Christopher Plummer Voiced Arngeir
Christopher Plummer, best remembered as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, voiced Arngeir, the Greybeard elder who first teaches the Dragonborn about the Way of the Voice at High Hrothgar.
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Why Ellie Loves the Stars
Joel gifting Ellie an astronomy book isn't just a sentimental prop. Neil Druckmann has said the whole detail exists because Ashley Johnson, who plays Ellie, wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. In the same breath, he's explained that Joel's love of music and singing comes from the fact that Troy Baker started out as an actual musician before he ever voiced a video game character.
Black Ops Let You Gamble Your Own Currency on Matches
Wager Match was one of the odder additions to the original Black Ops multiplayer, letting six players throw their CoD Points into a pot before a match and split the winnings based on where they finished. First place walked away with half the pool, second got thirty percent, and third took the rest, while anyone outside the top three lost their buy-in entirely.
Some Vault Entrances Are Hidden Behind Solid Rock
The Fractured Plains Vault won't even show itself until you've dealt with a pile of boulders blocking the way in, which can be cleared with either a pickaxe or the Rocksplosion spell, making it one of the more literal 'hidden entrance' moments in the game.
Walton Goggins Isn't New to Superhero Movies
Before he took on the role of Cecil Stedman, Walton Goggins had already dipped a toe into the genre playing Sonny Burch in Ant-Man and the Wasp. His casting as the calculating head of the Global Defense Agency in Invincible fits a pattern where a lot of the show's cast had prior comic book adaptation experience before joining.
Sic Parvis Magna
Drake wears a ring around his neck engraved with Sic Parvis Magna, Latin for 'greatness from small beginnings'. It's introduced almost casually here, but the phrase becomes a genuine throughline for who Nathan Drake actually is by the time later games roll around.
There's a Secret Crypt Nobody Sends You To
South of the Derelict Manor waypoint in Ashwold Cemetery, there's a cracked stone wall that looks like nothing until you get close and see a prompt to 'Enter Hidden Crypt.' It's not tied to any quest, it's just a fully unmarked mini-dungeon with elite enemies guarding a loot chest for anyone curious enough to poke at the scenery.
Excalibur and the Lady in the Lake
Near Bleakwind Basin, a skeletal arm reaches up out of a small lake clutching a sword, a nod to the Lady of the Lake handing Excalibur to King Arthur. A second sword-in-stone reference can also be found elsewhere in the game, both playing on the same legend.
A Church Built for Someone Much Smaller Than Arthur
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.
Johnson's Callback to the First Game's Ending
In the very first level of Halo 2, Lieutenant Gonzalez asks Sergeant Johnson how on earth he managed to survive Halo. Johnson brushes it off, saying it's classified, and it's a direct little wink back to the legendary ending of the original game, where Johnson is last seen sharing an unlikely hug with an Elite as the ring blows up around them.