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>>evolve+(OP)
The one thing that worries me is that PC gaming is going fast to requiring controller support.

Which is reducing the complexity of control schemes to either nothing or mortal kombat like combos.

Forward, down, forward, high punch to build a new city in a 4X in a few years?

>>nottor+sO4
Controllers provide analogue controls (eg. thumbsticks and triggers) that most keyboards don't have.

If, as you suggest, the control schemes of video games are becoming less complex (Forward, down, forward, high punch) then surely the result would be more games that are playable with only a keyboard, not fewer?

>>skibz+eP4
Heh the MK combo mention was a joke. Forgot I’m on HN.

>>nottor+qT4
Original MK, Sub-Zero spine tear, sigh, the first one I ever did. Got me into gamedev. I appreciated it!

>>dirkde+845
Had to look it up to post :)

It was back in the days when we gathered at the kid whose keyboard could actually support so many simultaneous keypresses and did tournaments.

>>nottor+t45
Trying to play with 2 players on the same keyboard was a nightmare. On mine WASD seemed to cope better than the arrows, so there was always a rush to pick sides of the keyboard. Ah, good times.