Your Favorite Easter Eggs & (Pop) Culture References in FFXIV

[Vahlnir]

It's Not Lupus

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/It%27s_Not_Lupus

Can rarely ever beat a House reference.

[Seera1024]

There's a quest in Shadowbringers called "Legend of the Not-So-Hidden Temple".

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it always reminds me of the 90's kids game show Legends of the Hidden Temple.

[Vahlnir]

There's a quest in Shadowbringers called "Legend of the Not-So-Hidden Temple".

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it always reminds me of the 90's kids game show Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Oh, that was definitely intentional, and also well played. I remember watching that show a lot as a kid.

[Vyrerus]

I like when Fate titles or quest names have wordplay based puns in them. Whether they're an actual pop-culture reference or not, doesn't matter. If there's a pun, I've likely smirked at it and exhaled sharply out of my nose.

Also I somewhat feel that the term pop culture reference doesn't apply to some of the references they make, due to being obscured by time. A lot of them are not what is hip and happening right now.

Let's see... MightyMollusk already pointed out the first one that comes to mind for me. I absolutely used to lose it when people just said it was, "a sentai reference."

Beyond Brute Justice being discount Bruticus... hmm. There's a grand leve in Ishgard called, "Negative, They Are Meat Popsicles." That's a Fifth Element reference. The leve itself is actually about frozen, dead Ishgardians that need to be honored with adamantite swords. It's a BSM leve.

I like to think of the cheery nature of all the pun titles and things for Fates and Leves as an expression of the WoL using humor to help ignore trauma and stressors.

[tinythinker]

None, because I largely don't care about such things. Previous FF refs or mythological refs on the other hand are a different story, and in particular those to XII.

FF references can be easter eggs as well. Just depends on what catches someone's eye.

[Brightamethyst]

I still think Flappy Berda should have had a followup FATE caled Angry Berda.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

My favorite easter egg is the Edda one, in connection to Tam Tara Hard. Still creeps me out after all these years. However my favorite nod to another SE game is the fact that Cid's theme from Orbonne is actually taken straight from Vagrant Story, one of my all-time favorite SE games.

I pray it someday gets a remake.

[SugarPuff]

I always enjoy seeing the Clever Girls fate up, in the Central Shroud, and other references to gen-x era pop culture. There are a lot around and they remind me that although I may be an "older" gamer now, I'm definitely not the only one.

[FrogDog]

There’s a very low level quest in the Shroud called Parasite Cleave, a reference to the ps1 best horror game of all time Parasite Eve. Overall though i’m not particularly a fan of the references unless it’s to other square games. Random pop culture ones just kind of take away from the world.

Really good game. I liked the second one a lot but I never got around to finishing it.

My favorite reference in this game is, and will always be, during one of the moogle tribe dailies you have to slap a moogle. It responds with "H-How can she slap, kupo!?"

[Curisu]

Mine is the "Passierschein a38" in the German and probably french translation. (Friend who plays in English does not remember this quest)
It's a joke from the french comic and movie series Asterix and Obelix.