I don't know if anyone has come across this particular issue, nor have I seen a single thread addressing this issue so here's the deal:

Every single time upon entering a Pinger the controls travel back in time and C3 becomes Goldeneye 64, meaning the Pinger's horizontal and vertical movements are to be controlled by the right stick ONLY. At first I didn't realize, I thought the Pinger was malfunctiong or my controller was messing around, I was mad either way and beat up a homeless guy (just kidding).

After a while of R&D on my behalf I discovered the shocking truth that the Pinger was to be controlled by the right stick only from now on. Anyone else having this problem? I'm on PS3 by the way.

No I've never heard of this. The only thing I find annoying on the pinger is that when I walk for a while, stop and the set of again, I have wrench my stick in the desired direction 3 times for it to work.