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Fortnite
Fortnite (2017)
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The idea for a "Battle Royale" mode stemmed from battle-royale type games including PUBG: Battlegrounds, a game that had been released halfway through Fortnite's development. The staff at Epic Games loved these games so much that they decided to take the formula and make it a separate mode within the game.
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Development, Inspiration
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Disney Infinity 4.0
Disney Infinity 4.0 (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Disney Infinity (Collection)
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Attachment Before the game series was cancelled by Disney, a fourth installment was quite elaborately planned and worked on extensively. The name would've been "Disney Infinity 4.0: Kingdoms" and it would have primarily been based of Disney's animated film Aladdin. It was to be developed by United Front Games who are associated with working on the Marvel expansion of Disney Infinity 3.0 as well as Sleeping Dogs, ModNation Racers, and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It seems the game would have had a feature where characters of unrelated universes (ex. Star Wars, Marvel, Zootopia, etc.) can be played and seen in the Aladdin-based Story mode, which would have been unique to 4.0. (Although it does bare some resemblance to the Toybox Takeover feature in the previous game.) Pre-alpha footage of the game was uploaded to Vimeo in November of 2018 by a throwaway account, revealing the game's existence.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Release Difference, Unused Content, Version Difference
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Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Attachment According to game's director Hideki Kamiya, the Umbrella Corporation can that gets stepped on at the start of the opening cutscene was supposed to have the Capcom logo on it, but when Capcom's management heard about it, they disapproved of the idea of their brand being stepped on, so the developers changed it to the Umbrella logo instead.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Release Difference, Version Difference
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World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (2004)
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Samwise Didier, the senior art director for Blizzard Entertainment, drew a paladin for a friend's card game, which was left unused and instead ended up being used for World of Warcraft to create Uther. Didier carried over the paladin's mask to another character he drew, which was the inspiration for Ilidan, who he made concept art for back in 2000. The character Ilidan originally carved his eyes out to allow Demonics to sense demons which allowed him to use demonic energy against them back when he was a protagonist at one point during development.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
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An update released three days before the game's 10th anniversary on April 26th, 2018 added new songs to radio stations, while simultaneously removing songs due to licensing-expiration issues. Among the many song replacements, the Electro-Choc, Fusion, JNR, Massive B, and Tuff Gong radio stations remained untouched, while almost every song featured in the Vladivostok FM station was cut and replaced with new songs with one exception, "Liberty City: The Invasion" by Seryoga, an original song written for the game's soundtrack. These changes also carried over to the Episodes from Liberty City DLC expansions.
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Bonus Content, General, Music, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Update Difference, Version Difference
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Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 3 (2012)
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In 2021, former Bioware cinematic designer Richard Boisvert posted an easter egg to Reddit that he believed had never been found before. In the Mars mission, if Commander Shepherd walks a specific route through the solar panels at the start, a Mars rover will roll up to Shepherd and nod.
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Easter Egg, Secret
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (2020)
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According to voice actor Jacob Craner in an interview with Zelda Universe, he said the inspiration behind his voice of Robbie in the English-language dub was American actor Jack Black's performance in the 2006 film "Tenancious D in the Pick of Destiny", which Craner claimed he was obsessed with when it first came out. In addition, he said that during the audition process Nintendo localizers told him to give the character more of a cliché and stereotypical "nerdy scientist" affliction. However when it came time to record, they changed their minds and instead wanted the character to sound like a "crazy rocker" type of character, thus having Craner lean instead toward his Jack Black impression.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (2015)
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In the Japanese version of the game, Honoka and Marie's tag intro shows Honoka requesting to borrow Marie Rose's chest. This is meant to be a pun on both of their different bust sizes and a common Japanese phrase for requesting a sparring partner, believing power is derived from the chest. This interaction was changed in the Western versions to Honoka plainly asking for a practice round.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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When Piranha Plant was revealed as the first DLC character, many fans were bewildered, as a generic enemy has never been a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. series before. Despite this, in an interview with Game Informer, Masahiro Sakurai has stated that he never intended to surprise people with the Piranha Plant, and that it was a character everybody would know of.

"The surprise element quickly fades once the announcement has been made. Rather, I believe it’s important to have a good balance as a game. In the past titles in the series, Mr. Game & Watch, R.O.B. and Duck Hunt Dog were some of the examples we offered outside of people’s typical expectations. However, if we don’t have these types of fighters, and we only had typical “hero/heroine” type fighters in the lineup, there’s not much difference. It’s probably not very interesting. Correct? Also, unlike some main characters from some (not widely known) franchises, Piranha Plant is a character everyone knows well."
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Cuphead
Cuphead (2017)
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Attachment According to animator and designer Tina Nawrocki, Baroness Von Bon Bon's design was inspired by Bebe Daniels, Betty Grable, Loretta Young, and Joan Crawford (specifically her appearance in the 1932 film "Letty Lynton"); actresses who were around during the early 20th century, as well as Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution, whose execution by guillotine inspired the fourth phase of her boss fight where she throws her own head as a projectile towards Cuphead.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (2004)
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Upon starting a new game, the game will offer to check your memory cards for cleared save data from Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht. Having said data from Episode I will do three things:
•The levels your characters were at during the post-game of Episode I will determine a set amount of Skill Points you will start with in Episode II. This specific carryover feature does not appear in Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra.
•Unlocks swimsuit costumes for Ziggy and KOS-MOS
•Unlocks the Geriatric Swimsuit costume for the Professor as a purely cosmetic change
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Bonus Content, Cross-Game Compatibility
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Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006)
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Upon starting a new game, the game will offer to check your memory cards for cleared save data from Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Having said data from Episode II will unlock Shion's Vector Industries uniform from the previous game as a bonus costume.
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Bonus Content, Cross-Game Compatibility
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Company: XSEED Games
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Attachment XSEED Games originally went by the name J-Taro, a reference to Momotaro of Japanese folklore. An unnamed industry titan, however, decided that they wouldn't work with a company that had such a ridiculous name. After consulting with various outlets, they decided on the name XSEED Games.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)
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Originally, Kassandra was meant to be a sole lead character, but the developers were pushed to add her brother, Alexios, as a secondary playable character.
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Development, Early Idea
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Assassin's Creed Revelations
Assassin's Creed Revelations (2011)
subdirectory_arrow_right Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy (Game)
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations gained many of its concepts from a cancelled exclusive Nintendo 3DS title, Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy. The game was announced at Nintendo's E3 2010 press conference in June, and was cancelled three months later, with Ubisoft's chief financial officer Alain Martinez stating that Ubisoft felt the console had enough "hardcore" games. The story of the cancelled title revolved around Ezio visiting Masyaf. Lead writer Darby McDevitt stated that the idea "morphed" into Revelations.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
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Dark Souls
Dark Souls (2011)
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Attachment According to director Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gwynevere's character design was inspired by a group of female characters from the 1974 Fujiko F. Fujio one-shot manga "Yasuragi no Yakata", about a stressed CEO who is directed to a members-only club by his doctor where men are dressed in children's clothes and cared for by giant motherly women who treat the men like infants as they regress further into baby-like states.

Gwynevere's extremely large breasts were added by the artist who designed her, who was reportedly so proud of his work that despite Miyazaki's standards, he did not have the heart to tell him to change the design.

Miyazaki also originally wanted to include a mouth on Gwynevere's palm and created animations for it, but this element was scrapped from her design.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Hokuto no Ken 6: Gekitou Denshouken - Haou he no Michi
Hokuto no Ken 6: Gekitou Denshouken - Haou he no Michi (1992)
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Raoh and Heart are the only characters in the game who cannot crouch and subsequently cannot block low. Raoh not being able to crouch is consistent with his personality in the Fist of the North Star series, as he constantly strives for domination and refuses to be subordinate to others. It is allegedly explained in the game's manual that Raoh does not crouch because "it's not like a king to kneel", but it is not known where in the manual this is mentioned.
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Backstory/Lore, Easter Egg, General, Manual, Reference, Unsolved Mystery
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Hokuto no Ken 6: Gekitou Denshoukem - Haou he no Michi manual:
https://archive.org/details/hokuto-no-ken-6-gekitou-denshouken-haou-e-no-michi-japan/page/n5/mode/2up

Video of Raoh's inability to crouch and block low and manual claim:
https://twitter.com/DNOpls/status/1243799288477560834

Fist of the North Star English manga translation (see Volume 8, Chapter 97 [page 55 in file reader] for example of Raoh's complete refusal to back down):
https://mangareader.to/read/hokuto-no-ken-499/en/volume-8
Pokémon HeartGold Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon SoulSilver Version (Game)
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In Cianwood City, if you have only one Pokemon in your team and it does not know Fly or Surf, a generous Trainer in the island's Pokemon Center will give you a Level 15 Tentacool, claiming to have caught too many and was just about to release it before he noticed your situation. This was added to prevent the player from softlocking the game in Cianwood City by giving the player a Pokemon that can learn the Surf HM in order to leave. Additionally, it is possible for the Tentacool given to you to be Shiny.
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Bonus Content, Easter Egg, General, Glitch, Secret
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Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (2002)
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Attachment In the Kukai Foundation, the exterior of the Smile Bakery features numerous signs that sport a symbol similar in appearance to Pac-Man, a series developed by the game's publisher Namco.
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Cameo, Easter Egg
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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (2004)
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The ambient crowd chatter that plays in the background of the Second Militia city area has an additional sound clip in the Japanese release of a woman interjecting with "aww" at random points. This sound is removed in the English localization of the game.
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Regional Difference, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Version Difference
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