Bengalis are from Star Wars?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Their theme and many campaign dialogues seem to suggest so.

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Is it an Easter Egg? Any hidden message that they want to convey with the Bengalis?

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The campaign is literally about Devapalaā€™s rise to prominence, becoming blinded by his own pride and arrogance, and his redemption in the end by achieving enlightenment. Iā€™d say it would be the perfect subject matter for Star Wars references.

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The campaign is really cheesy with those lines.

I donā€™t hate it, or even dislike it. Itā€™s just weird funny enough to me.

Better than sands, at least.

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Yeah, sometimes the cheesiness is appreciable. This campaign was one of those times. I actually had fun with all of the DoI campaigns, tbh.

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By the way, adding the Star Wars references to the wiki was my idea. There are a lot of them.

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star wars galactic battlegrounds DE

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If anything, the Gurjaras are the ones from Star Wars, since they play quite similarly to factions from Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

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Thereā€™s a reddit thread as well about this.

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something something Devapala is an Anakin homage

Itā€™s not the first or last time a campaignā€™s gone for blatant pop culture references, and hardly the worst move if youā€™re trying to entertain the average player. Thereā€™s enough historic flavor elsewhere that a bit of punched-up dialogue like this wonā€™t hurt.

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The music theme you linked to is from the Homeworld video game, not Star Wars

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Reminder that Ensemble did Star Wars references first (like in Saladin).

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Really? What are some examples?

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You can see them here:

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Funnily enough, George Lucas stole naerly the entire plotline of his original ā€˜Star Warsā€™ from a film by the Japanese director Kurosawa, ā€œThe Hidden Fortressā€.

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I rather think George Lucas stole the ideas to Star Wars from the Bengalis.

Just think about itā€¦ Devapala ruled 810-850 which is is over 1100 years before Star Wars came out 1977 :crazy_face:

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Literally:

Devapala=Anakin Skywalkerā€¦

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Star Wars references are a long-time feature of the series. When you kill the Templar Grandmaster in The Siege of Jerusalem, he will exclaim, ā€œIf you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine!ā€

Obi-wan Kenobi first said this in New Hope in his famous fateful duel with Darth Vader.

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Of course, of courseā€¦