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 PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject:  The Ultimate List of Arcanum's Easter Eggs
 
Around a week ago I decided to make the definite compilation of all Easter eggs and pop-culture references found in Arcanum, since it turned out nobody ever bothered to make one. And here it finally is. Some of the things mentioned in this article could be common knowledge, some are rare, and some were never seen before. This isn't a complete list, however, it's obvious that there will be new additions, so I encourage everyone to contribute by sending me their finds.

<a href="http://terra-arcanum.com/index.php?section=council&content=articles&id=eastereggs">Have a good read!</a>


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 PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject: 
 
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Holy goddamn fuckit!

A good read indeed!

Thanks Drog.

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 PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject: 
 
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Definitely a good read. Thank you for making the effort, Drog.

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 PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:20 am Post subject: 
 
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Kick arse! *is gonna try a lot of these next time she plays*

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 PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:43 am Post subject: 
 
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I've never found the Smurf village.
Now I have to go look.

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 PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject: 
 
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Good Job, I shall definely try them out.

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 PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:55 am Post subject: 
 
Added a few more references and a large section dedicated to the epitaphs found in Arcanum's cemeteries.


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 PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject: 
 
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Thanks for doing this, definitely worth reading.


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 PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:20 pm Post subject: 
 
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That's quite the list... I'll definitely go hunting for the smurf village now. :)

Thanks DBT! This is an awesome thing you've done.

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 PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject: 
 
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Nice! Thank you.

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 PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:  Re: The Ultimate List of Arcanum's Easter Eggs
 
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This is pretty cool.

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 PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: 
 
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And don't forget that Arronax is the narrator of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.


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 PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: 
 
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It's hard to call the fact, that a voice actor did work somewhere else besides a particular game an easter egg for that game. Here's an easter egg on Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson - they worked on Fallout! Woohoo!

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 PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: 
 
He's not talking about a voice actor. How can you not know this famous book?

Regardless, I don't think that Professor Pierre Aronnax is in any way related to Arcanum's Arronax.


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 PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:19 am Post subject: 
 
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Ah, indeed have I failed in this situation. It would be impossible not to hear about the book, yet I have yet to find enough motivation to familiarise myself closer with Verne's writings, with reading "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" being on my "to do" list.

Regardless, even if professor Pierre Aronnax isn't in any way related to Arcanum's Arronax in personality nor actions, the very name could have been borrowed from the book. Someone from the staff could encounter it, think "Hey, that sounds nice, why not place it in our game?" and then do so. I believe that's how Arroyo appeared in Fallout 2.

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 PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: 
 
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Yes, precisely what I meant. :-)


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 PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:57 am Post subject: 
 
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However, without any verification, I don't think such a fact is worth including.

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 PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject: 
 
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Muro Lightning wrote:
I believe that's how Arroyo appeared in Fallout 2.

I didn't know the Fallout 2 designers were fans of A:WIP :-o


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 PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: 
 
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DarkFool wrote:
However, without any verification, I don't think such a fact is worth including.


Quite honestly, I think it would be difficult for it not to be intentional. Arronax (or Aronnax) is hardly a common name for a character, and Verne is arguably the most significant inspiration for the steampunk genre. I'm sure Troika did some reading during the design phase.

That being said, I definitely didn't mean to bring such controversy to a great list.


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 PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: 
 
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While picking up a package for an alchemist named Jongle Donne, the shopkeeper in Dernholm tells you, "That wizard is just a crazy old man," quoting Owen Lars from Episode IV.


The main character's companion and sidekick Virgil encounters his old mentor who turned him from a life of petty thievery, a priest named Father Joachim. In the good path, this encounter provides helpful information. In the evil path, Joachim appears to make a desperate plea for Virgil to stop, and when he refuses, tries to stand in his way. One of Virgil's taunts to Joachim is "Your powers are weak, old man," quoting Darth Vader from Episode IV.


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 PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:22 am Post subject: 
 
Added. Thank you.


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 PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: 
 
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Unified Kingdom maybe United Kingdom.

Caladon might refer to Jerusalem cuz it's said that's the house Nasrudin's corpse.And Jerusalem it's the house of Jesus corpse.

Journey to the Center of Arcanum...once again Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth...


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 PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: 
 
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There's no such thing as a journey to the center of Arcanum, I believe. If your talking about the Void, that is most propably supposed to be a different dimension, a parallel universe, that sort of thing.

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 PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:20 am Post subject: 
 
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I beg to differ.
Or come to think of it, there is no such thing, but the reference is real.

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 PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: 
 
Regardless, the name of the scrapped sequel is hardly worth including.


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