In Eastvale Lumber Camp there is a Lumberjack named Terry Palin. From Monty Python Micheal Palin's Lumberjack song. and of course 2 of the cast members of Monty Python Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
----------------------------------- "I think we should split up" "Good Idea" "Yea we can do more damage that way"
There is also the bartender in the "other" stormwind inn where the cooking trainer is (old town) that you can /dance and /wave to and she will dance with you and wave back.
Joke references to modern pop culture have never had any place in medieval fantasy MMO's and have always been a major hit upon immersion. So Blizzard does itself no favors by inserting some of this crap.
What they could have done is inserted hidden dungeons, rooms, and caves that people would really have to look for or stumble upon. Such stuff adds much mystique and wonder to a fantasy world.
Once again, it is apparent that 1) Polish, 2) Accessibility, and 3) Simplicity and keystones to a "popular" MMO, and this is ALL Blizzard has really accomplished with WOW.
Really dude? your gonna try and pull that BS. Blizzard has been blending modern pop culture with their games since before the original Warcraft on the Mac. One of the funnest things about the Original warcraft RTS was the funny quotes you got the units to say with repeated clicking. they were never trying to go for your traditional fantasy MMO (not to mention its FANTASY! it was made up in the first place, its not and never was reality but a world created by the artist's mind).
And for "ALL" they accomplished with wow, wake up and spell the coffee, and the other countless MMO's trying to knock of WoW becuase it was successful, not only becuase they were accessible (but apparently a game has to catered so much to one specific type of gamer to be good in your eyes) but because they made it fun, polished and introduced game mechanics that you now see in every new MMO being made. If you want hidden rooms and dungeons, there is always PnP D&D for that.
I think some people are just jealous that a game they personally don't like is successful but one that they fancy failed because they didn't see the reality of real world factor when making a game, if you cant sell it to enough people you cant keep it around for long.
Joke references to modern pop culture have never had any place in medieval fantasy MMO's and have always been a major hit upon immersion. So Blizzard does itself no favors by inserting some of this crap.
What they could have done is inserted hidden dungeons, rooms, and caves that people would really have to look for or stumble upon. Such stuff adds much mystique and wonder to a fantasy world.
Once again, it is apparent that 1) Polish, 2) Accessibility, and 3) Simplicity and keystones to a "popular" MMO, and this is ALL Blizzard has really accomplished with WOW.
Really dude? your gonna try and pull that BS. Blizzard has been blending modern pop culture with their games since before the original Warcraft on the Mac. One of the funnest things about the Original warcraft RTS was the funny quotes you got the units to say with repeated clicking. they were never trying to go for your traditional fantasy MMO (not to mention its FANTASY! it was made up in the first place, its not and never was reality but a world created by the artist's mind).
And for "ALL" they accomplished with wow, wake up and spell the coffee, and the other countless MMO's trying to knock of WoW becuase it was successful, not only becuase they were accessible (but apparently a game has to catered so much to one specific type of gamer to be good in your eyes) but because they made it fun, polished and introduced game mechanics that you now see in every new MMO being made. If you want hidden rooms and dungeons, there is always PnP D&D for that.
I think some people are just jealous that a game they personally don't like is successful but one that they fancy failed because they didn't see the reality of real world factor when making a game, if you cant sell it to enough people you cant keep it around for long.
Joke references to modern pop culture have never had any place in medieval fantasy MMO's and have always been a major hit upon immersion. So Blizzard does itself no favors by inserting some of this crap.
What they could have done is inserted hidden dungeons, rooms, and caves that people would really have to look for or stumble upon. Such stuff adds much mystique and wonder to a fantasy world.
Once again, it is apparent that 1) Polish, 2) Accessibility, and 3) Simplicity and keystones to a "popular" MMO, and this is ALL Blizzard has really accomplished with WOW.
Awesome so where's the game successful game to your credit? You don't have to bee a chef to judge a meal. I mean you tell us that joke references to modern pop culture have no place in medieval fantasy so I assume you have made something successful for us to take your word for that. Not sure how those two concepts are linked, but I can tell you that Paris Hilton references and Medieval Fantasy are NOT linked. Let me explain something to you as an artist myself, very little we create isn't inspired by something in someway whether the connection is obvious or not. No kidding, but doesn't have to be self-consicously so. After reading this thread I noticed a great many things I never made a connection to what inspired it even though I had played the content and experienced the source material many times over, the truth is it is simply a way that Blizzard uses to add depth (depth? Blizzard?) to the game and if you play any other game you should be envious of WOw players because there devs care enough to develop such a rich encompassing world as this. The day I become "envious of WOW players" is the day I need to look for a tall bridge to jump off of.
WoW's kewl so you can go back to your sandbox 'thing' you play and let us have fun with our cultural references :P And, yeah WoW's world has got more depth than most of those indie, original failures that have come out as well as other fantasy MMOs. It's about how you build your world in the game and not some story you've got around your IP but you never did properly in your game.
And one more thing, (I love to gloat :P) our kewl MMO will live on long and happily while your MMO will most likely go F2P (if it hasn't alredy ^_^)
Joke references to modern pop culture have never had any place in medieval fantasy MMO's and have always been a major hit upon immersion. So Blizzard does itself no favors by inserting some of this crap.
What they could have done is inserted hidden dungeons, rooms, and caves that people would really have to look for or stumble upon. Such stuff adds much mystique and wonder to a fantasy world.
Once again, it is apparent that 1) Polish, 2) Accessibility, and 3) Simplicity and keystones to a "popular" MMO, and this is ALL Blizzard has really accomplished with WOW.
Awesome so where's the game successful game to your credit? You don't have to bee a chef to judge a meal. I mean you tell us that joke references to modern pop culture have no place in medieval fantasy so I assume you have made something successful for us to take your word for that. Not sure how those two concepts are linked, but I can tell you that Paris Hilton references and Medieval Fantasy are NOT linked. Let me explain something to you as an artist myself, very little we create isn't inspired by something in someway whether the connection is obvious or not. No kidding, but doesn't have to be self-consicously so. After reading this thread I noticed a great many things I never made a connection to what inspired it even though I had played the content and experienced the source material many times over, the truth is it is simply a way that Blizzard uses to add depth (depth? Blizzard?) to the game and if you play any other game you should be envious of WOw players because there devs care enough to develop such a rich encompassing world as this. The day I become "envious of WOW players" is the day I need to look for a tall bridge to jump off of.
WoW's kewl so you can go back to your sandbox 'thing' you play and let us have fun with our cultural references :P And, yeah WoW's world has got more depth than most of those indie, original failures that have come out as well as other fantasy MMOs. It's about how you build your world in the game and not some story you've got around your IP but you never did properly in your game.
And one more thing, (I love to gloat :P) our kewl MMO will live on long and happily while your MMO will most likely go F2P (if it hasn't alredy ^_^)
@ ReallyNow10.... dude...if you don't like the game don't post here.
Hands down, the Six Demon Bag. Terrific. Sensational. What's in it, Egg? I love references in games. It shows respect and a polite nod to things the developers found inspirational or great to poke fun at or remember. That was one of the things I loved most about the original Fallout games...
What about the ghosts of Lorderon? Thats a real easter egg. A throw back from the days when the city was assaulted and the alliance but up their best defense. In the end of course the city fell. If you have a warlock cast see invisible you can see the ghosts flying around the courtyard just outside the throneroom to Undercity. I loved waiting for people to walk by then cast the spell on them and watch them stop and look around in amazement.
Of course if you sit still near the blood stain on the floor where the crown hit the floor and rolled (its near the throne to the entrance to Undercity) you can hear the ghosts of that cutscene replay (audio only) the scene that happened there. Its really wispy and creepy. One of the few places in WoW that can kinda creep you out once you realize it's there and hear it (it's kinda faint and hard to hear).
This one is super obscure......WoW's original content developer was Tigole, a member of Legacy of Steel...a content first clearing guild from way back in the old days of EQ on the Nameless server.
Everyone who played EQ remembers the commonlands tunnel spam. Well on Nameless there was one guy who RAN the market, he bought and sold everything. His toons name was Beardo.
The AH guy in Gadetzan is named Beardo. Little shout out to Tigole's old EQ community, or random coincidence????
I'll one up ya with one no one has mentioned and also from old school EQ. In Searing Gorge there is a NPC named Kalaran Windblade, which as the orginal character of Furor, the leader of FOH on Veeshan before he got that account banned and started over with Furor. If anyone remembers old school EQ then you know of FOH which had more first then any other guild in the game including the very first ever kill of a dragon (Lady Vox) that Aradune himself helped with.
I think my favorite is probably one of the more subtle in the game. In Undercity by the banks is an NPC named Seeker Thompson. I'd like to believe this is a nod to the "good doctor", Hunter Thompson, creator of Gonzo Journalism.
"Lord Darion don't ya call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the Thorium Store."
Not so much an egg but in the Inscription training area of Dalaran there are two NPCs standing there right next to each other with the last names of Pallin and Drome.
Dran Droffers Salvage Co, with the father orc always yelling "You dummy!" to the son orc is actually a reference to the old 70's sitcom "Sanford and Son" with Redd Foxx.
My other favorite that I found was the crashsite at the top of one of the snow capped mountains in Grizzly Hills refers to the crash of Flight 571 that the movie ALIVE was based on.
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Also in the Un’Goro Crater are the Mario Brothers which in WoW they are always fighting each other, it's so funny.
Don't forget this Final Fantasy 7 reference!!
http://www.wowwiki.com/Aerith_Primrose
In Eastvale Lumber Camp there is a Lumberjack named Terry Palin. From Monty Python Micheal Palin's Lumberjack song. and of course 2 of the cast members of Monty Python Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
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"I think we should split up"
"Good Idea"
"Yea we can do more damage that way"
There is also the bartender in the "other" stormwind inn where the cooking trainer is (old town) that you can /dance and /wave to and she will dance with you and wave back.
Really dude? your gonna try and pull that BS. Blizzard has been blending modern pop culture with their games since before the original Warcraft on the Mac. One of the funnest things about the Original warcraft RTS was the funny quotes you got the units to say with repeated clicking. they were never trying to go for your traditional fantasy MMO (not to mention its FANTASY! it was made up in the first place, its not and never was reality but a world created by the artist's mind).
And for "ALL" they accomplished with wow, wake up and spell the coffee, and the other countless MMO's trying to knock of WoW becuase it was successful, not only becuase they were accessible (but apparently a game has to catered so much to one specific type of gamer to be good in your eyes) but because they made it fun, polished and introduced game mechanics that you now see in every new MMO being made. If you want hidden rooms and dungeons, there is always PnP D&D for that.
I think some people are just jealous that a game they personally don't like is successful but one that they fancy failed because they didn't see the reality of real world factor when making a game, if you cant sell it to enough people you cant keep it around for long.
P.S no way to delete your own posts?
WoW's kewl so you can go back to your sandbox 'thing' you play and let us have fun with our cultural references :P And, yeah WoW's world has got more depth than most of those indie, original failures that have come out as well as other fantasy MMOs. It's about how you build your world in the game and not some story you've got around your IP but you never did properly in your game.
And one more thing, (I love to gloat :P) our kewl MMO will live on long and happily while your MMO will most likely go F2P (if it hasn't alredy ^_^)
the ( Six demon Bag ) refering to Big trouble in little China... Wind, Fire, Earth and all that kind of ---- stuff!
searching for the next DAoC....
Kay-exile
And yes I killed them after taking this screen and I gorged on their fleash..
This is an easter egg, the method to a prairie chicken pet. The rest are not easter eggs. The author of this article should be ashamed.
"Vanilla EQ" was anything before Ruins of Kunark. There was no Luclin.
As a Brazilian, you'd call that, "Christo Redentor", not "jesus statue".
@ ReallyNow10.... dude...if you don't like the game don't post here.
Your just being a douche.
What about the ghosts of Lorderon? Thats a real easter egg. A throw back from the days when the city was assaulted and the alliance but up their best defense. In the end of course the city fell. If you have a warlock cast see invisible you can see the ghosts flying around the courtyard just outside the throneroom to Undercity. I loved waiting for people to walk by then cast the spell on them and watch them stop and look around in amazement.
Of course if you sit still near the blood stain on the floor where the crown hit the floor and rolled (its near the throne to the entrance to Undercity) you can hear the ghosts of that cutscene replay (audio only) the scene that happened there. Its really wispy and creepy. One of the few places in WoW that can kinda creep you out once you realize it's there and hear it (it's kinda faint and hard to hear).
I'll one up ya with one no one has mentioned and also from old school EQ. In Searing Gorge there is a NPC named Kalaran Windblade, which as the orginal character of Furor, the leader of FOH on Veeshan before he got that account banned and started over with Furor. If anyone remembers old school EQ then you know of FOH which had more first then any other guild in the game including the very first ever kill of a dragon (Lady Vox) that Aradune himself helped with.
Forgot to mention that Furor(Kalaran) also went to work for Blizzard to work on raid and end game content.
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What about the Tenacious Defender?
It has the power to move you...
Do you know for certain?
I enjoyed toing the Kessel run in under 15 minutes
Also the tunnel to the tram looks like the tunnel from the Six Million Dollar Man (If anyone remembers that show)
I think my favorite is probably one of the more subtle in the game. In Undercity by the banks is an NPC named Seeker Thompson. I'd like to believe this is a nod to the "good doctor", Hunter Thompson, creator of Gonzo Journalism.
"Lord Darion don't ya call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the Thorium Store."
I liked this article, 2 years ago when X-play did it on G-4 TV.
Not so much an egg but in the Inscription training area of Dalaran there are two NPCs standing there right next to each other with the last names of Pallin and Drome.
Winston Wolfe, think he was in SI7 in stormwind
Dran Droffers Salvage Co, with the father orc always yelling "You dummy!" to the son orc is actually a reference to the old 70's sitcom "Sanford and Son" with Redd Foxx.
My other favorite that I found was the crashsite at the top of one of the snow capped mountains in Grizzly Hills refers to the crash of Flight 571 that the movie ALIVE was based on.