AOE Spells - Can they be renamed? "Thunderga" rater then II and IV?

[basketofseals]

I can agree with this. I mean it does make it sound like the powers are growing instead of just being replaced. Maybe just me though, but never been a fan of the whole "Fire 2/3/4" I'd like to assume we are all big boys and girls and can check the tool tip and not get confused. xD

Not to mention I'm pretty sure we're the ONLY region that does numbered naming. What is this FF1? We've long since moved passed this.

[Hasrat]

Not to mention I'm pretty sure we're the ONLY region that does numbered naming. What is this FF1? We've long since moved passed this.

I mean, there is a lot of FF7 influence. (at least we avoided "Bolt")

[basketofseals]

I mean, there is a lot of FF7 influence. (at least we avoided "Bolt")

What in particular is FF7-ish? I don't know much about it. We do have holy and meteor which wasn't a thing in FF7. The gold saucer I guess? I wouldn't say a mini-game area is super iconic though.

[Texa]

What in particular is FF7-ish? I don't know much about it. We do have holy and meteor which wasn't a thing in FF7. The gold saucer I guess? I wouldn't say a mini-game area is super iconic though.

The localization for VII used numbers, but the Japanese also used the ra-ga thing.

[Welsper59]

While it never really bothered me, it definitely was a small topic to think about lol. At first, I thought it was because they were going to follow XI naming conventions to imply the type of spell. E.G. Fire (any number tier) represents single target and -ga/-ra/-ja represents AoE. Given how that clearly wasn't the case, it just seemed a little odd to not go traditional. I suppose it came down to how they might have contemplated the idea that they could introduce new tiers that go beyond the trio of -ga/-ra/-ja and that they could reserve those for very specific situations. Like a boss/NPC with Thundaga, an NPC-only spell.

[Isala]

What in particular is FF7-ish? I don't know much about it. We do have holy and meteor which wasn't a thing in FF7.

Heh... Funny you should say that. You do realize the whole plot of FF7 was that Sephiroth was summoning Meteor, which could only be stopped by the spell Holy, right?

[Rahsch]

What in particular is FF7-ish? I don't know much about it. We do have holy and meteor which wasn't a thing in FF7.

Must've not gotten that far in FFVII then cause you can get materia that allows you to cast Meteor and Holy magics.

[Ghastly]

It just feels more FF to go with the cura curaga than these numbers which make every new number feel like a lazy new spell.
If it was without the numbers they would actually feel like unique spells, to me anyway.

So basically the english version is the only one that doesn't want things feel to FF enough.
It didn't make FFX sell less so it's ok to change it back to cura, curaga, etc