Everybody knows that there were lots of easter eggs in HL1 (and Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Decay). But what about easter eggs in HL2 (and EPs 1 and 2)?
(If this doesn’t warrants it’s own thread as theres this one just erase this thread)
Just because he wrote where, that doesn’t mean you must write where instead of were too…
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Hmm I guess there are no easter eggs? 
I’ve been there. Its a bitch on your health tho. I dont recommend it. And seeing how this thread doesnt have much yet, here are some trivia stuff off of my page:
Trivia
- In Ravenholm, written across the top of a large building are some Bulgarian symbols that translates to “cement”.
- Dr. Kleiner’s pet head-crab is most often referred to as “Lamarr”. However when they are looking for the run-away pet, Dr. Kleiner says “There’s only one Hedy”. This references Hedy Lamarr, the actress who was also a communications innovator. She held at least one technical patent and is credited to be the first inventor of so called “spread spectrum”, an important technique used in communication and other areas. As such she becomes a natural icon for a communications scientist such as Dr. Kleiner.
- The hero Gordon Freeman does not say a word. There are joking references to this twice in the game, both times by Alyx (when she meets Freeman for the first time, and shortly before she is captured by the Combine). In both cases she says something along the lines of “You don’t talk much, do you?”
- Robin Williams is a big fan of the series, and was actually in talks to do a voice for the games. Scheduling conflicts prevented this.
- The voice of Dr. Eli Vance is Robert Guillaume; big screen and tv actor known for roles such as Benson DuBois in “Benson” and “Soap” from the mid '1980’s.
- To celebrate the game’s completion, Valve employees built a pinata to look like a Scanner (a flying robot from the game) and smashed it with a crowbar.
- In an early version of the game script, Gordon was to receive a briefing by Eli Vance via slides to fill him in on what had happened in between the large gap of time he had been gone. The slides would have featured Bullsquids chasing people from their homes and an Icthyosaur materializing in a public pool under a kid halfway through a dive. It also set up how the combine was able to gain power. It would have ended by showing Dr. Breen and the power he received. This was cut for pacing reasons.
- Found in the teleportation room of Dr. Kleiner’s lab, there is what appears to be a crashed Windows NT machine — could this be the cause of the broken teleporter?
- Barney Calhoun’s face was provided by Valve CEO Scott Lynch.
- All valve Half Life games include the faceplate of the original HEV Suit Recharger with the exception of Episode One.
- In Black Mesa East, just after following Judith through the locked door, there is a chain link fence. Just as you get there, a citizen begins walking away from you on the other side. Noclip through the fence and follow him. At the end of the tunnel he just starts walking back and forth, stopping when he turns around to… levitate? Cool, eh? Probably just a bug? Take a closer look. The citizen bears a more than striking resemblance to David Blaine. Blaine’s fans would know of his most infamous “street magic” illusions involving levitating a few inches off the ground.
there’s another in the road to c17 I don’t remember were but it shows the brain and internal parts of the head of a monkey-under-evolutinon, after it a human and, after it, the metropolice 1 showing a lot of mechanic things inside his head (it also shows internal parts of the mask of the metrocop)
This was pretty cool when I found it by accident. The video is not mine and I dont claim that I was the one who 1st found that.
There’s also a picture of Mark Twain in the room in Black Mesa East that Judith goes in with the closed circuit monitors.
There’s a White Forest logo in EP2 that is reminiscent of the various Dharma logos in LOST…
On Eli’s bookshelf there is a book written by Kleiner, as well as one called THE BIG BOOK OF BIG TEXT.
That wierd object in a jar is the head of a cremator, a cut half life 2 enemy.
Of course, all of the gman sightings.
There’s a Book/Case that says “LOST” in a similar font to the one in the show in Eli’s lab, with the other books. ^
…When the show had just come out.
Here, I’m expanding some of the given information:
Dr. Kleiner, as Lamarr jumps into the teleporter: “Lamarr? Hedy! NO!”
When you meet Alyx: “A man of few words, aren’t you?”
When you reach Dr. Mossman in Entanglement: “Leave the talking to me, Gordon”
In the base, an Easter egg referring to the TV series Lost can be found. In Uriah’s lab, there is an inaccessible room containing a computer terminal with the six factors of the Valenzetti Equation shown on the screen and, on the wall, a Dharma-style octagon with the three pines from the White Forest logo. The room was inserted at the request of Gabe Newell, who promised to insert a reference to Lost in response to Half-Life references in Lost’s first season. It is however just an easter egg and the connection between the two universes is not to be considered canon. (Source: OverWiki)
Some HL2 easter eggs on eeggs.com:
https://www.eeggs.com/tree/9409.html
Some HL2: EP1 easter eggs on eeggs.com:
https://www.eeggs.com/tree/10724.html
Some HL2: EP2 easter eggs on eeggs.com:
https://www.eeggs.com/tree/11573.html
https://www.eeggs.com is a great place for easter eggs from… everywhere.
In EP1, there was this ridiculously well-hidden rack of stripped overwatch soldiers in the citadel; you could just barely make out a little part of it.
So that’s where the memory replacement is seen.
Overwiki says HL2, so I was confused last time I saw the article, with the model shown not even existing in the files…
Yeah, good luck finding it without help.
I spent like an hour scouring the map with noclip before it turned up.
You can see it on a monitor in Nova Prospekt.
No, not that. There’s a wall of tehm hooked up to some mind-wiping stuff.