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The best thing for me about FFIV’s soundtrack - and something it took me decades to realize - is there’s a common leitmotif that Uematsu uses in a bunch of major songs on the soundtrack.

Okay but to be clear, your statement here is exactly what the VGHF is saying:

That was my first assumption but Microsoft said that it would be a native, non-cloud port. If I recall correctly that came from Phil Spencer in an interview earlier this year.

In terms of access, the judge made it very clear that she felt the impact of Call of Duty’s availability far outweighed the discussion of other Activision Blizzard games.

I thought they would be Cloud versions as well but Microsoft made statements that the Nintendo versions would be native non-cloud ports of what they’re releasing on Xbox and PlayStation.

As others have said: I’m not worried about Microsoft acquiring those publishers. I’m concerned about somebody like Sony feeling they need to acquire somebody in response to this acquisition and going after a long-term player like Square Enix or Capcom.

Sure, that would definitely make things easier. Maybe they port Call of Duty Mobile to Switch or whatever.

Right, but I’m talking about acquisitions across all platform holders, not just Microsoft.

Yeah this might be better for Xbox and Activision Blizzard in the short term but consolidation - especially on this scale - is basically never good in the long run. My only hope is that this doesn’t set off a wave of other major acquisitions, because while I don’t really care about Activision Blizzard as a company, I…

I think this is a terrible deal for the industry overall but saying it’s going to significantly harm Sony in any foreseeable timeframe is pretty silly.

I’m genuinely fascinated about what that means for Microsoft’s 10-year deal with Nintendo. What are the terms? Are they going to keep putting out Call of Duty ports for years even though they’re losing money every year?

Ha ha okay yeah that did happen to me. Generally I’m pleased with how quickly and easily Tulin will headshot enemies but yeah it didn’t help when I was hunting down a Rock Octorok.

It’s still a matter of friction and accessibility. Sure, anybody who wants to put in the effort should be able to figure out how to emulate these games, but to a casual player, who might be curious of the original games after playing the most recent one? In the same what that somebody can go watch the most recent Star…

In June 2021, shortly after filming was finished, we got our first look at the cast as their characters.

Sure, but to your point (and as explained by VGHF but not really addressed here) there’s still a barrier to entry for the average person to play an unofficially emulated game versus just finding it in the same place they find any other game.

Sure, but the argument they’re making is that libraries and preservation societies should be allowed to let people play these games via methods like emulation but the ESA has pushed hard to disallow that:

Yeah, I guess I could do it but it’s not a great feeling.

I mean, the reason I suggested it is mapping sprint to left click has been used in games for something like 15 years. (First time I remember seeing it was in Call of Duty 4 in 2007.) Makes sense that Apex Legends would do that, too.

See, Yunobo doesn’t bother me because you can at least cancel his attack before sending him off. (I also use him to break walls and boulders all the time.)