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Patreon Voted Review Nominations Open!

🕑 Added 2024-01-15 23:24:30 +0000 UTC

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Yaz

Kengo (on PS2) or Varth (if you are hoping for a SHUMP vote)

Masamune7772

Oh wow! That’s amazing. Thank you I am very grateful.

The Electric Underground

Hey playa, I can hook you up with one of my spare arcade sticks :-)

Masamune7772

Hey I was wondering if any of you guys could help me find a good stick that’s not too expensive or complicated. (Don’t want to mod anything). I’m currently using laptop keyboard and I’m getting pretty good at it, but think a joystick would be better. I bought this crappy Chinese happ knockoff on eBay thinking it was a real one. The diagonals are terrible. The micro switches on actually had the metal prongs like the Korean sticks but it still sucks. I need something with fluid accuracy on curve/diagonal motions and sensitivity for small shmup motions. I only need the lever as well. I’m using a cheap usb encoder off eBay. I’m playing battle garegga pretty much exclusively. No fighting games.. I watched a couple of Mark’s stick videos but still not really sure what to do because I can only afford to try one.

StratoPhoenix

Thank you for responding and for placing my suggestion as a nomination. Just so you know if you order the Pro model from focus attack it comes with the standard gate for no additional price. I would recommend getting it from there so you can compare the gates.

The Electric Underground

Oh what a cool comment! That's a cool idea, for me to review a lever, I'll def put it as a nomination option :-)

Spiders_STG

Agreed. Didn’t know the design came from the Nobi!

Spiders_STG

It would be like watching a snuff film.

Spiders_STG

Angel At Dusk! …unless your planning something already for the public… then I’ll second Bushido Blade for the peanut gallery.

Kriegor

Bushido Blade

Admiral Coconut

This is the same modified octo-square gate profile that the new Seimitsu SELS-70 sticks use. It's the best gate profile out there, IMO.

jacob valenzuela

Final Fight

StratoPhoenix

Although I love your shmup videos, my favorite videos from you are your videos on arcade sticks. I just purchased the Nobi pro lever and I'm in love with it. The stick came out in 2021, but I haven't heard about it until this year. I gave it a try and it feels near perfect. It has a unique octogate that is somewhat of a mix between a square and an octogate. I love the bullet top that comes with it and prefer it over the ball and bat top. The bullet top provides the height and flat surface of a bat, top which makes performing inputs that require multiple single inputs strung together quickly like Korean backdashes and wave dashes in Tekken for example much more comfortable than a ball top. It also has elements of the ball top which I do like, such as the top of the bullet top having a more rounded surface area that gives you more of a surface to grip the top, as opposed to the more narrow surface you get with a traditional bat top. It seems to have the kind of tension you mention in your perfect arcade stick video, where it's light enough to move around without much effort, but it has enough tension so that it returns to neutral quickly. Speaking of which the return to neutral is very good on this stick and it has zero wobble whatsoever when you let go of the stick. I don't get any deflection (opposite inputs) when I hit one direction and let go of the stick quickly. The throw is slightly longer than what I'm used to coming from an LS32 and LS40, but I quickly adjusted to it and I actually like the feel. I feel that due to it being a Japanese stick it would still have a shorter throw than any Korean lever. I'm surprised this stick has barely gotten any attention at all, especially considering the stick was made in a partnership with the professional Tekken player Nobi. This is by far the most well-built stick that I've ever played with. It feels incredibly sturdy and solid and that you can play with it for years to come. I highly recommend you take a look at this stick. Just keep in mind there are two different versions of the Nobi lever The pro and the standard. The pro is the one that I played with and recommend while the standard has a slightly lighter spring and a more traditional square gate.

JBRPG

Fight Crab

PS1APE

Ultrakill

TheN1

Shinorubi- curious to get your take on this vertizontal 16:9 bullet hell

Zachary Patten

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

meinong

Senko no Ronde 2~!

BrotherBodhi

Dolphin Blue

visiblyshak3n

Seconding Angel at Dusk

Scott Martin

Gigawing

tatsudon

Good one, I love its chains system

Ushi Mushi

I'll throw in the new game Angel at Dusk :)

RiffMason

Bangai-O

GPM

assault android cactus +

Shazzy

Fifth…ing?

Steve-Fiction

I feel like this is an interesting one because it got some mainstream attention, although that wasn't all positive. So yeah, I'd like to see this happen as well.