Going to the same route as WoW. The game is TOO easy

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While I can understand your point of view. I think it's a matter of associating names with behavior. It shouldn't matter what the names are or if you've heard of them or if they're made up once you see what they do.

My first point was when I first got into that fight I got tripped up along with other people - it IS a meme- cause most people never heard of it before. If it had been left right etc etc that confusion would've never happened. That's my only point. Why have that there at all? That's all I'm saying. Yes after you do it a million times it's blargh but that first time tho. There's no reason to not use the common words like left.

[Crystal_Raven]

My first point was when I first got into that fight I got tripped up along with other people - it IS a meme- cause most people never heard of it before. If it had been left right etc etc that confusion would've never happened. That's my only point. Why have that there at all? That's all I'm saying. Yes after you do it a million times it's blargh but that first time tho. There's no reason to not use the common words like left.

Laughs and memes came out of it, so I'd say it's a win.

[linay]

My first point was when I first got into that fight I got tripped up along with other people - it IS a meme- cause most people never heard of it before. If it had been left right etc etc that confusion would've never happened. That's my only point. Why have that there at all? That's all I'm saying. Yes after you do it a million times it's blargh but that first time tho. There's no reason to not use the common words like left.

Because the localization team tries to replicate the Japanese usage of naval term (although they've used port before so I don't know why they use larboard now).

[Dualblade]

Because the localization team tries to replicate the Japanese usage of naval term (although they've used port before so I don't know why they use larboard now).

Honestly they probably wanted to A.) Do something a little different since there had been quite a few different "Left side/Right side" attacks by this point, and B.) Really wanted to show how old Omega was that it was still using such old terms. Urianger would approve.

[Kurando]

but starboard is a perfectly normal word that every educated person should be familiar with

Define what you would call "educated" exactly? Plenty of educated people can go through life and just not know certain terms, so let's not be bringing some kind of superiority in to the thread here.

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There is that boss in the Temple of the Fist that users Fore/Alt and Port/Star terms, if they kept the latter for Omega perhaps players would have picked up the fight a little easier rather than just throwing Larboard out of nowhere. I suppose it starting with L means people could reference it easier to Left (side), though unless SE intends to use that extact term again then players may forget it once more.

[MistakeNot]

Define what you would call "educated" exactly? Plenty of educated people can go through life and just not know certain terms, so let's not be bringing some kind of superiority in to the thread here.

For the purposes of this discussion I would define "educated" as anyone who has gone through highschool (or the local equivalent) with passing grades.
Sure, there will be some people matching that description who still won't have encountered the terms, but in that case I blame their schools.