the differences depend on the game. for a game like mkx i bet it makes 0 difference whereas for ggxxac i bet sticks have a not insignificant advantage
I like using either tbh. Especially the fucking xbox one gamepad oh my god using a dpad like that again is unbelievable lol.
I think arcade sticks feel like a dpad with a bigass analogue at the top
now that most tournaments arent being idiots and allow button mapping for multiple buttons pad vs stick debate can rest
Right There. mapping buttons to shoulder buttons.
Wait.
There used to be a time when you couldn’t map 3x punch/kick to the shoulder buttons in tournaments?
Removing the strain on my thumbs (esp. the left thumb) during long play sessions is reason enough alone that I’m glad I invested in a stick.
Now to wonder why smash players don’t all do the same before they get arthritis before 30…
Yes
Of course if you have stick it’s easy as fuck to hit multiple buttons at once
Old ways/ tournaments used to not allow for pad users to map Buttons
So a stick user was at a decided advantage
Eventually this changed mostly because you allow for more entries and a more welcoming environment.
That and it really shouldn’t matter as most of those buttons aren’t moves that are dominant moves in most fighting games
A opponent shouldn’t worry about that anyways
Worry about your own apparatus
You should wanna beat a person that does everything they wanted to do
And just outplay them.
As it stands now ether one is personal preference
So I guess tha tmyth was busted and it was simply tourney people not allowing the layout that made sense for a controller.
Naw. It’s not about the buttons that make sticks superior. It’s the stick…
It’s really all about comfort in this day and age.
IDK how pad players do it, but pad play really gets my joints sore, plus the buttons are all in awkward positions. Sticks have them all really conveniently laid out. The stick also an advantage IMO, because it’s very clear where you’re going once you get comfortable with them. The thing about D-Pads, is that the quality is vastly different between each company’s controller. Some are good quality, and some are fucking horrendous (microsoft).
I personally prefer stick for multiple reasons:
1 Bigger buttons, and each finger gets its own button or two, as opposed to using my thumbs for each button.
2 in an arcade setting, there’s no excuse for being a pad player and not used to arcade sticks
3 they have multiple use, outside of fighting games, like MAME.
4 I just really like arcade sticks, and parts are cheaper to replace than out right buying a whole new controller.
At this point in time, it is purely preference. .to me and probably alot of the older gamers out there it is a legacy controller thing. I grew up when arcades were the primary way you played fighting games, so its what i was used to and what i learned my early movement and muscle memory. Later on thru my childhood up until sf4, i tried to use a pad to play fighters casually on home console (mash buttons with my friends) but even then id try to lay the pad in my lap and use it like a mini fight stick, using both the shoulder and face buttons simultaneously was always awkward to me cause i have large hands/long fingers , so when i decided to take fighters a bit more seriously after 4 came out, i bought a stick for that familiarity and comfort
But now at least in NA, arcades are pretty much a thing of the past, so you have a whole generation of gamers that have only ever had to use a gamepad to play anything so to them, they dont know anything else, which is fine, as long as you have good control over your guy on screen, and your input device of choice isnt hindering your access to anything your character is supposed to be able to do… use what you feel, there is no true advantage.
.ive been bodied by users using just about every device you can use in a modern fighter from a keyboard, a ps1 stick to a hitbox
half and full circles are easier and doing certain kara-throws and moves can be easier. that said i think it’s easier to do certain things like traditional supers/hadoukens on pad. to each his own but mine is always gonna be stick.
SFV has no execution so they’re the same.
The main thing good about sticks in my opinion is that it’s easier to replace parts and customize.
But a shoryu is just a quarter circle that begins with a forward ._.
Until I see a guilty gear player that can beat pros with sticks I’m sticking with sticks are superior
yeah there is lmfao
its called not using a stick
why would i learn something i dont need to learn to play my favorite genre
and there are pros in guilty gear that use pad hell theres not any motions in xrd that promote anything that is technically demanding moreso on pad than stick.
theres no gain or loss in economy of movement when using ether for motions
the deciding issue that companies have started to change is the quality of the pad
add on to the point that guilty gear has the same people winning that have been winning since the series beginning
those players just happen to use stick
i dont think using pad players that can beat other players in guilty gear is a good barometer for anything
it points more to tradition and experience than anything else.
you point to player improvement…not the device
ds4 pads are really good the only problem with them was the earlier models had some durability issues
wavedashing for tekken wore out mine pretty early.
Lies
but i aint wrong though
I feel more comfortable with pad
my testimony alone is proof that its all preference
It isnt an opinion. It’s simply an observative fact that many new top and up and coming players are pad players. To look at the the rise in the number of top level pad players and not see that stick or pad does not matter put you at the level of the YouTube kooks preaching about the Earth being flat.
There’s also a rise in easy input games. Yes it’s an observation but it’s also an opinion