[jrootabega]

I don't want to dispute your experience, just add that in my experience, the game pad was perfect* for Batman: Arkham City. You would look down at it in the same situations where Batman would look down at his gadgets. So even though the game pad wouldn't work well for every game or every person, I think it had undeniable inherent benefits in some situations.

* They bungled the audio aspect, though. If you played with headphones, you couldn't route game pad audio through them.