Fallout Easter Egg In Bloodlines

Post by **King of Creation** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:50 am

[Game -> Update]

So I was playing through Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, a great game by the way, when I found a Fallout Easter Egg! As far as I know, I'm the first one to find this.
 
 Possible Spoilers ahead! (so don't read further if you want to stay completley in the dark)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 <blockquote>There's a Bailbondsmen in Santa Monica. I was going through the files on his computer, his "clientele," when I came across this entry for a durbin, m.
 <center><a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/gallery/disp ... -530"><IMG SRC="http://www.duckandcover.cx/gallery/albu ... blockquote>
 Hmmm...Gray Corvega??? Where's the only place we've seen one of those before!
 
 Edit: There's also a reference to Arcanum under the client moore, c!

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:59 am

Why post this as news when it may be a fucking spoiler? Make a thread in the forum labled with spoiler in it. Most people still dont have the game.

Post by **King of Creation** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:00 am

Aside from the fact that there already was a Spoiler warning, and ample scrolling space to prevent accidental reading, it doesn't give away any information pertaining to plot, missions, anything. Its a piece of random "immersion material." And the fact that there's a bailbondsmen in Santa Monica isn't a spoiler either.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:20 am

I don't get why it's a spoiler. Good find, though.

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:39 am

I don't get why it's under the MYSTARY category in the gallery. Should probably make an "in the news" or miscellaneous category.

Post by **King of Creation** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:44 am

Yeah, I was too lazy to make a new category, so I just threw it in the only Troika category we have.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:56 pm

Heh, seems tha someone there had some taste.........

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:10 pm

I saw Rex post that in RPGCodex forums, like, two days ago.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:34 pm

Rex does not count as a person.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:11 pm

And RPGCodex does not count as an entity.

Cool egg.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:41 pm

...Anyway, this easter egg isn't news.

Kotario · Post by **Kotario** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:30 am

King of Creation's obviously excited about his discovery. On the same vein... Spoilers!

Not an Easter Egg, but a similarity. Did you notice Gimble (the proprietor of the prosthetics shop), who you eventually find when on a quest for the Bondsman's missing bounty hunter? He seems very reminiscent of Doc Morbid, not to mention he uses a severed arm as a weapon (of course, both are too vague to be Easter Eggs).

On a real Easter Egg though...

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:38 am

Also, in the apartments Downtown, there's a pamphlet for Troika Games...I'll get a screenshot when I'm not drunk.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:56 am

King of Creation wrote:I'll get a screenshot when I'm not drunk.

Am I the only one that's past that phase of life? Or is everyone here just now entering that phase?

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:02 am

Thursday before thanksgiving vacation....no classes tomorrow that i have to worry about...its all good.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:03 am

There's also a somewhat jarring gag with the fortune telling girl down on the beach. When you ask her "Will I win in the end?" or something to that effect, she goes "It's not whether you win the game that's important, it's whether or not you bought it." That kinda annoyed me since it's totally out of context.

Kotario · Post by **Kotario** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:51 am

It's "Whether or not you win the game matters not, it's if you bought it."

I wonder if it's a joke or a spot of really bad grammar. It could be taken to mean "Whether of not you win the game matters not, it's if you survive." (you don't have to tell me that it's a stretch though)The rest of the game is so serious, that bit of dialogue is quite jarring.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:48 pm

Perhaps, but the rest of her dialog doesn't suggest that she might use such a colloquialism. As you say, a bit of a stretch.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:20 pm

ExtremeRyno wrote:
King of Creation wrote:I'll get a screenshot when I'm not drunk.
Am I the only one that's past that phase of life? Or is everyone here just now entering that phase?

I've been past the phase of stupid intoxicating my body for years if that's what'che asking about. I do it only occasionall and mostyl to a little degree.

Kotario · Post by **Kotario** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:58 pm

Well, obviously quite a few little jokes in this game. I'm not going to bother to mention all of them.

Since King of Creation hasn't been sober enough to post a screenshot of the Troika pamphlet, here it is:

Then there is this fellow, named Romero, who's sole job is to kill zombies.

Last screenshot, the Troika billboard. I like the slogan.

Not going to bother with the Troika magazine, since it's getting redundant, though the Troika games in the Netcafe are interesting: "Need to Read" and "eXtreme Hoop and Stick 3."

Though here is the transcript for the radio commercial for the other Troika game: "Frankenstein: Breadlust."

Announcer: "You live, <birds chirping> you die, <funeral bells> and sometimes you get brought back to life. <thunder, electricity, and roaring> This fall.
Old man: "I'm afraid, I can't see too well these days. Do you think you could go to the nearest village and pick me up a loaf of bread?"
Frankenstein: "Breeaad! Good!"
Announcer: "The new horror RPG from Troika games."
Frankenstein: "Breeaad!"
Man #1: "Oh I could tell you where the bakery is stranger, but before you do, would you mind picking up my little girl from the lake?"
Announcer: "You are: the monster. <Woman's scream> Or are you?"
Man #2: "If you want to enter this bakery, you'll have to defeat me... and this torch!"
Announcer: "Frankenstein: Breadlust, coming soon, to a PC near you."