Poll: Do you use Inverted Y-axis in FPS

[spartan773]

why use it? you don't move your head up to look down.

No, but you tilt your head forward to look down, and tilt it backwards to look up.

I view the vertical axis of the analogue sticks as forwards/backwards, not up/down., which makes sense when you think of the left analogue stick, you tilt it forward to make your character move forward, and you tilt it backwards to make them move backwards.

In FPS games, I use inverted because I tilt the analogue stick forwards to look down and tilt it backwards to look up.

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go ahead... it doesn't really make sense to me though .

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Yes for console games. It just feels better pulling the stick down to look up.

On the PC it makes more sense to point and click naturally.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I use it only in some flying sims, but other than that, no. It feels unnatural.

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Usually inverted... I don't know why, but I'm also southpaw, so a controller rarely feels natural to me as a decreasing amount of games have an option to switch left and right triggers. Even at that, they usually incorporate switching all sorts of other crap around with a southpaw "preset", when I just want the freaking trigger switched.

ADD: As for Keyboard/Mouse, I've accepted and grown up with the bias in mainstream mouse design, so I live with it. I know they make left-handed crap, but really, specialty crap is usually more expensive and I've already adjusted to the right-handed way where I need to and "adjusting back to natural" left-handed stuff would be too much effort.

 

[Rakun Man]

Inverted for life (I blame flight sims) but think of it this way;
When you bend forward, you are looking down,
and when you bend backwards, you are looking up.

Edit: P.S. I'm a console gamer, forgot that this was an important factor

 

[xDHxD148L0]

No, I never could play with inverted, I don't know why, I just cant.

 

[ZephrC]

I absolutely always have to invert the Y-axis. If for some reason I can't I'll spend the whole game staring at my shoes every time I want to look up. I don't even know why, but I really, really have to use the up is down, down is up scheme. I never even played a lot of flight simulators. It just feels wrong to press up to look up. I can't do it.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Only in Metroid Prime.

Apart from that, I've never understood why people would want that as an option.

 

[Ne1butme]

I have to use an inverted mouse setting. The first '3d' games i played were flight sims and an airplane is designed with an inverted stick. Pull back to look (or fly up) and push forward to look down.

There's a real-world equivalent as well. When we want to look up, we move our heads back, pivoting on the neck. As we move our head forwards, we start to look down. I can't play any FPS that doesn't meet this criteria. Just how my brain works.

Back is up and front is down.

 

[TerranReaper]

Not really, but if the FPS has any kind of flying vehicles, then sure.

 

[trickyfingers]

I always play inverted, for pretty much every game, but only on consoles.

Been playing inverted for 16 years now.

 

[sansamour14]

ive always been inverted and ill never changed i even converted my nephew into inverted cuz i didnt want to fix the controls every time we switched off controllers

for all those non inverted one day ull be in a plane and the pilot will die mid flight and when u go to pull up youll crash the plane into the ground so be cautious

 

[bobdevis]

Always inverted. Because that is in-line with how a joystick handles. When you look down, you lean forward, so you push the mouse/stick forward.

I never understood how it makes any sense the other way around.

 

[bobdevis]

Sorry, double post.

 

[ThePantomimeThief]

On PC I keep it regular, but on consoles I always invert.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Yup always. I can't physically play with the other way.
I don't use it for mouse gaming though, just analogue sticks.

 

[Alpha1Niner]

There is only one game, that I can't remember right now, that I use the inverted-y, but that it for FPS. I mostly use the standard settings. The only other game I use the inverted-y is flying type games.

 

[octafish]

Always, in every game. Why. I'm old, and I'm a PC gamer.

 

[swolf]

No but my wife does. For some reason, it's easier for her to play that way...when she's not playing Peggle (she loves that game). Oh...and RDR but that's not an FPS so...yeah.