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The base game features eight named Dragon Priest bosses, each guarding a unique enchanted mask with its own powerful effect. The Dragonborn expansion adds five more named Dragon Priests, bringing the total to thirteen, four of which carry their own unique masks.
Crack open the circuit box where Deadshot keeps his gear stashed and there's a weird glowing prop that a lot of players assumed was a lightsaber reference. Turns out it's actually just a low-res model of a sniper scope that ended up looking way more sci-fi than intended. Still funny that it fooled so many people.
In Old World Blues there's a tiny but surprisingly tough deathclaw called Stripe, and yes, that's a direct reference to the gremlin of the same name from the 1984 film. Get too close to him and he'll actually flee toward a fountain, mirroring the exact spot where the movie's Stripe meets his end.
Right at the start of episode one, when Vi, Mylo, Powder and Claggor are legging it across the rooftops, Claggor grabs a cupcake off a tray mid-heist. Looks like a throwaway gag, but that exact cupcake trap is Caitlyn's in-game ability Yordle Snap Trap, icon and all. Vi even calls Caitlyn 'Cupcake' as a nickname later in the show, so the whole thing loops back around nicely.
That running gag about Peter Parker releasing a cheesy holiday album, complete with titles like a mistletoe-themed swing anthem, wasn't planned from the start. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller dreamed it up while the film was already being scored, and only found out Chris Pine could actually sing when he showed up and nailed the recording session.
While the bulk of Naughty Dog was heads-down on Drake's Deception, a second smaller team inside the studio was quietly working on something completely different in the background. That project turned out to be The Last of Us. It's the first time in the company's history they'd split like this, and it's kind of wild to think both games were cooking at the same building at once.
The flashback chapters show a teenage Nate, played by Billy Unger, trying to lift the Drake ring from a Cartagena museum and getting way out of his depth. That's the moment Sully steps in, and it's basically the origin story for the whole Drake and Sullivan partnership fans already knew from the earlier games.
The Helm's Deep set wasn't a soundstage build, it was constructed life-size into an actual cliff face, and it took the crew seven months just to get it standing before they could film there for eight days.
There was genuine internal discussion about making Cassie Drake the lead instead of Chloe. The idea got dropped for a few reasons: the team worried she'd feel too much like a Lara Croft clone, an adult Cassie suddenly gunning down mercenaries felt tonally wrong, and honestly, Nate and Elena would never sign off on their daughter living that life.
