Be Excellent To Each Other

Let's settle this.

How do you like your Y?

This should have been the question being asked for votes in the general election.

I like to pull down to look up.

Did Microsoft patent having this as a default for user profiles or something? It annoys me having to change it every time on the PS4.

For me I think it originally comes from having always played flight sims and stuff. Having it work differently in different games would be weird.

I used to invert. But now I don't.

I'm not sure when my brain flipped.

I literally cannot play a FPS or the like without the Y flipped, it's impossible.

Those that do: Do you also do it when using a keyboard and mouse?

I do.

Yrs

Yeah. It just feels more natural and a bit more immersive to me, you tilt your head back to look up. Having it the other way I can adapt but it just feels more like moving the cursor around than looking.

Presumably you don't invert the X axis, though?

Why would you invert the X?

Gosh no, that would be insane.

For the same reason you invert the Y - You move (the back of) your head left to look right.

It's not a conscious choice to try and map your actual head to the controller or something it's just what feels right. Looking up feels like leaning back but looking left and right just feels like left and right.

Crazy inverters

What about Operation Wolf on the spectrum? Keyboard only, QAOP - map A to up and Q to down?

Operation Wolf the view doesn't move when you move the cursor does it?

What about Operation Wolf in the arcades though, did you lean the gun backwards or forwards to aim up?

Well neither. You raise the barrel and lower the butt. Rotating around a centre point can't have an up or down.

Nope - and I'm interested in what the deciding factor is. So invert if your view moves, don't if your gunsight moves?

Nah, it was essentially a gun shaped joystick, fixed to the cabinet.

Oh wait, I see what you mean. I guess if you viewed the gun as a stick viewed from above you would be pulling down to aim up, yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, case closed!

I invert Y, on pad and in the olden days of K&M.

Anyone who inverts their X axis needs professional help.

If you're holding a gun.

Which is what you want it to feel like, not doing a spreadsheet. It's definitely the correct way.

You lower your butt on raised barrels.

Yes. Indeed that's the origin point for me because I was late to the last gen so had never used anything but a mouse for 'looking' in 3D games. Hell, it took me about six months to become even vaguely comfortable using a controller for FPS' and the like.

Invert always.

Always always always. It baffles me that anyone would not want to use the ONE TRUE CONTROLLER SETUP..