Poll: Do you invert and how old are you -- testing a hypothesis

[keve4433]

I'm eighteen and it depends if I'm playing console or pc. On consoles I always play inverted, it just feels more natural to me. Pc I keep it normal.

 

[dbmountain]

I am honestly surprised at how much more common it is to play un-inverted. I have always felt it was more natural to play with it inverted, especially after taking classes in animation throughout highschool. The way I perceive it is like this: the thumbstick is like a control on a camera. If you had a camera in real life, pushing forward would make the camera pivot downwards. Likewise, if you push forward on the thumbstick the character in-game will point downwards.

 

[loc978]

I'm 30.
I don't invert, because in the early days of shooters before mouse support, I played exclusively on the keyboard, and the y-axis was configurable. I usually had home for up, end for down (with delete and pgdwn for strafing)... such awkward controls, back then.
Quake with its full mouse support was a revelation, and any form of joystick is quite simply inferior for the purpose of first-person perspective gameplay.

That said, of course I keep a joystick inverted for sim games. There is one shooter series I play with a joystick/keyboard combo, and that is Descent.

Just wondering, what shooters were you playing? The only FPS I played that was post look up/look down but pre-mouselook was Dark Forces, which if I remember correctly, didn't allow for the controls to be remapped. Either way, the default was page up to look down, and page down to look up.

That's... actually the game I best remember remapping the controls on... did you have the DOS-native version or the Windows 95 version? I had the Windows one. My roommate just chimed in that he had the mac version... and it had mouse support...

Also, I mapped the same up/down look commands in Doom and Doom2, though they didn't affect aiming at all.

The DOS version; I was unaware that there even was a Windows version, let alone that the Mac version had mouselook. And what version of Doom and Doom 2 were you playing that had mouselook? Some of the source ports may have had it, but the original versions of the game definitely did not.

with Doom and Doom2 it wasn't the mouselook I was referring to, it was the Y-axis look commands.

 

[JaredXE]

Inverted, and I am turning 30 in a couple months.

It annoys my younger friends when I pause and have to fiddle with the controls.

 

[Iconsting]

I always play with normal controls. My reaction to inverted controls, as discovered by Metroid prime is something akin to "AAAAAAAAHHH INVERTED CONTROLS WHAT DO?"

 

[gigastrike]

I keep it normal, even when I'm flying planes and helicopters (and I'm good at flying helicopters).

 

[Liudeius]

I didn't realize how rare inverting was. When I started playing many games with camera control, it was on the PS2.
Back then most games didn't have an option so I would constantly have to get used to new camera controls with normal/inverted x and y. These days I just invert the y and x is normal.

 

[Captain Pancake]

17, normal. I was inverted for a long time, but the past few years I've been playing primarily on the PC so when I moved back to xbox I was used to normal orientation.

 

[Cheesus333]

I'm 16, and play with normal Y-axis controls.

Which one do I click, anyway?

 

[theonlyblaze2]

18 and I play normal.

When I was younger, I used to use inverted. Then I stopped. I can still play both, though.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'm 30.
I don't invert, because in the early days of shooters before mouse support, I played exclusively on the keyboard, and the y-axis was configurable. I usually had home for up, end for down (with delete and pgdwn for strafing)... such awkward controls, back then.
Quake with its full mouse support was a revelation, and any form of joystick is quite simply inferior for the purpose of first-person perspective gameplay.

That said, of course I keep a joystick inverted for sim games. There is one shooter series I play with a joystick/keyboard combo, and that is Descent.

Just wondering, what shooters were you playing? The only FPS I played that was post look up/look down but pre-mouselook was Dark Forces, which if I remember correctly, didn't allow for the controls to be remapped. Either way, the default was page up to look down, and page down to look up.

That's... actually the game I best remember remapping the controls on... did you have the DOS-native version or the Windows 95 version? I had the Windows one. My roommate just chimed in that he had the mac version... and it had mouse support...

Also, I mapped the same up/down look commands in Doom and Doom2, though they didn't affect aiming at all.

The DOS version; I was unaware that there even was a Windows version, let alone that the Mac version had mouselook. And what version of Doom and Doom 2 were you playing that had mouselook? Some of the source ports may have had it, but the original versions of the game definitely did not.

with Doom and Doom2 it wasn't the mouselook I was referring to, it was the Y-axis look commands.

Either way, the original games didn't have it. They were strictly 2d games with a 3d illusion.

 

[Weresquirrel]

25, and I invert when playing flying games, but keep it normal when I'm not.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'm 16, and play with normal Y-axis controls.

Which one do I click, anyway?

I made a typo in the poll, and it's too late to fix it. I guess you should click on the one that starts at 16, although it doesn't really matter at this point. You're well in the majority for that age group either way.

 

[Benjirimm]

God help us if any of you "normals" have to fly a plane in an emergency, you push up on that stick and down you go.

Saying that I only use inverted because years ago my friend put it on as a joke on halo:CE and I was too stupid to figure out how to change it back and just kinda got used to it, and now I annoy everyone when we play games because of the few seconds it take to change it, I love it

 

[Johnny Impact]

What do you mean? Inverted *is* normal.

I think of it like a flight sim. Pull back to go up. Just makes sense to me that way.

 

[DYin01]

I only invert when I'm playing a game where I have to fly a plane. It doesn't make sense to me in any other game.

 

[Blondi3]

I only invert when I'm playing a game where I have to fly a plane. It doesn't make sense to me in any other game.

Same here. I used to play a lot of flight sims but I don't see how that applies to shooters or any other games.

 

[Jeffrey Rodriguez]

41 and I don't invert.

 

[WaffleCopters]

19, and whatever the default is.