User:Abacos

About me
Age: between 30 and 40.

Job: flight dispatcher at an international airport.

Studies: Degree and Master in Physics.

Location: France.

Known languages: English, French, Lombard, Italian, Spanish (but also: ancient Latin, some German, a little bit of Swahili).

Hobbies: Snowboarding, cooking, Franco-Belgian bande-dessinée.

Mental problems (just kidding!): addicted to role-playing videogames, addicted to making tables and lists, addicted to StrategyWiki.

Dislikes: acronyms ("unnecessary haste"), loanwords (enjoy one language at a time!), hypenations ("punctuation placeholders"), nouns used as if they were verbs (Calvin & Hobbes teach: "Verbing weirds language").

I prefer old video games


I definitely like the good old ones.

Role-playing games cleared since joining this website:
 * 1) Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny (1988) (from nonexistent to Stage 4!) ^_^
 * 2) Holy Magic Century (1998) (from Stage 1 to 2/3)
 * 3) Final Fantasy Soul of Rebirth (2004) (from Stage 1 to 2 to...)
 * 4) Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar (1990) (from Stage 0 to 2 to...)
 * 5) Final Fantasy 3 (1990) (from stage 1 to 3 to...)
 * 6) Brain Lord (1994) (from stage 1 to 3)
 * 7) Mystic Ark (1995) (from nonexistent to stage 4)
 * 8) Ultima 6: The False Prophet (1990) (from stage 2 to Stage 4)
 * 9) Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress (1983) (from stage 1 to 3)
 * 10) Ultima Worlds 1: The Savage Empire (1990) (from nonexistent to stage 3)
 * 11) Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness (1981) (from stage 1 to 3)
 * 12) Hera: The Sword of Rhin (1987) (from nonexistent to stage 4)

Other significant guide contibutions:
 * Elnard/The 7th Saga (1993) (from stage 2 to Stage 4!) ^_^
 * Kickle Cubicle (1988) (from nonexistent to Stage 2 to...)
 * Final Fantasy 2 (1988) (from Stage 1 to 2)
 * Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny (NES) (1993) (from nonexistent to Stage 3)
 * Mega Man X: Cyber Mission (2000) (from nonexistent to Stage 3, in two days)
 * Faria (1988) (from nonexistent to Stage 3)
 * Ultima 3 (1983; 1986&1988 remakes) (completely rewritten, although already Stage 4)
 * Legend of the Ghost Lion (1989) (from nonexistent to Stage 4)
 * Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA) (1990) (from stage 2 to Stage 4)

My Character Class Triangles
These are the diagrams I originally made to understand the professions in Ultima 3, and later found that can be applied to any role-playing video game.

Legend:
 * Top: characters with no magic powers;
 * Bottom: characters with great magic powers;
 * Left: characters with healing magic ("white");
 * Right: characters with offensive magic ("black").

Inverted Character Class Triangles
In some video games there is no distinction between "black mages" and "white mages", therefore a slightly different approach can be more useful.

Legend:
 * Top: characters with limited magic powers;
 * Bottom: characters with great magic powers;
 * Left: characters with great strength;
 * Right: characters with great dexterity.

4th generation role-plays by Square & Enix

 * Further 4th generation role-playing video games by Square & Enix:
 * [[File:0000.svg]] Lennus 1: Paladin's Quest and its sequel [[File:0000.svg]] Lennus 2: Apostles of the Seal
 * [[File:0000.svg]] Robotrek
 * [[File:0000.svg]] Star Ocean 1

French series

 * Further role-playing video games made in France:
 * [[File:0001.svg]] Darkstone
 * [[File:0001.svg]] Arx Fatalis

Sandbox

 * User:Abacos/Sandbox