After owning several MAS sticks, a few custom Happ Competitions, the Anniversary stock and the Hori EX2… I can happily report that the TE, after being slightly modded, is the best stick I have ever used or owned.
This is the first stick I can use comfortably on my lap where are all prior sticks (with the exception of the EX2) all had to be used on the floor. Even though I am a cross handed player this things gives me no headaches with technique, I had to use the EX2 normal handed. The only mods I have are an octo-gate and a bat top. Once those were installed I was in sheer joystick heaven This is how I should have been playing for the passed 20 years!
I don’t understand why ppl keep thinking they will do so much better with a stick if they never used one. I bough mine with the game from day 1 because I KNOW I can’t play a fighting game with a controller but if you are use to a controller why switch? I dont get it.
I play on my lap btw
while we are on the setup subject anyone know a good chair/couch/whatever my futon hurts my back and I’m looking for a gaming bench.
It takes 2 months to get used to a stick for some people? Wow. I got my stick after I was failing horribly at doing ultras and what not with a 360 pad and after a few days it was like an extension of my hands. Just keep practising! I guess it takes longer for some people but it’s not really rocket science so you will probably get it eventually.
Same here. A day or two and you’re set. I can play in just about any position-lap, chair, standing. I prefer sitting at a table though since it’s more comfortable.
It just takes time to get used to a stick. I think you should have a strong reason to gravitating towards a stick. Certain characters in games like Tekken tag, sc, or tobal 2, required 2 or more buttons to be mashed at the same time. Sometimes this wasn’t a problem but trying to mash Square and circle at the same time or X and Triangle just wasn’t easy for me. And zangief’s special moves destroyed my thumb.
Don’t expect to play at the same level you once did when using a pad. You need to relearn the fundamentals if you aren’t experienced. Do dragon punches again and again and again in practice mode, until you never miss one. And make sure you can do that stuff on both sides. Then move on to more difficult things. Remember the Fundamentals…
I see a lot of people complain about having trouble using a stick. I think its funny and sad. I never had to do anything to get use to using a stick. When I was a kid we all played at the arcades so it was just normal. I think its sad because a lot of people wont get to expereince that.
I agree with Machineking1313 sort of. I dont think pad players get a stick to FEEL like a pro they get it because they think it will increase thier skill. All the top players use a stick. It also probably has something to do with people like me. I tend to bash, and look down, at pad players. I know I shouldnt, seeing as a lot of these people have never even touched an arcade stick in thier life.
On topic I guess - I use a SFA Stick. When im at home it sits on my ottoman and I sit in my computer chair. When I go somewhere else I just put it on the floor. Its big so It doesnt feel good in my lap. I have never felt comfortable with one on my lap. I need to have the feeling like im standing at an arcade cabinet, and I just dont get that with the thing in my lap.
I hold the stick wine glass style, My index and middle finger on one side and my ring and pinky finger on the other. I use a bat top not a ball top. Japanese style button layouts and sensitivity are not for me. Im with Alvien, I prefer the american parts. x_X
I’m doing fine adjusting to the stick, but the buttons are giving me trouble. I find myself inadvertently hitting buttons while playing. They are so sensitive!
The most irritating thing at this point is the fact that I got a stick to help with Akuma’s raging demon, which always gave me hell on a pad. Same story on the stick so far. I don’t have any problems with his BnB, resets, FADC etc, stick or pad. :annoy:
I made my own fight stick and it took me about 2 weeks to go from feeling awkward to being better than I was at using the controller, switching mains to Rog after buying a stick with a square gate also helped out a ton. The extra 30 percent on my win percentage was all the proof I needed.
I started playing arcade games when i was young and mostly with low quality happ style sticks, so my input is usually rougher than others who worked with high quality sanwa sticks, but it worked for me and I can pull off most of the basic combos.
But I do think it is easier with sticks to play arcade games, even when i play bullet hell shoot em ups, my game improves significantly if i use a stick, pads are not made for precise controls.
First stick i ever owned was a stocked Hori FS3. (Its modded now) took a while to get used to it but i stayed committed. (I currently own 5 sticks. 4 custom, 1 modded)
long story short…im never going back to pad for fighters…period.
either get used to it…or stop complaining…i for one am sick of these types of threads popping up on a hella constant.
Helpful, encouraging, some personal experience. Thanks for the input, I appreciate it.
Not so helpful, & I couldn’t care less what you are sick of. You don’t like it, don’t read it. End of your contradictory, stressed-out day my friend, right there.
OMFG this, seriously im tired of people spasing out over playing stick. I personally use stick, not because i wanna be like the top players, but because thats how i leaned how to play Street fighter. Bottom line, just do you man, if you play pad and your good, dont shell out $150 bucks for a stick you dont need.
To answer your question i play on my lap. TE btw, when i used to play on my ex2 i put it on a table.
Took my a couple days of playing with the stick on my lap before I got better than I could ever be with a pad. Having a stick doesn’t automatically make you good though and some people need to realize that. I have a friend that plays a flawless Ryu on his pad and can’t do shit on a stick. All a matter of preference.