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They're outraged they changed Gender to Body Type

Etherlords and its sequel. The actual gameplay is pretty much MTG and the character I picked rode around the over world on a giant spider. You can pick them up on GOG for pocket change but are probably on Steam too

I didn't realise there was actual history to it. I thought it was just internet speak. It's surprisingly good for what it is as well, Matt actually talks to people and gets first party sources instead of just doing wikipedia level skims like that series could easily be. He's also been on podcast that position him as a comrade as well

People talk shit about Oblivion but watch the Wha' Happen on Demon's Souls and you realise Oblivion directly lead to Dark Souls and all related games. So few games can claim to have such an influence.

I was going to point this out too. The cake shakes as well

I'll comment my solution here in case anyone comes across this with a similar problem.

I installed Antimicro, it comes up under slightly different names like AntimicroX but they should all be the same.

I mapped buttons on the controller to the keyboard and it all worked. You just need to map the matching controls in the game to the controller keybinds.

This was perfect for my use case because I bought my boys these controllers:

(They're 2 years old so I don't want to get them good ones.)

These controllers have a few problems with them. First is games and retroarch don't seem to recognise the D-pad inputs like normal, and second is Midtown Madness 2 defaults to a joystick axis for steering and you can't remap this.

Antimicro has fixed these problems by mapping everything to the keyboard, allowed me to play Burnout: Paradise with a controller, and fixed the new problem of trying to play Midtown Madness 2 without analogue sticks.

Antimicro is free and open source for Windows and Linux so it should sort you out on whatever platform you're on. I made my own profile, but you can download existing profiles from the internet as well.

Since this is an old laptop for my kids I don't want to put Steam on there. I found a program called antimicro that translates controller inputs to keyboard keys so I'm going to try that out