> I grabbed SF IV for the 360 and have played it a little, but found some of the
> combos impossible to pull off, which has put me off a bit. I was wondering if
> the Madcatz pad would make it any easier. I'll consider paying 30GBP for a pad,
> but 100 for a joystick, nuh uh.
>
Now that I can agree to as well even on a PS3 pad, some of the moves were painful to do, though for the players I used nothing seemed impossible. But as with you, the hell I was going to dump $100 on a joystick, NEVER. When I got one for Dreamcast in the day it was like $30, and earlier days on NES/SNES it was like $20 for the Advantage sticks. $100 can go straight to fanboy tax hell.

My primary issue was the adaptive AI which was just fucking cheap over the edge wrong. Unless you're playing one of those little asian nerds with no life other than SF, most people aren't going to pre-know what move you're doing and flip off a kick or a punch at the right millisecond as the move is being animated so you end up on your ass every time. That's what got me furious and as I didn't care to play online, I resold it and lost little on it so I didn't care.