Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition Arcade Fightstick Review for Shoryuken.com

Shoryuken.com reviews the Tournament Edition fightstick that Madcatz is releasing in early february.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• sf4
• madcatz
• fight
• stick
• tournament
• edition

[Th3James]

omfg, while watching this video at 6:32 i paused because my doorbell rang. My fightstick came 2 days earlier than I expected :D

[thavador]

I wish there was a fightstick edition of SFIVAE for the PC. We PCers have to buy the XBox-Fightstick separately, fortunately they work with windows. But, whatever: The best fighting game available has to be played with a propper fightstick, no matter the cost. Great unpacking, i love to be informed by actual gamers and especially experienced ones. Way better than just watching two hands in a POV-cam and listening to a single, tiring voice.

[pigboykool]

Great review, make me want to buy one too....

[opg4]

can i use this for other arcade games that arent fighting?

[thavador]

@lilaznkid265 however - in one thing keyboards are best: executing special moves and complex combos. just because keyboard keys don't care if they are slightly or fully pressed and hitting keys by accident is much less likely to happen with a keyboard. that's why i sometimes switched to keyboard during a fight if i really needed Chun-Li to perform the special move precisely.

[thavador]

@lilaznkid265 true, there will be lot of training and losing against randoms first till a fightstick-starter get's back on track after playing a few years with normal controllers. i've played beat'em'ups with keyboards, virtua fighter 2, fx fighter... but it was allways a little mess, i've tried it with street fighter 4... and it just didn't work out for me. you are able to alter your movement speed with controller crosshairs or fightsticks, with just WASD you can't. it's only 100% or 0% speed.

[lilaznkid265]

@thavador The 360 pad is indeed not very good for fighters, but charge motions are pretty braindead easy on a keyboard. Wolfkrone has been able to make high level C.Viper execution work on a PS2/PS3 pad, so I know that anything is possible on pad and that an arcade stick is not required.

However, I do think Wolfkrone is more of an exception than the rule. Buying an arcade stick can definitely help but you have to spend some time in training mode retraining your muscle memory to use it.

[thavador]

@lilaznkid265 problem is: some combos and even finishers require a fightstick - for example: play chun-li with a keyboad or a XBox-Controller, you won't be able to use Chun-Li's Super Move precisely. At least i wasn't able, it was allways luck with such mediocre game controll devices.

[lilaznkid265]

@thavador Console players have to buy the stick separately too because the game doesn't come with the stick.

And for some people the default console game pad or even a keyboard is all they need to play fighters. Not everyone needs to spend $100+ on a stick to play fighters unless they want to be able compete in arcade tournaments like SBO.

[lilaznkid265]

@RSXemperor85 Valle did not install an American joystick in his TE, he installed a Sanwa bat top and thread adapter on the stock Sanwa joystick. American joysticks and buttons will not fit in the TE case.

[RSXemperor85]

@Misund3rst0od If you don't like the square gate, just install an American stick on it like Alex Valle did on his.