Rename the spells? or not?

[origamikitsune]

Needs more Scourgra and Scourgaga.

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^Poker face. Lady Scourgaga approved. True story.

In all seriousness, I think that renaming the magic in the game is one of those super easy little things that SE can do to make 14 feel more like a Final Fantasy game. For the people who don't know FF games of the past, it wouldn't matter. For those of us that do, its a little nod to what we know. Sure it doesn't mean too much in and of itself, but a lot of little changes like that can add up fast to make the game "Feel" better.

[Chrees]

There's a difference between Spells and Abilities. So you could have Fira and Second Wind II. You don't always have to keep all these crazy naming rules the same across the board. After all, Jecht had the "Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III" (AKA the Jecht Shot) and Tidus learned Jecht Shot II, but the magic in X followed traditional naming rules like Haste and Hastaga.

As for replacing old skills, in the field of abilities I have to agree. I'm not gonna ever use Skull Sunder again when Skull Sunder II does the same stuff place can incapacitate. The only way I could really see a need to keep the old skills is if they add some NMs that get more brutal after they get incapacitated. In other words, you'd need a skill that didn't incapacitate'em.

This is pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I agree 100%.

[Loony_BoB]

Can't help but point out that it would probably be Windaga, not Windga. Wind, Windara, Windaga. Which makes me think of Wendigos.

[akisato]

the -ra, -ga, -ja is a japanese thing not just an SE thing

[Evangela]

Can't help but point out that it would probably be Windaga, not Windga. Wind, Windara, Windaga. Which makes me think of Wendigos.

they used Aero, Aerora and Aeroga in the previous FF, and they sound cool!

[Enrei]

the -ra, -ga, -ja is a japanese thing not just an SE thing

Do you have other examples?
I consider myself well versed in the ways of JRPGs and Anime(read: I'm a weeaboo), and I've never run across another series using -ragajalala, unless they are clearly referencing Final Fantasy(Welcome to the NHK! did a small arc about FFXI, for example)

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Isnt those name Cura, Curaga and so on came from FFVIII? if i remember that correctly..

[Akumu]

Isnt those name Cura, Curaga and so on came from FFVIII? if i remember that correctly..

They originate from the original FF. Others had the names also though. Cura(and ones after) were named II,III,and IV after the nes release.