Alright. I’ve been playing for a while right now and I’ve gotten to the point that my thumbs HURT. Well, my left one anyway.
I use the standard 360 controller and even though I can play SSF4 fairly well with the stick on that thing, I can’t do MK like that. It’s just too weird.
So are there any controllers out there for 360 with thumb friendly d-pads?
What would the pros recommend?
I have two recommendations, personally:
1: Get a PS2 to Xbox 360 adapter.
2: Condition yourself to tilt your thumb, as opposed to sliding it. Once you’re used to doing it, you get the same control without nearly the same amount of thumb damage.
What do you mean, "tilt your thumb’? I know sliding is a bad idea and I guess I do that a bit for this game. I’ll look into the converter. If I remember correctly, the PS2 controller was amazing. The shoulder buttons are certainly better than deep trigger buttons.
I’ve had so many EX moves fail because of the deep trigger of the 360.
Here are some pad options:
SF4 fightpad (I play with this and it feels great): Amazon.com: Xbox 360 Street Fighter IV Round 2 FightPad - Viper: Video Games
Hori pad EX: Amazon.com: Xbox 360 Pad EX 2 with Turbo - Black: Video Games
PDP Marvel 3 pad (Expensive): Amazon.com: Xbox 360 Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Controller Fightpad: Video Games
I have the first two, but I love the SF4 one better because it is more comfortable to use the claw method on it.
Can you explain the claw technique? Thing is, when I play SSF4, I use the thumbstick. It just feels more natural and I haven’t used a pad for a fighting game in so long now that playing Mortal Kombat is a pretty new to me.
So what exactly is the claw? Sorry for not knowing what that is.
Other than that, I’ve had my eyes on those controllers.
I only have my original 360 controller to go on and the d-pad on that is very similar looking to what the SFIV fightpad looks like. Is it more forgiving or does it understand inputs better? My 360 controller is insane with the d-pad as it reads a lot of my commands as up or down when I try to quickly go forward or back.
I was looking at that Hori. Reason being is that the pad, while still cornery, has very explicit divisions within the directions.
I was also looking at this:
Amazon.com: Razer Onza Tournament Edition Gaming Controller: Xbox 360: Video Games
Got an opinion on it? It looks killer.
Claw method: While your left hand is holding the controller in a standard method, the right hand has two fingers on the buttons and the thumb underneath the controller. The pros to this is there are more digits on the buttons.
The D-pad on the SF4 pad and hori pad are 10x better than the X360 pad. I have not gotten any accidental inputs from those pads ( I played on all three, I just own the first two).
The Razer controller is meh. The d-pad is better but is still way small and not that responsive to me.
As an example, let’s say you’ve got a move that goes “down, forward, FP”. Place your thumb across the down and forward buttons. Tilt your thumb slightly downward to hit the down button, then tilt forward onto the forward button. It takes some getting used to, especially doing down-to-back movements on 1P side (down-to-forward on 2P), but it’s worth working on if you value the skin on your thumbs at all, haha.
Sorry if it’s not the best explanation, I’m short on visual aids.
Thanks. Then it’s looking like I’ll pick up the Hori, only because the 360 has freaked me out about webbed d-pads and mortal kombat, being how the moves are made out, is more agreeable to a cross styled d-pad. I could be over reacting, but even when the original 360 d-pad might be registering my moves wrong, I could rarely be making wrong moves anyway. sometimes I’m doing 9 hit combos. But it’s super rare. Most of the combos I do are no less than 6 hits. It now averages around 7. But that’s only because dash fails on me and some moves don’t register on my input with the default 360 pad. I’m pretty excited about this because I may be better than I think I am. Hori sounds like the tops. Unless you can convince me that a webbed d-pad is still somehow superior.