Stick a good investment?

DrakeAldan

DrakeAldan

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ahh, here we go.

I've heard stuff about how a stick can offer you a... richer fighting game experience, was it? specifically, I was wondering about the amount of precision (it seems like a great amount... did you see that Chang's FD JF topic? dude makes it look easy...)

Though I know that you have to get used to a stick.

... thing is, I'm a 90's kid, and I never went to the arcade (yay consoles...)

I mean, I don't even use a "Tekken"/"Claw" grip (thumbs and button mapping).

so I'd have almost zero experience. I don't even know how you'd train to use it properly.

(I definitely won't be exploring the subject with SCIV. Maybe the next fighting game.)

But... if I had the time, would it be worth it to learn someday?

Could I possibly execute things I never thought possible with a pad?!
 
PS3 or 360? Casual play or tourneys? Just SC, or other fighters, too?

If it's no big deal for you to drop $40~ on a standard Hori, then go for it.

Will it help you? That's completely down to personal preference. These days the playerbase is divided between sticks and pads, and there's no clear skill difference between the two, so you shouldn't feel like you can't skill up without a stick.

You'll need to practise your balls off to get used to it, though. Especially if you haven't used sticks before.
 
For 3D (Tekken, Soul Calibur) you can do just fine with a pad unless you're playing a character with a lot of motion based moves (Say like Ivy and her special throws or characters with a wavedash in Tekken). But with so many characters who just have simple directional presses for moves...eh. If you use a pad, stick with pad. If you use a stick, go with that. You aren't hurt either way.

For 2D? It's almost essential to have a stick as it makes everything so much easier. I don't think it's too hard to learn a stick if you want to learn it. I never played in an arcade until I was like 20 and it took me a grand total of a week...or two to get used to it and I had been playing pad long before that. To get good...just use it, play on it and just get used to it. It's not as hard as one makes it out to be...:)
 
QFT. Soul Calibur is a manually easy fighter, when we compare it with games like guilty gear, sf3 or even tekken.
Of course there are some hard things (some JF's, moves, timings for some combos) but there are not many of them, and even those can be make by pad and they are not harder to perform on it (sometimes its even easier on pad then on stick).
But, playing on stick, is much more fun then on pad. So if you have time to train and you are patient, do it, leave the pad:).
 
I see you have a PSN so I'm assuming you want it for use on PS3

I'd recommend just getting a Hori Fighting Stick 3 for starters. that's what I have at the moment.

If you look hard enough you can probably get one for about 35-40 dollars. They're USB sticks though so they'll only work on PS3 and computers. If you want it for use on PS2(which is understandable considering it has the most fighting games), you should look for a PS2 stick and a converter if you want to use it on the PS3 and computer. There are alot of PS2 sticks out there though so you shouldn't have any trouble finding a somewhat decent one.

The FS3 isn't anything remarkable as far as arcade sticks go, but it's cheap and is good to practice and get used to using arcade sticks, as well as figure out where you stand on using them. If you like using them you can then invest in more expensive higher quality sticks. If not you're only out about 40 bucks instead of 100-200 like most of the high end ones.

I've been using mine for King of Fighters 98 on GGPO(2D fighting online client on my computer) and Soul Calibur 4 for a few months now and just recently decided to buy an HRAP2 SA off of ebay(got it for a steal at 83 dollars). So yeah it was pretty much my starter stick as well and I enjoyed using it.
 
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