Congratulations on the promotion, Lindy! I'm certain you have what it takes to lead this site and staff and I look forward to seeing what you can do with the place.

Windy, thanks for all of your dedication and service. I'm sorry to see you step down as Director, but glad you will still be among us. The place wouldn't be the same without you.

Lindy, I barely know you outside the crap GP and I think Pap throw your way, but congrats!

PS. Don't ban either GP or Pap plz

Congrats, Windy. I hope you continue editing my reviews, because you let me get away with a lot more than Metts does! :-D

And of course, thanks goes out to Windy, who offered me a job here in the first place and was a great director while I've been at NWR.

Now then, first order of business: more Sony coverage! LOL

It is too bad that Windy is leaving, he was kind of the unspoken force that held the boards together.

You are congratulating Windy for leaving? Hopefully someone continues editing your posts. ;)

Windy isn't leaving.  He just needed more time for non NWR stuff.  I'm sure he'll still be around quite a bit.

Interesting. I never really knew Windy. Lindy has had much more personality on the forums. I welcome being able to talk to the director in heated arguments and interesting debates throughout the site.

We need Rick to come back and whip this board into shape.

Congratulations.

Oh Mr.Powers, where art thou?

A congratulations is in order. Will there be an inauguration? ;)

See, now I can't make old/Canadian jokes anymore.  Essentially I have to be good, and that sucks.

Congrats Jon

Translation: More respect towards HD-gaming and anyone that dares to argue with Ian Sane gets the ban hammer, no questions asked. The PS3 shall be worshipped more often. Soon, the site will go from a Nintendo centric website to one that offers fair coverage of all consoles in order to widen the appeal of the site.

Or...

*3 months later

Go Nintendo reports: After ten years of offering Nintendo information Nintendo World Report has shut down its website due to poor traffic, low forum attendance and lack of enthusiasm. Some believe that websites hot linking their exclusive content might have had something to do with it...

...Just messing with ya :p . Congratulations. :)

I'm speechless.

...

It's no secret that I disagree with Lindy's stance on a lot of things.  However, he seems to do a really good job as the reviews editor.  And this sure beats the alternative of having the site run by the Nintendo fanboy who would turn NWR into a completely biased fan site where everything is always roses.


Congratulations.  And I hope you start to play more Nintendo games in the future.

You make Kairon cry.

Kairon's a third-party fanboy.  There's a difference.

You mean Kairon is now running the site?!? o_O

All kidding aside, my one hope for a Nintendo website is for it to be balanced.

Nowadays, Nintendo sites come in two flavors: Those that love Nintendo so much everything is perfect, and those that are so angry and bitter at Nintendo's new direction that they take it out on the games and its fans.

I admit NWR has been balanced, save for a few that tip the scales either way (but that mainly happens on the forums ;) ).

I just hope the site continues to be this balanced both on the main site AND on the forums.

Thanks all.

Lindy what will be your first action as Director?

I think Lindy's first order of business should be to disband the RFN Podcast crew and instead replace it with Lindy and Ian's Nintendo Fireside Chat.

My only request is to let us know what's going on with the site; let us know what you do.

I don't want to sound like I'm hating on Windy, but I honestly have no idea what he's been doing for the past year (since the site redesign).  The director is supposed to lead the site.  And while he may have been doing a fantastic job at that, it's not apparent to those that frequent NWR.

I can guarantee I'll keep you guys in the loop.

And my first action: ban GP.  Excuse me, I have to get on that now...  ;)

Like I already mentioned I would like to see a balance in the coverage. IE, more info and thought, less angst and overjoy.

Also, I think the staff, as much as they love to mess around with its readers, should behave accordingly. If trolling is bad, no matter how fun it is, and enforce it on the readers they should apply it to themselves.

Oh....and I say ban half the staff :) .

I just thought of something else.  Lindy, did you ever beat Super Mario Galaxy?  There's gotta be a rule against the director of the largest independent Nintendo fan site not being the best Nintendo game to come out this generation.

Probably not, too busy with his Playstation Triple :) ;) .

Actually I heard he is still watching MGS IV's final cutscene and has no time for anything else.

WIN!

Hey guys, remember...

Long cutscenes are RELAXING! The staff needs their R&R after dealing with HD trolls all day. Leave them alone! :(

It's still on the list.  In my defense, I've beaten both Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3.

Have you beat Animal Crossing: City Folk?

Lindy makes me sad because I haven't beaten MP3.

Oh yes, the ending to it is pretty epic. The way Tom Nook dies as he abolishes Tortimer's rule, making you the leader of Animal Crossing its just...wow...

Well I haven't beat it fully. I still have to beat Dark Samus on Hyper Difficulty.

Pap you messed up my joke.

I've been visiting this website since about a month before the GameCube launch, where I remember being so full of anticipation that I constantly refreshed the main page to see if any new GameCube news was poasted. I imagine I'll still be visiting until there's nobody left to run it or Nintendo goes back to making playing cards. Let's hope neither one happen. :)

This site is still bookmarked as Planet GameCube, which shows two things:
1. I'm pretty lazy.
2. I've got a PC that's ancient by PC years.

Wow that's dedication.

there's like 51 cards in a deck, they'd never make something that confusing. Congrats Lindy

True. Just imagine what Nintendo must think of a card game like Uno. It's got 108 cards! There's different numbers, colours, and even wild cards! Now that's hardcore!

Congratulations to Lindy. Let me take this time to petition the unbanning of a political prisoner named the Rat.

Yep, that's the kind of trolling I'd expect. There are hardcore board games BTW. Agricola, anyone?

I can feel the illuminati's grip weakening in light of recent events.

Not good enough!  I will accept no less than 120 stars!

This is your homework for this weekend.  Good luck to you, soldier.

120? Screw that, he needs to do 241. None of this half ass garbage.

Even better, 120 in Sunshine, now that's a real challenge.

As the "fourth director" will we get to see a regeneration scene (ala Doctor Who) from Windy to Lindy?

Don't forget the Luigi coins.

Congrats Lindy. Now we need to have an online match of Gears or Halo or something. Get a big group of us together.

I think making people do that is considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Replacing Windy with Lindy?  I'm sure someone already accidentally swapped the names in a sentence.

Congratulations Windy... uh I mean Lindy.  Or if Windy is getting more real life time maybe he's the one who should be congratulated. ;)

Four directors but NWR has still never named one that I felt wasn't suitable for the role.  That's a compliment for Lindy but also for the site.  Few sites have managed to maintain a level of quality to keep me tuned in for so long.  Keep up the good work guys!

Congratulations, Lindy, and goodbye.  If history repeats itself, you will soon stop posting on the forums.  ;)

The number 108 pops up a lot in Eastern religions and cultures, so they might see some significance.

A blessing in disguise, maybe? :p

Congrats Lindy!  I have faith that someone you will tear down the evil empire of GoNintendo with this new direction for NWR.

I didn't realize anyone expected anything from me.
That was my attempt at humour, I was just rolling with the poasts. It wasn't my intention to annoy.

Are there any plans for changing the visual approach to the site?

Soon.  :-D

Yeah, soon. Sure.

KDR is being his grumpy old self. Don't mind him.

I've heard that before!

To paraphrase Iwata-san:

"We are always working on new visual approaches to the site."

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4540/180pxmariunoth5.jpg

I applaud your Uno skills, Wario-bok.

Awesome sauce. I'm gonna have to find somewhere to buy that.
Even 108 cards wouldn't be enough to have each one be a different Nintendo character.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yo Lindy, any chance you guys will incorporate some video reviews now?  As much as I like the written review, there's somthing to be said for a finely put together statement with this newer medium.  Plus, it makes it easier to spot aWesome graPhiX.    ;D

Video reviews are a great idea, but try to make them entertaining. Something like Angry Videogame Nerd, only without all the swears.

Sorry, but no. There are already too many "funny reviewers" online, X-Play being the worst, Yahtzee being the best (though I disagree with him heavily on occasion). They should focus on creating a fresh show, not trying to imitate everyone else.

I was just giving an example of an entertaining reviewer (I've actually never heard of the two that you mentioned :-\), I wasn't implying they should use that exact same style especially if they can think of something more unique. Whatever they come up with, I just hope it isn't some dude sitting at a desk reciting what would otherwise be a written review. Take advantage of that medium in some way to make the review entertaining, but still more informative than video reviewers like AVGN.

We've actually thrown around the idea of video reviews.  I think it would work for certain games, ones that would lend themselves to more than what amounts to a video walk-through.  We have other things to take care of on the reviews side of things right now, but we're definitely considering it where we feel it would be entertaining and different.

Please have your first video review be Kairon playing We Cheer.

I almost forgot about that.Thanks GP.

Congrats Lindy. Yeah it's crazy how quickly things can change. Will be great to see your new ideas come to life.

Have you considered doing podcast reviews?  It would require less equipment and knowledge than video reviews, and would add to your growing Nintendo podcast empire.

Should we have Stephen Hawking read our written reviews?

DO NOT WANT.

I threw around the idea with Lindy (podcast reviews) a while back. I didn't want to replace the text review, only supplement it. I still might do it one of these days, maybe for one of my upcoming reviews...

If you're going to do podcast reviews, make them enhanced AAC podcasts so we can get screenshots along with the audio.

Like Nick, I might test this out. I wouldn't want to do it by my lonesome though.
Maybe with a bigger release when multiple people would be playing it, or have someone who hasn't played it ask the reviewer about the game.

I still want to do my Mother 3 podcast, but college is a fickle beast. Especially when your internet doesn't really work with Skype and the friend who also played through Mother 3 is at a different college that also doesn't work with Skype.

AVGN ownz Yahtzee

It was always my assumption that written reviews wouldn't be replaced.  I'm not advocating replacing good old fashioned text at all.

I can't understand spoken English well enough to get everything, usually I have to read through a transcript afterwards to check the parts I didn't hear properly.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you frequent NWR instead of a German Nintendo website?  Just curious.

I say completely BURN the old fashioned review and just give us a number out of 10, that should suffice.

It was the first result for "Nintendo fan site" in google IIRC back when it was PGC. The Nintendo forums have always been pretty bad (they used some weirdass Javascript to do links instead of plain old anchor tags, the script broke after you click one link and go back, forcing a full page refresh every time. The server was also slow as molasses so it was completely annoying) until they were shut down completely. I joined PGC back in the iron fist days where posting one poll was pretty much instaban, kept consolewar flamewars down IIRC. These days I use the forum mostly for peer-to-peer game information because the credibility of reviewers especially on the big gaming networks has been eroded to a pebble by now.

I think I could use a forum for the 360 too in order to find some games for that thing. I think asking around in forums has helped me find games in the dire times on the GC and Wii, I need that for the 360 as well.

Yeah but I'm the MS plant, so I know good games as well!

I'm confused, vudu. How is NWR not a Nintendo website?

Oh don't play dumb. :)

Please don't invent agendas and parade them as mine or the collective staff's. (I'm not saying pap or vudu are the ones inventing them. I'm just sick of this conspiracy theory stuff, even as a joke.)

I was kidding when I said that. I thought you understood what vudu meant and I ran with it.

I thought vudu just did a typo and meant german (I think that's KDRs native language) nintendo sites.

I simply don't know of any. There's a much lower potential userbase for a site like that anyway because the language isn't spoken in many countries.

That's what I meant, sorry.  I rewrote the post because I realized my original sentence was awkward, and forgot to include one of the primary descriptors.  I've edited my post.