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Old School RuneScape wasn't part of some grand plan — it exists because players hated the Evolution of Combat update so much that Jagex dug up a backup of the game from 2007 and let people play that version instead. It was meant to be a nostalgia trip, and it ended up becoming its own massively supported game.
When the brothers head into Brooklyn's sewers to fix a burst pipe, the music playing underneath is a callback to World 1-2 from the original Super Mario Bros, the very first underground level in the series. There's even a sign behind Luigi labelling the area Level 1-2, just to make sure nobody missed it.
That half-burned pink teddy bear that keeps turning up after the plane crash is loaded with meaning. Fans generally read the bear's missing eye as a stand-in for Walt's own moral blind spot — he only ever seems to notice the damage he causes when it's impossible to ignore.
The Cabbage Vendor's whole shtick of watching his cart get destroyed became such a running joke that it escaped the franchise entirely. He shows up in Baldur's Gate 3, complete with an extra bit of dialogue reserved just for Monk characters.
Rockstar has officially named six distinct areas that make up the state of Leonida: Vice City itself, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park. An exact map size has never been published, so anything you see quoting square miles online is still just fan estimation.
Across the whole trilogy, the team spent 998 working days just shooting miniatures and bigatures. Add it up and that's roughly four years of someone's working life spent filming models.
Tucked near Dalaran's Antonidas Memorial is an ethereal vendor called Xur'ios, who deals exclusively in Curious Coins. It's a direct homage to Destiny's Xur, right down to selling items named after that game's gear, like 'Gjallar's Horn' and 'Krota's Shield.'
