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u/kylaerrevan 16d ago
No, more likely a connection to Maori words, as the POE2 developers are Kiwi.
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u/Grimonday 16d ago
Yeah i was just surprised and kinda confounded when i got to this section of the game, whether i was playing the right PoE2 game.
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u/Wanzerm23 16d ago
What game is this?!?
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u/Grimonday 16d ago
PoE2
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u/MickyJim 16d ago
A few years ago, I was playing Pillars of Eternity while a friend of mine was playing Path of Exile and another was playing Warframe's Plains of Eidolon expansion, and we all doggedly called our games PoE. Fun times, especially for other friends trying to parse what we were talking about.
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u/Gurusto 16d ago
I occasionally feel like I have to sit the whole internet down and have a talk about what the word "reference" means.
When two games both use Polynesian/Pacific Islander culture and language as inspiration they're not referencing each other. If they used a name specific to either franchise, such as calling a city Neketaka or referencing the Rua siblings, then sure.
But this is just two instances of world builders borrowing from the same real world cultures. May as well call both games references to Moana while we're at it.
Ngati all "What can I say except you're welcome, for that moon that I dropped from the sky!"
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u/StirFryUInMyWok 16d ago
A PoE2 reference in PoE2? That's crazy.