The artwork on that is awesome.My current weapon of choice: http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p196/The_King_of_the_Otters/Smoke-Arcade.jpg
I've always preferred stick. The only game I ever used pad for was SF4.
The silver part of that DPad will pop out, fighting games are brutal on those controllers.I play on controller since with the newer platinum controllers the dpad isn't so bad.