Well, I wrote a whole essay-like writeup on how the gamepad controls should be. Then while trying to close an annoying hyperlink that popped up, I accidentally closed firefox and it deleted all I'd written. Anyways, here is the long and short of it.

*More attention should be given to joystick-equipped gamepads. While we are so busy charging ahead with mouse control, doing work for such defunct devices seems counter productive. At least in North America, I have not ever even seen non-joystick gamepads for sale.

*Allow the left joystick (used for aiming) to emulate mouse cursor. This option will be necessary for objects that need an actual X,Y coordinate from the controls and not just an angle (ie: loam).

*No context sensitive joysticks! It's crazy how the clonk can move around using a joystick and suddenly stop and aim with it as soon as he uses an item.

*Better control scheme utilizing joysticks with [Use] and [Throw] on shoulder buttons. I have made a picture:


Currently, 'Circle' and 'Select' are still free. Conceivably, circle could be used as an [Alt Use] modifier button (press circle, then hit either [Use] key, perhaps).