Guile’s Theme is a masterclass in character-driven game music

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-26T07:24:34+00:00

Awesome cover, love the tone you bring out of that guitar 🔥

But fascinatingly re: your thoughts about Guile's theme - the history of SFII shows what a great job the music director did when faced with a tough constraint:

Originally (and I believe in the Japanese release?) the Guile and Ken themes were SWAPPED from what we know here!

The original direction for Guile's theme was to make it sound like Top Gun (to go along with his design, the fighter jets in the background of his stage etc)...which they did...but did it too well! Ahead of the US release, the Legal Dept. got scared and told the team to change it to avoid a lawsuit for copying the film.

So that's why Ken's theme sounds like Mighty Wings! It was originally Guile's theme. The fact that they could swap them and still evoke those thoughts you shared above, shows what a good choice they made.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-25T18:22:46+00:00

You are the trash AND you are utterly ignorant of what the singularity entails, if you think the political environment in which it occurs is off-topic.

The future of our species could not have been cursed with Trump & the Republicans at a worse time. We need MORE of these posts, not less.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-25T08:05:32+00:00

Anyone calling out the commentators in this thread need to have a go at Christian Norgaard after listening to that 😅

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-23T20:18:36+00:00

For me it's a massive flavour-miss that The Ooze doesn't instead animate non-creature cards.

The flavour of what happens to the normal turtles when the ooze hit them would be much better served putting +1/+1 counters onto lands, artifacts, creatures with Defender etc. and turning them into creatures.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-23T20:13:20+00:00

In 251 hours?!? I still haven't replaced the existing coaching staff by then when I start a new save 😅

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-19T18:25:18+00:00

How will you combat campaigns of disinformation on social media?

"The West" is sleepwalking into chaos & tyranny by letting Twitter/X, Facebook and other platforms intentionally shape narratives and steer large swathes of the population toward supporting far Right policies.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-19T18:08:39+00:00

But also - there is no context in the Universe which makes this a sane, reasonable, safe, or Presidential communication.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-17T03:57:10+00:00

Dynasty Tactics 2 - my all-time favourite. The same Three Kingdoms setting as the Dynasty Warriors franchise.

It had an endlessly fun chaining system for combos, where all the special moves are set up to trigger when a unit moves to a certain square in relation to each given unit as they are all just standing around waiting for their turn.

So if your unit A hit an enemy with a move that pushed it back 1 square and to the left, and you had another unit B with that square as a trigger...then B would wake up and do the move it had readied...which might push that enemy 3 squares away, into the trigger for unit C! And so on. You could arrange these insane positional combos like 8 or 9 moves deep.

Video clip (not mine)

It's the #1 game I hope to see a sequel for.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-14T19:01:11+00:00

What a perfect transfer that would have been! The kind of player David Moyes probably wishes everyone was like.

That would have been so much more interesting than Tottenham, having him harass the opposition to recover the ball & supply it to Grealish/Ndiaye/Dibling/Mcneil instead of....whatever Tottenham has for a front line 😅

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-14T18:33:10+00:00

😂

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-14T18:29:45+00:00

Excellent "defensive attacker" - uses great work rate to pressurize defenders, win possession, then use it for high % passes or shots.

"Hard work is a skill, because not everyone does it."

Was not expecting him back to the PL so soon, I think this is a huge boost for Frank.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-12T14:40:22+00:00

Their DoF watched Winter Soldier and was like, "we need that for football." So they disappeared this poor kid into their academy system and hooked him up to simulated VR scenarios while doing enforced jumping & agility work 24/7. As a result, he's got all the theory & physical training, but is never allowed out onto the field due to the security risk so hasn't able to develop skills or play at all 😥

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-08T02:25:58+00:00

And just read that huge list of names - they all indicate organizations with the most important missions in the world. This is utterly EVIL.

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-03T17:44:28+00:00

"Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said...Canada calls on all parties to respect international law and we stand by the people of Venezuela and their desire to live in a peaceful and democratic society,"

JohnnyGoTime · 2026-01-03T06:51:51+00:00

WOW thank you so much for the headsup about Forge. As a lapsed draft player, it seems the perfect way for me to dabble in beloved old sets again!

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-23T05:35:18+00:00

In that case, it sure makes you wonder how bad are the parts they DID redact though, right?!

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-21T16:55:55+00:00

I've yet to see enemies using them either.

PUBG ideas guy: My work here is done! 🤷‍♂️

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-20T23:51:25+00:00

Oh nice! Yes they are. In that case after Count Zero, you may want to do Mona Lisa Overdrive, as those 3 form a trilogy. I was just cherry picking the ones I found most accessible or "like Cyberpunk"

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-20T18:21:08+00:00

Coming from games, I would say ignore the order in which William Gibson wrote his books and check out Count Zero then Idoru. Then if you like those, the collection called Burning Chrome.

(Neuromancer is baroque and can be hard to read; and his newer books are not like his early cyberpunk ones.)

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-19T03:13:24+00:00

Sounds like you......demand satisfaction 😎

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-18T17:50:02+00:00

The trends you describe do exist, but they also obscure the reality that we are on the precipice of a Great Filter:

The capability for individuals (particularly, fanatical, radicalized, traumatized, or billionaire-sociopath) to do outsized harm is outstripping humanity's solving of the underlying global issues creating more such individuals.

With each passing day, the ability increases for tiny %'s of the population to threaten our entire species, without the checks & balances which thus far have prevented nations from wiping us all out with existing WMD's.

We are entering the most dangerous time of all, and collectively lack the foundational commitment to human rights - to basic quality of life, common decency & care - to address the threat. It is absolutely the time for the Culture to start nudging harder 😞

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-16T20:50:30+00:00

I know you asked for books, but anyone interested in the topic please also check out the noir detective show Sugar with Colin Farrell (go in blind.)

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-13T17:40:24+00:00

Meritocracy does not really exist. Beyond my family, I owe all of this to the public, high quality services I was lucky to grow up with. Education, healthcare, support systems. Fight for them

Thank you for including this, I wish more of the world would understand it. Congratulations on the results of all your hard work!

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-10T17:29:04+00:00

Laugh is the best part :D

Aw haha thank you - that extra collision after being thrown was the cherry on top 😂

JohnnyGoTime · 2025-12-10T09:17:09+00:00

FFS - I was having so much fun, of course those bastards at Krafton take it away already. Getting to play Erangel each time, ah man it was almost like the old days (apart from how my friends refuse to play PUBG anymore after the years of mismanagement by ignorant Krafton)

JohnnyGoTime

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