To Invert Or Not To Invert?

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Ironhide** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:16 pm

Xeno wrote:With a mouse never, with a joystick / pad always.

This.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Rik** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:17 pm

Invert, the analogue stick is your head.

I can't play any other way, I know people who do though, each to their own.

I did always invert because that's the way I learnt with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark and it just feels right.

The trend nowadays seems to have changed so I just leave it at the default setting whatever that may be.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Red Devil** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:29 pm

satriales wrote:Inverting the Y-Axis is almost as bad as playing a racing game with a 3rd person camera. It's not right.

Surely it's the only way to play a racing game? :shifty:

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **jiggles** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:36 pm

I just play with whatever the default is for the game. I have no idea if that's actually inverted or not for most games because I've never thought about it.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Meh.** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:39 pm

When I play I tend not to think about it as a person looking and moving their head, I just look at it as lining up the centre of my screen with a group of pixels in the most speedy and efficient way I can, so the default setting of not inverted is fine for me.

tilt your head right back and then try to look at your feet.
tilt your head forward and then try to look at the ceiling.

cant play a game that needs me to push forward to look up, thats just not the way the human head works and its the same on stick.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Knoyleo** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:28 pm

Pressing a trigger or shoulder button on a gamepad is very much like pulling a trigger on a gun.
Clicking a mouse button is in no way like pulling the trigger on a gun.

Therefore, gamepads are the best control method for FPS gaming.

What's more representative of "real life" whilst still part of some arbitrary control method, does not instinctively make it better, it's whatever allows you to play better.

I am controlling the crosshair not my characters head. Non inverted.

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Spindash wrote:If pushing the stick up to look up is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Except its not up that you are pushing on the stick, its forward. You might have always called it up, but that doesn't mean it is up.

Unless you are holding your controller at a weird angle.

So what non-inverters are actually doing is Forward = Up...which makes no logical sense whatsoever.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Dual** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:04 pm

Inverted supremacy. Everything else just isn't natural.

Inverted. Goldeneye taught me.

Gemini73 · PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Gemini73** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:37 pm

Red Devil wrote:
satriales wrote:Inverting the Y-Axis is almost as bad as playing a racing game with a 3rd person camera. It's not right.

Surely it's the only way to play a racing game?

Depends on the racing game.

Knoyleo wrote:...gamepads are the best control method for FPS gaming.

Not true. I mostly FPS game on consoles now due to the limitations of my PC, however when I did play FPS titles on PC a joypad was in no way a substitute for the accuracy, precision and speed of mouse and keyboard.

As for joypads? Non-inverted. It's what I'm comfortable with.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Dual** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:40 pm

Keyboard and mouse :lol:

Let's game like it's 1996!

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Knoyleo** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:42 pm

Magius wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:...gamepads are the best control method for FPS gaming.

Not true. I mostly FPS game on consoles now due to the limitations of my PC, however when I did play FPS titles on PC a joypad was in no way a substitute for the accuracy, precision and speed of mouse and keyboard.

But it's just like using a real gun, you can tell, because they call those buttons triggers, like guns have.

In the same way that inverted is clearly better, because in real life when you want to look at the floor, you tilt your head way forward, and if you tilt your stick back to look up, it's so like real life that I sometimes forget I'm even playing a video game.

Inverted 4eva

Gemini73 · PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Gemini73** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:51 pm

Knoyleo wrote:
Magius wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:...gamepads are the best control method for FPS gaming.

Not true. I mostly FPS game on consoles now due to the limitations of my PC, however when I did play FPS titles on PC a joypad was in no way a substitute for the accuracy, precision and speed of mouse and keyboard.

But it's just like using a real gun, you can tell, because they call those buttons triggers, like guns have.

In the same way that inverted is clearly better, because in real life when you want to look at the floor, you tilt your head way forward, and if you tilt your stick back to look up, it's so like real life that I sometimes forget I'm even playing a video game.

Invert and it should be the default option.

PostRe: To Invert Or Not To Invert? by **Shadow** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:18 pm

To be honest I'm more shocked that people switch between default and inverted on a game-to-game basis. That's just madness!

I don't invert and I don't really care whether anyone else does or not. It's their own choice, and I'm not going to judge them for it, because that would be completely mental.

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