any of you buying Street Fighter 4? (Page 1 of 2)

I want to buy it but I have SSF2THDR and have played no more than 1 hour of it. I suck at fighters. I loved SF2 for the SNES but I never got good at it. I was just a button masher that could beat my friends.

As Kenak said, it's $60. I'm not sure if I can drop that for a game I might play a few times then shelve.

But if i do get it, it will be for the 360. Another reason I am not too keen on getting it. The D-Pads suck on the 360 and don't want to shell out another $100 for a stick for a game I might not play.

Das, those MadCatz are actually really good. I haven't bought anything of theirs since like N64. From what I hear, they have stepped their game up. Well at least with these SF4 controller and stick.

Yeah $40 is too much for me to invest if I'm not sure. But IF I do buy SF4, I will be buying a stick. I never got good with a sticks and would love to learn. Then I could go to arcades... well Dave and Buster's and own.

I remember Barnes & Noble screwing up the pricing on the MadCatz SF4 Stick. They were selling it for like $40. I would have jumped on it but I know the purchase would be denied... Which was what happened.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/946/946596p1.html

It rates well. The plastic is a bit flimsy and durability suffers a bit from this.

This isn't just another MadCatz controller nor is the arcade stick. Capcom wanted these to be made well above MadCatz' level of par. MadCatz understood this. They went and chose the best d-pad to imitate for their design. The Saturn USB controller.

MadCatz may slack on a lot of their other stuff but they didn't want to screw up this deal with Capcom.

The fightpad has one big downfall for some 360 owners and that it is a wired controller. It's not a problem for me. I have a wired and wireless controller and use the wired one almost exclusively. Not sure why. It just doesn't bother me.

Also the wired is cool because it can possibly work fora PC as well. I'm not certain of this. Not sure if different drivers would be required. I don't see why they would be called for though.

That HORI stick is so nice. If I knew I was going to hate the d-pad this much for the 360 for fighting games, I would have bought it. Also the fact that it's going for such high prices makes me kick my own ass as well.

Oh Snap.
I didn't know an xbox 360 version of the Real Arcade Pro existed, I thought it was PS3 only. Honestly, if you're going to spend $130 on an arcade stick, might as well get brand new Real Arcade Pro directly from amazon themselves rather than a probably used DOA4 stick from ebay that originally retailed for $60.  The only real advantage of the DOA4 stick is it has the shorter "japanese style" stick instead of the longer one of the Real Arcade. The buttons on the Real Arcade are higher quality (which is why it cost more), and as you can see there are more buttons; for more game compatibility. The DOA4 one was specifically made for that game, and therefore eschewed mapping the LR bumpers to buttons.

Damn, now I want that really freaking badly.

"Throw away logic and kick reason to the curb"

i better not catch you using turbo!

Wouldn't use turbo Dizzys are easy to get out in SF4..

You do realize MarkMan who is known in the fighting game world with being really good with Arcade Sticks helped MadCatz on these.

The actual Tournament Edition stick uses Sanwa parts from the real SF4 arcade cabinets and is very mod friendly.  Its nice and sturdy too.  Look up the reviews for the Tournament Edition stick.. Everywhere is saying its the best stick on the market right now.. (And amazingly.. from MadCatz!)  Though its not MadCatz parts

Last edited by Adam (2009-02-16 01:39)

The TE stick is $150 though, while the non-TE stick is $80. I know the TE stick is high quality stuff; and actually a good deal to get the sanwa parts included, rather than having to waste your time importing them.  The $80 stick is still pretty decent also being moddable, but that's the one I was lamenting; not the $150 one.  I can't even get the TE stick, preorders everywhere are sold out. If you can get one easily Adam, I might consider paypal'ing you money for it.  If not, I'll try to snag a hori real arcade pro.   Until then, I'll be happy with my $40 gamepad.

"Throw away logic and kick reason to the curb"

I really shouldn't though. I spent $20 on SSF2THDREMIXOIJECDD and played it no more than 2 hours. This could happen if I buy SF4 but cost me even more.

In the last 3 months I have bought close to 40 games not counting the close to 50 Arcade games I have. I have quite the backlog of games. I could spend the rest of this year just beating the games I bought from last year and still not have to buy a game.

I might wait until I can find it on sale for $40 or when Gamestop has another Buy 2 Used Get 1 Free.

Don't do it. If you find yourself sucking at fighters, investing $150 isn't going to motivate you to play through a game that consistently hands your ass to you. Practice at arcades or bare with the 360 d-pad.

I don't suck at fighters. I suck at Street Fighter. Tekken, VF, DoA, and similar fighters I am good at. I suck at MK because I could never get into the "dial a combo" crap. I'm not sure if MK vs DC is the same way with combos.