Before the Xbox 360 arrived in 2006, using a gamepad on PC was a pretty annoying experience. You'd have to manually configure buttons, games wouldn't detect the controller or show the correct icons, ...

What's the most up to date and easiest to use? Emphasis on the latter, mapping controls in an .ini file is not my idea of fun. Stupid fucking Activision and Blur. What do you mean? You want to be able ...