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0:01Grand Theft Auto is an Easter egg
0:05factory. It is a series rich in stuff to
0:08find, and some of it is just larger than
0:12life. Hi folks, it's Falcon, and today
0:14on Game Ranks, 20 GTA Easter eggs that
0:18became legendary. Starting off with
0:21number 20, a literal Easter egg from GTA
0:24Vice City. No better place to start than
0:27an all-time classic, right? By the time
0:29Vice City came out in 2002, Easter eggs
0:32were an established feature in video
0:35games. The first Easter egg anyone knows
0:36about was the 1973 game Moonlander, and
0:40that was 29 years old by the time Vice
0:42City released. The term Easter egg
0:44widely considered to be coined in 1979
0:47in relation to the Atari game Adventure,
0:50so having secrets in your game was not a
0:52big revelation. Still, these sorts of
0:54hidden secrets weren't as widely known
0:56and discussed online like how they have
0:58now. Sure, if you were buying strategy
1:01guides and gaming magazines in the '90s,
1:03you were probably at least partially
1:05aware of some Easter eggs, but it wasn't
1:07until the late '90s and early 2000s,
1:10when the proliferation of the internet
1:11really hit a saturation point, that
1:13knowledge of Easter eggs became
1:15widespread and very, very easily
1:18accessible, which is, as you may be
1:21aware of, just about the time GTA 3 and
1:24Vice City came out. The game's
1:26popularity, alongside the ease of
1:28sharing information, made it so
1:30everybody was becoming aware of the
1:32secrets in these games, but you still
1:33had to go out and see it yourself. You
1:35couldn't just watch a YouTube video
1:37about it. So, there's still a sense of
1:39discovery around stuff like this, and
1:41that's why the literal Easter egg in
1:43Vice City is so memorable. As an actual
1:45Easter egg, it's very basic, but it's
1:47well hidden enough and goofy enough that
1:49[music] finding it feels like an
1:50accomplishment. All you have to do to
1:52find this thing is look near the Vice
1:54City news building in downtown Vice
1:55City. [music] There's a way to get up on
1:57the roof and then jump through this
1:58window which is a really flat texture
2:00and has no collision on it.
2:12So, then you pass through it, you enter
2:14a room containing a simple brown Easter
2:16egg on a pedestal. The pedestal is a
2:18good touch. It adds some class to this
2:20thing. And like a lot of GTA's Easter
2:22eggs, it feels like it's making fun of
2:24you. But instead of just some slightly
2:26amusing text, you get a fully modeled
2:28and textured literal Easter egg. So,
2:30they did put effort into it, which is
2:32more than I can say about some. I mean,
2:35to be frank, similarly legendary Easter
2:37eggs in past and and future GTA games.
2:41And number 19 is Michelle Daniels from
2:43GTA 5. Out of all the returning
2:45characters from GTA 4 and GTA 5, this is
2:48the easiest to miss. It's stuff like
2:50this where you just have to respect
2:52Rockstar's attention to detail. The FBI
2:55agent in Three's Company could have been
2:57anyone, but they brought back a minor
2:59GTA 4 character just for a
3:01blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo that most
3:02players probably didn't even realize was
3:04there.
3:04>> Cinema equipment, not surveillance.
3:08>> Grab his other arm.
3:09>> No, no, no, no, no, no.
3:11>> [laughter]
3:13[screaming]
3:14>> I didn't, at least the first time, and
3:17that's what makes it so memorable. Like,
3:19do you remember Michelle from GTA 4? She
3:21was Niko's first storyline girlfriend
3:24who was eventually revealed to be a
3:25double agent working for an unnamed
3:27government organization. She's the one
3:29that brings Niko to the United Liberty
3:31Paper Company. Yeah? Yeah, remember?
3:35>> I'm sorry that I lied to you.
3:38And
3:39and weirdly, in some ways, you're a nice
3:41guy.
3:42Better than the creeps I normally date.
3:44>> Anyway, after that, she's gone from the
3:47game and Kate McReary replaces her as
3:49Niko's canon girlfriend until she shows
3:51up in GTA 5. She only gets one line and
3:53it's hard to tell that it's supposed to
3:55be her, but her identity card has
3:56Michelle on it confirming it is the same
3:58character. The funny thing is that while
4:01the identity card does make it clear who
4:03it's supposed to be, it also creates a
4:04small continuity error because Michelle
4:06was her cover name and her actual name
4:09as revealed in GTA 4 is Karen. They did
4:12at least go back and fix this when she
4:14appears again in GTA Online where she
4:16assists with the setup for the Humane
4:18Labs Heist and is properly identified by
4:20her actual name. In hindsight, it's kind
4:23of odd that out of all the characters
4:25from GTA 4 make a cameo in GTA 5, she's
4:28probably one of the most significant
4:29while being someone you might not even
4:31realize is a character from GTA 4. And
4:33number 18 is the Statue of Happiness in
4:36GTA 4. Speaking of GTA 4, I got to talk
4:39about the most Easter egg dense location
4:41in the entire series, the Statue of
4:43Happiness. This is, as I'm sure you're
4:45all aware, the game's version of the
4:47Statue of Liberty but with some
4:49noticeable alterations. From far away,
4:51it looks pretty similar to the real deal
4:53but closer up, you see it's I mean
4:55instead of a torch in the right hand,
4:57it's holding a cup of coffee which is
4:59either a reference to the fact that tons
5:01of people go to Starbucks or a reference
5:04to the hot coffee fiasco from I mean I'm
5:07not going to cover that cuz it's
5:08probably one of the most legendary
5:09pieces of content in the series and it
5:11it wasn't an Easter egg though. A little
5:13too spicy for YouTube also.
5:15If you have to ask hot coffee is, just
5:17ask your parents. The face of the statue
5:19is pretty peculiar as well. It's a
5:21spitting image of Hillary Clinton who is
5:23a key player in the whole government
5:24response to the hot coffee thing back
5:26when she was a senator. That further
5:28credence to the fact that that's
5:29supposed to be her. The name for the
5:31specific texture file is stat hilberty
5:3501.wdr.
5:37So, I think it's pretty safe to say
5:38that's what it is. If you manage to get
5:40up into the raised area of the statue,
5:42which is easier said than done, there's
5:44no normal way to get up there at least
5:46not in the main game. You can find a
5:47sign that says, "No hidden content this
5:49way." which is a pretty common Rockstar
5:52Easter egg joke, so I can see players
5:53reaching this point and assuming there's
5:54nothing else. But, the text is actually
5:56another false wall with no collision
5:58that leads to the literal beating heart
6:00of the statue. This is the most infamous
6:03Easter egg in the game, if not the
6:04entire series. It's a giant beating
6:06heart in the middle of the statue held
6:07up by chains and bathing the entire area
6:10in a sinister red glow. All that you can
6:12hear is the beating of the massive
6:14heart.
6:25And it makes the place pretty damn
6:26creepy, especially if you just stumbled
6:28in here not knowing what to expect.
6:30There's a reason why this Easter egg in
6:32this particular area has left such a
6:34massive mark in the entire GTA
6:35community. It's just so weird and dark,
6:37but also goofy. It's unlike any other
6:39Easter egg in the series. And number 17
6:42is the Gant Bridge Easter egg from San
6:44Andreas. Massive open-worlds aren't
6:47anything special now, but in 2004, San
6:49Andreas was a freaking revelation. It
6:51seemed impossibly huge. They had to be
6:53hiding all kinds of crazy secrets all
6:54around the world, right? Well, Rockstar
6:56knew we would be curious, so they
6:58planned accordingly with this dryly
7:00insulting Easter egg that quickly became
7:02a talking point at recesses across the
7:04nation. Gant Bridge, San Andreas's
7:07answer to the Golden Gate Bridge, is
7:09very large. It's logical to assume there
7:11might be something up there knowing
7:13Rockstar's history with this sort of
7:15thing. So, get the jetpack, you blast
7:17your way up there. You might expect to
7:18find the next mind-blowing Rockstar
7:20Easter egg only to be met with a message
7:22that says, "There are no Easter eggs up
7:25here. Go away." What's so legendary
7:27about this particular secret is that,
7:29unlike stuff like that literal Easter
7:31egg in Vice City, I bet a majority of
7:33people who originally found this message
7:35found it all on their own. By the time
7:37San Andreas rolled around, the Easter
7:39egg was a thing. Like, Easter egg fever
7:41was in full swing. We all knew about
7:43him, and we all wanted to be the first
7:44to find something. So, tons of kids
7:46probably came up with the bright idea of
7:48flying to the top of the Gantt Bridge,
7:49completely independent of one another.
7:52The Easter eggs we actually experience
7:54are always going to be the most
7:55memorable ones, of course. And out of
7:57everything on this list, this is
7:58probably the one seen by the most people
8:00without any any kind of assistance or
8:02guide. We all just want to see what was
8:03on top of that damn bridge.
8:05And number 16 is the resizable moon in
8:08the GTA 3D trilogy. One of the weirdest
8:10features about the GTA 3 trilogy was
8:13that you could shoot the moon with a
8:14sniper rifle, and for some reason it it
8:16cycles between three different sizes.
8:23>> He ain't no gentleman, that one.
8:28>> Nothing else else works. You got to use
8:30a sniper rifle. I don't know why this
8:32was in the game, and neither did anybody
8:34else for quite a few years. Uh everyone
8:36just assumed it was another one of
8:38Rockstar's weird jokes. But in 2023, a
8:41former technical at Rockstar North
8:42revealed the reason is because artists
8:44couldn't seem to agree on how big the
8:46moon should be in Grand Theft Auto 3.
8:48Some wanted it smaller, some wanted it
8:50bigger. So, in response, he added a way
8:52for the artists to adjust the size of
8:54the moon on the fly, so they could come
8:56to an agreement about how big they
8:57wanted the moon to be. So, of course,
8:59nobody ever approached him again on the
9:00subject, and the sniper rifle moon thing
9:03got left in the game all the way up to
9:04GTA San Andreas. The only reason it
9:07wasn't in later games is because
9:09Rockstar completely changed engines. If
9:11they were still using the same base
9:12code, they'd probably be shooting the
9:13moon in GTA 6 still.
9:26And number 15, sleeping with the fishes
9:27in Vice City. It's a small one, but it
9:29remains one of the most memorable little
9:31secret details in the whole series, and
9:33something that a lot of players still
9:34vividly remember. The actual Easter egg
9:36itself is simple and morbid. Off the
9:39shore of the golf course in the downtown
9:41area side, you can look in the water and
9:43you see two dead guys in boxer shorts
9:45and cement shoes. Uh, do people even
9:47know what cement shoes are anymore? It
9:49used to be a pretty common element of
9:52gangsters in fiction. If you cross the
9:54mob, they'd put your feet in cement
9:55shoes and throw you in the East River.
9:57You saw this all over the place back in
9:59the day in cartoons and movies. Uh, but
10:01I'm not really sure how much trope play
10:04this one gets. I mean, it is a trope,
10:06technically, but the concept's pretty
10:08horrific. So, I can see why it came up
10:10so often. I don't know. Doesn't play any
10:12purpose in Vice City. It's just a
10:14gangster trope related to water. And you
10:16can actually pilot a boat in Vice City,
10:18so why not throw in some corpses with
10:19cement shoes? It's not that out of place
10:21in a GTA game.
10:23And number 14 is the UFO in GTA 5.
10:26Rockstar just has a thing for UFOs.
10:29Probably because, I mean, a lot like the
10:30Sasquatch in San Andreas, it was one of
10:32the most commonly repeated urban legends
10:35around in the game. So, I mean, so many
10:37people tried to find the secret UFO in
10:39San Andreas to no avail. But in GTA 5,
10:41it's finally here and it's everywhere.
10:43You You can't get rid of the damn thing.
10:45This time the UFO just appears all over
10:47the place. It's one It's There's one
10:48over Sandy Shores, slightly different
10:51one over Fort Zancudo, hovering above
10:53the the clouds. The most infamous one is
10:56uh found on top of Mount Chiliad at 3:00
10:58a.m. during stormy weather. So, the
10:59crashed UFO from GTA Online is mostly
11:02the same as the Chiliad one, but it
11:05doesn't have any FIB markers. And pretty
11:07much all of the other ones do. So, it
11:09might be the only authentic alien UFO.
11:13Actually seeing it's kind of a pain. You
11:14got to complete 600 resupply missions
11:16then trigger a new one between 9:00 p.m.
11:18and 11:00 p.m. which I'm not doing that.
11:21There's plenty of speculation about just
11:22what these things are supposed to be,
11:24who they serve, and why. But knowing
11:25Rockstar, none of it really matters.
11:27They just put them in because they
11:28thought it'd be funny.
11:39>> And number 13 is the many digs at
11:42Driver. Might sound crazy now, but back
11:44in the early 2000s, Driver was still
11:46considered to be serious competition
11:48[music] to GTA. There was also a bit of
11:50a rivalry between the studios. Rockstar
11:52was based in Edinburgh, the capital of
11:54Scotland, and Reflections Interactive,
11:56the makers of Driver, was based in
11:58Newcastle. So, there's friendly
12:00competitive spirit going on there as
12:01well. That's probably why Rockstar threw
12:03so many insults at the series. There was
12:05a professional rivalry going on, right?
12:07So, one of the most [music] cutting
12:08jokes at Driver's expense comes from
12:10Grand Theft Auto 3 in the mission
12:12Two-Face Tanner. [music] We're supposed
12:13to You're You're sent on a mission to
12:15eliminate a strangely animated
12:17undercover cop, which is a line directly
12:19from the game, and Tanner's the name of
12:21the protagonist from Driver. Like, I
12:23think it's the only fourth wall break in
12:25the game, and there's a reason for it.
12:26They're specifically making fun of the
12:28on-foot animations of Driver 2, which I
12:30mean, they were stiff and awkward. As a
12:32joke, they even made the GTA 3 Tanner
12:35walk in a real funky way. It's about as
12:36a direct shots fired as I've ever seen
12:39one game take at another game. Vice City
12:41had a more straightforward kind of
12:42insult. You're sent on a mission by Dr.
12:44Black to hunt down a series of GTA
12:46killer protagonists like Tanner from
12:48Driver, [music]
12:48some of the guys from The Getaway, and
12:50the protagonist of True Crime: Streets
12:52of LA.
13:02Like, actually, these guys are in the
13:04game, and [music] and you go kill them.
13:07The last and most direct of Rockstar's
13:09trifecta comes from San Andreas in the
13:11mission Mad Dog's Rhymes, where you
13:13sneak into Mad Dog's mansion to steal
13:15his song notes. While sneaking through
13:17the mansion, there's a guard playing
13:18video games who shouts,
13:20>> [snorts]
13:20>> [ __ ]
13:22How could Reflections mess up so bad?
13:23TANNER, YOU SUCK ASS.
13:26>> A statement obviously made in reference
13:28to Driver 3, which is a notorious bomb
13:30and a buggy mess of a game. Sure, they
13:32changed the name of the studio slightly,
13:34but obviously it doesn't matter. They're
13:36talking about Reflections. It's about as
13:37direct an insult as another studio could
13:40possibly be.
13:41>> [music]
13:41>> With some other game, you'd be walking
13:42on thin ice with that kind of thing, but
13:44it's San Andreas. Rockstar had nothing
13:45to prove and everything to gain.
13:48And number 12, the ghost of Mount Gordo
13:50in GTA V. They snuck in a little
13:52supernatural Red Dead energy with this
13:54Easter egg. How anyone managed to figure
13:56out how to find this intentionally, I
13:58don't know. It must have been one hell
14:00of a shock for the rare few who managed
14:02to stumble on it normally though. See,
14:03if you look in the eastern side of Mount
14:05Gordo between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m.,
14:08then you might get lucky and spot a
14:09ghost in the distance. If you try to
14:10approach it, it disappears, but if you
14:12view it from far away, you'll notice
14:13some eerie details like the word Jock
14:16written in blood where she's standing
14:18and a ghostly wail can be heard in the
14:19air.
14:29She's really just a flat image of JPEG
14:31sticking out with translucency applied,
14:34so it's not like inherently creepy, but
14:36it's it's done well. Certainly to the
14:38extent that it is creepy. In one of the
14:40many subtle touches in GTA V, you can
14:43actually find out more about this ghost.
14:44There's an article in the in-game
14:45internet which talks about Jolene
14:47Cranley Evans, the wife of Jock Cranley,
14:50the same name written under the ghost.
14:52It's implied from the article she was
14:53killed by her husband. So, it appears
14:55the ghost wants revenge or is at least
14:57present at the site of the death. It's
14:59like most GTA V's Easter eggs. It's
15:01mysterious, unnecessarily complex, and
15:04has a lot more backstory to it than you
15:05would initially assume. And number 11,
15:08apartment 3C in Vice City. During the
15:10PS2 era, it didn't take much to capture
15:12the imagination of gamers everywhere.
15:14All you needed was a mysterious unmarked
15:16apartment and few drops of blood and
15:18speculation could just last for years.
15:20Efficiency in games was the name of the
15:23game and there was rarely anything
15:25unnecessarily thrown into a game. So
15:27when people started finding this totally
15:29unmarked apartment in Vice City with a
15:30fully modeled interior and a blood blood
15:33soaked bathroom with a chainsaw pickup
15:35inside, nobody really knew what to make
15:37of it. Now, it was clearly a reference
15:39to Scarface. The apartments look almost
15:41exactly the same. The interior pretty
15:43similar as is, you know, the bloody
15:45chainsaw in the bathroom. What else
15:47could this have been for though? There's
15:49no way they created an entire interior
15:50just for an Easter egg, right? Many
15:52assumed it was part of a cut mission,
15:54possibly safe house that was cut from
15:55the game. Either way, Rockstar
15:57intentionally left the door of this
15:58place open so anyone can go in and
15:59explore and purposefully left the
16:01chainsaw in as a reference to one of the
16:03gnarliest moments in Scarface. And
16:05number 10 is the GTA 5 special edition
16:07map. The reason GTA 5 is such a
16:10lightning rod for urban legends, myths,
16:12fan theories, all that. They knew what
16:14they were doing. They wanted players to
16:16get into that conspiracy theory mindset
16:18and see symbols and meaning everywhere.
16:20Even when most of it was nonsense. And
16:21it all started before the game even
16:23began with the GTA 5 special edition
16:25which included a map of the entire San
16:27Andreas area. There's seemingly nothing
16:30about this map that stands out under
16:31normal light, but if you shine a black
16:33light on it, all kinds of secrets are
16:34revealed. This blew people's minds back
16:36in the day or remain the basis for so
16:38much speculation and theorizing around
16:40the whole Mount Chiliad mystery. Most of
16:42the hidden markers are mundane, but some
16:44of these spots contain spaceship parts.
16:46Others have references to the mysterious
16:48Infinity Killer and more. This blueprint
16:50isn't just the map of the game though.
16:52It's a stepping stone for all the
16:54secrets and Easter eggs in GTA 5. And
16:56while they never really managed to find
16:57all that much with the whole Mount
16:59Chiliad mystery blah blah blah kind of
17:01ended up being a whole big load of
17:03nothing. But there's no reason I'll
17:04believe that all these clues wouldn't
17:06lead somewhere. There was so much effort
17:08put into this stuff early on. It was
17:09only rational to assume there was some
17:11kind of payoff.
17:12And number nine is the swing set glitch
17:14in GTA 4. What's unusual about this one
17:17is that it both is and isn't an Easter
17:19egg. Originally, it was just a glitch
17:21that Rockstar [music] missed in testing.
17:23There was a bug on the swing sets in
17:24Liberty City. If you approach them a
17:26very specific way [music] while driving
17:27a car, you get flung potentially
17:29hundreds of yards into the air.
17:32Sometimes you get sent halfway across
17:34the map. Sometimes the car will get
17:35smashed instantly. I mean, it wasn't
17:37consistent, but it was very funny. Years
17:39and years later, the bug's still in the
17:41game. Rockstar could have removed it at
17:43any opportunity. It's been updated a
17:44lot, so it's not like they just dropped
17:46the game out there and never touched it
17:48again. It's a game that they tinkered
17:49with for years, but they never fixed the
17:51swing set glitch.
17:58It's a bug that eventually became an
17:59Easter egg purely because of how
18:01entertaining yet rare and difficult it
18:03is to pull it off. We know they could
18:05remove it because it's exactly what they
18:06did with GTA 5. There's a similar bug on
18:09the mansion gate that could send your
18:10car flying, but they fixed that. I guess
18:12the difference here is a lot more
18:13unlikely you'll trigger the swing set
18:15glitch unintentionally. You kind of had
18:16to go out of your way to drive a car
18:18into a swing set to get it to work, and
18:19it needs to be done in a really specific
18:21way. So, just driving around isn't going
18:23to cut it. I remember reading an article
18:25discussing this bug somewhere with
18:26Rockstar dev confirming it was
18:28unintentional. I swear to god, but even
18:30without having that to 100% confirm it,
18:32I think it's safe to assume it's it's a
18:34glitch. They know about it, and they
18:36left it in the game because it still
18:37works, obviously.
18:51And number eight is the Infinity Killer
18:53in GTA 5. One of the densest, most
18:55disturbing Easter eggs in GTA 5 is the
18:57whole Infinity Killer mystery. All
18:59around the more rural parts of the map,
19:01you can find clues related to some
19:02mysterious killer who's obsessed with
19:04the number eight and infinity, which is
19:06just the number eight turned sideways.
19:08You can find newspaper articles, there's
19:10a burned-out house in Cholla Springs.
19:12It's got eights and weird messages all
19:14over in the Star Sonora National Park.
19:16There's more clues with poems written
19:18about the eight victims referenced in
19:20the newspaper article. You can even find
19:22the location of the bodies is a map
19:23drawn on a wall inside the Bolingbroke
19:26Penitentiary, otherwise completely
19:28unutilized in the main game. If you
19:30explore Paleto Point on the northernmost
19:33part of the map, you can find bodies
19:34wrapped in plastic dumped in the water
19:36around the islands. It's unclear if the
19:38killer is really dead newspaper article
19:40implies or if he's still somewhere out
19:41there. Either way, the mystery ends
19:43there. There doesn't appear to be any
19:45kind of grand conclusion, but I mean, do
19:47you want to confront the killer? I mean,
19:49the killer might not even be alive, so
19:52uh the lack of closure kind of only adds
19:53to the mystery surrounding it, so
19:55whatever.
19:56At number seven is a secret message in
19:58GTA 3. Um might be an Easter egg that
20:00started it all. GTA 3 pretty light on
20:03Easter eggs, so it stands out. It's
20:05found near a parking lot at Bedford
20:07Point, and the only way to reach it is
20:08to drive a mid-size car up a narrow set
20:10of stairs and then climb onto the car
20:12and over a wall and into a section of
20:14the map you're clearly not meant to be
20:15in. There, you can read a message
20:17written on a wall that reads, "You
20:19weren't supposed to be able to get here,
20:20you know." It's about as simple as one
20:22of these things gets, just some text on
20:24a wall, but it's the thing that got the
20:25entire Easter egg ball rolling for this
20:27franchise. It's where secret hunting
20:30began as an obsession for these games.
20:32This one completely innocuous message
20:34inspired an entire generation of Easter
20:36egg hunters to search every inch of
20:38every GTA game to find any possible
20:40scrap of a secret. I mean, that might
20:42not actually be true, but this is where
20:43Rockstar's obsession with leaving wry
20:45little messages for players truly began.
20:48At number six, the dick building. This
20:50one's in Vice City, a legendary
20:52legendary Easter egg. Not just because
20:54of what it is, but because of what it
20:56started. Defacing something with a crude
20:58drawing of a dick and balls is as old as
21:00civilization itself, but Rockstar added
21:02one key innovation, and that is that it
21:04only appears at a very limited time
21:06during the day. How this one works is
21:08between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. the
21:10lights on the Vice Point Langer building
21:13change so that the pattern of windows
21:14are lit up to look like a dick. For
21:17being on such a big prominent building,
21:19what's interesting here is how hard it
21:21is to notice. You have to be looking at
21:23it from the right angle to see the
21:24pattern and even then it's only visible
21:26for an in-game hour, which is a minute
21:28in real time. So, the people who managed
21:30to see it organically, it's kind of a
21:31magical sight even though it's so
21:33obviously dumb and juvenile. There's
21:35something really funny about seeing
21:37something that's hiding in plain sight
21:38for so long though.
21:40And number five is the opposition
21:41memorial in San Andreas. It was
21:43originally a playful jab. It looks
21:45pretty uh prescient now in 2025 though.
21:48In 2004 game makers were still trying to
21:50come out with the GTA killer. Everyone
21:52wanted their own take on the open-world
21:54crime game. There were many that tried,
21:55but of course San Andreas ended up
21:57blowing all the pretenders out of the
21:58water and Rockstar knew they had an
21:59instant classic on their hands. It
22:01wasn't going to be a game that resonated
22:02with the audience and get low review
22:04scores. They knew they had a bonafide
22:06hit on their hands. That's why you see
22:08the opposition memorial in San Fierro,
22:10which is full of tombstones that read
22:12RIP the opposition 1997 and 2004. The
22:15dates the year the original GTA came
22:17out. 2004 is of course San Andreas year.
22:20The idea here is that San Andreas killed
22:23the competition, but it was more of a
22:25metaphorical thing back then. Now in
22:272025 it's not so much. After the future
22:29Saints Row reboot failed to be, you
22:32know, anything good, everybody's staying
22:33pretty far away from trying to make
22:35their own GTA. The open-world crime
22:37genre is all but dead these days. GTA is
22:40the last one standing. Pure monopoly on
22:42their part at this point.
22:44And number four is the hatch in GTA V.
22:46Easy to forget how old GTA V is.
22:49Launched back in 2013, the tail end of
22:51the Xbox 360 PS3 era. The TV show Lost,
22:55which seems ancient at this point, was
22:56only a few years old by the time GTA V
22:59came [music] out. So, inserting a hatch
23:00Easter egg was still culturally
23:02relevant. A lot of open world games at
23:04the time referenced Lost. Just Cause 2,
23:06for example, went all in with this
23:08stuff. What made GTA 5's version so
23:10legendary is how it's so difficult to
23:12find and how it ultimately subverts your
23:14expectations in the most Rockstar way
23:15possible. The hatch itself is out in the
23:18ocean on the far east side of the map.
23:21Just getting to this spot is tedious,
23:23and spotting it's difficult cuz it's so
23:24deep underwater you can't normally get
23:26close to it. For players who choose to
23:28risk death and get close or they just
23:30cheat, that's the easier option. Then
23:32you can hear a series of clicks coming
23:33faintly from inside the door. It's a
23:35Morse code message, an Easter egg
23:37classic and staple of, you know,
23:39alternate reality games and stuff like
23:41that.
23:48Is it the next piece of the Mount
23:50Chiliad puzzle? Is this where we learn
23:52the location of the fabled jetpack? Is
23:53it another joke? Think you already know
23:55the answer. Yep, when translated the
23:57Morse code it says, [music] and I quote,
23:59"Hey, you never call. How do you fancy
24:01going bowling?" It's just a reference to
24:04Roman Bellic's phone calls from GTA 4.
24:07"My cousin!"
24:08And number three, Ronald Reagan target
24:10practice in GTA Vice City. An
24:12interesting one. It's one of the rare
24:13Easter eggs that actually got removed in
24:15the definitive edition. It's the
24:17legendary banned GTA Easter egg,
24:18probably honestly for a good reason. I
24:21have no idea what the story is on this
24:23thing in the original game, but if you
24:24went downtown to Ammu-Nation in Vice
24:26City, you know, the huge one that has
24:28Sam Houser, one of the creators of
24:30Rockstar running the counter. There's
24:32another freebie Easter egg for you. Sam
24:34Houser, you know. Anyway, if you stand
24:36on the counter, whip out a rocket
24:37launcher, and then look at the wall, you
24:39can see this bizarre image in the game
24:41that's a Photoshop of Ronald Reagan
24:43holding a gun with a picture of Mikhail
24:45Gorbachev with bullet holes on it.
24:46What's odd about this whole thing is
24:48that as far as I'm aware nobody at
24:49Rockstar ever commented on the image or
24:51explained exactly what it is. Probably
24:53for fear or liability, I'm guessing
24:55Rockstar didn't license those real world
24:58images for use in their video game And
24:59and that's probably why it was removed
25:01entirely [music] because they were using
25:03real world images and while it was
25:05photoshopped, those pictures probably
25:06belong to somebody. It's just weird
25:08seeing an actual real world picture of
25:10people in one of these games. They
25:11usually try to mask a little bit but
25:13here it's just those are the real the
25:14real guys. It's possible this was never
25:16meant to be seen in the first place. I
25:18mean, the method for seeing it's pretty
25:19obtuse but I don't know. It's possible
25:22it's maybe left in the game by accident.
25:24Who really knows at this point?
25:25And number two, see you in Miami from
25:28GTA 3. Outside the Francis International
25:30Airport, there's a billboard in GTA 3
25:33that advertised a trip to Miami and even
25:35back when the game first came out, I
25:36remember people speculating this was
25:38meant to be the next game. Keep in mind
25:39the original GTA didn't have just one
25:41city, it had three. [music] Liberty
25:43City, San Andreas and Vice City. The
25:45fact they called it Miami might have
25:46thrown people off the scent a bit but it
25:48was always considered a teaser for the
25:49next game. So begins Rockstar's long
25:52tradition of teasing the next GTA game
25:54using postcards and billboards. An
25:56interesting little time capsule of an
25:57Easter egg but what makes it truly
25:59legendary is when they came out with the
26:01definitive editions, most of the game's
26:03assets remained unchanged at least they
26:05were purposefully altered in some sort
26:07of, you know, just upscaling type way.
26:10But this one got a full upgrade. Instead
26:12of teasing Vice City, they were teasing
26:14GTA 6. Remember when the definitive
26:17editions came out, GTA 6 hadn't been
26:19fully revealed yet. People knew it was
26:21coming for sequel. The fact they put it
26:23in a GTA 3 in the same spot where Vice
26:25City was originally teased, that was a
26:27nice little full circle moment.
26:29And finally at number one is Bigfoot in
26:31GTA 5. Probably nothing more legendary
26:33in the GTA franchise than the hunt for
26:36the Sasquatch, right? It's got to be the
26:37biggest example of a fruitless Easter
26:39egg hunt in history because I mean, you
26:41know how it ends. Also, there's there's
26:43Mount Chiliad, maybe that's slightly
26:45bigger. Anyway, at least when it comes
26:47to Sasquatch, Rockstar did offer
26:48something to all the fans who obsessed
26:50over finding in San Andreas. You got a
26:52bonus mission to unlock after completing
26:54every other mission in the game. Uh this
26:55leads to the final hidden strangers and
26:57freaks mission, the last one where
26:59Franklin meets a Sasquatch hunter and
27:01helps him hunt down the last Sasquatch
27:03in existence. He ends up being a guy in
27:06a mask, but that doesn't mean the real
27:08Sasquatch isn't out there somewhere.
27:09>> It's just a [ __ ] mask.
27:12>> There's a lot of layers to this Easter
27:13egg. For one, the hunter references his
27:15great-granddaddy, who's probably the guy
27:17from the birth of the conservation
27:20movement mission from Red Dead
27:21Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
27:23>> The damn Sasquatch! The filthy thing was
27:25going to eat my DOG WHEN THIS GIRL
27:26HOLLERED OUT, AND I SHOT THE THING RIGHT
27:29THROUGH THE HEART.
27:30>> YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHERE YOU HUNT down
27:32the last Sasquatches.
27:33>> Shoot me, human.
27:35Shoot me.
27:36>> Oh, I will, you foul creature of the
27:38night.
27:39>> You'll be granting me peace.
27:41>> Why's that?
27:43Keep you from eating more babies?
27:45>> What in the name of all that's right are
27:48YOU TALKING ABOUT, HUMAN?
27:50>> THE guy in GTA V looks and sounds very
27:52similar to that guy.
27:53>> I could have sworn. THEY'RE CLEVER
27:55BASTARDS. SOME OF THEM WEAR ORANGE SO
27:57THAT PEOPLE will think they're hunters.
27:59Let's go this way.
27:59>> It was later revealed the hunter's name
28:01was Tanner, a reference to Tanner's
28:03Reach, the same place where you hunted
28:05Bigfoots in Undead Nightmare. Also,
28:08again, the name of the protagonist in
28:11Driver 3, John Tanner. Sure that has
28:13nothing to do with both of these guys,
28:15though, right? Anyways, he's voiced by
28:17the same guy who did the voice of the
28:19Squatch from Undead Nightmare. He has
28:20the same lines almost verbatim.
28:22>> Shoot me, human.
28:24>> I just did.
28:27>> Shoot me, human.
28:28Make it stop.
28:30>> I JUST SHOT YOUR ASS. IT STOPPED.
28:32>> I'm the last of my kind.
28:34>> Your evolution is a
28:36>> It gets even more complicated when you
28:38get into the whole peyote thing, where
28:40if you find every random peyote plant on
28:41the wilderness, you can actually become
28:43a Sasquatch, and this time it's the real
28:45deal. If you keep going with it, you
28:47eventually encounter the beast, which is
28:49just an extended Teen Wolf Easter egg,
28:51because of course that's how how this
28:53whole Sasquatch thing ends. Hundreds of
28:55thousands of hours have been dedicated
28:56following every possible lead and urban
28:58legend by a hardcore audience of
29:00dedicated fans, all ending it with a
29:03fist fight with Teen Wolf, a reference
29:05that would have been outdated in 1995,
29:07you know, a long time ago, let alone
29:102025. Now, I mean if that's not the
29:13ultimate Rockstar conclusion to an
29:14Easter egg, I don't know what is. And
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