Poll: Poll: Y-Axis Inversion

[MoDu]

The inverted percentage seems much higher than I expected. I don't feel so lonely explaining why the "hell is the mouse backwards".
Our brain doesn't care much for axis orientation. Flip your movement controls for a week and you'll have trouble going back.

I use inverted y axis since the day I grabbed my first FPS, only way it made sense. But i've tried and succeed in using regular.

It's just that it's not intuitive for me. Guess allot of people feel the same with reular

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I've been playing with inverted for as long as I can remember. Three of my earliest games were Tie Fighter and the two Rebel Assault games, all three of which used an inverted Y-axis. I'm pretty sure that Dark Forces, which was the first FPS I ever played that let you look up and down, also had an inverted Y axis, and with no way to change it, either. Today, if I get stuck playing with a non-inverted Y-axis, I can't play worth a thing.

 

[Dexiro]

Depends on the type of game. With FPS I go non-inverted, during flight I prefer inverted, and with TPS I find I can adapt to either.

 

[Communist partisan]

Too much GTA than I was youngrer so I roll whith inverted nowadays.

 

[Khada]

I voted not inverted, but i use inverted on all TPS & FPS on console. I pretty much only play on my PC and I don't invert for mouse so yea.

 

[Zhukov]

Inverted for anything involving flight. Non-inverted for anything else.

 

[BioHazardMan]

I go non-inverted, it makes sense: when I move my cursor up, I look up!

Exactly my thinking. Why would you go out of your way to reverse it? Never made sense to me.

 

[Phlakes]

I used to play inverted because I was used to the N64 games where it almost always was like that, but when I came back to gaming I liked not inverted better.

 

[Cj Vanek]

Flight: Inverted.
Everything else: Non-Inverted.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Flight: Inverted.
Everything else: Non-Inverted.

This. I can't think of anything other than flying games that I will invert the Y axis for.

 

[BlackHazard]

Flight: Inverted.
Everything else: Non-Inverted.

Couldn't have said it better.

 

[Braonan]

Always been non-inverted since nes, never going to change.

 

[elbrandino]

I play inverted, for some reason I just can't play as well not inverted.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

Inverted only for third person camera control (which makes perfect sense when you think about it) and for flight games like Ace Combat. I never invert shooters.

 

[Arehexes]

Flight will be invert and non flight will be non invert.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Always been non-inverted since nes, never going to change.

Wait, what? The few NES games that actually had the ability to look up and down in three dimensions (mostly flight sims, like Top Gun) all had an inverted Y axis, which couldn't be changed. We're taliking about the right stick/mouse, not the left stick/keyboard/dpad.

 

[Omega Pirate]

I always use non-inverted, when I push up I want to look up...

 

[belgariontheking]

I must honestly say I was surprised that the first 20 responses weren't "only retards do it the other way." Maybe the entire forum isn't like Abdeus. Well done, escapist community.

I do inverted, but I don't think it makes me a better/smarter/more manly person. It just gets annoying when someone who does it the other way hands me a controller, as I'm sure I annoy them when I hand it back. I am surprised that the early returns are this slanted (72%) towards non inverted, but hey, we're all different. I think it was around 50/50 in my freshman corridor in college, but I didn't exactly make a scientific study of it so it could have been around this ratio then and I wouldn't have known it.

For me, the first games I really got into were flying games. Forever after, I was inverted. It just made sense.

 

[Tennou486]

I'll turn on the inversion if its a flying game, but everything else is non-inverted.

 

[Defense]

I actually alternate between inverted and non-inverted on Third Person games. On shooters though, both Third and First Person, I never use inverted.