Recommended Arcade Sticks?

[Synraii]

HRD is pretty much spot on about it depending on the player:
The general heirarchy of precision is this:
Hitbox>Arcade Stick>Pad.
While hitboxes are technically the best, very few players have put in the large amount of effort required to play them and even fewer use them competitively.
I myself was a pad player, but nowadays I only play siegfried on pad, every other character on every other game I use stick.

Bear in mind though that Soul Calibur is a game you would never need a stick to play at high level, it is purely an optional thing.

 

[Supa]

Be sure using a stick is what you want first. Lots of players prefer the PS1 controller with a converter over any stick.

I don't always play on pad, but when I do,
I play on a SEGA Six Button in claw style.

Joking aside, totally valid point. There are heated (and I mean *heated*) discussions on SRK and Dustloop about Pad vs Stick and I would hate to revisit that here...... :)

At the end of the day, I *personally* (tastes vary) prefer SC slides, justs and cross-buttons (ie: A+K, G+B) on a stick for very obvious reasons. SFIV plinks are annoying on a pad, but the directional inputs are literally idiot proof. KoF is just more fun on a stick (5D 6A 214A 41236B 214A DC 41236B (loop) 214A 236A 41236982A, anybody?) and BlazBlue is probably pretty fair either way. The upcoming Skullgirls actually includes features for sticks (you get extra input frames on non-adjacent directions) that pad users won't even notice.

Edit: I was hoping no one brought up the Hitbox. :P

 

[Alpha]

I don't always play on pad, but when I do,
I play on a SEGA Six Button in claw style.

Joking aside, totally valid point. There are heated (and I mean *heated*) discussions on SRK and Dustloop about Pad vs Stick and I would hate to revisit that here...... :)

At the end of the day, I *personally* (tastes vary) prefer SC slides, justs and cross-buttons (ie: A+K, G+B) on a stick for very obvious reasons. SFIV plinks are annoying on a pad, but the directional inputs are literally idiot proof. KoF is just more fun on a stick (5D 6A 214A 41236B DC 214A 41236B (loop) 214A 236A 41236982A, anybody?) and BlazBlue is probably pretty fair either way. The upcoming Skullgirls actually includes features for sticks (you get extra input frames on non-adjacent directions) that pad users won't even notice.

They really have heated arguments on SRK about that? Wow.

I use pad btw. Sometimes when I'm doing Chun Li's 236 236 LP+MP+HP, It won't respond and I have to struggle to redo it again. I heard it's easier to do on Hitbox and Stick.

 

[Synraii]

The important thing to remember in Soul Calibur is that at high level: Non-pad players are a minority. It comes down to what works for you, the player best.

 

[Alpha]

The important thing to remember in Soul Calibur is that at high level: Non-pad players are a minority. It comes down to what works for you, the player best.

Yes, I totally agree.