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").
Accomplishments
 For getting the Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny guide to completion stage 4! Here's your cookie :P Hugs, Notmyhandle (talk • contribs). Hugs, ~~~~ |
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 For ... Wooooo! Congratulations on completing such a guide on your own! That's a major accomplishment! Buckets of cookies for you, sir. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 00:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC). Hugs, ~~~~ |
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I prefer old video games
I definitely like the good old ones.
Role-playing games cleared since joining this website:
- Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny (1988) (from nonexistent to Stage 4!) ^_^
- Holy Magic Century (1998) (from Stage 1 to 2/3)
- Final Fantasy Soul of Rebirth (2004) (from Stage 1 to 2 to...)
- Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar (1990) (from Stage 0 to 2 to...)
- Final Fantasy 3 (1990) (from stage 1 to 3 to...)
- Brain Lord (1994) (from stage 1 to 3)
- Mystic Ark (1995) (from nonexistant to stage 4)
- Ultima 6: The False Prophet (1990) (from stage 2 to Stage 4)
- Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress (1983) (from stage 1 to 3)
- Ultima Worlds 1: The Savage Empire (1990) (from nonexistent to stage 3)
- Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness (1981) (from stage 1 to 3)
- 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)
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").
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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.
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Video games I'm interested in
3rd gen. RPVG series
Third generation role-playing video game series.
| Gen. | Ultima (Origin Systems) |
Legend of Zelda (Nintendo) |
Dragon Quest (Enix) |
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 7: Warriors of Eden
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 8: Journey of the Cursed King
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4th gen. RPVG series by Square and Enix
Fourth generation role-playing video game series by Square and Enix.
| Gen. | Seiken Densetsu (Square Soft) |
SaGa (Square Soft) |
Chrono (Square Soft) |
Mystic Ark (Enix) |
Gaea (Enix) |
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- Further 4th generation role-playing video games by Square & Enix:
5th gen. spin-off RPVG series
| Gen. | Super Mario (Nintendo) |
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