I am about to start playing the game and when i flip the joystick and D pad controls around the down on the stick just auto moves to the bottom and almost refuses to move back up unless I barely am touching it. Any help is appreciated but if nothing else i can use the defaults.

Ok, I may not own the game myself, but I've seen that kind of a problem before. How I usually got it to go away was to reset and recalibrate the settings for the gamepad in windows. Because sometimes the axis+ and axis- get screwed up and its reading false movement. It's not a guaranteed solution, but I've found that typically works. If it doesn't, then I can't really help you.

I've been considering getting the game and figured I'd check the forum here to see if there was any feedback pro or con. The other reason I haven't plopped the cash is I'm tapped out due to buying gifts!