Arcade Stick vs Controller

[Aedesyr]

i played with controllers for over 10 years. I almost never used sticks over at arcades cuz here all arcades are pretty much dead, so if i ever tried to play with a stick it always felt somehow wrong.

a few months ago i finally bought a stick, hoping it would help me on my sfIV game(well, mostly cuz the 360 dpad is just awful).

At first i wasn't really happy with my new toy: everything felt a lot harder, and i couldn't imput properly any motion, even the simplier(fireball and shorykens, for example). but after a month of practice...well, the stick changed everything.
It did not only improved my game, but the main difference is that playing now feels completely different; using a controller implies, no matter what, some mashing in order to do things: with the stick i have the sensation i am controlling what i am doing. Plus, the button layout is just so much better than the controller's; hitting multiple buttons was a pain in the ass on the controller, and doing button mapping sometimes was a pain; the only issue i have with the stick is that i can't do 236236 or 623 as fast as i was doing on the controller. but maybe it's just cuz i need to pratice a little more.

I still have to test the stick on gg/bb tho. 'til now i have tried it only on battle fantasia/street fighter 2hd/IV and garou.
(oh, and i forgot to mention: before buying the stick, i hated charge characters. now i ♥ them. nice article op btw)

[Jais]

+ Stick Pro
Playing in Arcades!

[Zinac]

Negative edge is a good enough reason to use stick.

[Kyle]

Thanks for the contributions everyone. ^_^

I will be updating the first post.

[MisterBadguy]

I don't follow. What exactly is the disadvantage of negative edgeing on a pad? Do I just have some sort of super thumbs where I don't notice the difference?

For example, I play Cedric on pad. I have no problem whatsoever holding down D with ball of my thumb, giving the tip of my thumb access to the rest of the buttons.

As an Akuma player early on, I learned to keep cr.MK held down while taping short with my thumb tip to keep myself from negative edging a medium hurricane kick.

This is not a particularly hard technique (if you can even call it that) that I'm sure every pad player has figured out by now. I understand the point of this thread, but I must speak out that I don't think negative edge makes a bit of difference from format to format.

[ZhaneBX]

Great thread.

After getting pain in my arm from dashing all day in BB with the 360 controller i just got a stick a few days ago. It really feels strange at the beginning, but I'll get over it and do some training.
Its already so much easier for me to do some BnBs with jump cancels.

I was lucky and got a SC4 Hori stick pretty cheap, i thought its ok for testing. But i think if I'm better in using it I'll look into some stuff to make a custom stick or something.
(If someone has a link or something, i would appreciate it!)

[Alphakami]

I don't follow. What exactly is the disadvantage of negative edgeing on a pad? Do I just have some sort of super thumbs where I don't notice the difference?

For example, I play Cedric on pad. I have no problem whatsoever holding down D with ball of my thumb, giving the tip of my thumb access to the rest of the buttons.

As an Akuma player early on, I learned to keep cr.MK held down while taping short with my thumb tip to keep myself from negative edging a medium hurricane kick.

This is not a particularly hard technique (if you can even call it that) that I'm sure every pad player has figured out by now. I understand the point of this thread, but I must speak out that I don't think negative edge makes a bit of difference from format to format.

Zinac is terrible at making points, but it's undeniable fact that stick players have, in every sense, an advantage of button control and options. It's not that it can't be done on pad, but it can be done on a stick with less effort and greater long term accuracy.

[Digital Watches]

I play I-No on pad. Anything is possible!

That being said, I can play I-No on stick and while some things are easier, I prefer her on pad.

Still waitin' on that money match.

[qwerty]

the infamous stick tier list is a useful guideline for deciding what stick to get. just don't get anything below B rank and you should be fine.

and for pad players; keep in mind that a dualshock is not your only option. people have been padhacking saturn pads for ages now and those are probably the best you're gonna get as far as pad goes.

that being said, everything is far more precise on stick. take it from someone who played gg on pad for over a year; microswitches >>>>>>>> contact board

[AI__]

Damn, from that tier list, it says that mayflash stick is D tier. FML