Why Aren't Thunder Spells Actually Called Lightning in the Game?

[Corfish]

It's just the naming convention for FF.

Lightning = Thunder
Fire = Fire
Ice = Blizzard
Wind = Aero
Water = Water

The other 3 elements, Dark, Light, and Earth come in a lot more flavors throughout the series, so it's hard to give them a solid naming convention. The best Light spell is usually Holy, and Earth usually only comes from summons, or the Quake spell which I think is usually more of a Blue Magic spell in later games, earlier on I believe BLM got the stronger elemental spells like Tornado and Quake though.

Personally, I hope they remove the I, II, and III BS and actually start naming them properly. Thunder, Thundara, Thundaga, and so on and so forth.

[Clavaat]

Personally, I hope they remove the I, II, and III BS and actually start naming them properly. Thunder, Thundara, Thundaga, and so on and so forth.

Depends on the FF game you're playing. The rest is true, but this part is different from game to game. Amon in ST actually casts Thundaga and Blizzaga. In FFXI, the -ara -aga conventions only applied to AoE abilities. The rest were numbered. I want to say...FF4 followed the same convention. I know there's another one or two that do that.

[Corfish]

Depends on the FF game you're playing. The rest is true, but this part is different from game to game. Amon in ST actually casts Thundaga and Blizzaga. In FFXI, the -ara -aga conventions only applied to AoE abilities. The rest were numbered. I want to say...FF4 followed the same convention. I know there's another one or two that do that.

In the *vast* majority though they're given the Thunder, -ara, -aga convention. Even the older games take on that naming convention in the remakes. Hell, even Kingdom Hearts uses it.

[Clavaat]

In the *vast* majority though they're given the Thunder, -ara, -aga convention. Even the older games take on that naming convention in the remakes. Hell, even Kingdom Hearts uses it.

Right, just saying it's not unheard of within the series. Since Amon uses these spells, it's possible they plan on using that at some point? I'd like to see them also.