RE: The Xbox controller in Halo...

You get used to it. Just like the first time you used a mouse in a FPS game, it's awkward - but you get used to it.

Of course many people never take the time...they fumble around with the thumbsticks, overturning or underturning and get frustrated - so they quit.

For me, I forgot I was even using a control pad by about the third level. Months after finishing it, I picked it up again only to discover that I had totally lost my "feel" for the controller. I'm again rooted in a mouse/keyboard world.

I have no doubt that if I spent a little time with it I'd pick it back up again tho. Halo is an awesome game... It's a bit repetitious in the middle (they make you fight your way back out through an a generic looking area you cleared earlier), but once the game gets to the "Flood" section it rocks the snizzle offa yo nizzle.