View Poll Results: Numbers vs. Flavor text.

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  • 1,2,3 I grew up with the numbers and it's kept me counting ever since.

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  • I like my flavor text, it increases the fantasy aspect by 7%

    7 58.33%
  • I have no idea what the hell this thread is about...

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  • I like pie.

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    Memento Mori Site Contributor Wolf Kanno's Avatar
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    or -a, -aga- and sometimes aja?

    When it comes to spell levels, do you prefer old school numbering or the flavor text variety?

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    I like the Flavour text, let me cast Fire Storm instead of Fire2

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    I prefer the numbers, honestly.

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    Having numbers for the spell names seems a bit jarring.

    If you were a mage and you named a spell, you wouldn't call it 'Ice 7', would you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian View Post
    Having numbers for the spell names seems a bit jarring.

    If you were a mage and you named a spell, you wouldn't call it 'Ice 7', would you?
    Oh, my sweet son. You're making it blatantly obvious that you're really new to the series

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian View Post
    Having numbers for the spell names seems a bit jarring.

    If you were a mage and you named a spell, you wouldn't call it 'Ice 7', would you?
    Oh, my sweet son. You're making it blatantly obvious that you're really new to the series
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    I like ra and aga but I prefer Ice and Bolt to Blizzard and Thunder and while Iceara and Iceaga doesnt really roll off the tounge I think Frost/Frostara/Frostaga would have been a good substitute
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    I want numbers. It's the same spell you're casting, you've just gotten better at it so it's stronger, but it takes more out of you.
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    I prefer Thunder / a / aga compared to Bolt 1 / 2 / 3, but I wouldn't complain if they went back to the old numbered system. I wonder what even made them change it in FFVIII onwards?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fat_moogle View Post
    I prefer Thunder / a / aga compared to Bolt 1 / 2 / 3, but I wouldn't complain if they went back to the old numbered system. I wonder what even made them change it in FFVIII onwards?
    They actually were always the fire/a/aga classification, the earlier games just didn't have the space limits to translate properly. Kind of like how the Scan spell is Libra but libra itself is a shorten version of library. The real question is why VII didn't change it when it most likely could have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian View Post
    Having numbers for the spell names seems a bit jarring.

    If you were a mage and you named a spell, you wouldn't call it 'Ice 7', would you?
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    I like the a-ra-aga more

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    Mages being a vocal class, the spells should more fun to say. So the a/ra is better. But spells are at their strongest when they're an onomatopoeia. Kaboomle and Kaswooshle being the best spell names ever.

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