Poll: Normal or Inverted

[AOTA]

Inverted for console game, normal for computer games... not sure why i started playing console inverted....

 

[PsiMatrix]

When playing a game and are given a choice, which camera-control type do you use. I personally use normal because inverted fells backwards to me.

I used to be like that because I associated moving up with looking up. Then I played a game which had inverted on by default and it felt more natural to me (once you realise your head tips backwards to look up and forwards to look down).

Ever since then I use Inverted.

 

[PhiMed]

Normal. Whatever floats your boat, but really, how can, "Up is up, down is down" not be easier? I won't knock it if you like it, but personally, being offered inverted controls is like being offered the option of reading a book all in caps with no punctuation. It just muddles things for absolutely no reason.

Actually, that's a very poor choice of an analogy. Rather, inverted controls is more like a manga comic that reads "backwards." A book with no punctuation and all capitals actually greatly affects the sheer mechanics of functionality in comprehension. Inverted controls, just like a manga layout, simply depends on what you're used to.

I still stick by my analogy, since inverted controls requires me to put forth effort into thinking wrong, and it changed the game from quick reflexes to planning out your movements in a counter-intuitive way. Again, that's just my perspective. Inversion turns a game into a chore for me.

Also, the manga flopping does cange the way the comic works a bit. Im not a purist who refuses to read Americanized manga, but if you can handle reading the opposite way, the Aestetics are slightly improved.

It's less confusing for you, and you have to plan your actions when things are inverted. People play the way that feels natural to them, and playing the opposite way feels awkward. Your argument is equivalent to telling all lefties that they should be righties because you have difficulty doing everything with your left hand.

 

[MrHotelWebsiteDesign]

I can't understand how people can use inverted. It messes me up for real.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I still on occasion use inverted controls for flight sims, but other than that, normal at all times.

 

[GreyWolf257]

Normal. It just seems...normal to me...hmm.

 

[FinalHeart95]

For almost every genre I just use normal controls. In games that involve flying somehow, I'll use inverted for the flying sections only. I think I've just grown used to those controls more than that they just feel better.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Inverted on consoles, normal on PC. Don't ask why, I don't know either.

Weird. I only do inverted controls when playing a flying game, and it seems perfectly natural. Then when I'm playing a shooter or whatever I always use standard controls, which seems perfectly natural. In a game like Battflefront 2, where you switch between ground troops and flying, I have no problem with the switch, but if my foot soldier's camera is inverted I'm suddenly a drunken monkey.

 

[Vainglory]

Normal.

Up is Up, Down is Down.

 

[JeanLuc761]

Inverted on consoles, normal on PC. Don't ask why, I don't know either.

Weird. I only do inverted controls when playing a flying game, and it seems perfectly natural. Then when I'm playing a shooter or whatever I always use standard controls, which seems perfectly natural. In a game like Battflefront 2, where you switch between ground troops and flying, I have no problem with the switch, but if my foot soldier's camera is inverted I'm suddenly a drunken monkey.

Haha. Like I said, I don't really know why or how I developed the system I have. All I know is it works

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Definitely normal pushing the analog stick up to look down makes my brain hurt.

 

[Snotnarok]

Shooters? Normal.
Flight sims? Inverted (up is down, down is up). Or would that be normal? Okay normal for a jet.

 

[zombflux]

Normal, inverted only for flight sims.

Though it might be fun to switch it up, it really doesn't make a difference.

 

[Magnatek]

I use normal camera on everything except for flight simulators. Of course, the camera has been nonexistent for me for the past few months, as I have been playing games that don't need manual camera control.

 

[j0z]

I use inverted, I don't know why , it just feels "right". Up=down, Down=up would seem to be backward, but I can't play a FPS with a normal control scheme.

 

[Xanadu84]

Normal. Whatever floats your boat, but really, how can, "Up is up, down is down" not be easier? I won't knock it if you like it, but personally, being offered inverted controls is like being offered the option of reading a book all in caps with no punctuation. It just muddles things for absolutely no reason.

Actually, that's a very poor choice of an analogy. Rather, inverted controls is more like a manga comic that reads "backwards." A book with no punctuation and all capitals actually greatly affects the sheer mechanics of functionality in comprehension. Inverted controls, just like a manga layout, simply depends on what you're used to.

I still stick by my analogy, since inverted controls requires me to put forth effort into thinking wrong, and it changed the game from quick reflexes to planning out your movements in a counter-intuitive way. Again, that's just my perspective. Inversion turns a game into a chore for me.

Also, the manga flopping does cange the way the comic works a bit. Im not a purist who refuses to read Americanized manga, but if you can handle reading the opposite way, the Aestetics are slightly improved.

It's less confusing for you, and you have to plan your actions when things are inverted. People play the way that feels natural to them, and playing the opposite way feels awkward. Your argument is equivalent to telling all lefties that they should be righties because you have difficulty doing everything with your left hand.

Yes. That is exactly the point I was making. And you reiterated it, while sounding like you were correcting me.

Of course i'm not going to tell other people what is better for them. I said that a few times. But the question is asking how I feel, and for me, inverted is completely nonsensical. There's nothing insidious here. I don't care if you play with backspace as move up and capslock as toggling move down, whatever works best for you, but for me, I can't comprehend anything except up is up, and down is down.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Unless I'm playing on my head, normal.

NOTE: I'm being serious.

 

[nicktmro]

Inverted because I always imagine that I control either the head of the character or a camera sitting on a mount/tripod.