Some of you fine, smart and incredibly attractive readers
might remember that I spend a bit of time playing Ultra Street Fighter IV on my
PS3 as training to try and participate in Tournaments.
Well I found a local tournament which is nice and this lunch
time I headed to the venue and invested £2.50 on a little research and to see
how using a Fight stick feels. The Fight Stick that I used was the Mad Catz
Fight Stick Tournament Edition.
Foolishly jumping in to Blanka’s Electricity Ultra would
have been less jarring.
I WAS NOT PREPARED.
In my defence the last time I used any Fight Stick style
controllers in anger with any modicum of skill was before the birth of Hit
Girl. Think about that for a second, let it sink in… no stop thinking about
Chloe Grace Moretz I was just making a point, this is serious business people.
Anyway switching from pad to Fight Stick is hard make no
mistake shoryuken forums says it should take 2/3 months to switchover from a
pad and I think that is probably right. I was
initially jumping all over the place even more than my top 1500 PS3 Juri
usually does, it took me a solid five minutes before I could manage two of her
fireballs in a row and then I got cocky proceeding to mess up for absolutely
ages. Juri is pretty easy on the execution
but I would still put my success rate at around 10% over the course of
the session.
Not something I’d want to repeat on Ranked without a few
solid sessions of training. One thing I will say is that when I switched to
Decapre and Chun Li things got substantially easier. Air DCM was a little trickier
to pull off but quickly got easier. Charge characters SEEM easier with a
Fight Stick but that’s on a 40 minute session, after a week maybe ask me again
I may have changed my opinion. That’s enough from me feel free to drop a
comment about changing controller types and whether or not you stuck with it
and look for a report from the tournament if I manage to make it sometime
during the weekend probably Sunday.
