take por example ALIEN SAWRM, i love to play that WITH A CONTROLLER!!!! i simply can´t move and shoot and the same time and worry for more button on the keyboard...you know, i have 2 right arms....

i have 2 left arms so I CAN NOT PLAY GAMES WITH THE KEYBOARD ... before was a little troublesome map buttons with gamepads and such but now you can just plug the 360 controller , so why it is so hard support controller on fps games? i dunno , i rly dunno ...

Keyboards are so much easier though

I think the reason why games on the PC don't always support gamepad controls is because the mouse and keyboard is standard on all PCs. When you make a game for the consoles you are guaranteed they will have gamepads. For the PC it's the Mouse/KB. So they have to develop the game to support the native controller type of the system.

Cool group. Yeah, totally agree with you. It's so much more chill just sitting back and playing with a gamepad, rather than with your face to the monitor and sore wrists.

Add all Microsoft Flight Simulator versions to Joystick+Mouse

Ahem, For gamepad only, put saints row 2, and tm nations

@ Grey Acumen: I don't think Xppader will run automatically. But to close the program all you have to do is to middle-click the icon in the toolbar. Apart from that you can select different profiles for different games.

SO glad I found this group. I thought I was the only person!!

Fantastic group. The keyboard is such a cumbersome tool for fine precision.

Is it possible to have Xpadder launch automatically when specific games run, but otherwise not be active?

You might want to try Xpadder. It is the best program I've used to configure gamepads on the PC. You can assign keys, macros, turbo, anything you can imagine.
The program is free, if you download the version 5.3 or a previous version.
I use it with my xbox 360 gamepad, it allows me to play games without gamepad support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpadder
http://xpadder.com/