low00ranger
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I had one of the adapters for the Xbox when I first switched back to console to play Halo 2 as someone else posted earlier. I'm not sure how today's adapters for the 360 play out, but the one I had was highest rated and sucked for competitive gaming. I don't think they were able to fully map the signals sent from a mouse/keyboard combo and convert that to an xbox controller signal for the xbox to process as normal. It could have something to do with the keyboard/mouse combo being "chattier" in that it might send movement updates, etc more often than an xbox controller. In gameplay terms, I was able to hit a limit of user inputs and some movements wouldn't be processed. So if I'm running straight, then jump and fire.... the 'fire' action wouldn't get processed. Or if I'm running straight and strafing(w+d or w+a) and jump, the jump wouldn't get processed.
I was in the same boat as you then, and when the adapter couldn't make it feel anything like a PC game I just sucked it up and stuck with the controller. Now I'm just as good with either. I used to think mouse/keyboard was superior but you would be surprised how quick and accurate people can be with the controller. If you ever watch MLG gaming competitions, those guys can be just as quick and accurate as the classic PC Quake/CS/whatever competitors.
I was in the same boat as you then, and when the adapter couldn't make it feel anything like a PC game I just sucked it up and stuck with the controller. Now I'm just as good with either. I used to think mouse/keyboard was superior but you would be surprised how quick and accurate people can be with the controller. If you ever watch MLG gaming competitions, those guys can be just as quick and accurate as the classic PC Quake/CS/whatever competitors.
