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This was John Mulaney's first role in a theatrically released movie, and the producers told him to just play around in the booth. He took that a little too literally at first, ad-libbing a string of curse words as Spider-Ham before finally stopping to ask what rating they were going for. Once he found out it was a family film, he dialed it right back.
Watch the post credits scene closely and Chris Evans is the only Avenger not eating, and he's clearly holding his hand up against his jaw the whole time. That's because he'd already started filming Snowpiercer and refused to shave his beard, so the makeup team stuck him in a wig and a prosthetic chin and hoped nobody noticed the awkward hand placement covering the seams.
Bethesda's contract with Obsidian included a big bonus if the game hit a certain Metacritic score. New Vegas came in one single point below that target, which meant Obsidian lost out on a large chunk of the payout despite the game becoming a fan favourite. It's one of those stories that gets brought up constantly whenever people talk about how brutal review-score bonus clauses can be for developers.
GTA V was the first game in the series to let players simultaneously control three separate protagonists: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Each character required their own voice recording, motion capture sessions, animations, and dedicated mission strands, a huge driver of the game's production cost.
The original World at War version of Verrückt had a unique breed of zombie that outright sprinted faster than the player, nicknamed 'Verrückt sprinters' by the community. They were quietly removed in later re-releases to bring the difficulty down a notch.
Alongside the deathclaws, both Vault City and the ghoul town of Gecko had good endings planned that never made it into the shipped game. Whatever outcome you get for those locations in the final release is, for better or worse, the only one that made the cut.
As of mid-2012, RuneScape players had collectively burned through 443 billion minutes playing the game. Guinness worked out that's an average of almost 37 hours per account — basically a full working week's worth of grinding for every single person who's ever made a login.
General Tullius, voiced by Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan, is the Imperial commander overseeing the botched execution at Helgen that opens the game, tying the political Civil War storyline directly into the very first cinematic players see when Alduin attacks the keep.
Kennedy isn't just a campaign cameo. He's one of the four playable characters in the zombies map Five, using a different, more exaggerated voice actor than his campaign appearance. On the map Ascension, there's also a ringing telephone you can pick up to hear him shout a line about needing 'some beans for the chowder,' a strange little callback that has nothing to do with the plot but has stuck with fans for years anyway.
The perk system, killstreaks, and customisable loadouts that feel completely standard in shooters today all trace back to this game. It's been copied so thoroughly by other studios that it's now considered unusual for a modern shooter not to have some version of it.
