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Find a miniature chess board somewhere in the Wasteland and you'll be able to pick up tiny Nuka-Cola bottles, bears, and gnomes. Carry only one at a time and they'll stay miniature-sized in your inventory, a strange little physics quirk players still swap tips about.
A guard patrolling the streets of Beauclair mutters 'all work and no play' at Geralt, lifted straight from The Shining, right down to the delivery.
Early in episode one, a little girl asks Steven if it hurt when he got rejected from the Field of Reeds. It's such a throwaway moment first time round, but it's actually setting up exactly what happens to him falling from Taweret's boat in episode five.
Subject 16 hid twenty encoded Glyphs across the Animus recreation of Renaissance Italy, five in Florence, one in Monteriggioni, five in Tuscany, two in Romagna, and seven in Venice, each unlocking a fragment of the video known as "The Truth."
Deep in the Ayleid ruin of Vilverin there's a note addressed to a Daggerfall guard captain named Aluc Cardius. Rearrange those letters and you're basically looking at 'Dracula' - which tracks nicely, since the game hints pretty strongly that Cardius is a vampire himself.
When an Orc dies during the Tournament of Ten Bloods, Boethia sighs 'Alas, poor Orc. This was not your finest hour.' It's a straightforward pun on Hamlet's graveyard speech, 'Alas, poor Yorick,' dropped in without any fanfare for anyone who happened to study the play in school.
Robin Williams was reportedly a keen Alliance player. After his death in 2014, Blizzard added a quiet tribute on an island off the southern coast of Talador: rub the Ever-Burning Lamp there and one of his most famous characters appears.
During the tutorial, Uriel Septim recites a couple of slightly reworked lines from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, including 'death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.' Makes sense once you remember his voice actor was Patrick Stewart, a Royal Shakespeare Company member since the 1960s.
The legendary exotic rocket launcher Gjallarhorn was sold by Xur only three times across the game's entire history, twice in Destiny 1's first year. Many players missed or ignored the very first sale simply because they didn't yet realise how good it was or didn't have enough Strange Coins.
