"Money! That's What I Want!"
Throw coins into a crowd and female bystanders will sometimes shout "Money! That's what I want!", a reference to the Motown classic of the same name.
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The Cast Rehearsed Together Like a Film Shoot
Unlike the first game, which was shot in a fairly rough open shed setup, Among Thieves had the whole cast rehearsing and performing scenes together on a proper soundstage with three or four mocap cameras running, letting the actors improvise off each other the way they would on an actual movie set.
A Shelf Full of Award Nods
The game picked up recognition well beyond gaming's usual circles, landing nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards for Best Performer for both Claudia Black and Laura Bailey, plus nods from the Annie Awards, the Visual Effects Society and The Game Awards.
The Dev Team's Hidden Mountaintop Photo
Right at the peak of the tallest, most distant mountain visible from Toussaint, there's a framed photo of the actual development team propped on an easel between two pillars. There's no legitimate way to reach it during normal play, you need the game's debug free camera to teleport Geralt all the way up there.
The Kraken Learned From a Kaiju
Getting the Kraken's tentacles to move convincingly was a nightmare for the animators. The solution came from an unlikely place: the animation director had his team study the octopus fight scene from the 1962 classic King Kong vs. Godzilla for inspiration.
The Glyphs Nobody Could Crack for Years
Scattered through ODST are strange glyph symbols that fans spent years trying to decode, convinced they hid some kind of message or code left by Bungie. Community sleuths kept chasing the mystery well over a decade after release, with Marty O'Donnell himself eventually dropping hints, making it one of the longest-running unsolved secrets tied to the game.
Joe Staten Talks to Himself the Whole Game
Lead writer Joseph Staten has voiced every single Grunt in the Halo trilogy, but in ODST he also stepped in to voice the New Mombasa Superintendent, the calm AI narrating the Rookie's wander through the city. So a fair chunk of the game's dialogue, both the smallest alien mooks and the biggest guiding voice, comes out of the same guy.
Red Menace On The Pip-Boy
Buried in holotapes across the Commonwealth is a playable Pip-Boy game called Red Menace, which is basically Bethesda's tribute to the original Donkey Kong. It's easy to overlook since you have to actually find and load the holotape yourself, but it's a proper little arcade throwback hiding in your wrist computer.
T.E. Lawrence Inspired the Whole Plot
Drake's Deception opens with a quote lifted straight from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the real memoir of T.E. Lawrence (yep, the actual Lawrence of Arabia). His life story, chasing lost cities across the Arabian desert, basically became the blueprint for Nate's own obsession in this game.
The Logo Hidden in the Blood
Early on when Drake and Tenzin stumble across a pile of dead wolves in the ice cave, don't rush past it. If you look closely at the blood splattered in the snow you'll spot a single red paw print sitting among the mess, which is actually a nod to the Naughty Dog logo itself, tucked into the scenery where most players never think to look.