Fight Stick Thread?
Thinking of getting pic related, as it is only $30 at the local game store, but I wonder if it's too small for the stick to be comfy.
what are some good fightsticks that are cheaper than $100? What is the best value regardless of price?
btw I mainly play Tekken 7. I dont think the stick will make me better, I just want to capture the arcade feel
Nah man invest in a $200 one if you're gonna get one.
There are no good fightsticks that are cheaper than 100 dollars.
I used a mini last night, if you stick them down they're alright but they're too small to comfortable sit in your lap or wherever like a bigger stick.
I can go to $200, have any recommendations? I don't mind swapping parts.
Qanba Drone is the best budget stick but you're really better off just waiting for Combobreaker or Evo and getting an Obsidian on sale.
I bought a cheap fightstick and it felt about as accurate as pic related. Just a 8 way dpad with a stick on it.
Qanba Drone's pretty alright at 80bux, though it's still not particularly great. Really easy to swap in a Sanwa stick and some buttons, but at that point you may as well have bought a Hori RAP N for 130.
Save your money and buy something bigger if youre really interested in it. This kind of stick isnt even worth it if you just wanna try it out.
Ok thats a solid recommendation
I like your way of thinking
Sticks always ALWAYS go on sale when there's a major so whatever you buy you're going to be better off waiting for CB next week
Ill do that then. thank you anons
Just bought a Hori Rap 4 Real Arcade Pro Stick 2 days ago and been enjoying completely. It's $150 but just like other anons said you can try out the Qanba Drone. Those look good too and especially if your on a budget.
Speaking as someone who has a Qanba Drone, a Hori RAP N, and one of Madkatz's TE sticks with all Sanwa parts, I'd honestly suggest skipping out on the Drone unless they can't afford to step slightly higher. There's nothing functionally wrong with it, it just doesn't feel good on account of really light feeling buttons and stick tension. Plus it's narrow enough it doesn't fit in the lap well.
The RAP N, however, is my favorite, though Hori buttons are less clicky than I'd like. Plus the black and gold looks really nice.
For me it was. It allowed me to get used to motions with a stick like that and pressing buttons like a piano.
Wasting more than 100+ for something you may not like, or get used to, or use that much, is not only a gamble but a possible huge waste of money.
I started with one of those. Picked it up cheap in Tokyo. I'd never used a stick before and didn't make to make a huge investment if I didn't end up liking it. It was too small and slid around a lot, but great to try out using a stick.
I currently use a Qanba Drone with Sanwa parts. More premium sticks might be better, but I didn't want one too big and the Drone is a nice, inexpensive medium-sized one. Make sure you swap the parts out though if you get one.
They're kinda crap and basically unmoddable
It's somewhat handy having such a tiny stick, it's definitely more of a flaw than a benefit. If you're not sure you'll like stick it can be worth picking up to try, but you'll 100% want to upgrade if you want to stick with it so it's normally better to start with something good. It can be useful to have a backup you can use if something goes wrong with your main one or to let friends use etc though
I tried that stick before at a relative's house. It's not comfy at all. It's too tiny even for my smol hands. It's too small to feel comfortable in your lap and too easy to move when you put it on a desk.
They're super tiny, but if you just want to dip your toe into sticks and see if they're for you before dropping a couple hundred go ahead and pick one up.
convince me to buy a traditional bat stick and not the hit box
You aren't good enough to use a hitbox effectively.
I used one for a while.
It's not too bad if you get some velcro sticky things and put it on a board of the right size
Your hands are still uncomfortably close together, but some full size sticks are almost as bad so some people must like it like that
Hitbox is only good for fighting games. A stick can be universal, (emulation, platformers, 2D, shmups, etc.)
This, I use my stick for shmups and beat-em-ups half the time.
qanba obsidian, works on ps4/xbone/pc
Hitboxes are more fun desu
I like pressing buttons, it feels good to smoothly tap out your inputs like a pianist or something
Best stick I ever used. Fucking loved the stick clicking sound and directional resistance. Very light too. Don't get me wrong, the material quality was probably crap and it felt plastic as hell almost like a toy but that was a part of its charm. Bought a razer panthera a while ago and it just isn't the same. The stick feels too 'sloppy' and not clicky enough. Crazy build quality though.
What stick should I get if money is no object?
I bought a Qanba Q1 about three years ago and I think it was a very good first stick. You can get them for like 50 bucks on eBay now. Dont get me wrong, you'll need to upgrade. But for something to see if you like it (and are playing on PC) then you cant go wrong
panzer fight stick 3 or allfightsticks.com custom build.
Before you buy a stick be sure to check Amazon warehouse. They sometimes sell sticks for cheaper on there.
Buy a quanba drone. It's a good entry level stick, and if you buy a better joystick or buttons you can easily install them into the quanba, and re-install them into a better stick if you choose to upgrade.
Major what?
What is cb?
Curious do you guys use your nightstick for anything else? I was planning on getting one but not sure since I don't play fighting games.
Shmups, beat-em-ups, arcade games in general
I'm really not sure why anyone switches to fightsticks anymore, if you're already not used to one going with something more ergonomic and efficient seems like the better choice. Also, having made the switch from stick after several years, I enjoy it more. But that's taste.
If I want to get into shmups is there a specific stick I should get?
Might as well play on keyboard at that point.
Not really, unless you don't care about button sensitivity or the ability to go plug in at tournaments. Also I've personally never gotten the layout to actually be comfortable on a keyboard, but that might just be an issue with the configs I attempted.
to capture the arcade feel. I dont think a fight stick will make a huge difference for me at my level. I literally just want it to feel like I'm playing in the pizza shop I played at when I was younger
i know its not fightstick related but this is the only thread up thats even related to my problem, but is a saturn controller good for 2d fighters? i wanna get into them but atm the only controller i really have thats compatible with my pc is my switch pro controller and thats not very good with fighters from what ive experienced
If you like those kind of dpads and the 6 button layout, yes, the controller feels good to hold. The XYZ buttons are smaller though, you may not like that, but you can always pick something like a Hori fighting commander.
You will never experience that feeling again.
if you have even remotely above average hands it's not going to be comfortable i had one as a first stick and i upgraded to a bigger stick and the difference is huge
ill look into that then, thanks user. im completely new to 2d fighters outside of playing sf2 a couple times years ago so im not sure where to begin controller wise. i want to try a figh stick but a) i grew up in a buttfuck rural town so i never had access to an arcade growing up and b) im not sure if i wanna make the investment and then not like it
I have the new retrobit Sega Saturn pad and yes it's decent but be weary because they tend to break easy.
do you mean big hands or fatty hands? there's a difference, you know.
ill look into this too. are adaptors fine or do they have input lag? my friend is willing to give me his saturn pad but i need a pc adaptor for it
What's the difference.
I grew up playing on arcades after school with those real big sticks and I'll honestly say to you that I never could find a controller that replicated the feel of a real arcade stick.
i had one of these and they are actually iredeemably bad, the stick broke within a week and stopped being responsive, i couldnt do fast motions because i would pull so hard that the entire thing gets lifted up. if you want to dick around in single player with it then its prob ok but its not good for being conpetitive in any way
I recommend the Mad Catz super street fighter 4 arcade stick it's like $30 used it was for like the xbox 360 but it works with pc.
You could give keyboard a try too
As long as you don't have ghosting issues it's a perfectly legit control method for pc. Either with standard arrow keys or wasd or a pretend hitbox by binding up to the spacebar.
Yeah, I know what you mean. play with whatever you feel more comfortable
So, they arent that good? I heard things about shoulder buttons not being as good as the saturn ones too.
I will wait a bit more and see if a revision happens be saturn or 6 button genesis, since the only things left are those expensive PS2 saturn controllers or the original thing.
big hands can be thin like that of a piano player. they generally are dextrous and can easily manipulate a stick. Fatty hands tend to have small and fat fingers that don't get very well with any controller.
yeah. nothing like a big black stick
It could just you growing up. I remember using a SNES controller way back a tried it out as an adult to be disappointed in the size. Most arcade sticks aren't that big.
I absolutely hate the shoulder buttons. They said they sent out new units with the fixed dpad but not really.
Pic related. Top is the retrobit and bottom the original. Retrobig has a flimsier dpad. It's going to break easily.
Replace the lever with a Seimitsu if you want a clicky feel. LS32 and 56 are pretty nice.
yeah, this looks good actually. is it cheap?
Fuck. So Retrobit only looks nice and that's it.
Guess is still better to use the original or the ps2 one with some adapter
What are some single-player games that're good to play with a flight stick? I'm thinking something like, where you ride a mech/a or a spacecraft and fight intense battles that need lots of manoeuvering in tight spaces.
Everything.