: Not quite. Controls should be fully customizable, like every other modern
: game out there. This is seriously embarrassing that I can't assign
: whatever button I want to whatever action I want in any of the Halo games,
: when there have been over 10 years to get it right.

Oh, I only wish every other game out there had fully customizable controls. I never liked BioShock's one and only button layout, and I hate how many FPSs don't offer layouts similar to Halo's, which is the one I'm most used to. Hell, I hate how Halo hasn't had a layout identical to that of the default layout from H1 & H2 since, well, H1 & H2 (HCEA did have the classic default layout, but it was not itself the default layout; the default layout in HCEA was more like default Halo 4, while classic default was "The Duke" layout). Usually, the devs either don't bother to offer any options, or when they do, it's maybe a half-dozen preset layouts at most, none of which are guaranteed to match someone's personal preferences. In the case of Halo, it's usually gone something like "We won't do fully customizable controls because we can't test for every possible glitch from every possible button combination," or something to that effect. Customizable controls are largely a pipe dream. That's why I offered something more realistic: simply expanding the number of layouts, including one that's like Halo 1 Classic/"The Duke." Muscle memory is a bitch, but most devs would rather spare themselves the work and just have us deal with layouts that might be far different from what people are used to in other games of the genre. This will always be a problem in gaming. Always.