returned my xbox360, back to mouse/keyboard

You didn't have an option for "a couple hours" but that's about how long it should take. Did you try changing the control scheme? I personally can't play FPS games on a pad without inverting the up/down view control.

If you're familiar with WASD and mouse look on your keyboard and mouse it shouldn't take long at all to get used to a gamepad.

How old are you?

(By the way, "btw" means...uh, "by the way" to most of us, not "between".)

It all comes down to the fact that a console controller is just not as responsive or precise as a mouse.

A PC gamer can get familiar with a new controller pretty easily most of the time but will be dissapointed with its responsiveness in FPSs.

I just don't understand why FPSs have become so incredibly popular on consoles, They just don't work as well as WASD+mouse and probably never will. Even the wii's controls are far from perfect. There are gamers however who only play FPSs on consoles... I just get the feeling that they don't know what they are missing.

Precision is all in the eye of the beholder. I love playing GoW on my 360. I think the people on PC's who complain about the controls just don't understand the point of console gaming. How often can you and four friends all play on your PC? The title dictates the fun, not the console or pc.

Mind you, with a possible exception of Links 386 on a laptop, my first game was Super Mario Bros. on NES, & I've always been very comfortable with controllers. I'm even pretty damn good (or at least was at one point) at Perfect Dark. I've also gotten decent at times with dual analog controlling games (also Perfect Dark in 1.2...) but...

First person shooters belong on a mouse. With a keyboard. And a computer. It's that simple.

Many genres play better on consoles. Others play better on PC. It's that simple. It's that black & white. Unless it's grey, in which case either control scheme works for the game - in which case I'm faster & more precise with a keyboard, & maybe a mouse.

But regardless of how comfortable you may be with a controller in the FPS genre, it will always be inferior. It's just too slow. Even if I had perfect accuracy (which I don't on consoles - just barely enough these days) for something like Call of Duty 2, there's absolutely no way the sheer intensity of the game could be transferred over to me. It also doesn't help (in this specific case) that I'm 10 feet away instead of 2, and I'm using speakers instead of a headset.

It's more immersive on a computer, & it controls better with a mouse.

ok I am a huge fan of : gears of war / halo / halo2 / socom 1-4 etc console FPS gaming is just something that takes some time to get used to but can be mastered with time just like anything else. gears of war is by far more fun to me right now than any other FPS except maybe DARK MESSIAH (PC) (if i had a faster proc and video setup 6800 GT not cuttin it anymore)