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Well, the obvious one is the Biggs and Wedge reference from many Final Fantasy games, connected to Biggs and Wedge from Star Wars. However, I noticed when my brother was playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic that 2 of the characters are named 'Revan' and 'Malak'. Is that a reference to the Final Fantasy Tactics characters 'Rafa' (Revan is the male form, Rafa is the female form of the name?) and 'Malak'?
I dunno, just wondering.
I doubt it, I bet most American commercial game creators haven't even picked up an FF.
It's probably just a case of names getting used again.
Probably just a coincidence. Star Wars is considerably 'bigger' than Final Fantasy, so I doubt they'd feel the need to include references to the games just because the games references the movies.
In fact, made-up names recur in science fiction on a semi-regular basis - there are only so many ways to piece together random syllables into an ok-sounding name, after all.
*shrug* It just crossed my mind.