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Years after release, players including Pariah87 and goldenplaysterraria stumbled on a spider-web symbol carved into a telegraph pole that nobody had ever documented before. It went viral in the community all over again, and even with plenty of digging, nobody has managed to fully explain what it's actually referencing.
John Noble's Denethor wears a sword on his belt for the entire film despite never once drawing it. The props department just gave it to him so he'd feel like part of the club alongside everyone else who actually fought.
It launched on PS4 in August 2017, but the game's journey didn't stop there, a remastered PS5 version arrived in January 2022 as part of the Legacy of Thieves Collection, followed by a PC release that October, letting a whole new wave of players hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh.
A clothing shop near Trevor's rink in Sandy Shores sells a whitish jacket with a crab stitched onto the back, a direct parody of the iconic scorpion jacket Ryan Gosling's character wears throughout the 2011 film Drive.
It sounds backwards, but John Rhys-Davies, the man playing the dwarf, was actually the tallest actor among the nine members of the Fellowship. Every trick in the camera book went into making him look like the shortest.
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.
Most people hit the victory screen and alt-tab out immediately, which means they miss this one. Stick around on the Howling Abyss for about thirty seconds after a win and Lissandra herself chimes in with a bit of frosty, aristocratic narration about the three sisters. It's a small touch, but it's the kind of thing that makes the map feel less like a leftover and more like its own little story.
Naughty Dog rebuilt its facial animation system from scratch for this game. Where faces in The Last of Us and Uncharted 3 relied on roughly 90 to 100 animation points, Uncharted 4's characters use somewhere between 300 and 500, letting the team capture far subtler expressions.
Casting F. Murray Abraham as the voice of Khonshu wasn't a cold call — Oscar Isaac reached out to him personally, since the two had already worked together on the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis nearly a decade earlier.
