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I personally beleive its more of a Challenge to shoot with a controller so it makes your kills more rewarding instead of point and click and kill.
I very heavily agree that shooting with a controller is better.
Though, not really for the same reason. It's more because you can't turn 180ยบ in one frickin'
frame.
I would also like to mention that the XBox controller is my favorite gaming controller of all time.
It has the standard start/select buttons, a D-pad near the left stick, two sticks with stick buttons in
natural positions for my thumbs, a diamond-arranged set of standard buttons, along with w/b buttons above that, and two analogue triggers.
Gamecube:
A D-pad(I'll admit, the D-pad is better then the XBox's one), a cheap joystick(I'm not the kind of person that gets angry at games, but after a couple weeks, the joystick was off-center, and extremely loose; it was even worse then my year-old XBox controller is now), a
stub(wtf is wrong with a second joystick?!), a really small button on the left of the button area, a really really
big one, and two surrounding and oddly placed ones that I still have to spend a quarter second thinking to remember the locations of(and that I often confuse), two
digital triggers and
one shoulder button... wtf,
one?!, and a start button(wtf happened to select?)
PS2:
D-pad, two stick+buttons, 4 standard buttons, start/select, and
four shoulder buttons.
Along with being nice and compact, solid(the GameCube controller feels like it's half air, which is wrong... it's more like 3/4 air), it's
comfortable.
XBox controller is solid and heavy(as controllers go), so it doesn't feel like you're handling air. It's also more durable then GameCube controllers.
I've heard many people disagree, but think about this: I have never seen a broken XBox controller. The most I've seen was a slightly messed-up stick(in the case of my year-old one, and I have a tendency to abuse controller sticks by pushing them in one direction really hard), while as I saw an even worse condition one that was only in use for a few weeks. It was at my Grandfather's place, where there would only be two kids at a time; me(11-13), and my half-cousin(I forget, somewhere in the 3-5 range I believe), and he doesn't mash controllers, from what I've seen.
Also, at stores, I have only seen one mildly broken XBox controller. Almost every GameCube controller I've seen has had a completely useless stick, destroyed button, or similar damage. And I can say that the XBox's are played as much by little kids as the GameCubes are.
As for those of you talking about PC's compared to XBoxs...
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This is from a console perspective though, so games that are also for PC should be considered exlusive.