Suggestion: Bring back traditional Final Fantasy spell names

[MistakeNot]

Have you ever played an RPG?

Lots. Both pen-and-paper RPGs and computer RPGs. Vast majority of them have comprehensible names for spells. The exceptions mainly being old computer games that for technical reasons used abbreviations of the spell names.

[Callinon]

Lots. Both pen-and-paper RPGs and computer RPGs. Vast majority of them have comprehensible names for spells. The exceptions mainly being old computer games that for technical reasons used abbreviations of the spell names.

It's entirely possible the original use of suffixes was because of the limited space available, but then they carried it forward and it became part of the Final Fantasy series itself. Complaining now that the words aren't "proper English" seems more than a little silly.

[MistakeNot]

It's entirely possible the original use of suffixes was because of the limited space available, but then they carried it forward and it became part of the Final Fantasy series itself. Complaining now that the words aren't "proper English" seems more than a little silly.

I don't care what was done in other Final Fantasy games. I haven't played any of them, and have no plans to play any of them. From what I have heard, the use of suffixes is not universal throughout the FF series anyway.

[Callinon]

I don't care what was done in other Final Fantasy games. I haven't played any of them, and have no plans to play any of them. From what I have heard, the use of suffixes is not universal throughout the FF series anyway.

You're missing out then, a lot of them are excellent (some of them are 13... but that's neither here nor there).

Even if you have no prior exposure to the Final Fantasy series, you can at least acknowledge that you're playing Final Fantasy FOURTEEN. It's probably reasonable to assume that the 14th entry in a series probably shares some history with the entries before it.

The use of suffixes is pretty universal in this series. I've explained the reason it wasn't done in the early English translations.