References

panserbjorne · Post by **panserbjorne** » Sat Aug 17, 2002 4:18 pm

Anybody else got the reference to Bernard Cornwall's 'Sharpe' series of books in Redding? (of course if you have, just ignore this, or alternitively call me stupid. I'm just trying to show off to the forum here anyway)

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Aug 17, 2002 9:46 pm

Can you spare some more information about the reference?

Who/What gave it?

Where?

panserbjorne · Post by **panserbjorne** » Sat Aug 17, 2002 10:11 pm

OK then (perks up as chance to inpart wisdom arrives), 3rd job from the sherrif, who I can't remember the name of right now, with the miner who slashed up the whore. The Miner is a tall man with a mis-shapen belly, who loves his mum very much and says he can't be hanged. May even be called Obadiah or Hakeswill. The reference is to Sgt Obadiah Hakeswill, a nasty chap who is Richard Sharpe's arch-enemy(up to the point where he gets killed, and is replaced in arch-enemyness by a dastardly french spy).
He likes cutting up women, survived a hanging and has some special attation to his mother, taking to hiding a stolen picture of her in his shako and then talking to it.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:29 am

panserbjorne wrote:OK then (perks up as chance to inpart wisdom arrives), 3rd job from the sherrif, who I can't remember the name of right now, with the miner who slashed up the whore. The Miner is a tall man with a mis-shapen belly, who loves his mum very much and says he can't be hanged. May even be called Obadiah or Hakeswill. The reference is to Sgt Obadiah Hakeswill, a nasty chap who is Richard Sharpe's arch-enemy(up to the point where he gets killed, and is replaced in arch-enemyness by a dastardly french spy).
He likes cutting up women, survived a hanging and has some special attation to his mother, taking to hiding a stolen picture of her in his shako and then talking to it.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

Mr. Zealot · Post by **Mr. Zealot** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 2:01 am

Hey, what the heck is an SDF anyway?

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 2:46 am

Mr. Zealot wrote:Hey, what the heck is an SDF anyway?

SDF = Some Dumb Fuck, I'm not sure though.

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 7:07 am

I think the designer for Redding smoked a little more than just the regular pipe

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 8:50 am

NMA used to have a full list of Fallout 2 easter eggs, that was listed as one of them. There were well over 200(close to 300) in Fallout 2.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 11:24 am

i love those little things, its like comic releif for such a post apocolyptic horrible future... lol

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 2:18 pm

NMA still holds many of Fallout's 2 easter eggs.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:00 am

A similar list of Fallout easter eggs would be nice. Not that there's too many of them...

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 3:28 am

Hmm, i didn't see the pipe references on that list. Anyone else catch them? In Redding, all those pipe and tobacco names that were given to various NPCs there?

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:29 am

Saint_Proverbius wrote:NMA used to have a full list of Fallout 2 easter eggs, that was listed as one of them. There were well over 200(close to 300) in Fallout 2.

There were a shit-load on that list, but it still wasn't complete. For instance there was no mention of Lenny's combat taunt, "In order to understand life you must fuck death...in the gallbladder," which was a reference to/rip-off of Flesh for Frankenstein (AKA Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) (1973). There's so many references/Easter Eggs/rip-offs in that game that I don't think any one person could get even half of them.

OTB