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Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
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At one point in the game, The Warden can obtain a long sword named "Oathkeeper". The sword is described as a blessed blade commissioned by The Chantry and given to Templars as a reward for their deeds. It has been speculated that the sword is a homage to George R.R. Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire", as the sword shares the same name as the sword given to Jaime Lannister by his father Tywin, which Jaime later passes to Brienne of Tarth who then names the sword. It is known that the book series was an inspiration during game development.
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Bonus Content, Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities, Suggested, Theory
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The Jetpack has an unused HUD icon, although it can still be found in the game's files.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
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Attachment A PSP version was planned for release around April 2007. According to Official PlayStation Magazine, it lacked the free-roaming game-play the games usually had, and felt more like a "dungeon romp."
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, Version Difference
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Company: Square Enix
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Besides sharing a few visual similarities, the characters Axel (Kingdom Hearts) and Reno (Final Fantasy VII) share the same voice actor in multiple languages. Tetsuya Nomura did this intentionally to experiment with putting a familiar character in a new environment and role. He also stated in an interview that the two are "different people, but subconsciously alike".
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Metal Gear
Metal Gear (1987)
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The game was designed as a stealth game involving avoiding confrontation due to the limitations of the MSX2 at the time. If there were a large number of character sprites on screen at one time there would be a lot of sprite flickering and slowdown. The game was instead changed to involve the player using stealth to avoid enemy confrontations.

"The company asked me to create a combat game. Actually, a senior associate had been in charge of it but he was stuck and I was asked to do it. You could not have more than four bullets with MSX, and that meant you could only have two to three enemies. You cannot make a combat game with that. So I came up with a game like 'The Great Escape' where the prisoner had to escape. it was an idea born from adverse situations." - Hideo Kojima speaking to Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 35, Page 74)
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Franchise: Earthbound
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Attachment During development of the unreleased Nintendo 64 Mother 3 game, Itoi thought about making a Mr. Saturn spin-off Action Puzzle game.
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Development, Early Idea
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Game)
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Attachment Early concept art of Onox found in the Hyrule Historia shows him having a battle axe attached to his ball and chain.
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Development, Early Idea
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Game)
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Attachment Early concept art of Ganondorf seen in the Hyrule Historia show a design of him being more humanoid.
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Development, Early Idea
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Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami (2012)
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Attachment The protagonist was originally a fat man wearing a pig mask, as seen in the trailer. Unused sprites of this character are still in the files.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Franchise: Assassin's Creed
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The Animus, which is used to read the genetic memory of a person, is named after Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, with the Animus being the masculine inner personality for females.

A few of the female characters in the series are even named after the levels of the anima (the feminine inner personality of males). These are Eve, Maria and Sofia, with Helen being the only one without a character.
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Development, Inspiration
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Night Trap
Night Trap (1992)
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Footage of the never released VHS-based NEMO can be viewed in the Mega-CD version of Night Trap by entering a button code when the credits read "In Memory of Stephen D. Hassenfield". This footage shows Hasbro executives taking a look at Scene of the Crime (the prototype for Night Trap) in December 1987.
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Bonus Content, Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, General, Secret
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Skies of Arcadia Legends
Skies of Arcadia Legends (2002)
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A PlayStation 2 version of the game was planned to be released around the same time as the GameCube version. However, the PlayStation 2 port was dropped in order to focus on the GameCube version.
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Cancelled Release, Development
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Platform: Philips CD-i
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The CD-i started out as a CD add-on for the SNES, before being canceled. Before it was canceled, Nintendo gave Phillips the right to make games with their characters, which lead to the creation of three Zelda games, Hotel Mario (along with two canceled Mario games), and a canceled Donkey Kong game.
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Development, Early Idea
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Pokémon Gold Version
Pokémon Gold Version (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Silver Version (Game)
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Attachment Red's party in the Generation II games is based heavily on in-game events from the Generation I. Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, and Pikachu are available in all iterations of the original Kanto plot. Espeon could have been obtained as an Eevee in Celadon City, and Eevee notably serves as Blue's starter in Pokemon Yellow. Lapras is given away by a Silph Co. employee, and two Snorlax are required to be caught or defeated in order to travel to Fuchsia City. Furthermore, in the Generation II games, only the Snorlax that was previously blocking Route 12 (now blocking the entrance to Diglett's Cave) is available to the player, suggesting that Red defeated it and caught the one blocking Route 16. His party in the Generation II games also matches that of Red in the Pokemon Adventures manga during his venture to Mt. Silver, although Pokemon Adventures' Red borrowed Charizard and Blastoise temporarily from the characters Blue and Green, as he didn't own those Pokemon.
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Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities, Suggested, Theory
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Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
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Early on in the pre-production of "The Tyranny of King Washington" DLC, Conner was going to get a love interest in the form of Aveline de Grandpré from Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. The idea was later dropped when the developers saw how the characters' motivations and personalities were too different from each other.
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Development, Early Idea
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New Ghostbusters II
New Ghostbusters II (1990)
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New Ghostbusters II was only released in Europe. There were plans to make it available in America, but Activision had the rights to make a Ghostbusters video game in the USA, so it was never released outside of Europe.

A prototype of the American version of New Ghostbusters II was eventually leaked online as a ROM and can be played via emulation.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
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Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars (1992)
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Attachment There was originally going to be a trash compactor level as seen in the film "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" where the player would've possibly battled the dianoga creature. The level was removed due to the memory limitations of the Super Nintendo cartridge, however a single known screenshot was published in Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) which was taken at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Development, Early Idea
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Metal Gear
Metal Gear (1987)
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Hideo Kojima personally hated Metal Gear on the NES, and has gone on to say that he couldn't even get past the first scene of this port.
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Console Difference, Development, General, Real Life
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P.N.03
P.N.03 (2003)
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Originally, Vanessa was going to carry around a gun instead of shooting energy blasts from her hands. However, due to schedule constraints, the developers were unable to complete the gun animations in time.
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Development, Early Idea
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Saints Row
Saints Row (2006)
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Saints Row was originally intended to be called Bling Bling, and was planned for release on the PlayStation 2. Alan Lawrance has stated the "vision" of the original game to Saints Row changed very little, but the technology had.
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Development, Early Idea
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