I decided to burn 15 dollars on the Altar of Gaben to get Brutal Legend, after a fresh install of Windows 7 Mini after my old install got wracked with malware. The story is I downloaded a crack for that specific game which turned out to be a malware downloader, I repeatedly and aggressively tried eliminating it, but a few basic things I use the computer for - particularly browsing and music - were fucked, and more malware kept popping up like a fucked up digital hydra, even as I Googled around, probed my registry for anything suspicious, used MSConfig to change startup items, and ran more aggressive scans with Hitman Pro and IOBit Malware Fighter. So I decided to back up some things I needed, wipe my C drive clean, and install a fresh copy of Windows, metaphorically tearing the hydra's heart out (or rather nuking it from orbit to make sure it never darkens my door again).
Brutal Legend is actually kind of a decent PC port for what it is - the graphics, sound, and gameplay are all there, but the keyboard controls aren't great (they work I suppose), the mouse is a pain in the ass to use in the radial menus, and the right analog stick on my Xbox S controller won't pick up which kinda throws a wrench into actually playing the game. I'm currently trying every method I can think of or find with Google, short of altering the game's code, to make my gamepad fully functional in this game. So far I've tried x360ce, config via Steam Big Picture (which flopped because Steam thinks my old Xbox S pad is weird and won't let me configure it), looking for config settings to use, and I'm about to run my controller into the SDL Joypad Tester to get a profile for that when I'm done typing this.
Edit: And Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War. It runs pretty fast at high resolution on relatively little computer/video resources (my current computer is still 4GB Ram, 2.80GHz processor which I assume is a single core, and 512MB or less of video memory on an ATI Radeon 4550 HD video card) and looks decent at that.
