Quake2 secret

[SupremeBioVizier]

Anyone remember that place in quake two where the big bad dude had his concubines going "mmmm" and there were developers pictures...I remember being like 11 or something turning the volume down with all that "mmmm"ing 

[Sonikkumania]

Yes. Anyone remember when you'd insert the Q2 CD to an ordinary CD player and it would play the OST?

[SupremeBioVizier]

No shit, I'm going to try that in my car here in a few since, the car plays DVDs and stuff so I'll see

[ducon]

It’s in Quake 2 (the original game), after having killed the Makron.

There is a way under the main room where you find the pictures then the Makron with two iron maidens.

[Rudolph]

The fact that the Strogg leader has basically the same name as the current French President will never not be funny to be.

 

It gets even better in Quake IV, where in the French dub they pronounce it the same way as Macron in French! XD

[Sonikkumania]

1 minute ago, Rudolph said:

The fact that the Strogg leader has basically the same name as the current French President will never not be funny to be. 

Funny, I was thinking this the other day. 

[Lila Feuer]

1 hour ago, Sonikkumania said:

Yes. Anyone remember when you'd insert the Q2 CD to an ordinary CD player and it would play the OST?

This worked on PS1 games if they had actual redbook/CD audio tracks, all of Nightmare Creatures' music could be heard outside of the game but only some tracks on PSX Doom because the rest were in another format. A lot of PC games worked for the same reason, for example Half-Life 1 but not Unreal because it used a different format again. Takes me back to when I'd pop in my Take No Prisoners game disc and listen to that killer soundtrack while beating Final Doom for the first time in Doom95 when I was like 15 or something. Wew, this comment unlocked a very specific memory.

E: Actually my favorite memory was when games let you play without the disc and I chose to because noisy ass CD-ROM drives and not knowing the first Quake had a soundtrack, popping the disc in one day to listen and being utterly terrified at my introduction to dark ambience.

Edited October 18, 2023 by Lila Feuer

[ClumsyDoomer]

As a kid I discovered that the Brandon James billboard can kill you if you run into his mouth. Didn't find a video of that, wouldn't believe that it's not well known. Funny thing

[Lila Feuer]

I love it when Steed kills me from beyond the grave, RIP.

[Tetzlaff]

On 10/18/2023 at 8:51 PM, ducon said:

It’s in Quake 2 (the original game), after having killed the Makron.

There is a way under the main room where you find the pictures then the Makron with two iron maidens.

It‘s actually a Tank with two Iron Maidens. The Makron is and remains dead at this point.

[BGreener]

On 10/18/2023 at 3:25 PM, Lila Feuer said:

This worked on PS1 games if they had actual redbook/CD audio tracks, all of Nightmare Creatures' music could be heard outside of the game but only some tracks on PSX Doom because the rest were in another format. A lot of PC games worked for the same reason, for example Half-Life 1 but not Unreal because it used a different format again. Takes me back to when I'd pop in my Take No Prisoners game disc and listen to that killer soundtrack while beating Final Doom for the first time in Doom95 when I was like 15 or something. Wew, this comment unlocked a very specific memory.

E: Actually my favorite memory was when games let you play without the disc and I chose to because noisy ass CD-ROM drives and not knowing the first Quake had a soundtrack, popping the disc in one day to listen and being utterly terrified at my introduction to dark ambience.

Reminds me of one of my favorite easter eggs: Symphony of the Night had a secret bonus track that wasn’t in the game. It even has a fun disclaimer from Alucard’s VA.