Poll: Do You Invert?

[timmytom1]

Always standard. Up is up. Down is down. Left is left. Right is right. Same with movement. Anything else would be ridiculous.

Agreed though perhaps it`s because of a time when i let my cousin play goldeneye only for the bastard to forget to tell me he`d inverted the controls ,it took me nearly 15 min to figure out what the hell had happend

 

[Slash Dementia]

I can't get used to playing with it inverted. So no - never.

 

[FallToYourDeath]

I can use either, i just stick to the default setting

 

[The Ambrosian]

Dont See The Point In It Myself..Its Just Easier To Use The Defaults

 

[Arachon]

I occasionally invert for flight simulators, but usually I use a joystick for flight simulators, which are "inverted" by default, and playing a flight simulator without a joystick is nigh impossible (try getting out of a spin using your mose & keyboard o,O)

 

[SageOfCalm]

I always invert. If you don't invert you're a communist.

 

[Overlord_Dave]

For some reason it's the only way I can play FPSs with a thumbstick, which I'm naff at anyway. Mouse and WASD ftw!

EDIT: And this

I always invert. If you don't invert you're a communist.

 

[ThatJagoGuy]

Apparently, when you pick up a game for the first time, whether or not you like the inverse thumbstick/mouse setting depends on which side of the brain you use most.

I use inverse. Because I can.

P.S. To anyone wonderring:
The y-axis is the up/down.

I found a paper during my psych degree research which theorised that inversion often comes down to perspective. Inverters apparently tend to view the camera as a physical mechanism wthin the virtual environment to be manipulated much like their neck would move to adjust the view in real life. Non-inverters allegedly see the environment purely as an interface so their logic dictates up be up and down be down.

Of course, we adapt to different styles, but I think our initial approach may indeed be dictated about whetther you use the creative or logical side of your brain.

Hrrrm... I should have done my thesis on this and not VR. :-/

Does that explain why I can only use invert while in third person?
Like in gears of war i can use either, but it drives me insane in Call of duty

Yeah, maybe because 3rd person promotes the notion of camera operation as opposed to perspective control.

 

[PersianLlama]

Overall no, but...For some weird reason, I inverted in Goldeneye, and only Goldeneye.

 

[Arcyde]

When I was younger I did. But not any more.

 

[meece]

inverted only when flying....and can only fly with it inverted.

 

[B4D 9R4MM3R]

Anything with a stick needs to be inverted on the y-axis, otherwise I end up looking at the sky or the ground, but never at the guys shooting me. The mouse can be left alone, however.

 

[massau]

no never not even with an aircraft game

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

I don't, though I can understand it in games where you pilot aircraft, but I just can't on an FPS. I have a friend who can't function in any game without the invert, and it makes things annoying when we do something where we have controller trade-offs.

 

[Cowabungaa]

No, not even when flying a plane in a game. I kept crashing in Battlefield Heroes, untill I turned off invert, then I could actually fly and swoop down. My hand-eye coordination is pretty good, but I can never get used to inverted controls. I see why it makes sense in real life, seeing how aircrafts work and stuff, but in games...not really. When I move my mouse up, why would I want the thing on my screen to go down, just...why?

 

[ThatJagoGuy]

I'm quite suprised that non-inverters are in the majority!

 

[Jandau]

Inverting the Y-Axis is for pussies. Real men invert the X-Axis!

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I can use both, but I prefer non-inverted, since the majority of games I've played for a while have had non-inverted as default, and I've got used to it.

 

[skcseth]

Never. Tried it once for Goldeneye back in the day, I think I gave myself motion sickness.

 

[The_Echo]

I think I've only ever changed the Y Axis controls once... and then I changed it back soon after.