User:Vincent3990

Welcome to the Zelda Wiki profile of Vincent.



Introduction
Vincent first entered the Zelda community back in 2004, when he got his very own computer. He stumbled upon Zelda Dungeon and was fascinated. It all grew from there. Vincent went on to become a well known member of the Zelda Community, and had a rather successful Zelda fansite. More details below.

Not So Humble Beginnings
Unfortunately, Vincent didn't enter the Zelda community on good terms, at least not to his knowledge. After lurking around the community for a few weeks, the young Vicnent decided to make a site of his own. It was a no name site, of which he doesn't even remember the name of. Vincent didn't know anything about making sites at the time, and let's just say he sew this one together like Frankenstein. Little did he know, this was a bad thing. A few months in, people started coming to the site and leaving nasty comments, sending nasty emails, and so on. No warnings or anything, just constant flaming. It got so bad that Vincent, known as evildemon2590/Vinny at the time, had to shut down the site, and leave the Zelda Community.

Resurrection and Redemption...kinda
A few months later, after doing much research on the Zelda Community, and its rules, Vincent, now known a Legends, had decided to give making a Zelda site another shot; this time, doing everything the right way. He bought the domain name zeldarealms.com, and got hosted off his friend's dad's server. He was terrible at making web graphics at this time, (crazy right?) and threw together a crappy layout in M$ Paint. Crappy may be an understatement. Anyway, about a few months into Zelda Realms, Vincent was contacted by this guy named Jon, who would later go on to become the webmaster, Killswitch, of the acclaimed Zelda Legacy. Killswitch wanted to join the staff of Zelda Realms as the Graphic Designer. Having no idea how Killswitch found Vincent, or his site, (because he wasn't affiliated or linked with anyone. Not even on Google.) Vincent quickly accepted the offer. From here on, the site would grow and grow. Creating a name for itself amongst the smaller sites of the community. Killswitch's layouts were extravagant, and brought the site to levels that were previously unimaginable.

Upon searching Zelda Dungeon one day, Vincent checked their now extinct "Staff Needed Sites" page, and found a site named Zelda Genesis. Vincent visited this site and was very pleased with the sites design. He immediately sent an affiliation request to the sites webmaster, Karashimu, whom he would soon become very good friends with. Vincent eventually joined the staff team at Zelda Genesis as a content writer, and Graphic Artist. At Zelda Genesis, Vincent, (Still Legends.) would start his first ever forum experience. Vincent fell in love with forums. He loved the communities, the activities, and all the other Zelda fans to talk with.

More Stuff...
Eventually, Killswitch left the staff at Zelda Realms, to create his own Zelda site. After a few weeks, Zelda Legacy was open. It was a miraculous site, filled with great content, media, and a layout to boot. The forums were also great fun. Vincent joined the forums at Zelda Legacy, posted for a while, and for some reason that he doesn't remember, left. A while later, Zelda Realms much bigger, Vincent returned to the Zelda Legacy forums, when he heard he was being talked about in a fight involving his new co-webmaster. The fight got a little crazy, but it eventually settled down, and Vincent decided to stay at the Zelda Legacy forums, now on vBulletin. Vincent quickly made many friends here. It was the greatest forum experience he ever had. The community was constantly buzzing. The forums had become a hub for the webmasters of the community, and their members alike. It was great fun. So much to talk about, so much to do. Just a great experience. Eventually, Vincent became a moderator at Zelda Legacy. Oh, and he requested a name change to Swiftblade, after playing the Minish Cap, and thinking Swiftblade the First was really cool. Vincent would later get promoted to Super Moderator, and things would prosper.

Zelda Ultimate
Months would pass, and sites would flourish. It was during this time, that Vincent and Karashimu hatched a plan to merge their two sites, along with another site known as Zelda's Rejects. They created Zelda Ultimate, which would eventually grow to be a well known site in the community, almost becoming one of the "big sites". I'm not going to go into much detail on this part because it's too painful. The forums were pretty great. They had attracted their own userbase. The members were great. Eventually, the elitist group from ZL came over to ZU, and the place pretty much got torn apart. The end.

The Beau Guffey Chronicles
Beau Guffey... oh man... oh man. Beau Guffey was a user at Zelda Legacy that... um... corrupted the place. He had a big influence on Vincent, corrupting him, and influencing him to do bad things. Beau is a bad person. Vincent has moved on, and stopped doing all that crazy stuff with Beau. So anyway, Beau joined under the name BeauG. He didn't like to follow the rules, and at first Vincent hated him, and wanted him out, because he saw what would become of the community if this kept up. (By the way, Vincent become an administrator at Zelda Legacy at this time.) Killswitch didn't seem to have a problem with him though, and did nothing about the situation. So Vincent had no choice but to accept BeauG. Vincent later became friends with BeauG, and started partaking in his little "activities". Most members of the community quickly left, and Zelda Legacy was no longer the place it once was. Now it was made up of a core userbase, and this userbase grew to be very elitist. Flaming new members, and other sites, were daily rituals. Zelda Legacy started to gain a bad reputation in the community, as did Vincent. Vincent eventually became known as "The Noob Slayer" amongst his friends at Zelda Legacy, because he would basically, verbally destroy new members. Eventually, most of the core userbase at ZL left, and the elitist group grew even tighter. Their antics got worse, much worse. They would partake in raids, hackings, flame wars, and so on. It was pretty bad. Soon, the forums would be utterly dead, and Vincent was devastated. He attempted many times to revive the forums to the Golden Land that they once were, but everything failed. Killswitch started to go through some rough times in his life away from Zelda Legacy, and eventually had to shut the site down.

Ancient Majicks... Oh Boy
After the fall of Zelda Legacy, BeauG, now calling himself Mr. Guffey, and another member of the elitist group, Black_Mage (or bookking99) came to Vincent with a proposition to create a site out of a little joke/game Vincent had created. Vincent didn't really want to do it, but decided to anyway, since Ancient Majicks was his creative property. The site was a joke. They used Karashimu's vBulletin forums, and Vincent left the main site up to Mr. Guffey. It really all was a big jumble of *Navi*. Pretty much a safe-house for their raids and hackings. Heads started to clash, and the site went up in flames. Vincent was fed up with this life. Fed up with all the hackings and flamings, and dying communities. He wanted out. After Ancient Majicks slowly died off, Vincent became active at the Zelda Dungeon Forums.

Game Mirage
Shortly after Ancient Majicks bit the dust, Gravity decided to open up his site, GameMirage, that had been in development for about a month prior. Vincent was very, very reluctant to take part in this new site, because he left that community, but he was eventually persuaded to join by Karashimu. Vincent would take on the role of Site Designer, making graphics for the site, such as user-banners, and smileys. Gravity wasn't really ready to open the site yet, but he was kind of forced to. He was even a guest on one of Mases' Zelda Dungeon Video Podcasts, which gained the site some much needed publicity. Things went pretty well. The forums would reach 1000 posts in nearly a month, and the main site would flourish with news. It was a cool place to be. It was almost, and I really mean almost reminiscent of the old Zelda Legacy. No flaming, no hacking. Just a nice community, focused around video games. Eventually, Gravity would grow tired of the site, and he decided to shut it down, but that never happened. He let it sit for a while, and it started to fade very quickly. After a while, Gravity decided to completely redesign the site from the ground up, using the blogging system, Wordpress. He completely dropped the forums, and community aspect of the site, and would focus on news, reviews, and so on. There was a crappy little shoutbox on the side of the site, for the members who missed the forums, but it wasn't that great. To be quite honest, this new site sucked, and eventually, Gravity disappeared off the face of the internet, bringing GameMirage with him.

Participating in the Dark World
A little bit before GameMirage opened... a little bit before Ancient Majicks died, actually, Vincent decided to become a fully active member at Zelda Dungeon. He had an account there since Mases opened up the vBulletin forums, but didn't participate. Vincent's rank at this time was Fansite Worker. A fabulous pink colored group, for people who worked at other Zelda fansites. That would eventually fade, because Vincent no longer owned, or worked at any Zelda sites. At first, Mases was a little reluctant to have Vincent there, because of his notorious past, but Vincent proved to Mases that he had completely changed. Vincent even designed a new banner for the forums, because the old one was sucky. That gave Mases an idea to have a "submit your banner" contest. Making Vincent think that Mases didn't want to use his, because he made it. The winning banner was picked judging on which one had the most user votes. Miraculously, Vincent's banner won, and sat up there for all to see for quite a while.

Two months after becoming a fully active member at Zelda Dungeon, Vincent was promoted to the rank of Hylian Hero, (now known as Hylian Knight.) a group for the role models of the forums. From here on, Vincent would become an active face of the Zelda Dungeon forums.

Ordon Village... more like err, make up your own witty insult.
Vincent's friend "Alex", as he like to call himself, took over the lead position at a site called Ordon Vilage. Ordon Village was previously owned by current Hyrule.net administrator Arctic Fire, who had originally created the site. From there, the site had gone through many owners and the path of Ordon Village was unsure as to whether it would remain a Zelda site or not.

On July 3, 2009, Ordon Village was handed over to Vincent (also know by the handle "Swiftblade") after Alexander left due to personal issues. Vincent took care of the site for a good while. It didn't really grow, but it was stable. Alexander decided to come back to Ordon Village after discussing the matter with Vincent on August 2nd. He left again on the 23rd of August, after he decided that he wanted to go out on his own and make a new site. (He tends to do that a lot. I mean A LOT.) After his permanent departure, the site's activity rapidly dropped. On the 28th of August, Vincent gave Alter the position Webmaster, after Altar making false claims that he could bring some life to the community aspect of the site. Over the next few weeks, the activity levels started to climb again, but due to personal events, both webmasters became busy, and were unable to continue the work. Altar was too busy resurrecting an old site of his called Zelda In My Pocket to give Ordon Village the time of day, so Vincent gave him the boot.

On November 20, 2009, it was announced that Ordon Village would be shutting its doors, and merging with another site. However, the merger never occurred, and the site is now offline for good. Let's finally let this secret out of the box. Vincent had made a deal with his old pal Killswitch from Zelda Legacy to merge sites, shortly after Zelda Legacy was announced to return. This, however, took far too long, like everything else Killswitch does. Vincent got tired of waiting and decided to back out of the merge, and become a staff member at Zelda Dungeon. A few months later, Killswitch punked everyone and opened Zelda Legacy out of no where, and then disappeared of the face of the internets again.

After Ordon Village up and died, Vincent decided to close the site, with a rather interesting page that could possibly cause seizures. It gained some notoriety when Nathan of Zelda Informer fame saw it. Having thought this was an awesome way to go out, he decided to add the page to his Zelda community archives. Although the Ordon Village domain name is no longer registered, the page can still be seen here. http://ordonvillage.swiftblade.net

Zelda Dungeon
After that whole Ordon Village fiasco settled down, Vincent decided to join the Zelda Dungeon staff team as an adviser, graphic designer, and forum moderator. Things went great for the few months that Vincent was there. He kept the forums nice and tidy, and dealt with the spammers with a Power Glove. This exceptional performance earned Vincent the title of Super Moderator. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, things went great and everyone was all happy and stuff and everything was right in the world, aside from that oil spill. One day Vincent up and decided that he was done with Zelda Dungeon. It was nothing personal against anyone on the staff, or the site itself. Vincent just wanted to start focusing on things that truly mattered in life, such as college and work. He kindly stepped down from his Super Moderator position, and is sorely missed.

Present Day
Vincent is now your average site surfer. He keeps up to date on news about the franchise, and the community by visiting Zelda Dungeon and Zelda Informer weekly, and can occasionally be spotted commenting on Zelda Dungeon's Facebook status.

Vincent plans to take an active role at Zelda Legacy once Killswitch gets his head out of his arse and finishes the custom content management system/forums/image gallery/publisher's center/utopia.

Vincent is also working on a secret project, but that will probably never see the light of day. Not until Vincent gets his personal life sorted out first, anyway.