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Creative director Amy Hennig has said the team deliberately went for a desert this time because sand, fire and water are some of the hardest 'organic' elements to fake convincingly with animation. Basically they picked the setting that would force them to get better at the stuff nobody else was doing well yet.
Find Ra's al Ghul's body bag in the Arkham Mansion and it's there plain as day. Head back to the Morgue later on, though, and it's simply gone - no cutscene, no explanation, just a quiet little reminder that a man who's cheated death countless times in the comics probably isn't done yet.
Strip away the Noxian armour and Riven's arc looks a lot like Aragorn's. Both were exiled from where they belonged, both carried a broken blade as a symbol of who they used to be, and both eventually get that sword reforged as part of reclaiming their identity.
A movie poster for 'Dawn of the Wolf' shows up first in Sarah's bedroom and then keeps resurfacing in different variations throughout the game. It's a not-so-subtle jab at the Twilight saga, right down to the moody romantic tagline.
At its peak, WoWWiki grew to more than 99,800 pages, making it the largest community-run wiki dedicated to any single video game on the internet. That's an enormous amount of collective note-taking from a fanbase that clearly wasn't satisfied with just playing the thing.
Because World of Warcraft and Warcraft III were being built at roughly the same time, the two teams ended up leaning on each other. Some of the earliest playable builds of WoW were actually running on a modified version of the Warcraft III engine before the MMO's own tech had caught up.
Before building any of Fallout 4 itself, the team's first move on the new console hardware was porting Skyrim to the Xbox One, purely as a way of learning the console's capabilities and figuring out the new renderer they'd need. Todd Howard has joked that fans shouldn't get too excited about that particular port.
Back in the original 2010 game, a rendering glitch could occasionally spawn a woman with what looked exactly like a donkey's head sat on her shoulders. It was never an intended feature, just a broken asset swap, but it became one of those glitches players actively went hunting for instead of reporting.
Once you've won over all three faction guilds, you get a short conversation with Niccolò Machiavelli, who asks Ezio how he managed to unite them all. Ezio's answer is a single word, 'virtue', a quiet reference to the ideas Machiavelli laid out in his own famous work, The Prince.
