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That's a valid path if you can swallow the development effort to design two systems and maintain them. There are still issues with everything filtering down to a controller with 14 buttons and how to map the game to that, even on pc, where people may play with a controller. Sometimes you get mutually exclusive problems that are hard to solve. What if you need the dpad for weapon selection ala Orange Box, or Gears or something? What if you are using the dpad to select inventory items? Ok so you do a radial menu where you hold right bumper and then select guns with the left stick. But, right bumper was off hand grenades and that's the best place for it? It's a house of cards, so imo, unification is the best path. Some call it dumbing down, but really in most cases, it's just good design.
Beyond that there are design issues. IMO, combat encounters are more interesting and fun if you are given an arena and lots of weapon choices. As you move around the arena you can pick and choose what you like. The key is to offer the player lots of choices so that all play styles are supported. The player should not be frustrated at having to leave their favorite gun behind as long as you offer it again in the near future, so they can get it again. In fact, in lots of cases that's a win because you create this little feedback loop of addiciton and reward as you give them their fix :)
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