If you can look past its tetchy software and are willing to pay the steep price, HP's Omen Sequencer is a homage to gaming-keyboard excess—in a good way.

I wanted to like the Omen Sequencer more than I ultimately did. It's got comfortable keys and good performance, which count for a whole lot in a gaming keyboard. But it's also bizarrely designed, lacking in features and far too expensive for what it does.