Poll: Gameplay controls: Do you invert your Y-axis?
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Same, flight and mech games feel weird without an inverted Y Axis, but everything else feels weird with it.ultratog1028 said:
It does work like that, yes. But I've never seen a shooter that allows the player to adjust that, so I've never tried doing it for the obvious reason that I have no way to. I used to use third-person cameras like that, until third-person shooters like Uncharted and Mass Effect made me get used to doing otherwise.The Shade said:
No. People have actually talking down to me about it before, saying I "don't really know how to play." huhwut? The energy sword I just lodged in your face disagrees with your statement and doesn't particularly care for your tone.
It just feels unintuitive to me - I don't have any particular reason or logic behind it, the same way I don't typically cogitate about how to turn my head.
It just feels unintuitive to me - I don't have any particular reason or logic behind it, the same way I don't typically cogitate about how to turn my head.
Looks like a difference between people who view the controls as a pointing device and those who view them as a control device, as most real world examples use inverted controls.crudus said:
Guess it all comes down to how your brain approaches the problem of pointing in a shooter.
Yeah I always thought my preference of inverting the Y-axis for all games was due to playing flight games from an early age, but what people here have been bringing up about the head tilting forward to look down and tilting back to look up makes a lot of sense too. I wonder if the reason people invert is solely because of previous gameplay experience, or something to do with how their brains perceive motion and aim? Or a combination? Or some other factor?
If only I could afford to quit my job and study gaming full time!
If only I could afford to quit my job and study gaming full time!
I ALWAYS invert 'Y'.
I played a lot of Elite, F-15 and Wing Commander. Which probably has a lot to do with it. But it also makes sense to me... You lean forward, you're looking down. You lean back, you're looking up.
Inverted my arse. Other way round I say.
I played a lot of Elite, F-15 and Wing Commander. Which probably has a lot to do with it. But it also makes sense to me... You lean forward, you're looking down. You lean back, you're looking up.
Inverted my arse. Other way round I say.
Pushing the stick forward simulates leaning forward, and coversely pulling back feels like pulling it back.
Inverted for me, every time. If a game doesn't give an option to invert the camera, or worse, in an fps, I've a good mind to take the disc out and snap it over my knee. The regular way is unplayable for me.
(it was my biggest grievance with second sight, because that game is great otherwise.)
Edit: I'd play it uninverted with a mouse though. That just feels weird inverted. But then, for a mouse, it's not leaning forward, rather moving the pointer on the screen, so that makes more sense, intuitively.
Inverted for me, every time. If a game doesn't give an option to invert the camera, or worse, in an fps, I've a good mind to take the disc out and snap it over my knee. The regular way is unplayable for me.
(it was my biggest grievance with second sight, because that game is great otherwise.)
Edit: I'd play it uninverted with a mouse though. That just feels weird inverted. But then, for a mouse, it's not leaning forward, rather moving the pointer on the screen, so that makes more sense, intuitively.
I used too for a while because a bunch of the games I played at the time had it as default but nowadays most games I play don't. If the default is inverted I might, I rarely change controls