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Bastion and Braid were both great. Any other suggestions in that vein? Preferrably something free, but not something that requires too much hassle to get working. I guess cheap indy games is better than free in most cases.

I was thinking more about PC games. Emulators can be a pain, you have to find the ROM, configure, etc. I don't want to work for it I've got a bunch of of MAME games and C64 that I haven't bothered to try with a gamepad yet. Many of those games are kind of hard, which I don't want either. Lazy old bastard, aren't I? I wanted to play Super Mario, but I couldn't actually find the ROM I did play Tyrian 2000 a bit yesterday (got it for free when I registered at gog.com), but man, it's hard! I remember playing it a lot almost 20 years ago, though.

And even some console ports don't actually work properly with a controller, which really sucks. I bought Beyond Good & Evil, and it turns out they didn't really expect anyone to play it with a controller on the PC. Same goes for Dead Rising 2(which I got working, but still)

I have it properly configured and working, but it's still not a great experience to play a buggy console port

That's why Bastion and Braid are so nice, they work perfectly out of the box.

I haven't either, as I haven't tried yet

The problem is that those games are different from the kind of games I'm looking for at the moment. Basically I don't want old-school games. I want easy, feel-good games. I want the game equvialent of soft porn. I want something that requires little skill but is still satisfying. Like AAA games, except they are usually for consoles, and my laptop doesn't have the power to run them in a decent way anyway. I want M$ Solitatire, only with guns and gamepad support. Bastion is exactly that. A semi-casual game if you will. Before this happened, my gaming had degenerated into mostly Killing Floor. Easy fun, no skillz involved.

I can't sit at my desk right now because of some physical problems I have acquired. So I need games that I can play on the couch. And the most enjoyable way of playing computer games without a mouse is with a gamepad, at least that's my experience.

Maybe it isn't. I just that I died to the first boss a couple of times. I probably suck

I thought about GTA San Andreas. Now I've got it set up for the gamepad. Everything seems to work (with some help from Logitech Profiler), except that the triggers are on/off only

San Andreas is too buggy to be playable, the auto-targetting is shit. And you can't realistically aim manually with a gamepad. Does anyone know if GTA 4 is better?

I'd use nice or project64 or something and play perfect dark. You can just google "perfect dark emuparadise" and on the sites page you can get a mediafire link to the rom.

I don't know if a gamepad is good enough for flight sims or if you really need a joystick but you could give it a try. Lock On MODERN AIR COMBAT is a nice game IMO.

Seeing as how V is the Roman numeral for five, I always thought that there should be 5 V's, but then I guess that wouldn't be autistic enough considering that 5 isn't an even number, and that the game is totally for autistic no girlfriend nerd losers who have an unhealthy spike fetish and pay money for flash games.

Nah torhu, listen. A real man would paint his PC case black, then paint a green X on its side, and play cowa dooty.