Well, I haven't been convinced to buy this game yet. I do enjoy south park, but I'm kind of on the Vurin side of the fence where I just don't see it being a 60-dollar value. I'm sure I'd have fun playing it, but I have a lot of other games I already paid for that I think I'll play first.

It'll end up on sale on Steam at some point, and I'll probably pick it up then.

I imagine it's a "DirectInput" device, the older controller input standard, which works fine as a PC controller but I believe it needs to be an "XInput" device (the newer standard) to be automatically detected as an "Xbox 360"-style controller.

Since it's not detected as a 360 pad, a DirectInput device won't always have the "correct" button mappings by default and the game needs button remapping to get things to match up nicely. In the worst case scenario, the game will refuse to acknowledge the controller at all if it's not a 360 pad -- possible with lazy 360 ports, and I assume the problem here.