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23Oct 12

Roll the die...

Reposted from Yahtzee's blog. Notice anything?


Roll the dice

Purportedly random, game-assigned, character christening, but where's his sweet hat?

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SciFiCat
SciFiCat

Too much of a coincidence.  Chances are this is Easter egg the developers placed in the game as a call out to Yatzhee himself. 

-INKling-
-INKling-

I don't really understand :S

Kravyn81
Kravyn81

If by "random" you mean going in to edit the character's name, then yes, I can believe that ;)

iowastate
iowastate ranger

it is an OZ flag I had one for the banner of my UCB.  - still do but the UCB went MIA, I reckon nobody else was interested in a board devoted to the AFL. 

 

were it Kiwi there would be four stars anyone knows that, even if they live in the third world (South Island)

raven28256
raven28256

You know what is also a random dice roll? Doing anything on GS without encountering crippling bugs.

 

Anyway, Yahtzee has been part of an Easter egg before. I recall that a gun skin in Bulletstorm references his joke about the shuriken-and-lightning gun in Painkiller. This isn't the first time the X-COM dev team recreated real people with the squad editor. Some of the con video demos had Sid Meier as a squadmate, and I think some other key devs are recreated in the game's character generator. Wouldn't be surprised in more famous game journalists are hidden in there.

 

Assuming the person the image came from isn't a big fat liar.   

s_h_a_d_o
s_h_a_d_o

 @raven28256 

Afaik, the Sid Meier character featured in prequel demos is actually one of the unlockable hero characters available when manually editing a character's name - but doing so locks all achievement progress in-game - this particular case, if true, does seem to point to quirky humour on the dev's part.

 

raven28256
raven28256

 @s_h_a_d_o

 When I get XCOM I'll need to try typing in some other famous game journalists and see if there are any more Easter Eggs.

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