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An Easter egg is a secret message placed in a game by a developer. Typically Easter eggs speak to the audience directly, make an inside joke, or contain vanity messages such as hidden credits. Oni contains a few in-jokes and a lot of references to other Bungie games. | An Easter egg is a secret message placed in a game by a developer. Typically Easter eggs speak to the audience directly, make an inside joke, or contain vanity messages such as hidden credits. Oni contains a few in-jokes and a lot of references to other Bungie games, as is common for Bungie. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Image:Penny_Arcade_-_EvilCorp.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Not an Easter egg, but very apropos: a [[wp:Penny Arcade|Penny Arcade]] comic about crates and Oni.]] | [[Image:Penny_Arcade_-_EvilCorp.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Not an Easter egg, but very apropos: a [[wp:Penny Arcade|Penny Arcade]] comic about crates and Oni.]] | ||
Old Man Murray was a gaming blog with feisty criticism of the industry; its writers would later work on [[wp:Psychonauts|Psychonauts]] and the [[wp:Portal (series)|Portal games]]. In [http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html one of their most famous articles], they suggested that the ultimate quality of a game could be judged by a single measurement called "Start to Crate": the amount of time from the start of the game until the first crate (or barrel, etc.) is sighted. The smaller the time, the worse the game, as the use of crates to adorn a level demonstrates that the developers have run out of ideas. | Old Man Murray was a gaming blog with feisty criticism of the industry; its writers would later work on [[wp:Psychonauts|Psychonauts]] and the [[wp:Portal (series)|Portal games]]. In [http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html one of their most famous articles], they suggested that the ultimate quality of a game could be judged by a single measurement called "Start to Crate": the amount of time from the start of the game until the first crate (or barrel, etc.) is sighted. The smaller the time, the worse the game, as the use of crates to adorn a level demonstrates that the developers have run out of ideas. | ||
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|[[Image:TheDayIsMine crate.png]] | |[[Image:TheDayIsMine crate.png]] | ||
|}Oni's first level is a warehouse and it is literally ''full'' of crates, barrels and containers. You can see a stack of crates right from where you start the level (there are also crates in the training course, but not in the first room). On one of the first crates you see in the Warehouse, there's a self-deprecating label saying "-OMM- TTC 1.1" or, in other words, "-Old Man Murray- Time To Crate 1.1 [seconds]"; pretty bad, needless to say. The same label also features a reference to [[Developer Mode]]: "THE DAY IS MINE!!" is written along the lower side of the label. | |} | ||
Oni's first level is a warehouse and it is literally ''full'' of crates, barrels and containers. You can see a stack of crates right from where you start the level (there are also crates in the training course, but not in the first room). On one of the first crates you see in the Warehouse, there's a self-deprecating label saying "-OMM- TTC 1.1" or, in other words, "-Old Man Murray- Time To Crate 1.1 [seconds]"; a pretty bad score, needless to say. The same label also features a reference to [[Developer Mode]]: "THE DAY IS MINE!!" is written along the lower side of the label. | |||
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Michael Wu may be referenced by the Wucraft transport plane in [[Quotes/Diary#CHAPTER_05_._HOT_PURSUIT|this diary entry]]. | Michael Wu may be referenced by the Wucraft transport plane in [[Quotes/Diary#CHAPTER_05_._HOT_PURSUIT|this diary entry]]. | ||
==Secrets== | ==Secrets and jokes== | ||
There are quite a few semi-hidden items and characters in Oni. | There are quite a few semi-hidden items and characters in Oni. The items hidden in corners were called "[http://carnage.bungie.org/oniforum/oni.forum.pl?read=20168 Wu goodies]" by Bungie West, and generally don't qualify as Easter eggs as most of them can be uncovered by carefully exploring the level. | ||
=== | ===Forklift Striker=== | ||
However a special mention goes to the secret [[Striker]] in [[{{C1}}]]. If you pass the first door, then take the stairs to the top floor, and jump onto the cabin of the forklift, a Striker will appear (see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4T1Qpu-8U this video]). When killed, he drops 3 items (hypo spray, phase cloak, force shield). The phase cloak and the force shield are otherwise not encountered before [[{{C3}}]], and the secret Striker comes before the first Striker you see normally (after you find [[Chung]]). The very improbable encounter and its extraordinary reward qualify this secret Striker as one of Oni's few Easter eggs. | However a special mention goes to the secret [[Striker]] in [[{{C1}}]]. If you pass the first door, then take the stairs to the top floor, and jump onto the cabin of the forklift, a Striker will appear (see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4T1Qpu-8U this video]). When killed, he drops 3 items (hypo spray, phase cloak, force shield). The phase cloak and the force shield are otherwise not encountered before [[{{C3}}]], and the secret Striker comes before the first Striker you see normally (after you find [[Chung]]). The very improbable encounter and its extraordinary reward qualify this secret Striker as one of Oni's few Easter eggs. | ||
===Febtober Striker=== | |||
A trigger volume in [[{{C2}}]] has the name "febtober", which is a reference to a [[wp:Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live)|"Celebrity Jeopardy!"]] sketch where Sean Connery guesses that the month of the year starting with "Feb" is "Febtober". Any possible additional in-joke at Bungie concerning this "month" is unknown. Triggering "febtober", which is done by jumping off the walkway with the turret at the end, spawns a Striker with a plasma rifle who patrols the corridor near the turbines seen in the [[:Image:CHAPTER_02_._ENGINES_OF_EVIL.png|level's splashscreen]]. | |||
===Happy Bomber=== | ===Happy Bomber=== | ||
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===The day after=== | ===The day after=== | ||
In {{ | In {{C3}}, there's [[Quotes/Consoles#The_day_after|this safety-related console]] right before the acid room: | ||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level 3d}} | {{:Quotes/Consoles/level 3d}} | ||
Nothing happens if you don't read the console. | Nothing happens if you don't read the console. | ||
=== | ===Cleam air=== | ||
A | [[Image:TXMPPOSTER4.png|right]] | ||
While "Febtober" might have been an office in-joke, "cleam air" definitely was. A poster found in [[{{C4}}]] depicts cartoon children frolicking in a city while wearing heavy-duty masks. The caption reads "CLEAM AIR HAPPY". | |||
The mis-spelling of "clean" as "cleam" just so happens to have a public explanation at the 16'45" mark in [http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/Bungie%20Related%20Movies/MWSF%202000/Bungie%20TV/MWSF%202000/bTV_day2_big.mov this video tour] of Bungie West, when Dave Dunn points to a [[wp:My Neighbor Totoro|My Neighbor Totoro]] poster on the wall of their office with this [[wikt:Engrish|Engrish]] text at its bottom: "CLEAM AIR OF THEIR NEW HOME". | |||
===VI-AG crane=== | |||
Besides "Balor" being written on the cranes as discussed above, the final crane in {{C1}} with an arm (the one Konoko uses to stop the Syndicate truck) says on one side of its arm "VI-AG" and the other side reads "KEEP IT UP". | |||
==Unused resources and features== | ==Unused resources and features== | ||