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

[Alukah]

Because Square doesn't want to risk an unintentional association with their hugely successful FF13 series maybe? I am actually more curious at this point when they even bothered naming them anything other than "Damage Spell 1", "Damage Spell 2", "Area Damage Spell 1". They have no elemental aspects, they gutted that all out. There is zero reason to call these spells anything other than the graphic they use.

Considering they chose Thunder / -ara / -aga (or numbers) over Lightning way before FFXIII came out... Invalid.

[Shadex]

Considering they chose Thunder / -ara / -aga (or numbers) over Lightning way before FFXIII came out... Invalid.

Sorry, the other posters recognized the sarcasm. I will try and be more transparent about it in the future.

[Alukah]

Sorry, the other posters recognized the sarcasm. I will try and be more transparent about it in the future.

Add a sarcasm tag then :P

Nowadays with all the threads and posts around saying or suggesting the oddest things it's hard to identify sarcasm.

[Alukah]

If that's the case then the English crew are idiots. In every game prior to this one the single target spells were Fire, Thunder, etc. AoE spells were 'agas'. It's like they went out and hired people who had never played a Final Fantasy game in their lives and said "Ok, you develop our new game".

It's very counter intuitive as a career black mage to be casting Fire II as my AoE instead of Firaga.

They are not idiots, not for this at least, they simply made a choice.

It's not like something was lost in translation like they did with elite S rank hints.

Isn't because lightning is trade marked by FF13 developer?

^-----v

Considering they chose Thunder / -ara / -aga (or numbers) over Lightning way before FFXIII came out... Invalid.

(I hope you now see what I meant, Shadex)