First Person Shooters: To Invert or Not to Invert

Now I can't recall exactly if first person shooters started with an inverted y-axis originally or if it was just me, but I've been playing inverted (Up is down and down is up) since I can remember. However, I've recently begun to wonder if I could change, and by doing so, if naturally my reflex's would be faster without going through the extra brain activity to adjust to an inverted world?

So I've decided to ask you guys if anyone else has made the switch, if it was difficult, and above all was it worth it?

Also, how many of you still play inverted?

As always, any advice or suggestions are always appreciated. Thanks again.

~Saigo~

I play inverted although alot of my friends make funofme forit but i dont care........ too much work to try and change to non-inverted anyway

Now I can't recall exactly if first person shooters started with an inverted y-axis originally or if it was just me, but I've been playing inverted (Up is down and down is up) since I can remember. However, I've recently begun to wonder if I could change, and by doing so, if naturally my reflex's would be faster without going through the extra brain activity to adjust to an inverted world?

So I've decided to ask you guys if anyone else has made the switch, if it was difficult, and above all was it worth it?

Also, how many of you still play inverted?

As always, any advice or suggestions are always appreciated. Thanks again.

~Saigo~

-Saigo-

For as long as I can remember (I started gaming on a C64 that loaded from tapes!!) inverted has always seemed more natural to me. Tried to play the other way a few times but instead of nailing head shots on goldeneye I'd find myself aiming at their midsection and trying to adjust quickly just made me aim at the floor

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

Unless you're a pilot that is used to it, I don't see th point. Non-inverted for me, or as I call it, normal.

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

KittyHeart

They dont, they push up to look down and down to look up because it makes more sense.

you pull teh thumbstick back and the other end of it moves up, push it forward and the other end moves down.

I tend to switch back and forth. for trudging "floating gun" kind of games I invert for more headshots and sniper performance and for action shooters I play normal. Killing someone in a trudging fps is generally a matter of drifting a reticle over their body for a few seconds and action shooters are more about sneak attacks and better weapons, so it works both ways. I'm fine with both ways. When I play inverted, aim and position are always top priority in strategically eliminating opponents. When I play normal I usually run around the map looking for weapons and blasting unaware enemies. If you have to choose, choose whichof these playing styles suits you most.:)

I play inverted. When I push the stick forward to look down, to me it is like i am moving my head forward and down. Pushing the stick back to look up, is like moving my head back and up.

Inverted seems more natural to me.

Invert!

I always have inverted my controls. I'm weird.

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

KittyHeart

Well for me, I never played an FPS until I got my hands on Goldeneye 007 for the N64. But before then, I'd played a LOT of Starfox 64. And anybody who's played ANY flight sim game will tell you, down for up, and up for down. When you're so used to the crosshairs responding to inverted controls, you tend to take that with you to other games. So when I started playing any FPS games, I HAD to go inverted. Trying to switch to normal just kept getting me killed.

I've never understood inverted controls. They're so counter-intuitive.

When I press up, i want to see up.

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i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

Greyfeld

Well for me, I never played an FPS until I got my hands on Goldeneye 007 for the N64. But before then, I'd played a LOT of Starfox 64. And anybody who's played ANY flight sim game will tell you, down for up, and up for down. When you're so used to the crosshairs responding to inverted controls, you tend to take that with you to other games. So when I started playing any FPS games, I HAD to go inverted. Trying to switch to normal just kept getting me killed.

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[QUOTE="KittyHeart"]

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

BuryMe

Well for me, I never played an FPS until I got my hands on Goldeneye 007 for the N64. But before then, I'd played a LOT of Starfox 64. And anybody who's played ANY flight sim game will tell you, down for up, and up for down. When you're so used to the crosshairs responding to inverted controls, you tend to take that with you to other games. So when I started playing any FPS games, I HAD to go inverted. Trying to switch to normal just kept getting me killed.

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[QUOTE="Greyfeld"]

Well for me, I never played an FPS until I got my hands on Goldeneye 007 for the N64. But before then, I'd played a LOT of Starfox 64. And anybody who's played ANY flight sim game will tell you, down for up, and up for down. When you're so used to the crosshairs responding to inverted controls, you tend to take that with you to other games. So when I started playing any FPS games, I HAD to go inverted. Trying to switch to normal just kept getting me killed.

Greyfeld

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

For me, first-person shooters started with neither. In Wolfenstein 3D, the enemies were always on the same horizontal plane as you, and in Doom, firing the gun in the direction of the enemy automatically adjusted the rounds' vertical trajectory towards the enemy.

I don't know which one I really began using, but I can honestly say that I don't care. I use regular because I'm most used to it now. I'm sure if I put in enough time playing on inverted, it'll eventually feel natural and regular will become awkward.

I can't stand inverted controls.

I play inverted. When I push the stick forward to look down, to me it is like i am moving my head forward and down. Pushing the stick back to look up, is like moving my head back and up.

Inverted seems more natural to me.

rjxtian

EXACTLY! Thank you! It's not up and down. It's forward and backward.

You don't hold you're controller perpendicular to the floor... you pretty much hold it parallel with the floor. So you push the analog (or mouse) forward and backward.

i dont play inverted... and i never understood people who play inverted.

do you guys like to push up to move down? or down to move up?

KittyHeart

You are controlling head-tilt (or camera tilt). You don't tilt up and down. You tilt forward and backward. Forward to look downward and backward to look upward.

Place your controller flat on a table and tell me exactly how it is you move the analog stick "up", or with a mouse? Do you lift the mouse into the air? No.

Thats how all FPS's worked when head rotation was added to the genre. Then FPS became super popular and the mass of noobs and console gamers who couldn't break free from the "up down left right" mind-set caused the genre to change the configuration... and now they call the classic control-scheme "inverted".

It's preposterous! :shock:

I've never understood inverted controls. They're so counter-intuitive.

When I press up, i want to see up.

BuryMe

A million times this. I never understood why games even come with an inverted option, it just seems so strange.

But holy cow! Lots of people prefer inverted!

On N64 it was inverted, but these days I don't invert, just leave it normal. It comes from joysticks I'm guessing, aeroplane games would do this and developers thought it would be smart to use this in a first person game...SaltyMeatballs

If I look up, I expect the camera to look up, n vise versa, just makes sense.. If you lifted your head, you wouldn't expect to look down!