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Any word on mouse and keyboard support? I got really into 2042 but at a certain point I hit my skill ceiling with a controller, with crossplay on I got pretty wrecked, with it off I could barely find a game to play in!

This looks like a lot of fun. Nothing has stuck for me since January, been trying a few here and there but haven’t seen anything through to the end in a while.

I mean, we’re already seeing AI generated content clog up everything else, it makes sense that something as lucrative as video games would be a victim as well. If it can be produced for next to nothing, in a huge quantity (ie. release several games at a time), you just hope a few people buy it on a sale and have some easy money coming in.

So many games get released it’s virtually impossible for Sony (or any other storefront operator) to vet them all. Perhaps vetting the publisher themselves is an easier one to manage.

I knew this kind of thing was going to happen from the instant I learned about gaming subscription services many years ago. Then, everyone loses their mind if a game is priced higher than $60, while also complaining that the developers are underpaid and overworked. Then layoffs happen and everyone is surprised.

This is what happens when an entertainment medium is locked at a price, despite rising costs not just in production but also salaries paid to the people producing it rising. That's why the prices are going above $60!

Ya'll act so surprised but then freak when the prices go up. Yeah, that is how prices work - they go up over time. It is called inflation. The only thing on planet earth that hasn't really moved up in price in the last 30 years is video games.

@crackeastwood All industries need competition*. Microsoft messed a lot of things up with regard to gaming (like paid subscriptions to play online, for instance) but they kept Sony in check. I don’t even know if Sony and Nintendo consider themselves direct competitors, seems lately the only thing they’re competing for lately is your time.

• typed “innovation” on the first pass for some reason- fixed.

@16BitHero why are you telling us any of that? Nobody cares if you play PC games. It means nothing, your comment is meaningless.

@Ironcore this always struck me as completely ridiculous as well, and I’ve played both the first and second games and enjoyed them immensely. This isn’t traveling across a small town during a snow storm, it’s an entire city that’s filled with gangs, religious cults, and zombies - I think it’s insane that revenge is ever considered an option at all in such a harsh environment, particularly for two teenaged girls, who make it look way too easy traveling through a zombie infested violent wasteland.

It’s fine in a game but watching this happen in a show sure does feel a whole other level of irresponsible. In reality Ellie would have been ripped to shreds 20x over so far if it weren’t for the plot armor.

What does one do with an art book? Open it and look at it, then put it away in a drawer for a couple of years?

@Juanalf you’re right - it isn’t the 90s and 2000s anymore, and with inflation it’s technically a bargain spending even $80 if you consider the cost of games increasing as well as inflation, while most games still go for $60 or less. You might not like that reality but nearly every single area of product or service has gone up in cost to match inflation.

Let me ask, would it be reasonable to pay $60, 20 years from now? 40 years? 50?

Gyro aiming or mouse and keyboard support. Mostly for bows. The lack of either is the only reason I haven’t picked it up yet. I get that mouse and keyboard support is a larger ask but gyro aiming for bows would be perfect. I just don’t like playing first person perspective games with a controller when it comes to aiming.

Helldivers 2 did it very well (gyro aiming when in first person aiming mode) and made it so seamless.

I played the hell out of Oblivion years ago on PC and would love nothing more to revisit. But until they add mouse and keyboard support (or gyro aiming would actually be preferable) I won’t pull the trigger. I always end up with a stealth build and you can’t aim a bow very well with a controller, or at least I can’t. Feels too unnatural.

Pretty bummed at the exclusion, first Doom Eternal and now the remaster of one of my favorites of all time.

Any word on mouse and keyboard support for PS5?

You’re missing one of my favorites, 7 Days to Die! I play it with a USB-C extension cord that I connect to a USB hub, which then connects my mouse and keyboard. It’s a mess of wires draped across my lap while playing but it works great.