In Skyrim, if you kill one of the merchants in Whiterun, then Ysolda will take over their store. She has aspirations to be a merchant and will fulfill her dream with some player help.

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Area 51 in Fallout Nevada has the same warning signs that the real life Area 51 has

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In AC Valhalla at one point you have to settle a dispute in your village. An artist has shaved someones horse to make brushes. After that quest a hairless horse will spawn in the stables.

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The paint can in Grounded is begging you to stop eating the paint

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In Jedi: Fallen Order when you learn to wall-run your master says “Faster, more intensity”, a nod to the direction George Lucas was known for always saying when directing actors on Star Wars

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In Mortal Kombat 10 if you play as Kotal Kahn on the Emperor's Courtyard stage and move near one of the workers, they will notice and bow before him.

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The most Fallout thing ever -- the rotary phones have wireless handsets

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In GTA IV there's a humorous warning message inside the Maverick stating This helicopter might crash but we really don't care if it does, refer to flight manual for help.

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In Dishonored, when you rescue Emily you can see that Wallace is on the lookout for when you come back and runs to alert the Loyalists

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In the GTA V side mission Grass Roots, if you're playing as Michael, he will get incredibly high off Barry's weed and will begin hallucinating aliens attacking him with laser guns. If the player flees the area instead of killing the aliens, this amusing mission fail message will appear.

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In Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4) a chessboard can be found in Martin Li's office at the FEAST Shelter. This is a reference to the comic book version of the character, where Martin Li moves a white piece, and later finds a black piece moved in response, implied to be moved by his alter ego, Mr. Negative.

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In Half-Life 2 at Black Mesa East this object in a jar can be found, which Eli states that we're still not sure what that does. The object is the head of a Cremator, a janitor-like enemy that was cut.

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In Batman: Arkam City, if you look up at a rooftop at the start of the game, you can see Azrael watching you.

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There's a Hidden Motocross Helmet inside the R in the Trials Logo

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(Chivalry 2) futurama death by snu snu reference

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[GTA 4] The Statue of Happiness's face resembles Senator Hillary Clinton who pushed legislation for further restriction of adult themes in video games after GTA San Andreas's Hot Coffee controversy.

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In GTA4 analog clocks are animated and shows the same time as digital clocks. I like to find small details like this in a 13yo game!

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In The Banner Saga trilogy, the character Prince Ludin gradually grows a beard as the games progress.

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In Forza Horizon(2018) deckchairs react to the wind.

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This can of ''WD-40'' in the Half Life remake gave me a solid chuckle.

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In Pokemon Platinum (2008) In the middle of Amity Square there is a small island that is in the shape of the Sinnoh region, with flowers laid out to represent each town (credits in comments)

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In Black Ops (2010) During the interrogation scenes, Mason is always sitting in a chair cuffed, but there are times in the game in which the cuffs on his wrist are completely gone, the cuffs represent Masons sanity and as he starts to remember his story, he becomes a bit more sane

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This skull image from Call of Duty Ghosts is actually a reference to the main villain's time spent in the jungle. Roarke was said to have been kept in a hole as he had his mind broken, and the skull is us looking up from his perspective. The eyes are meant to be two people looking down at him

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In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, when you make a full course meal, Piccolo will sit there with his arms folded and a glass of water in front of him because Namekians don't eat food and only drink water

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In Berlin in Hitman 3, if you collect four bird eggs scattered around the level, you can throw them at some graffiti on the rooftop and unlock a hidden exit. It is an E.T. easter egg.

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Sims can fall off a bunk bed if they have the clumsy trait in The Sims 4

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in GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, the player character proudly displays his helicopter pilot's license which he earned over a one-weekend course

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In Nier Automata’s first playthrough, 9S walks 2B (the player character) through the settings menu. On the second playthrough where you switch to 9S you instead watch a recording of yourself from hours ago fiddling around with the settings as 2B.

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In Luigi's Mansion 3, when Luigi uses the Burst move, his Poltergust raises him into the air by its straps. However, when Gooigi performs the Burst, we can see that his Poltergust is instead attached to him by a solid mass of goo, being part of his body.

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(Starfield) A character will have a different dialogue line depending on the local time

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In The Last of Us 2 Ellie clears the weapon chamber when upgrading it and it is reflected in gameplay

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On the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies map “Five”, the clocks in the starting room are real-time. Been playing this since launch and never noticed.

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In Mafia: Definitive Edition (2020), many male characters can be seen wearing collar clips, as it was at its highest trend in the 1930s.

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In The Mass Effect Trilogy, Commander Shepard was named after the astronaut Alan Shepard. Just as Alan was the first American in space, the Commander was the first human spectre.

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Since the cars in Hot Wheels Unleashed are toy cars, drifting distance is measured in inches

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In Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link has a reflection in Dark Link's boss room. After Dark Link spawns, his reflection disappears

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In the Final Fantasy 7 Remake a character named Kyrie who you encounter in chapter 14 can be found as early as chapter 2 riding the train

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In Civilization 3, the science advisor is modelled after and voiced by Sid Meier, the founder and creative director of Firaxis Games.

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In Fallout: New Vegas, the book chute calls itself Unit 232.7 and destroys pre-war propaganda books. 232.7 C converts to 451 F.

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In Watch Dogs 2, performance cars can be seen double parked like this

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When fighting the Hind D in Metal Gear Solid, the player needs to track the helecopter by the sound of its' rotors. Should the player not have stereo, Snake's team will comment on it, with Campbell cheering him on anyway.

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Is it just me, or does Battlefront’s 2 (2017) Darth Vader helmet have some smudges and finger prints, JUST like how the original 1977 had (because the cast and crew kept constantly touching and retouching the helmet). Not even recent movie’s pick up that detail on Vader’s helmet.

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In Saints Row 2 if you idle on the main menu long enough a cutscene of various TV shows starts to play. Briefly shown is an ad for a Free Money program which shows a number to call (#2274666399). This number is the Give Cash cheat (#cashmoneyz) which if called in game gives you $1,000.

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In Disco Elysium, there is a super hidden character named Mysterious Pair of Eyes at the harbor gate. They disappear after day 1 and can only be found if you have 9 points in Perception, an amount you're unlikely to have by the END of the game, let alone at the very beginning.

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In Saints Row 2, you can’t rob a blind man.

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Came across this little gem in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Hope this isn’t a repost

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in Fallout New Vegas's DLC, Lonesome Road, there is a 10% chance you'll find a nuka cola quantum inside this grate behind the gas station when you go outside. this is the only quantum in the game

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[Mafia III] Police respond differently to crimes depending on whether it happened in a rich district or in a poor, predominantly black one

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In the Dead Space remake, this message in Norwegian roughly translates to If you stupid zombies have learned to read, go to hell too!

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In Capcom's The Punisher (Arcade), the eyepatch of the second player (Nick Fury) stays on his left eye regardless which direction he is facing.

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In Left 4 Dead, zombies have different treads on their shoes, including love hearts.

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In Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the cover has Clementine in the same framing and pose as Lee was shown in the original game.

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In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, you can find a Strange List in Lunden that references the horcruxes from Harry Potter.

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In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, entering an environment with a blacklight will reveal characters' sweat marks.

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In Marvel Suns, Tony Stark is a recovering alcoholic. If you look closely at the bar, its deceptively alcoholic bottles are actually non-alcoholic beverages.

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In Civilization 5, if you play as America, the default name for the 37th city you build is Hunt Valley. This is a town in Marlyand where Firaxis Games was founded in 1996.

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At the beginning of every mission in Call of Duty: Black Ops there are some serial numbers and a letter. If you decode the phonetic alphabet, change the numbers into letters (A=1,B=2) and remove all the X's a message states Reznov is dead, or is he dead, there was no body, is he who he says he is.

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At the very start of Red Faction Guerrilla, killing your ally greets you with this message

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[Deus Ex: Mankind Divided] Attention to detail in a pool table

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If you put a lit stick of dynamite back in your inventory in RDR2, Arthur extinguishes it first.

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in ready or not if you look very closely at the Glock that a civilian tried to use to stop the shooter you can see it has jammed, which in turn caused his demise

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In Dead Cells, you can change the appearance of food depending on your diet

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In Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, if you have the death star loaded in space, you will be able to see it in the background when you are on a planet

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In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the augmented enemies disguised as friendly security guards will have golden-colored eyes.

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The map for Mirror's Edge Catalyst is based on Australia after a 60 meter rise in sea levels

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[Spider-Man: Miles Morales] This statue of Lockjaw the Bulldog can be found in a secret hideout

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In Prototype 2, depending on your running speed acceleration your footsteps will quickly develop into large craters.

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In Forza, the warthogs top speed is 117

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In Star Wars Battlefront 2, they made the lightsaber blades appear as they do in each trilogy depending on the character

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In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II's post-credits cutscene, a terrorist orders and receives salads even though the flight attendant never said the dish was an option. This implies that the flight attendant was in on the plan as those salad dishes also had gun magazines hidden underneath their lids.

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Monster Hunter Rise (2021, Nintendo Switch) has a quest description that is word for word from Macho Man Randy Savage's lines from his role as Bone Saw Mcgraw in Spider-Man (2002)

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In The Mass Effect Trilogy, Tali has a knife strapped to her boots. She doesn't use it until the third game, and even then, only uses it once.

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[The Last of Us Part 2] During the museum portion, the area where Pluto would be has been painted over and not yet filled in with stars

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Might be obvious, but the runes in the title card for the God of War reveal spell 'Ragnarok'

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(Doom Eternal) When using the sentinel training armor skin, the revenant control pedestals shine through the slayer’s fingers

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In Bully if you miss destroying all the pumpkins and/or tombstones during the Halloween mission you can later find them in the school basement and the Spencer Shipping Warehouse in Blue Skies Industrial Park respectively.

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In Lego Star Wars TSC Darth Vader can force choke everyone except for Padme. Got the idea from u/Quitthesht.

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Alien: Isolation takes place in 2137. Calendars throughout the game are accurate to the day; November 1, 2137 is a Friday.

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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Robin has an outline on his face where his mask sits

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In Hi-Fi Rush, there's a fight you are supposed to lose, leading to you meeting a character that will help you defeat that enemy later. When replaying the game with everything unlocked, the characters react and accuse you of cheating if you use him and beat the enemy before you're supposed to.

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SpongeBob appearance in House Flipper

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You get some amusing unique dialog in Weird West if you rescue your husband while transformed into a werewolf

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Dead Space (2023) The picture on Nicole's desk is cracked. Likely due to the fight that caused Issac to take the Ishimura job.

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In the last of us, guards that are being held hostage will comply with you however if you try and shoot while your gun is empty they’ll recognise this and, realising the gun is no threat, will start trying to break free.

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In Mass Effect 2, during Miranda's loyalty mission, at one point the squad is in an elevator. The music that plays in the background is the same music from the infamously slow elevator rides from Mass Effect 1. Miranda then loses her temper, exclaiming, Why won't this thing go any faster?

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In Bioshock (2007), the antagonist's name, Andrew Ryan, is a rough anagram of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, and who's works inspired the city of Rapture.

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GTAV: In addition to getting a call from Michael if you fire rockets at his house, he also texts you if you take his wife's car.

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In Far Cry 4 (2014), the title track is Should I stay or should I go? which hints an alternate 15-min ending if you just stay at the table instead of going when Min asks you to wait.

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In Snow Runners, my truck turned over after driving too far off the bridge causing the engine to stall. You can see oil leaking from the stalled engine into the water.

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[Smash Bros Ultimate] When Kirby copies Banjo, Kirby gets a fake plush of Kazooie instead of the real deal.

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In Sid Meier's Civilization 3, if you set the date on your computer to January 8th (Elvis Presley's birthday) and play Regicide Mode, the model of your king units will change to Elvis.

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The Wipeout logo is made up of a bunch of 8s, chopped up and rotated to spell out the title (PS)

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In Alien Isolation, there is a specific behavior that occurs only once with the Alien, where it will stop to stare at the flashing green airlock light. This is a moment that is pulled directly from the original film's script that was never shot.

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In Batman Arkham Knight (2015) the Batmobile fires robber bullets. The Rubber bullets have Bat symbols on them

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In Dying Light, there's a side quest where you need to rescue a woman who's chained up in a basement. There's a basket with a bottle of lotion in it outside the door, ala Silence of the Lambs.

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In Fallout New Vegas, Benny is based on Bugsy Siegel, an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.

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In Fallout New Vegas, you can recruit Victor to help you fight the Powder Gangers in Ghost Town Gunfight. However, he will shutdown during the battle. If you question him afterwards, you can pass a science check of 25 to discover that he was overridden by Mr House. Full video in comments.

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In Grand Theft Auto 3 (2001); Claude will Flip off cars that honk at him if he stands in front of them

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Sims 4 Highschool years added an ingame social media platform named social bunny. That is a nod to the Social bBunny from Sims 2, an imaginary character that only lonely Sims could see and that would cheer them up.

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When you hit 2033km in Metro Exodus, A dark one appears from previous games.

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At the beginning of Batman Arkham Origins, after you save Vicky Vale, you can find cardboard, which has Johnathan Crane's (Scarecrow) signature multiple times, implying that he's still working there as a psychologist, and was working right before the riot at the Black Gate.

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In Halo Infinite, enemies using invisibility power-ups can be detected through the thermal scope of the sniper rifle

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In Death’s Door (Xbox/PC), if you read a sign after damaging it, the text pop-up is cut off and shows damage as well.

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In Black Ops Cold War, there is a periodic table with Kurchatovium (Ku) instead of Rutherfordium (Rf) as the 104th element. The Soviets named the element after nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov upon its discovery in 1964.

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Store Clerks in Red Dead Redemption II will perform a check up before opening

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CoD Black Ops (2010): in the level Numbers, you can see airplanes flying very close over the city in the background. This is because the setting is the long-demolished Kowloon city in British Hong Kong which was built near an airport and the city was in the flight path.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum - During the Scarecrow nightmare cutscene that occurs after your game has 'frozen', when trying to skip the cutscene, the usual B or circle buttons have been replaced with a purple J.

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In Persona 3 Portable there is an early cameo of Vincent Brooks from Catherine, two years before his game was released. He can be seen drinking at Club Escapade in Paulownia Mall, telling you about how much of a jerk he is, then pointing out that it has nothing to do with your problems at the end.

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In Civilization 6, a Sectoid from XCOM can be seen at the top of the Broadway world wonder. XCOM and Civilization were both developed by Firaxis Games.

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During the Libertonian Missions of GTA 4 you can find this lovely developer message next to the destructable dinosaur skeletons.

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In Halo 3, when you flip the Elephant, the heaviest vehicle in the game and seemingly impossible to flip, a confused text shows up

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In GTA 4 there are posters in Russian on the Russian Ship Platypus. They say Welcome to capitalism. and Take a loan! Die in debt! The American dream!

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In Halo Reach (2010) after returning to an area in the campaign, water levels rise due to glacial melting caused by the enemy’s siege against the planet.

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In Black Mesa (2020), microwaves have a heating option for head crabs

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In Metro Exodus, in the archives room, there's a toy plane in the 9th(from left) shelve of 2001 row. Indicating 9/11.

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In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016) the dancing cat meme can be found in an apartment. This means that we're not even safe from cat memes in the future.

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In Arkham Knight (2015), you can see Arkham City, the previous playable area before this game.

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In The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, Geralt has to find permit A38. This is an obscure reference to The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), where Asterix and Obelix have to find Permit A38 in The Place That Sends You Mad.

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[Resident Evil 2 Remake] After Claire gives her jacket to Sherry, her face and neck are very dirty, but her arms are somewhat clean because she's been wearing the jacket for the majority of the game.

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The fridge on the Normandy SR2 in Mass Effect has a label that Turians can not eat the food inside. It's mentioned in dialogue that human food is toxic for them and vice versa.

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In Halo CE(2001), near the end of the level 343 Guilty Spark, you come across an elevated position with dead humans and Covenant side by side. This implies the UNSC soldiers and Covenant temporarily set aside their wartime hatred to attempt to survive in a final stand against the zombie-like Flood

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In Dragon Age: Origins , there is idle companion dialogue where Leliana(another companion) comes up with a dress idea for Morrigan , 2 games later In Dragon Age: Inquisition when you meet Morrigan again she is wearing that same dress design.

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[LoZ: Skyward Sword] Groose, the bully at the Knight Academy, has a drawing of Link on his punching bag

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In RDR2, if you whistle the train bell, Arthur will make the choo-choo sound with his mouth. This can be only seen through the photo mode of the game.

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Turns out the position of the sun in Fallout 4 is REALLY accurate.

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In Death Stranding, when a knocked out Mule (local bandits) land in water, a flotation device is automatically deployed to prevent them from drowning and causing a voidout (Large cataclysmic explosion).

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In Fallout New Vegas, the ending isn't actually a cutscene, it's a first person slide show. The player character is stuck in a single cell room and can't interact with anything unless console commands are activated.

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Wario being Wario.

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In Batman: Arkham Knight, in the GCPD holding cells, all the prisoners are calm (the Police calmer than the inmates), except for the Professor victims. Who are likely in extreme pain from the surgery and can see Pyg in the cell across from them.

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The auto bot will thank you for wearing a hard hat.

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The music in Forza Horizon 4 will stop when you drive inside tunnels and start again once you exit them. This is to simulate the typical outtage you'd expect when listening to satellite radio because tunnels interrupt frequency.

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In GTA Online (and maybe story mode), various electrical boxes have 1.21 Gigawatts displayed. This is a reference to Back To The Future, as this exact power unit is how much the DeLorean uses to travel in time. Credits to the original post in comments

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The House in High On Life has an unsliced pizza on the roof, referencing Walter White's outburst in Breaking Bad

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In Forza Horizon 4, LEGO cars are listed under Denmark when sorting your garage by country.

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In Max Payne 2, the hour glass/Bullet Time meter is 2 inverted bullets

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In Dishonored, shadows cast on oil in the ground causes the oil to reflect rainbow colors

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In Borderlands 3, the pages of books open through the environment contain the script for Borderlands 1’s opening cutscene

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In Unpacking (2021) you unpack a knockoff GameCube and some games. I recognized some as Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, and Zelda.

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In Super Mario Brothers 3 if you beat a ship with a Tanooki suit one, Toad doesn’t recognize you and calls you a raccoon.

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In Sleeping Dogs (2012), the protagonist Wei Shen is called a very dangerous man. The pronunciation of his name sounds like weixian, which means danger in Mandarin.

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In HL: Alyx when you collect the Gravity Gloves (from modified microwaves), a nearby mannequin illustrates that there were some recent problems with the gloves exploding.

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[Mickey Mania] Loading the JP game into a US/EU console will show a message stating that it's region locked. Using an emulator to set the console region to JP while this message is shown will adjust it to realise this and start the game. This was added as pirates could easily switch regions.

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