountain in GTA, a game where 10-year olds just go around killing each other all day?
Tyler Phillips
Curious is the trapmaker's art, his efficacy unwitnessed by his own eyes.
Ayden James
I mean, I could understand it now, with everyone and their grandma posting themselves playing video games to YouTube and Twitch, but I'm talking about back before all that took off. What kind of person sits there and thinks "I'm going to scare the shit out of these little kids who I'm literally never going to meet because it might be funny in my mind!"?
Zachary King
Henry Ross
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about! Who the hell would ever expect someone to find this?!
Dylan Edwards
I absolutely love stuff like this but I don't know where to find it
r/creepygaming was decent for the most part but being reddit that place was killed by normalfaggot retards who didn't understand that it was for creepy/unusual stuff in normal games instead of horror ones
>inb4 reddit
Dominic Jones
>Being redditor
>Inb4's his own post
Poor form.
Levi Perez
No one actually cares if you use Reddit, except for autistic people.
Ayden Miller
Capcom made this entire model that appears only once in the entire game with no eyes and a distorted voice
He's has higher hp than any other enemy and can one hit kill you
Wyatt Brown
Considering there were so many iterations of RE4 that they made 2 whole other games out of them I'm not surprised they had superfluous enemies.
Cooper Myers
Normalfag and a redditor.
Carter Flores
What did the Sims mean by this?
Oliver Bailey
How old are you? The smallest easter egg in games would become playground legends back in the day. Something spoopy the fat kid discovered in Hot New Game? That shit would get people talking.
Cooper Barnes
>.gif
>Opened it anyway
pleasant surprise. I've never seen this version before.
Angel Jones
From the developer's standpoint, what would they have to gain? Just a fantasy of some kid shitting his pants and then maybe telling his friends about it at school the next day?
Julian Campbell
Basically
Joshua Williams
Word of mouth advertising, but a lot of Easter eggs are the result of dev team boredom.
Landon Russell
Because that makes for the best kind of horror.
William Jenkins
Seems like no payoff for all that work, especially if they risk getting fired over it.
Liam Green
>From the developer's standpoint, what would they have to gain?
Improving the quality of their game and the enjoyment of their players?
Hunter Johnson
adding easter eggs barely takes any work, plus they would never get fired for it, which we know because that never happened.
Xavier Hughes
How old are you, user?
Christian Gonzalez
>Playing a nice, relaxing game only to get the shit scared out of you become some punk ass developer was bored
>Quality
Justin Williams
>last panel he gains a nose
jej
Charles Hall
Please go back and stay there
Eli Hill
Just knowing someone somewhere would find it was enough, devs enjoyed their jobs back then
Gavin Bell
>not putting your manifesto into the game's code
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Jason Green
It greatly improved my enjoyment of both A Hat in Time and SM64. Dynamic emotional content is not a bad thing. A game that shifts gears or occasionally subverts its tone is not a bad thing.
Camden Watson
Excuse me but what the fuck, where and why have i never seen him???
Mason Clark
Because they had fun and was not corporate whipping slaves.
Jaxon Bennett
Based D*n!
Kevin Miller
Good one mate
Jason King
That's just the American version. Compared to the Japanese version it just seems like some asshat at SEGA of America wanted to spook kids.
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John Sanders
Why are we so genetically hard-wired to be freaked out by eyeballs? I hate this.
Isaac Green
It's because it's almost human but at the same time it's not. Predator prey response I guess.
Bentley Watson
Fun. Not everyone is an autistic, mindless drone, there are people out there that just do things for the sake of it, because they enjoy em.
Kevin Martinez
seconding this
Kayden Brown
Creepy stuff is cool and honestly more non horror games should include it
Henry Perez
My gf name is Maria
Juan Morgan
what am i supposed to be looking at here
David Mitchell
>Spent hours searching through asscreed oddyssey for spooky shit.
>Nothing
>Spent hours searching through RDR2 for creepy shit.
>Nothing
I think games are too rushed for them to add any type of easter eggs anymore.
Only thing that pisses me off more is when a game has a huge ocean area and does nothing with it.
>Skyrim
>GTAV
Jason Baker
>Spent hours searching through RDR2 for creepy shit.
>Nothing
What about the vampire, the night folk, the serial killer, the cult, the cave with the statues or the ufo?
Jaxon Edwards
Not creepy.
Too silly.
Brandon Bennett
None of that you listed count.
I'm talking about real spooky things.
Owen Thomas
Oh, I see. Not true scotsman. Noted.
Lucas Price
I always forget I have 4chanX, so the GIF images are showing automatically...
Aiden Cruz
Nolan Ward
Is this genuine autism/aspergers?
Logan Morris
so here we are Yea Forums, I've warned you about this long ago
Robert Cruz
You're genuinely too old to be scared by a video game
Lucas Cox
>when a game has a huge ocean area and does nothing with it
This.
Ever since I saw some special about easter eggs on G4TV where they were discussing some hidden jpg behind some building in Psychonauts of some dev's wife, I was always waiting to find some sort of screamer/shock/spooky image left behind in an outer ocean boundary of a game. Finding out that pic related was fake broke my heart.
Samuel Morales
>he didn't play the nextgen version
Kevin Allen
>gif
>I opened it anyway
I'm getting careless
Hudson Sanchez
>Fallout 4 has gigantic swaths of water
>nothing hidden in it besides one area full of cat pictures with MEOW written on the ceiling
An unintentional bit that caught me off guard was one area in the vault where you take Cait to cure her drug addiction likes to screw up the rendering and flash weird things on the ground like parts of loading screens, objects, or characters. First time the entire floor flashed into a giant picture of Cait's head which was a 'what the fuck' moment.
Robert Johnson
did you cum
Benjamin Williams
Not him, but I did. Mostly only found/used a guide to find peyote.
Nathaniel Evans
Spotted the loner.
Blake Thomas
What did the Sims mean by this?
Lucas Diaz
you know how games sometimes allow you to clip through some part of the map if it bugs out and you fall to an infite empty space as you see the map get lost above you? I think that empty space could be used as the place of a really spooky easter egg, like imagine a huge scary face that covers most of that space and you fall directly into its mouth or some shit like that and that kind of easter egg is put in a child game like spyro lmao
Liam Hill
haha whoa fuck dude that's pretty spooky haha your like the joker or something haha totally crazy XD
Sebastian Wright
ikr, its because i live in a society
redditors rise XD
John Baker
>I was just pretending to be retarded!