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Design Director Emil Pagliarulo has said 'Fus Ro Dah' is his favorite shout for its forceful simplicity, and revealed that in Skyrim's reveal trailer, it's actually his own voice yelling it in the recording booth.
Before Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady wasn't exactly a household name in gaming. Eidos secured the Batman license in 2007 and approached the small British studio after seeing an early prototype they'd put together, and by that September full production was underway. Quite the gamble that ended up paying off massively.
Next to the defenders' second spawn on Eichenwalde, you'll find a sword jammed into a bonfire — a straight-up nod to the resting spots in Dark Souls. They even put a big health pack right beside it, which is a nice touch if you know what you're looking at.
Glitching into the Palazzo Ducale's private quarters reveals the exact chess position from the cutscene where Carlo Grimaldi assassinated Doge Giovanni Mocenigo, though the candle they played under is oddly unlit, and the sky outside turns blood red, likely an unintended lighting bug.
Game director Josh Sawyer built his own personal mod, unofficially nicknamed JSawyer, that rebalances a lot of systems and fixes issues he felt never got resolved before launch. It's essentially his own director's cut of the game, made purely out of passion rather than any studio mandate, and fans still use it today when they want the experience closer to his original vision.
When Machiavelli asks how Ezio recruited the city's guilds, Ezio credits "Virtù," a real concept from Machiavelli's writing on leadership. Later, Machiavelli jokes about writing a book on Ezio one day, a wink at Machiavelli's real, famously short work, The Prince.
Zyra's kit is quietly full of little Easter eggs most players never notice. Killing, or being killed by, Karthus or Sion nets an extra bit of gold as a wink to Plants vs. Zombies, and if Maokai's on her team she gives him a small movement speed boost, since apparently plants look out for each other.
By the numbers, Season 3 turned out to be the most-watched animated season Prime Video has ever put out, and the biggest returning season across every adult animation title on the platform. Not bad for a show that started out as a mid-budget adaptation of a mid-2000s indie comic.
Diamond City's noodle vendor Takahashi has exactly one line of dialogue, and it's lifted word for word, broken grammar included, from Blade Runner's noodle bar scene. Blink and you'll miss it, but it's one of several Blade Runner nods scattered around the game.
Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion aren't just cool dragon names picked at random. Daenerys named each one after someone who mattered to her: Drogon after her late husband Khal Drogo, Rhaegal after her brother Rhaegar, and Viserion after her other brother Viserys, who treated her far worse than either of the two he was named alongside.
