
Įven for tekken, wich feature far less half circle, quarter circle and shoryuken motions, and mostly buttons and directions, imo it's still better. But on a stick you have all the combination easily accessible.Īnd yes it's pretty much the optimal mean, it's after all the controller is was designed for, the rest is just personal comfort and reasons. While this usually is not a problem you may have to compromise if you are playing a character that uses 1+4 or 2+3 or even both.

You can't have all the 10 regular double presses excluding triple press and super charge (4 buttons) assigned all at once on a pad, only 4. It becomes faster, and easier to input multiple button presses without relying on shortcut buttons.

You've got the big four buttons in front of you and can even select it's disposition, from the original arcade layouts, to a similar to the playstation or 360 4 buttons square. Some will still do with a stick, but it's less needed on it. With a pad, be it a 6 or 4 buttons game, many players feel the need to map the L/R shoulder buttons for buttons combinations such as grabs, HP+HK, in sf4 3 Punches or 3 kicks etc etc. You guys forget that games like KoF or anything snk, Blazblue or Guilty gear, often use 4 buttons. Switching to 4 buttons hardly matters for the stick. Devil Jin's Head Butt: forward+lp+rp.Īnd best of all you don't need to shell out for $100+ for a fight sticks to be competitive.

The trick is, you just need to learn to play Tekken with your right hand using your index finger and your middle finger, as opposed to using just your thumb, making it easier to do moves with simultaneous button presses ex. And because Tekken uses only 4 buttons as opposed to 6, the DS3 is ideal.

Devil Jin: crouch-dash, crouch-dash, ss, crouch dash, ss, etc. This is because it is easier to transition move to move just by tapping the d-pad, instead of using the stick with your wrist ex. IMO fight sticks are great for fighting games that uses 6 buttons (sf4, etc.) but for fighting games like TEKKEN that uses only 4 buttons, the DS3 is superior from what I've experience.ĭISCLAIMER: Probably because I learn Tekken 3 from PSX, hence my natural affinity for the DS controller, as opposed to learning SF at the arcades.
