Denizens of Giant Bomb.
 
I have purchased a Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for PC.
 
I want the entirety of this website to help me not regret this decision and key me in on the games that work well with it.
 
I don't want to know what games work with it, for that information is freely available.  I want the esoteric knowledge that only blood, sweat, and tears that can bring.

Pretty much any "games for windows" game nowadays has native support.

GRID, DIRT 2, Live For Speed, Batman: AA, GTA IV, other stuff. 
 
 I've not had a single bad experience using my 360 controller on the PC.

" Pretty much any "games for windows" game nowadays has native support. "

" GRID, DIRT 2, Live For Speed, Batman: AA, GTA IV, other stuff.   I've not had a single bad experience using my 360 controller on the PC. "

" super meat boy "

I felt Beat Hazard is a superior experience with a controller. It controls like a twin-stick shooter would.

I just purchased a 360 controller to my pc and played the walking dead episode1, which was awesome.

anyway, I bump this thing and hope people will give some more suggestions.

@VirtualAthlete: Well, name a PC game that isn't an RTS.

Though on this note, the Crysis gamepad controls suuuuuuuuuuck.

Saints Row 3. There are some points where you might want to go to mouse and keyboard (like when you're shooting stuff up), but it's one of the few games I can think of where the UI will change on the fly depending on what your control input is. Batman Arkham City is also on that short list.

Darksiders and Witcher 2 both have good gamepad on PC support (Logitech 710 in x360 mode in my case).

Any 360 title that runs on PC controls like its 360 counter part. Just to name a few off the top of my head: Prince of Persia (2008), Alan Wake, Crysis, Batman, Saints Row, GTA, LA Noire, WItcher 2, these are all games that control just like their 360 counterparts when played with a controller.

Super Meat Boy is great!

Bulletstorm!

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Dirt 2/3

Get it on my friend!

I think The Darkness II plays better with a 360 pad due to the fact that you're essentially quad-wielding most of the time.

Plus if you got a pad you owe it to yourself to get some racing games, Blur would be my recommendation. NFS Hot Pursuit is good as well, especially if you have a powerful rig.

Trackmania

you now have a choice.

a choice you can make yourself at anytime.

'do i prefer this game with a controller or a keyboard and mouse'. sometimes its a choice only you can make but that is the beaut of PC gaming... choice.

Bastion.

@Ubersmake: Deus Ex HR does too!

Saints Row 3, Darksiders, Halo 2, Just Cause 2, Rayman Origins

The only game (that wasn't an Indie or FIFA or a racer) where I felt compelled to use a gamepad rather than M+KB is Mirror's Edge, so, that.

Pretty much any PC game that isn't a first person or strategy game work great with a controller.

Space Marine works like charm. From my experience every newer game that could benefit from pad workd great with the one from 360.

Don't forget Skyrim. Gamepad works great for it.

Resident Evil 5 was a game I absolutely enjoyed on the gamepad. As well as all the other suggestions in this thread. I have no clue how I could play Saints Row 3 with a KB&M. And I like using KB&M!

@rebgav said:

@rmills87 said:

I have no clue how I could play Saints Row 3 with a KB&M. And I like using KB&M!

Headshots all day long, that's how.

Headshots are great, don't get me wrong. But when you have an open world game like this, I have never been able to warm up to the good ol' KB&M.

@AndrewB said:

Don't forget Skyrim. Gamepad works great for it.

Shit, absolutely. Forgot to mention that one.

Burnout Paradise

Bioshock

The Tomb Raider series

Psychonauts

Rage

Fallout 3/New Vegas

Borderlands