Controller Preferences: Inverted

[Xerios]

Formed from me reading the Splinter Cell thread and reading that merrick plays inverted. I want to know how many people out there play games with inverted controls. who hates it, who loves it.... is there a certain genre you play inverted versus others?

Poll being added..

[Pelican170]

Only inverted for flying/airplanes. The rest is regular for me.... sooo, can you add something like that to your poll? Or should I put No, since I hate playing FPS's with inverted controls?

[Xerios]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Only inverted for flying/airplanes. The rest is regular for me.... sooo, can you add something like that to your poll? Or should I put No, since I hate playing FPS's with inverted controls...

i agree with you.... i only use inverted for airplanes or flying... so i hit no... idk if i can edit my poll -__-

yeah i cant edit a poll once its been made

[volcomsocal]

Inverted all the way. Every game I play I use inverted controls. It's an unnatural feeling when I don't use inverted.

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by Xerios

i agree with you.... i only use inverted for airplanes or flying... so i hit no... idk if i can edit my poll -__-

yeah i cant edit a poll once its been made

No it is then...

[owa]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Only inverted for flying/airplanes. The rest is regular for me.... sooo, can you add something like that to your poll? Or should I put No, since I hate playing FPS's with inverted controls?

Same here.

[tarvis]

I always invert Y-axis. Whenever someone pulls a face I just mention that you tilt your head back to look up and tilt your head forward to look down.

[Xerios]

Originally Posted by tarvis

I always invert Y-axis. Whenever someone pulls a face I just mention that you tilt your head back to look up and tilt your head forward to look down.

LOL never thought of it like this, i just feel like the object in games are almost point and click now.... if an enemy is on a hill up and left, im gonna move the analog stick up and left to kill him as i would a mouse...

[Havok83]

Normal!

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by tarvis

I always invert Y-axis. Whenever someone pulls a face I just mention that you tilt your head back to look up and tilt your head forward to look down.

Yes, but you move your face/eyes up to look up and down to look down.

I don't think there's a physiological reason to prefer either one.

[jsteinhauer]

I understand the intuitiveness of the inverted controls, but being accustomed to the normal controls keeps me there. What drives me nuts is when the primary weapon controls are L2 and R2 rather than L1 and R1. It's not safe. I use the middle (bird) fingers on the 2's. If you lay your index finger up alonside the barrel of a gun, you'll more than likely damage it.

[tarvis]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

What drives me nuts is when the primary weapon controls are L2 and R2 rather than L1 and R1. It's not safe. I use the middle (bird) fingers on the 2's. If you lay your index finger up along side the barrel of a gun, you'll more than likely damage it.

I can't remember, do any PS3 exclusives do that? First time I ran into that issue was Red Dead, which I chalked up to be lazy porting. I think it's certainly more comfortable to do that on the Xbox, but it's absurd with the PS3.

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by tarvis

I can't remember, do any PS3 exclusives do that? First time I ran into that issue was Red Dead, which I chalked up to be lazy porting. I think it's certainly more comfortable to do that on the Xbox, but it's absurd with the PS3.

Not that I know of. L. A. Noire, (Rockstar) did it too, but shooting was such a minor part of that game it wasn't important. I recall having some issues with the L2/R2 mapping in Just Cause 2, as well, but I can't recall what specifically they were, except that you could remap them, but remapping them made it impossible to set down your helicopter.

When L3 is something important I get screwed up, as well. I must have a heavy thumb, because during vigorous use of the left stick, I often hit L3. I kept accidentally making Alice enter Hysteria with that one.

[Blu-Benny]

I used to play inverted back in the days of golden eye and perfect dark on the ol’ N64.

I’ve been playing w/ “regular” controls since halo came out on the original xbox.

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

Only inverted for flying/airplanes. The rest is regular for me.... sooo, can you add something like that to your poll? Or should I put No, since I hate playing FPS's with inverted controls?

Yeah, same as me. For FPS I just put it on normal.

[ariakon]

My first experience with first-person games with a y-axis were X-wing and Tie Fighter, and my muscle memory just got used to inverted. My brother is the same way, but none of our friends invert and hate swapping controls with me.

[fsavoie]

The last Silent Game didn't have inverted y camera option (only while aiming) so I wasn't able to play that game. I think in the first ps3 ratchet, the space level was not inverted too and had a lot of problem with that. I don't know why I always played that way, maybe the first games normal was inverted?

[Ford]

I pretty much always use inverted. Actually I'm just too lazy to change whatever the default settings are for any game that I play. Though I do prefer to have my L2 and R2 be the fire buttons on my controller, so I do swap those in the COD games.

I might even be considered inverted-inverted since I'm thinking about getting one of those thingamajigs that lets you use a wired XBOX 360 controller on a PS3. The controller was the only thing I ever liked about the 360 and I've never been a fan of the Playstation ones.

[GLaDOS]

I play mostly normal... unless I'm playing a flying game.

[refux]

I always go with inverted controls (in vertical direction), cant never get used to play with regular settings.