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").
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)
- Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar (1990) (from Stage 0 to 3 to...)
- Final Fantasy 3 (1990) (from stage 1 to 3)
- Brain Lord (1994) (from stage 1 to 3)
- Mystic Ark (1995) (from nonexistent to stage 4)
- Ultima 6: The False Prophet (1990) (from stage 2 to 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)
- Realms of Darkness (1987) (from nonexistent to stage 3 to...)
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)
- Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1991) (from nonexistent to Stage 3)
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").
- Ultima series
- Dragon Quest series
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(1988) Dragon Quest 3: ...And thus into Legend
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(1990) Dragon Quest 4: Chapters of the Chosen
- Final Fantasy series
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(1988) Final Fantasy 2
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(1990) Final Fantasy 3
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- Mystic Ark series
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(1993) Elnard, alias "The 7th Saga"
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(1995) Mystic Ark
- Other role-playing games
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(1989) The Magic of Scheherazade
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(1989) Legend of the Ghost Lion
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(1989) Drakkhen
Inverted Character Class Triangles
In some role-playing 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.
- Ultima series
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(1985-90) Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
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(1988) Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny
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(1990) Ultima 6: The False Prophet
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(1988-93) Ultima 5 (NES): Warriors of Destiny
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(1990) Ultima Worlds 1: The Savage Empire
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(1989) Knights of Legend
(Atypical triangle for a strategy/role-playing hybrid: anticipation skills at the top).
- Final Fantasy series
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(1997) Final Fantasy 7
Video games I'm interested in
Major role-playing series
How many times I cleared the Ultima games:
Ultima 1 1: DOS Ultima 2 2: C64, C64 Ultima 3 4: NES, NES, NES, AMI Ultima 4 5: NES, SMS, AMI, SMS, NES Ultima 5 3: NES, NES, DOS Ultima 6 2: SNES,DOS
4th generation role-plays by Square & Enix
| Series | Played | Playing or started playing |
Will play |
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| Mystic Ark | - | ||
| Seiken Densetsu | - |
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| SaGa | - |
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| ActRaiser | - |
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- Further 4th generation role-playing video games by Square & Enix:
Lennus 1: Paladin's Quest and its sequel Lennus 2: Apostles of the Seal- Robotrek
- Star Ocean 1
French series
| Series | Played | Playing or started playing |
Will play |
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| Another World | - |
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| Drakkhen | - |  Drakkhen
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 Dragon View
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- Further role-playing video games made in France:
Spin-off role-playing series
| Series | Played | Playing or started playing |
Will play |
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| Super Mario |
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Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
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| Mega Man | - |
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