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Long before world borders were a thing, players who walked far enough from spawn in older versions would hit the Far Lands, a stretch of terrain around 12.5 million blocks out where the game's math simply broke down into towering, glitched cliffs. It took a YouTuber a legitimate ten-day walk in 2020 just to reach it, since the spot got patched out of normal generation years earlier.
Skyrim was chosen as the next game in The Elder Scrolls series after Oblivion, was because the most was known about the province of Skyrim.It gave Bethesda more to start with as they developed the game. Along with the fact that Skyrim was considered cool
It's easy to forget, but Widowmaker wasn't always the ice-cold assassin she is now. As Amélie Lacroix, she was married to Overwatch agent Gérard Lacroix — and it was through him that Talon got their hands on her and rewired her into the person we play today.
Tom Uberti, one of the figures in Sadie's Story, seems to be a nod to Dante's Farinata degli Uberti, a heretic condemned to spend eternity trapped in a burning tomb. Tom's own fate in the story mirrors that fairly closely, which fits given how heavily the whole audio log arc leans on Inferno imagery.
Sgt. Reznov is voiced by Gary Oldman and Sgt. Roebuck by Kiefer Sutherland - a proper stacked cast for a 2008 shooter. Reznov went on to become one of the most memorable characters in the whole Call of Duty series thanks largely to Oldman's performance.
Magne, a trans woman in the League of Villains, is voiced by a cisgender man in both the original Japanese track and the English dub. It's one of those casting choices that still gets brought up whenever people talk about how anime handles trans representation.
In Nate and Elena's daughter's bedroom hangs a poster for a fictional comic called The Last of Us: American Daughters, showing a red-haired, visibly pregnant woman holding a revolver. Fans latched onto the resemblance to Ellie and spent years speculating it was foreshadowing for The Last of Us Part II, though that turned out not to be the case.
Fallout the show doesn't retell any single game's story, it jumps ahead to 2296, which makes it the furthest point in the timeline the franchise has ever shown. That means every mainline Fallout game technically happened before the events we're watching, and the show treats all of it as settled canon rather than just inspiration.
Hang around too long without progressing an objective and the game starts lobbing grenades at you constantly - it's especially brutal on Veteran difficulty and is basically Treyarch's way of telling you to stop hiding behind that crate and push forward.
There's a minigame in Dorgesh-Kaan where you sell exotic food to hungry goblins, and for a while after it launched in 2007 you could offer them something dirt cheap, like a single potato, for a price in the billions. An integer overflow bug meant they'd often just accept it.
