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[bahndotcom]

Nick has co-owned TNL from the beginning. He didn't take over anything, he was always the man. TNL as a games site died because Nick didn't care about games anymore, had serious real-life shit going on, and a few people he had hired to run things had turned the editorial side of the site into an internment camp so writers stopped bothering.

It should be noted that right before TNL died, it was enjoying its highest site hits ever thanks to guys like James who was always professional and on-time with his stuff, and Derek who was never on-time but always extremely readable and entertaining (his parody Ikaruga racism editorial was linked all over the Internet and was pretty huge... it even had a couple of threads started here from guys who fell for it).

I'll also add that Nick is also one of the wittiest and coolest people I've ever known, and Got-Next sucks.Do you register for the front page now, or is this just you being typically over-defensive over nothing?

This thread really should stick to the original intentions -- celebrating the triuhmphant return of Nick Rox.

 

[Tain]

That's funny. Did you check the front page? GN isn't a forum, it's a content site.

Oh, I was talking about forums specifically.

GN (the site) has always struck me as somewhat slick, but I don't think I've ever read more than five minutes of either at a time.

 

[isamu]

What do you guys think Nick thinks about my lunacy for the RR series?

 

[isamu]

Guys, which racing game do you speculate Nick will play more....Ridge Racer 6 or PGR3?

 

[isamu]

Do you speculate Nick will approach Mzo about doing a Dragon Quest live action film starring me and Dragona?

 

[john tv]

isamu - if you want to be banned, just ask...

 

[jaundicejuice]

Bit of a tangent but...

Does isamu ever make thread titles without using multiple exclamation points?

 

[isamu]

Gentlemen....I just remembered that Nick replied to me in that massive "History of Gamefan" thread over at TNL. The following are his comments to me about the day we met at E3, and it signifies why Mr. Rox will forever be one of the coolest, most hardcore, badass 'keepin' it real' type guys in the industry:

To Isamu, I -do- remember you. I even remember telling you 'Ys Book I - II' was my favorite RPG, though if you asked me today I'd be tempted to say 'Suikoden II'. I am flattered by your kind words, and gratified that I "got through" to someone via the conduit of GameFan, for that was my surely my intent. Old-school Japanese 2-D gaming needs more champions, and I'm honored to see people like yourself taking up the charge. I'm no ECM -- I readily embrace 3-D gaming when it works (I'm thinking Kojima, Miyamoto, Mikami) -- but my heart will always remain steadfastly affixed in two dimensions. And my favorite game system is -still- PC Engine. I see you have love for some 3-D games as well -- 'Ridge Racer' will always be a classic! Play 'Ridge Racers' on PSP if you aren't already. It is joy-drenched, blazing, blissful.

*Link* incase you think I making this up.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

one of my favorite memories of Nick was way back on Sierra Online's TSN (The Sierra Network). It was the summer of 1994... and Nick and I got into a pretty juvenile bullatin board argument about which would be the RPG of the year: Final Fantasy III (VI) or Phantasy Star IV.

Although I wonder if he'd admit it these days, he favored PSIV. Naturally, even though I hardly knew jack shit about it, I favored FFIII/VI. I had no idea who he was at the time.

In early August, Nick (who posted as SonGoku on TSN ) claimed he worked for GameFan. None of us on the boards believed him (he had yet to get a Wolfinger 'character' in GameFan at that point)- but he insisted that the magazine had gotten a US review copy of FFIII in and that it would be his first real review for the magazine. "I'll believe it when I see it" was the most common response by the board members. I asked him "what will be on next months issue?" I figured it was a solid question, since the September issue, with Dynamite Heady on the cover, had just come out. "Super Punch-Out will be our October issue", he replied. "And look for my review of the US version of Final Fantasy III. My review name is Nick Rox."

Surely enough, Super Punch-Out was the October issue cover... and the FFIII review was done by newcomer 'Nick Rox'. I (along with many others) happily ate crow.

Good guy... but he never admitted that FFIII/VI ended up being the better RPG of the Year 1994 over PSIV

 

[isamu]

one of my favorite memories of Nick was way back on Sierra Online's TSN (The Sierra Network). It was the summer of 1994... and Nick and I got into a pretty juvenile bullatin board argument about which would be the RPG of the year: Final Fantasy III (VI) or Phantasy Star IV.

Although I wonder if he'd admit it these days, he favored PSIV. Naturally, even though I hardly knew jack shit about it, I favored FFIII/VI. I had no idea who he was at the time.

In early August, Nick (who posted as SonGoku on TSN ) claimed he worked for GameFan. None of us on the boards believed him (he had yet to get a Wolfinger 'character' in GameFan at that point)- but he insisted that the magazine had gotten a US review copy of FFIII in and that it would be his first real review for the magazine. "I'll believe it when I see it" was the most common response by the board members. I asked him "what will be on next months issue?" I figured it was a solid question, since the September issue, with Dynamite Heady on the cover, had just come out. "Super Punch-Out will be our October issue", he replied. "And look for my review of the US version of Final Fantasy III. My review name is Nick Rox."

Surely enough, Super Punch-Out was the October issue cover... and the FFIII review was done by newcomer 'Nick Rox'. I (along with many others) happily ate crow.

Good guy... but he never admitted that FFIII/VI ended up being the better RPG of the Year 1994 over PSIV

Ha that's an awesome story Jolly!