Top zeven van de engste easter eggs in games ooit

RDJ134 26 juli 2011 om 01:58 uur

Easter eggs in games zijn vaak onschuldige grapjes of verwijzingen die door de programmeurs zijn achter gelaten. Just voor shit and giggles, maar zo nu en dan zijn er easter eggs die te eng en bizar voor woorden zijn. Zo zit er een geest in Hitman en is World of Warcraft vol met vele geesten en stemmen. Daarom heeft de website Cracked.com deze top zeven gemaakt, en daar op staat ook het recent verschenen Portal 2 die zo zijn geheimen heeft.


#7. Portal 2 -- Hidden Messages and Rape-y Sounds

Portal 2 brought us everything we loved about the first game (portals) and left out everything we hated (cake-related meme horseshit). What it also brought us is a whole bunch of weird secrets, and some of them are downright creepy.

For instance, in one of the earlier test chambers of the game, you can find an abandoned room hidden off to the side of the level, much like the abandoned rooms found in the original game. This one's got a creepy surprise, though. If you stand close enough to one of the graffiti-covered walls, you can hear a kind of disturbed chanting. Someone went ahead and pulled out the sound files embedded in the game: the voice is clearer, but still nonsensical.

In fact, in another of his rooms, you can bring a radio inside and listen to some kind of strange, blaring noise. It's even an achievement. But that's not the weird part. That blaring sound is an encrypted SSTV image signal, and if you take the time to decode it, it's actually a reference to another scene in the game ... which hasn't happened yet.

But the creepiest thing of all isn't even in the game. Not technically, anyway. Players who decided to hunt through Portal 2's sound files found recorded lines of dialogue that aren't in the game -- more specifically, an increasingly agitated woman saying "I don't want this!" If you've played the whole game you can guess that's actually (spoilers ahead) Caroline protesting her transformation into GLaDOS, but it still sounds kinda rape-y if you don't know the context. In fact, J.K. Simmons, who provides the voice for Caroline's boss, purportedly refused to record his half of the scene because it was so disturbing. The developers actually agreed and dropped it from the final game.

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