Finally got my steam account sorted out and picked up Dust: An Elysian Tale. Tried plugging in my old xbox controller that I wired up for USB... no joy. No drivers (XBCD) I could find would work in 64bit windows 8. Adaptoid... plug and play as a HID. Adaptoid configurator... doesn't seem to work at all but I found a tiny little gem called JoyToKey and it works like a champ!
Couldn't imagine trying to play this with a keyboard. After the first 10 minutes... I decided anyone who doesn't get this game and give it a whirl is retarded.
Just broke my personal record for number of consecutive days without dying!