Using a stick is infinitely better than using a pad, imo. I played on pad for about 10 years before I got a quality arcade stick. There’s just no going back, no comparison. Everything feels more intuitive on a stick. Charging, qcs, etc. For me, the stick itself is the big draw. I was fine with the buttons on pads.
never said you CANT do them. i know i can. i was saying you cant drum it like you could on a stick. i def. can do it on a pad,but im saying the ease is with the stick.
tahts an advantage IMO. plus i asked about doing EX moves or regulars on command.
doing the elec. or slappy hands on a stick its easier to pull off the EX or regulars when you want too. i dont know,sometimes that L1/2 button just be tripping. sometimes it’ll feel like activating 2 buttons instead of 3 so i be like wtf?
I mash really hard when I tech so people know and then I get tech grabbed.
:sad::sad::sad:
Lesson here is, mash harder.
Don’t some tournaments band hotkeys for dpads? I could have sworn that I heard about this at one time or another. It wasn’t that hotkeys weren’t allowed, but you had to use the default setting and couldn’t make your own or some shit like that. If this is the case, then this could be a real disadvantage for a pad player at a particular tournament.
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If you think switching to joystick is gonna make you 10x better automatically it won’t.
In some situations having a joystick is more advantageous but overall it’s your mind that’s controlling the hardware.
I’m using an xobx360 pad for SF4 instead of a stick (I’m a stick player) but unfortunately I can’t afford to buy a new 360 stick. I’m not playing much worse than I would normally be playing on a stick but there are times when I screw up moves because of the Xbox360 d-pad…
When it comes to fighting games, I play on arcade stick. Unless a game in question controls better with control pad. For other genres, it varies for me.
its a pretty easy question. its a yes or no answer.
if you find yourself typing up ANY advantages a stick has that a pad doesnt. thats your answer.
Word. It takes a lot of hard work to be decent on a stick, so even though there may be an advantage, it’s not easy to get to it.
Joysticks are easier on your hands. That’s the only advantage. It’s a big one in the long run though.
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I find myself reacting faster on stick.
I think it’s got to do with how you hold the stick (wrist) versus how you hold a pad (thumb). I can AA much easier on a stick, and do motions in general much faster.
Not to mention drumming and all that.
That’s basically it. Depending on what stick/parts you have, a pad can be a lot worse in terms of buttons being too mushy and the obvious hard to control D-pad (360).
Why not just use a stick? If you ever want to be a serious arcade player, you’d have a hell of a time getting used to a stick then and there if you’re a pad player. Plus the game was sort of meant to be played on a stick. It feels more natural and its more comfortable. IMO anyway.
I dunno, I’ve been a pad player for years…just recently started using sticks and although it was awkward at first, after a few hours I am almost as good as I was before with motion characters (Still can’t DP on command sometimes, but I used to have similar issues with pad) and exponentially better with charge characters.
Hell, the stick feels so good that I don’t even WANT to go back to pad anymore and thus now can’t play my SF4 or any fighter at home anymore XD
The only disadvantage I’ve found so far though besides the learning curve if you’re a recent convert is that sometimes in SF4 you get the super instead of the ultra that you’re going for, or the regular move instead of EX, but that might just be the fault of my execution and not any fault of the sticks.
Getting supers instead of ultras could be a design flaw of the game, because of all of the overlapping. I watched a lot of SFIV matches before the console release. After playing the game, I see things much differently in match vids. I can think of two examples where this happens. Iyo was going against Ajiorou and got a super instead of an ultra. There was no way he was going for a super in that situation. I also watched Itabashi matches, where he does an exSPD, when it’s clear he was trying to go for an ultra.
I can play on both. But I don’t prefer console gaming period. Since you have to sit the stick in your lap or on the floor, it never feels steady to me. There is nothing better than playing on cabinets that can’t move. I can play decently enough on MAS sticks, but when the stick starts moving I have issues I shouldn’t have. But I didn’t grow up with console sticks, so the experience is awkward for me.
sticks are better. I started usuing a stich for sf4 and have seen my performance increase tenfold… really
sticks are much better.
Stick is better than a Pad, you can prefer a pad to a stick, but the stick is better. There’s some things you can do on a stick, that’s not possible on a pad. And it’s so much simpler using a stick, than a pad. I know not everyone uses pad, nor does everyone use a stick. It’s a matter of preference on which you prefer to use, of course.
I agree, sticks don’t automatically make you better. They can make you better, but they don’t always. The fact of the matter is that sticks are better than the pads. It’s easier to use them (once you’ve gotten use to them), and they’re alot more versatile. There’s no arguing, or debating about it. It’s a cold hard fact, wether you accept it or not is up to you
Sticks aren’t mandatory, just recommended.
to whoever said its an advantage to learn sticks…but NOT eaasy.
who ever said its EASY to be a BEAST on a PAD? nobody.
it goes both ways,but the BEST ALL AROUND solution would be…yes,a pelican POS stick lol. jp
See that bolded part?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me these “cold hard facts.”
As far as easier to use them, that’s preference. Versatile, again preference. Someone can argue that pad is more versatile because you can map buttons and use those buttons at ease.