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Deep in the swamps of Bayou Nwa, past the gators and the outlaws trying to kill you, there's a genuinely tiny little church. Arthur can only just fit through the doorway, and the pews inside look like they were built for someone a fraction of his size.
To save money and keep everything consistent, Dead Man's Chest was filmed back-to-back with its follow-up, At World's End. It made for a brutal, marathon production schedule across multiple countries, but it let Disney release both only a year apart.
By the time Dragonwilds wrapped up its roughly 18-month stint in Steam Early Access and hit version 1.0 in September 2026, it had sold more than 1.5 million copies.
Over in the Penitentiary there's a GCPD wanted poster for Prometheus, a fairly obscure DC villain who never gets a proper appearance in the game. It's the sort of reference that only die-hard comic readers were ever going to catch on a first playthrough.
Poke around the vault in the Seattle bank during Day 1 downtown and you'll find a drawer with an engraved ring sitting inside it. It's the same ring Nathan Drake wears throughout the Uncharted series, a nice little wink from Naughty Dog to their other flagship franchise.
Rat traps scattered around rat-infested areas can be baited with cheese, and other players (or rats) can come along and try to grab that cheese off the trap. Because of how the mechanic works, it's been used as a sneaky way to transfer effectively infinite cheese to an ironman account, which definitely wasn't the intended use.
Thanks to an error on a wiki page, the black shield (h2) ended up trading on the Grand Exchange for roughly ten times its actual worth, and that mistaken price stuck around influencing trades for about three years before anyone properly corrected it.
There's no loading screen and no hard cut for the entire 20+ hour campaign. Director Cory Barlog wanted the camera to feel like it never looks away from Kratos, so gameplay bleeds straight into cutscenes and back again without you ever noticing the seams.
Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, the voices behind Joel and Ellie in the games, both turn up in the HBO series - just not as Joel and Ellie. Baker plays James, part of David's group in season one, while Johnson appears as Anna, Ellie's mother, giving longtime fans a proper nod without any recasting confusion.
Pop into the general store in Saint Denis and take a proper look behind the shopkeeper's counter. Sitting there is the zombie mask from the original game's Undead Nightmare expansion, just quietly hanging around eight years later. You can't buy it or wear it, it's there purely as a nod for anyone who noticed.
