Normal or Inverted

[Eyce]

I only use inverted on Games like Rogue Squadron.

You know, Analogue Stick = Joystick controls on a plane. More realistic that way imho.
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[EvilHayama]

[döppelgangbang]

[admeister]

[Gtpod]

[mcerto]

inverted here

apparently its actually about how you deal with perspective, inverted is, like ugh said, a "behind" way of controlling, where your perspective is behind the character, so it feels natural to pull back to look up. But if your a "normal" person, your perspective is generally situated at the front of the character, or where you play as the character, so you push down to look down (gah, even typing it feels unnatural to me)

but i will say, sensitivity has a lot to do with it for me, for example, halo felt a little clunkier to me coming off perfect dark, so clunky in fact that normal felt...well, normal, but in any other console fps (black for example) inverted is the way to go.

oh, and for flight stuff like bf2, inverted just feels right...

so yeah, i just find it interesting that its different for each person and thier perspective in games
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[NismoR34]

I have only ever really played FPS games on console so it is Inverted all the way for me. It just feels the most 'natural', which makes sense when you consider the stuff that Ugh and some others have been saying. I'm not controlling a character just through my eyes while playing a game, I'm (if the game is doing its job anyway) being immersed as the character I am playing and therefore it feels like a natural extension of me. Or something.

I really hope that made sense.
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Raptured Reality

[ugh the boot]

[Jim Dash]

Normal for me. Just the way I've always played, what I'm used to. I love it when friends cme over and get all confused because they're used to inverted.

I gotta admit, I had a suspicion this thread was talking about belly buttons or something at first.

[ObsoletE]

Inverted for PC FPS.
Inverted for Flight games. (which is typically the "normal" setting within these games.)
Inverted for Console FPS.
Inverted for 3rd Person games.
Inverted for camera control.

i like Ugh's analogy actually, it's quite similar to the one i use, David's explanation also fits well with me too.

the Analogy i use is similar to Ugh's, but concerns the mouse.
imagine you wanted to force someone to look at something, and weren't afraid to use violence, standing semi-behind them, you'd put your hand on their head, and grab their hair, right?
now this grip is quite similar to how you hold a mouse.
now, imagine you want to force them to look up.
you would pull the back of their head down, no?

that's how i imagine FPS controls working, so inverted seems more natural.

the other thing is, i could've sworn that the first FPSs that had mouse looking support actually used to use this control scheme, and up/forwards = looking up was the inverted scheme.

and games that don't have the option to invert the Y-Axis are totally FTL, though usually they aren't worth playing. (Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior, i'm looking at you.)
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i am the only person i know who uses inverted camera controls though. but as a test, i just asked my sister (a tragically persistant non-gamer, where tongue position is the most important aspect of controls) to have a go of Painkiller, just saying that the mouse looks around, and left it on normal, and she couldn't get her head around the up=up thing. i inverted it, and she was fine. (well, except for still totally sucking at gaming.)

doesn't prove anything per se, but i just found it interesting.
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[Crestfallen]

Inverted for the camera makes sense because you control the camera, you are not THE camera

However I like to think I am the player, so I don't use inverted for character control.

Inverted on PC FPS Obs?? That seems unheard of to me....I always thought that with mouses people will naturally point at what they want to shoot with up meaning up.

Meh, I guess its just a matter of how your brain is wired.
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[Karai Pantsu]

I'm finding it hard to wrap my head around the fact that people here prefer different settings for situations that are only slightly different. For example, prefering 'normal' for a FPS but 'inverted' for a 3rd person game. I like my gaming controls as consistant as possible across the board so I'll apply the 'normal' style to any game that doesn't use it by default (and lets you change it), hence why I actually set it to 'normal' for console based flight games.
I don't differentiate much between what I (as an avatar in the game) an doing, so whether it'd be me looking up, or moving a camer up, or flying up... to me that just means 'up' so that's what I push.

It really throws me when a game uses an inverted camera or control method but won't let you change it (or will only let you change the one axis). I doesn't take long to adjust to the different control method, but it really puts me off playing when I'm forced to re-learn basic controls.

[/apparent craziness]
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[ObsoletE]

[will851]

normal for me
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[Sin Ogaris]

I play in inverted all the time, it feels natural to me. Of course I also ditch crosshairs which makes it easier for me... it's a lot harder to think "I'm putting the mouse here" when there's nothing to indicate a mouse is even associated with the screen. Obsolete puts it perfectly, pulling back and pushing forward the mouse.

[griffter999]

normal for PC, inverted for console.

Never understood why!
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[Eyce]

Planes = Inverted.
Everything else = Regular.
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