Hobie-wan wrote:
That works when you have a stick lying horizontally on a table, but if you have D pad or simply buttons that are pressed down, then pressing the 'up' button can make sense as 'looking upward'. If in a FPS or flight sim you were holding your mouse against the screen, pushing up on the mouse would make sense as looking up. It all just depends on your perspective and what you got used to first.
With mouse controls, as long as there is no pointer I still prefer that pushing forward "looks" down. If there is some pointer that "drags" the view around, then yes I agree it is preferable to have pushing forward move the view upwards.
In your example of actually placing the mouse on the screen, for me it still does not feel intuitive - when moving the mouse upwards on the screen I still imagine the screen "tilting" to reveal me more stuff downward. But with a pointer or anything I agree with you, I know where you guys are coming from and I think it is great when games have both options. I just don't think it makes that much sense to call it inverted when pretty much real life airplanes, controls for remote surveillance cameras, your neck and anything else like that works "inverted"
Sideways (even on your neck) doesn't work "inverted" anywhere that I know of. You are not actually pushing your deck to the right to look left, whereas you are pushing your neck forward to look down.
Ivo.
