Random gaming trivia and shit

Forgive me if it seems I'm obsessing over Zone of the Enders a bit. It's such an awesome series. X3

-Yoji Shinkawa, mecha designer for the Metal Gear and ZoE series, was a big fan of the Gradius series. When working on ZoE2, he decided to add the Gradius series' flagship, the Vic Viper, as a mech in the game. Its design was based on how he imagined the two protruding segments of the ship could be legs on a transforming mecha.
 
Can't believe I forgot this one as it combines two of my favorite things, 90's gaming and Formula 1.

In 1993 Sega sponsored the Williams F1 team and was incorporated into the cars livery with a cut away effect to make it look like the drivers legs going to the pedals were actually Sonic's.
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The teams two drivers, Alain Prost and Damon Hill featured Sonic on their helmets as well (Prost would go on to win his fourth world title that year)

Sega would also sponsor that season's European Grand Prix at Donnington, England with their Logo plastered absolutely everywhere.
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The late, great Ayrton Senna won the race in his Mclaren car and received a Sonic trophy.
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However, that year a sponsorship deal between Sega and Mclaren would fall through. After that, every time Mclaren won a race over Williams they would add a flattened hedgehog sticker to their cars.
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Blue disks have been found for the N64 DD labeled M3. There are four in all, and about 2 didn't work. However, the other 2 contain Mario Artist and SimCity 64 DD. When looking at the data inside, Starmen.net found some extra code that wasn't in the original games themselves. This lead them to believe that these disks contained bits and piece of data from MOTHER 3 DD, and were meant to test out compatibility between it and other N64 DD games that would allow for character customization. It was theorized that the other 2 disks contained the rest of MOTHER 3 DD. However, they just turned out to be development disks for Doshin the Giant and something else and everyone on Starmen.net put on sackcloth and ashes and mourned.
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-Before the Saturn was put down, Sega was working on an updated version with netlink support, codenamed "Pluto". Only two prototypes were ever produced: one is in the hands of a former Sega employee, and the other has popped up on an auction site, selling for over $7000.
 
--In the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, there's a special weapon at the top of the Throat of the World called the Notched Pickaxe. This is an homage to Minecraft and its creator, Notch.

--In the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there's a bridge in the middle of Cyrodill that has a dead troll floating in the water under it. If you search the troll's body, you'll find a note that reads something along the lines of "I bad troll. Nobody pay bridj toll. This only way." Yes, you've found a troll who committed suicide.

--Also in Oblivion, there's a Thief's Guild quest that sends you into the Imperial Library to steal an Elder Scroll. You'll find a special item called "The Boots of Spring-Heeled Jack" along the way, and these boots are supposed to keep you alive by breaking your fall on the way out of the tower. Doing so will damage the boots and remove them from your inventory. However, if your Health, Strength, and Acrobatics stats are high enough, you can unequip the boots, just take the fall damage, and keep the boots. This basically allows you to jump twice as high as normal.

--In Saint's Row 2, you'll find blow up dolls scattered about the city. In fact, the game keeps track of how many you find. :julay:

--Also in Saint's Row 2, you'll be able to equip defibilator paddles as a weapon after you complete all the ambulance diversions.
 
Wasn't the blow-up dolls only in SR3? It's been a while since I played SR2...

-The Caustic Caverns in Borderlands have a rare enemy named a "Creeper", which looks and behaves exactly like Creepers from Minecraft. Creepers have a chance of dropping a Minecraft-themed head part for characters, as well as a shotgun named "Blockhead".
 
Ryan Rash said:
Wasn't the blow-up dolls only in SR3? It's been a while since I played SR2...
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In SR3, you collect blow up dolls. In 2, you can use them as weapons.

In 2, as well as with the defibrillator paddles, you can get a giant foam middle finger called the pimp slap, which sends people flying through the air. It also kills bosses in one hit. Arguably the best weapon in existence.

Again in 2, if you take a boat or helicopter out to the water, you can find hidden islands, each one with their own names and features. You can also find a giant purple inflatable rabbit out there.
 
...which you find in SR3 tied on a boat
 
Ryan Rash said:
Wasn't the blow-up dolls only in SR3? It's been a while since I played SR2...

-The Caustic Caverns in Borderlands have a rare enemy named a "Creeper", which looks and behaves exactly like Creepers from Minecraft. Creepers have a chance of dropping a Minecraft-themed head part for characters, as well as a shotgun named "Blockhead".
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There's an island out in the lake in the same area. You need a lot of health to reach it because the lakes caustic, but if you manage it there's a bonfire with a sword in it and ghostly npc's periodically appear beside it and an npc called Solitaire who just chuckles if you speak to him. A cracking shout-out to Dark souls!
 
Here is some gaming trivia to share:
-According to interviews with Ken Sugimori, Rhydon was the first Pokemon created.
-When Koudelka, a ps1 RPG game, was in development, the designer, Hiroki Kikuta, wanted battles to be action-based. The employees, however, wanted to make it closer to what Square has been making.
 
Halo was originally developed as an RTS and then later a 3rd person shooter, it was going to have a more "guerrilla warfare" style of play.

The "Sonic World" hub world in the Sega Saturn compilation Sonic Jam is actually a very early 3D test engine for Sonic Adventure, which originally started development on the Saturn.
 
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Here's where I show my butt as a Transformer nerd:

--in the video game "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron," there's a part where Optimus Prime awakens a giant city Transformer named Metroplex. This is a re-imagined version of the original Metroplex toy from 1986. Hasbro, the company that makes Transformer toys, is now making a toy based on Metroplex's appearance in "Fall of Cybertron." At over two feet tall, it will be the biggest Transformer toy ever produced.

--many of the lines of dialogue from the games "War for Cybertron" and "Fall of Cybertron" are re-recorded from the 1986 animated movie, "Transformers: The Movie." These include lines like "one shall stand, one shall fall," and "coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy."

--there is a part in "Fall of Cybertron" where Starscream takes command of the Decepticons and imprisons the Combaticons, calling them "criminals." This is an homage to the original Transformers episode "Starscream's Brigade," in which Starscream creates the Combaticons by liberating their brains from a detention facility.


And now for some Marvel comics stuff!

--There is an achievement/trophy in "Deadpool" for slapping Wolverine's unconscious body numerous times.

--The developer who ultimately made the Saint's Row series originally made the 2004 game, "The Punisher." Many aspects of Saint's Row can actually be seen in The Punisher, including using human shields, kicking open doors, shoving shields through doors and executing shields.

--2012's "Amazing Spider-Man" includes homages to many of Spidey's villains. This includes appearances by the Rhino, Black Cat, Scorpion, and Vermin, as well as hints of Kraven, Hydro Man, Sand Man and Vulture being in the city.
 
Speaking of Spider-man, Bruce Campbell was the narrator in the three games based off of the Tobey Maguire movies, and plays the Extreme Reporter in the game based off of the Andrew Garfield movie.
 
Sonic was originally supposed to have a bodacious human sweetheart. This idea was likely ditched because bestiality is weird. However, Sonic did end up kissing a human girl 15 years later in the critically acclaimed Sonic '06.
 
The Amazon character from the soon to be released Vanillaware title Dragon's Crown is actually a walking homage to Tyris Flare from the famous 90s side scrolling beat 'em up Golden Axe.
 

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FUCK YEAH, GOLDEN AXE! :D

-Kikuko Inoue is best known for playing the roles of demure young women, with two exceptions in regards to games: I-No, the bitchy guitar-weilding witch from Guilty Gear, and The Boss, a battle-hardened female soldier from Metal Gear Solid 3.

-The first Elder Scrolls game, Arena, was meant to be a gladiatorial fighting game, hence the subtitle that seems kinda odd now. Since the packaging for the game with the subtitle of "Arena" was finished before the game changed to an open-world RPG, the subtitle was reworked into the game's lore as being a nickname for the violent, war-torn realm the game takes place in.

-Believe it or not, Bungie made games aside from Marathon and Halo. One such game was Oni, a third-person shooter/brawler inspired by Ghost in the Shell. The game's protagonist, Konoko, was inspired by GotS's Motoko Kusanagi and voiced by Amanda Winn-Lee (aka: Rei from Evangelion).

-Going from his performance as American otaku Travis Touchdown, one would never guess Robin Atkin Downes is British. :3
 
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Shigesato Itoi, the creator of Earthbound, was something of a Renaissance Man: he started off making catchphrases and marketing slogans for a living, during which time he was commissioned to help in marketting the Studio Ghibli film Kiki's Delivery Service, then providing the voice acting for Mei and Satsuki's father in My Neighbor Tottoro. He has also written a handful of books and maintains a blog that prides itself on semi-regular updates (yet has been updated everyday since its launch in 1998 without fail), and dabbled in making music. When he worked on the Earthbound series, he founded his own development company, APE.
 
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Don't know where to put this, but my brother just realized that Mr. Gency in Disgaea is a pun. Like, just today. He's been playing the games for six years.

I got that two weeks into playing it.
 
On the day Grand Theft Auto V released, Deep Silver released downloadable content for Saint's Row IV entitled "GAT V," which allows the player to customize their appearance to that of Johnny Gat or his girlfriend.

Speaking of the Saint's Row/GTA rivalry, THQ released a commercial for Saint's Row 2 in 2008 that spent almost as much time criticizing GTA IV as it did promoting SR2.
 
Remember the controversy that was aroused because of the fact that there was code in Oblivion that would allow PC Gamers and uber 1337 HexBawks gamers to have topless female characters?
The original Elder Scrolls game, Arena featured full frontal nudity for both male AND female player characters. There were also caves that had witch covens in them featuring hot, sexy sprites of completely nude witches in rather seductive poses.
Oh yeah, and those books about the Dunmer queen? The ones that have the sexytime censored due to draconian Morrowind governments? In Arena and Daggerfall, it reads like an erotic fanfiction.

Ultima 7 was heavily censored for its Super Nintendo release. The beginning scene where the one blacksmith is completely eviscerated is very toned down, and you aren't investigating murders, you're investigating disappearances.

When the original Crysis first came out, no computer could run it at the highest settings.

In a Duke Nukem 3D expansion pack, you can find a nearly dead green clad space marine surrounded by Satanic imagery that looks exactly like Doomguy. When Duke sees him, he states, "That's one Doomed Space Marine."
In Blood, a game made for the Build AKA Duke3D engine, you can find a hanging, mutilated corpse of Duke Nukem in a saloon. If you interact with it, Caleb says, "I got time to play with you" and, "Ooh, shake it baby."
Also, in Duke Nukem Forever, when you get the chaingun cannon, a soldier offers you power armor that looks exactly like the chestpiece and helmet of a certain Master Chief. Duke will refuse, saying, "Power armor is for pussies." I'm inclined to agree.

In Half Life: Opposing Force, a security guard will say, "Have you seen the new IG-88?" Apparently Black Mesa was developing assassin droids for the Empire.

If you type "ERVOS" which is SERVO backwards. at certain times in the PC version of Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire, it activates Mystery Science Theater 3000 mode. Darth Vader, R2D2 and C3P0 will start riffing on the super cheesy FMV cutscenes in the game. Tom Servo is the red gumball machine robot from MST3K.
 
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