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There are cut Transmission logs in the game's data that took the form of Autobots frantically and intensely contacting Optimus and the crew from Iacon on Cybertron about the planet Junkion, a key planet from Transformers lore that contains a robotic race of technologically-adept robots. These logs would have featured Autobot characters not in the final game at all, including Scavenger, Jetfire, Smokescreen, Sideswipe, and Blurr. Another thing about the logs is that they also would have revealed the origin of the Decepticlones: Megatron took advantage of the Junkion's inventive prowess and their "Hyper Power" cloning technology to make his near unstoppable army. Spoiler:The off-world Autobots would have also warned Optimus and the Earth team about Unicron's arrival to Cybertron when the Earth team arrived at Pacific Island.
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There are several books that makes references to Capcom series.
• The 'Fighting Street' book referencing the Street Fighter game on the PC Engine (Resident Evil VII: Biohazard used the same book Easter Egg as well.).
• The 'Rock's Man' book referencing Mega Man's Japanese's localization name 'Rock Man'.
• The 'Biography of Kenzo Tsujimoto' book is referencing Capcom's chairman and CEO.
• The 'Fighting Street' book referencing the Street Fighter game on the PC Engine (Resident Evil VII: Biohazard used the same book Easter Egg as well.).
• The 'Rock's Man' book referencing Mega Man's Japanese's localization name 'Rock Man'.
• The 'Biography of Kenzo Tsujimoto' book is referencing Capcom's chairman and CEO.
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Several signs in the game contain Easter Eggs that reference different names and other things from the original series or Generation 1 themed Transformers lore and media. A few examples are:•"Maccadam's Vintage Oil" - A reference to a place on Planet Cybertron, equivalent to an Earth Bar, where Transformers can consume recuperating oil and that was also known as a non-conflict-zone during the Cybertronian war.
•"Bahoudin's" - An homage to the "Pearl of Bahoudin", a powerful MacGuffin from a storyline in the first Transformers animated series.
•"S. Witwicky" - A callout to Spike Witwicky, the young human protagonist from the same show, and his father Sparkplug.
•"Lander's Beverages" - a rather deep cut to one of the lead characters in the "Super God Masterforce" anime, a TV show that acted as somewhat of a sequel to the G1 cartoon that was only aired in Japan and featured "Pretenders" (such as Lander), which are Transformers that can take human form, among other things.
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There are collectibles in the game that are references to Bethesda Softworks' previous games. After finding them, they can be viewed in Sebastian's Room.• Mysterious Mask - Corvo Attano's mask from Dishonored.
• Mysterious Machine - Panzerhund's model from Wolfenstein: The New Order.
• Mysterious Weapon Rebplica - Rocket Launcher model from Quake.
• Mysterious Bobblehead - Vault Boy bobblehead from the Fallout series.
• Mysterious Action Figure - Doom Marine/Doomguy action figure from 2016 reboot of the Doom series.
• Mysterious Symbol - Ouroboros symbol from The Elder Scrolls Online.
• Mysterious Mug - TranStar mug from 2017 reboot of the Prey series.
• Mysterious Toy - The Keeper toy from the game, The Evil Within.
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In Chapter 13, there are torn posters of graphics taken straight from 'Fallout 3 that read "Enjoy Vault Living!" and "I Love Sugar Bombs", as well as "The Hound Pits" and "The Golden Cat" posters (In Chapter 14, there's a larger version of the latter poster) taken straight from 'Dishonored'. Both games and The Evil Within were published by Bethesda Softworks.
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In Chapter 9, in the library, there are books with the snail logo of Tango Gameworks, the developer team that created the game.
subdirectory_arrow_right Ultra Street Fighter IV (Game)
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In Super Street Fighter IV, Hugo from Final Fight can be seen in the background in the Metro City stage, 'Skyscraper Under Construction'. When the Ultra Street Fighter IV announcement trailer was released, two Hugos could be seen together both in playable form and in the background. This was later fixed in the final version, if the player selects Hugo to play in 'Skyscraper Under Construction', the other Hugo in the background is replaced by a different character.
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In Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, Beowulf from Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening can be seen on a poster during "The Arrival" cutscene of Vergil's campaign.
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In Level 3-17, after blasting yourself down past a set of two crushers, you will come to a split path with two scientists on each side. Going down the left path and activating the switch at the end will open a pit which will lead to a small laboratory featuring a creature contained inside of a tube. Destroying the tube will trigger a bonus cutscene featuring The Maw, the titular star of Twisted Pixel Games' first game released a few months earlier in 2009, getting sucked out into space as 'Splosion Man nearly gets sucked out himself before waving goodbye, and cutting to a shot of The Maw hungrily swimming after a suffocating scientist. This cutscene rewards you with an Xbox Achievement called "Eventual Destruction of a Galaxy".
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At Lakehill Seattle Hospital, while Ellie is looking for Nora, she holds a guard named Whitney at knifepoint, who is seen during the game playing a PlayStation Vita. The game she is playing is Hotline Miami, as indicated by the second floor of Chapter 7: Neighbors on the Vita's screen and the song "Hydrogen" playing in the background.In a 2020 Eurogamer interview with the game's co-director Neil Druckmann, he revealed that they were originally going to use a previous Naughty Dog game in that scene, until they thought:
"Okay, is there an opportunity here to just make some meta-statement about the kind of narrative we're after? And we're also just huge fans of Hotline Miami - like, I love that game. I love the engine of that game. So we reached out to those guys, and they were nice enough to let us put it in there."
The Last of Us Part II - Hotline Miami cameo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPoAQO9eZ2g
2020 Eurogamer interview:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-01-new-enemies-new-abilities-and-new-details-hands-on-with-the-last-of-us-part-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPoAQO9eZ2g
2020 Eurogamer interview:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-01-new-enemies-new-abilities-and-new-details-hands-on-with-the-last-of-us-part-2
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The game contains an unused alternate background for Terry's stage where the faces on Mt. Rushmore are replaced with Billy Kane, Laurence Blood, Wolfgang Krauser, and Axel Hawk. Additionally, Mr. Big from Art of Fighting will also appear in the background flying across the screen using his Cross Diving move.
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Horror World appears to be based on the Resident Evil series. It features music from Resident Evil 2, locations from Resident Evil, Bianky enemies dressed as zombies, and pictures of Bianky dressed as Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, Claire Redfield, and Steve Burnside in the background.
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In Chapter 1, the faces of the other marker test subjects on the computer in the observation room, are actually members of the UI Development team.
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Temjin from Art of Fighting 2 and Jin Fuha from Art of Fighting 3 make a cameo appearance as co-hosts on the Satella News Network interlude.
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Baitang from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special appears in the background of the China stage.
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Disney heavily restricted the use of Mickey Mouse in the game especially as the central character like Square initially wanted. This was because Disney was nervous about the success of the game and did not want its possible failure leaving a black mark on the company and its mascot. Tetsuya Nomura stated that these contractual restrictions went so far as to have Disney allow Mickey to only make a minor cameo appearance (such as "in the background of a crowd" as Nomura put it). Spoiler:Nomura and his team got around this by having Mickey have an extremely important but brief role at the end of the game in the form of Mickey helping Sora close the Door to Darkness so no more Darkness gets out of it, separating the two. King Mickey even appears mostly in silhouette in this scene. When the first Kingdom Hearts became a humongous success for both Disney and Square, the former allowed the game developers to feature their mascot in a much more prominent role in the franchise from then onward.
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One of the enemies in the "Secret of the Oracle" episode, Dopefish, was a "stupid little fish" created by the game's designer Tom Hall and described in-game as "the second-dumbest creature in the universe" (in reference to the dumbest creature in the universe, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" franchise), and has since gone on to develop a cult following and become one of the biggest recurring in-jokes in the video game industry due to the sheer amount of games it has made appearances in (a large chunk of which having Tom Hall's involvement).As of October 2021, Dopefish has made known appearances in Wacky Wheels, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, SiN, Descent 3, Battlezone, Kingpin, Daikatana, Anachonox, Max Payne, Hyperspace Delivery Boy, Commander Keen (2001), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Eternal Daughter, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Red Faction, Congo Cube, The Frozen Throne expansion to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, SiN Episodes: Emergence, Chili Con Carnage, TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins, Fortress Forever, OFF, Dystopia, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Pettington Park, Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, Warsow, Bombshell, Doom (2016), Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Ion Fury, and Doom Eternal.
Beyond video games, Dopefish notably made a cameo appearance in the animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures" in the 1992 episode "Toon TV" during the song "Toon In, Toon Out", which aired less than a year after the release of Commander Keen in "Goodbye, Galaxy!". Dopefish also cameoed in "Lakewood Plaza Turbo", the pilot episode to the 2017 animated series "OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes".
The Official Dopefish Home Page:
http://dopefish.com/fishinfo.html
Tiny Toon Adventures - "Toon In, Toon Out":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKWD3JaCSO8#t=126
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes - Lakewood Plaza Turbo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6W8Oj-L3c#t=98
http://dopefish.com/fishinfo.html
Tiny Toon Adventures - "Toon In, Toon Out":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKWD3JaCSO8#t=126
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes - Lakewood Plaza Turbo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6W8Oj-L3c#t=98
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After the second round, there is a chance that Shermie and the original Agents Team will appear in the background of the France stage.
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In the China stage, there is a chance that Lin and Fatal Fury characters Tung Fu Rue and Li Xiangfei will appear in the background.
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In the Egypt stage, Metal Slug protagonist Marco Rossi, as well as Fiolina Germi and Mars People after the second round, have a chance of appearing in the background.