Questioning my inverted lifestyle.

[ZenErik]

Here it is folks. I've always been inverted throughout my gaming history, but that all changed last night. After spending countless hours over the past week playing Child of Eden with the PS Move and Kinect, my arms were sore.

In my delusional state I thought I would have a go with the controller. I forgot to set the controls to meet my usual inverted nature. But what happened was that I completely aced the first level. Suddenly playing un-inverted felt natural. I feel that I may have some sort of sickness.

So I believe that playing this game so much with the Move (3 -4 hours a day for the past week) has changed the way my brain functions. Inverted controls correlate well with the joystick mindset, and that is how I have always been. But I discovered that playing un-inverted seems natural after using motion controls because of their nature. Nothing inverted about waving my arms around in front of a TV screen.

I know there was a thread about inverted and un-inverted controls not too long ago, but I figured I would make a thread about my now questionable lifestyle. Mom, dad... I know it's a bit shocking, but I think I have discovered that I swing both ways.

[o.pwuaioc]

Inverted is perfectly natural with joysticks, reins, girl's hair, etc... That is, pull down/back to make it go up, push/slack to make it go down. If the WiiMote is a gun, though, you want down to go down, and up to go up. For me it's all about what it is holding.

[Xeogred]

Inverted is perfectly natural with joysticks, reins, girl's hair, etc... That is, pull down/back to make it go up, push/slack to make it go down. If the WiiMote is a gun, though, you want down to go down, and up to go up. For me it's all about what it is holding.

This is probably how it works for me as well and why I play normal on PC with FPS's or anything, but inverted with consoles. I dunno, still seems weird to me and some of my friends think it's crazy, but that's how I roll. Once I got a new PC last year and started digging back into a lot of FPS's, I could kind of do inverted, but I made the switch and haven't gone back since.

The only problem I'm having with some games thesedays (mostly consoles since the controls aren't as flexible) is that I'm now pretty much maxing the sensitivity in every FPS I play. The more you play the more you get used to it perhaps, but yeah. It's extra crappy when you play a game that barely lets you tweak it or the max is not fast at all. I boost PC sensitivity a lot higher than I used too years ago as well, but not as much as I need too on consoles.

[Original_Name]

Personally, I can't play a first-person shooter if it's not inverted. It's as though I imagine the analog stick extending through the base of the controller and into the television screen, and I'm looking around with a camera facing out from the bottom of this extrapolated mental depiction of the analog stick -- when I explain it that way, it's no wonder we inverted-guys are in the minority, right? However, with rail-shooters, although I'm marginally more ambidextrous, I'm noticeably more comfortable if the controls are set to your regular up-for-up, down-for-down setup. The key difference is that in a first-person shooter, I'm controlling a fixed point on the vertical axis, whereas with a rail-shooter, I'm controlling a largely independent cursor. There's a vast difference between these two things in my mind.

I mention this because Child of Eden is a rail-shooter, so perhaps the same logic won't apply to other genres, most common of which being first-person shooters. Although if you do find that you're suddenly proficient in those with the regular control-scheme as well, it may just be a sort of placebo effect from surprising yourself with that rail-shooter. Regardless, you're not betraying yourself or anyone else by being a bit more ambidextrous with the pad. If you like standing out, then I'm sure you can still frag with the best of them on an inverted control-scheme, but there's no shame in going regular when no one's watchin'.

EDIT: I love threads like this, because they make me realize things about my behavior that I'd never really taken the time to try and rationalize.

[o.pwuaioc]

Personally, I can't play a first-person shooter if it's not inverted. It's as though I imagine the analogue stick extending through the base of the controller and into the television screen, and I'm looking around with a camera facing out from the bottom of this extrapolated mental depiction of the analogue stick -- when I explain it that way, it's no wonder we inverted-guys are in the minority, right? However, with rail-shooters, although I'm marginally more ambidextrous, I'm noticeably more comfortable if the controls are set to your regular up-for-up, down-for-down setup. The key difference is that in a first-person shooter, I'm controlling a fixed point on the vertical axis, whereas with a rail-shooter, I'm controlling a largely independent cursor. There's a vast difference between these two things in my mind.

I mention this because Child of Eden is a rail-shooter, so perhaps the same logic won't apply to other genres, most common of which being first-person shooters. Although if you do find that you're suddenly proficient in those with the regular control-scheme as well, it may just be a sort of placebo effect from surprising yourself with that rail-shooter. Regardless, you're not betraying yourself or anyone else by being a bit more ambidextrous with the pad. If you like standing out, then I'm sure you can still frag with the best of them on an inverted control-scheme, but there's no shame in going regular when no one's watchin'.

I'm better at inverted for rail shooters than even FPS!

[Original_Name]

^ Did you grow up playing many games with flight-controls, I wonder, or are you just like that? I'm sure there are both definite nature and nurture elements to the ways that we develop these patterns.

[BoringSupreez]

I can do controls either way for third-person games and flight games, but FPS games have to have standard controls or I can't even play.

[BurningDoom]

Been playing inverted since the mid-90s with Descent. Hasn't failed me yet. But when I play Halo nights, everyone loves to say something about the freak inverted guy.

[s1mplehumar]

Inverted all the way. Anything else is just a mess.

[Dup]

I played inverted for years, couldn't play any other way.

Then one day, I tried to play Mirrors Edge and I suddenly couldnt play with the aim inverted, it was weird.

Mirrors Edge also switched my mate from inverted. No idea what it is about ME, rad game though.