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A hidden 'Golden Peyote' plant lets players transform into Bigfoot, but it only appears at Raton Canyon on Tuesdays between 5:30 and 8:00 AM, and only once every prior peyote plant has already been consumed. It was one of the last major single-player secrets fans uncovered after release.
Right near the start of the game, Vesemir describes Emperor Emhyr's summons as 'an offer one can't refuse,' borrowing one of The Godfather's most famous lines almost word for word.
In the original Halo's ending cutscene, there's a moment where an Elite can be seen grabbing Sergeant Johnson's backside during their farewell hug. It seems 343 Industries noticed the same odd detail, because when Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary rolled around, they made sure Johnson returned the favour in kind.
Long before Peter Jackson got involved, The Beatles reportedly wanted to make their own Lord of the Rings film, with John Lennon eyeing the role of Gollum. Tolkien wasn't keen on a pop group taking on his story, and the rights never came through.
The Scarlet Cardinal Inn tucked away in Toussaint is a sly nod to CD Projekt Red's own company logo, hiding the studio's branding in plain sight as a tavern sign.
Tucked into the Spider-Society's endless background noise is a voice line lifted from Alfred Molina's Doc Ock in No Way Home, reused here as just another piece of multiverse chatter. It's the kind of thing you'd only catch with subtitles on or a very good pair of headphones.
Not everything in that climactic Kraken confrontation was digital. When the beast spits and sends Jack flying, that gunk hitting Johnny Depp was genuine practical slime, not a CGI effect.
During the theatrical trailer campaign for Halo 2, the usual xbox.com web address quietly swapped to ilovebees.com for a split second. Anyone who typed it in found a site that looked like it had been hijacked by an AI, and over the following months it unspooled an entire alternate reality game explaining how the Covenant actually managed to track Earth down, something the first game never answered.
Vault 114 was meant to be a haven for the Commonwealth's wealthiest, but the overseer picked to run it was a homeless man with no leadership experience and some fairly severe schizophrenic tendencies, nicknamed Soupcan Harry. It was less a shelter and more a study in what happens when the privileged get put under a lunatic's charge, and the body count in there tells you how that went.
The abandoned castle of Vizima in Temeria is actually Kreuzenstein Castle near Leobendorf, Austria. Its exteriors gave the production a genuinely ancient, weathered look that would have been far harder to fake on a soundstage.
