so basically you only like final fantasy
― cutty, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
cold but not undeserved
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
C'mon, it's not up on the mousepad, it's forwards!
do you scroll forwards and backwards through websites or up and down
― webber, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It's nice to see so many inverts here, when I'm ridiculed by my peers for playing backwards. However, when I played a lot of PC shooters I used normal, because I like the idea of the game being like an animated wallpaper and just clicking on faces to make the baddies die in an elaborate fashion.
I think it was third-person shooters on consoles that turned me into an invert, although I did used to play an extraordinary amount of Flight Simulator on the ST when I was a sprout. In third person it's not so much moving the character as it is the camera, so it's got to be inverted.
Something I've always wondered is whether anyone uses invert left/right in anything. Perhaps I did on Colossus, but again this was a camera issue rather than the character's POV. Any left/right inverts on first person shooters?
In answer to the original question: maybe it was when first person shooters changed their name from Doomalikes (or is this term not actually as widespread as I thought?)
― melton mowbray, Thursday, 4 October 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
INVERTED 4 LIFE
― cutty, Saturday, 8 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone wants to play me (normal look nub) in cod4, c'mon and bring the ruckus
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets. (dan m), Saturday, 8 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally inverted, totally got it from Wing Commander 2.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 8 November 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
more like perverted look, regular 4 life
― s1ocki, Saturday, 8 November 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i fuckin miss wing commander 2 that was my shit in grade 4
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 9 November 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
inverted is more sensical
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Monday, 10 November 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
― robster craws (cutty), Friday, 11 December 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"And the doors were where the windows should be. And the windows were where the doors should be.."
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Friday, 11 December 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Saturday, November 8, 2008 6:47 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
more like perverted CROOK now that i think of it
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kinda interesting to see someone try a 3-D game who's never done it before and seeing if inverted or "regular" is more natural. like a kid finding out if they're right or left-handed.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Friday, 11 December 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/07/osx-lion/
First, let me finish my rant about inverted scrolling. I wanted very badly to adapt to Lion’s new so-called “natural scrolling” behavior, but I had to shut it off after two days because it just felt too awkward.
“I’m trying to use a computer, not play freakin’ Golden Eye,” I complained to a friend.
― cutty, Thursday, 21 July 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Realised too late that I'm raising a non-inverted child. It started when he was playing minecraft and I just didn't think to change his controls from the default, now we're playing Destiny together and every time we pass the pad we have to go into the bloody options menu first.
I have failed as a parent.
― JimD, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 10:42 (nine years ago) link
i always invert-y but never x-axis
― am0n, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
man, the inmates have truly taken over the asylum on this one now huh
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Once upon a time a man would come home after a hard day's work defending his home from the Nazi menace in a Supermarine Spitfire and relax with a game of Mario 64, the controller's little joystick working just the same as in his aeroplane. Now kids don't even know how an aeroplane works and the invert axis toggle is rusted stuck in a cobwebby corner of the options menu. Society is in the gutter.
― ledge, Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
I remember playing MS flight simulator in the mid 80s and crashing a buncha times into the O'Hare Hilton because I didn't get inverted look. I deserved it.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 31 December 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
(So as not to hijack the 'terrible opinions' thread):
If you don't think "inverted look" is default your brain doesn't work properly; the lunatics have taken over the asylum
Obviously this is true but when my 5yo daughter is looking at photo thumbnails on the computer screen and says 'go up' she gets cross when i swipe up on the trackpad to see what's higher up, which scrolls the screen down.
And yet on my phone i swipe down to scroll the screen down - exactly the opposite, but both feel perfectly natural. In the computer screen (= inverted look), conceptually I'm moving my point of view of a static information field; on the phone (= non inverted) my POV is static and I'm moving the information field. So it's not that non inverted is fundamentally wrong but it would seem like its adherents have a different conception of the game world, it's something they move around not something they move around in.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
So maybe it's phones that caused the change. Inverted look (moving up to go down) doesn't make sense when you are effectively directly manipulating the information field, and if that's your first UI experience you then apply it across the board.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
Used to be fully inverted believer but past few years for some reason I totally hate it. It was definitely initially because I'd played flight sims a lot on 16 bit computers, then first person shooters on pc it just felt right. These days though, nope, up is up and down is down for me.
sorry for splitting.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
mouselook games were never inverted look by default were they? it was a joystick thing
― ciderpress, Friday, 5 November 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Hmm, you maybe right. In fact the first fps game I played on pc might have been Dark Forces where I used a flight stick to control - of course it was inverted and felt right.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
also possible that I played most of my fps and third person games on consoles, things like GTA3 etc
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link