^^^ was gonna say that but didn't want to sound like a PC elitist

When I say that I don't play games on PC, I mean regularly, not ever. How would I know that games don't work instantly if I've never tried?

I already downloaded an application called enjoyable for this purpose. Though I was able to get it "working," some of the inputs double up, and I don't know why. For example, when I press hold the missle button, samus will also go into her morph ball as well. A few quirks like this, especially in the menu, made the game unplayable, but that's the closest I came.

I... don't want to?

OK then, let me change what I said up a bit then:

Hmm, it seems like you've contradicted yourself? You say you don't typically play games on PC because they typically don't work, but then later on you go to say how it's isolated to this game, because other emulators and games worked.

How is that contradicting? I'm not saying that the other games I've played never had issues before starting, because literally all of them have. I'm saying that the other games didn't have this particular controller connectivity issue that has still prevented me from even starting this game.

Why are you trying to "gotcha" me?

I guess I was mainly questioning why you even decided to bring that up?

Because people, even educated gamers, still believe PC as a platform is at fault for issues or being too complicated. Despite the fact that most modern games are fine on PC. Seriously, PC gaming is not complicated... 

All I can assume is spem is having such bad luck is : 

A) Shitty OS(Mac OS... although he might only be using a Mac right now)

B) Bad game choice

C) Bad luck

like I said, I thought using a controller would be complicated even as a PC gamer. I just assumed id need to purchase a third party controller or a dongle.  It wasnt until literally today that someome on vgc told me I can just hook up a USB Xbox One controller into windows. It was so easy. Which is great because no controller stopped me from buying Hollow Knight and Hob

Because it's annoying.

It is though. I cannot reliably download a game and just have it work every time. It may not be the controller every time, but it's almost always something. Almost always something that has to be googled or tweaked.

It's the game. I've already said this. I know where the problem is. All of AM2R reddit does. It's not a shitty OS and it's not bad luck. It's the game. I just want to solve it.

We're getting off topic. Please help me solve it instead of being sensitive about a harmless comment.

You need a PC if you want to play games, not a Mac...

It's not about being sensitive though. I genuinely don't understand how you're having a problem. You just said the entire subreddit knew the problem ... so why don't they know the answer??? We don't even know the problem and you're asking us to solve it. Like i'm not trying to be rude, I don't get the problem. Maybe the game is just not compatible with controllers right now??? Is there any proof that the developer made the game around controllers?