Questioning my inverted lifestyle.

[KillerJuan77]

I've been becoming an inverted kind of guy after Conker's Bad Fur Day (No option to un-invert the aiming? WTF Rare ).

[The Last Horseman]

Can't play inverted. I've always noticed though that the people I know who play with inverted controls are more flexible than me, lighter bodied than me, or left handed. Most people with the same build as me play with not inverted controls, while I notice others can. I don't know if it is a body to mind correlation or what.

[saturnfan]

I could never play inverted either, it just never made sense to me.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

We have so many of these inverted control scheme threads. Anyways, I use mouse/pointing devices un-inverted and analog sticks/controllers inverted. At least when it comes to FPS games. As Original_Name stated, rail shooters and 3rd person cameras work best un-inverted for me.

[Para]

Been playing console games inverted basically ever since you could actually aim where you were shooting (ie: not Doom style assisted aiming).

Goldeneye 007 is one of the best first person shooters ever made, and the aiming was inverted by default. Its hard to play hundreds of hours inverted with that and not become accustomed to it. Plus it just makes sense since the skill transfers to a lot of driving/piloting games.

A lot of my friends don't understand inverted aiming and they always question how I can play like that, but I personally just think they are idiots and I don't understand how they can change from inverted to the "regular" aiming.

Didn't we all play Goldeneye on the N64? What is wrong with you people?

[alienjesus]

I like inverted controls best myself, especially for cameras. It just makes sense to me. I don't press right to look right, I press it to rotate the character around to the right of my character, thus showing me whats left of him. Same with up and down, if I press down, I think of it as the character moving downwards on a circle around the character, and thus pointing upwards.

In first person, I still prefer inverted, possibly because I'm used to the camera working that way from third person games - when I press down, the camera always showed me what was up. On the other hand, I definitely don't like inverted right/left in FPS, that'd just be weird.



The more I think about it, I'm not totally sure why I prefer inverted in FPS, I just do. I still think for 3rd person cameras it makes perfect sense though.

[Xeogred]

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.

Huh, maybe it was Descent that trained me as well...

[o.pwuaioc]

^ 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.

Yep. Grew up with inverted everything. Even Pilotwings and Starfox are inverted. Just always made more sense to me.

[Original_Name]

Wow, did I really refer to it as an "analogue" stick multiple times in my post? Apologies -- analog-stick.

[Xeogred]

^ 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.

Yep. Grew up with inverted everything. Even Pilotwings and Starfox are inverted. Just always made more sense to me.

Okay, Star Fox. That's gotta be the game that taught me it, haha.