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Am now 30 and since I have been playing games on pc (and I go as far back as 486's) I have always inverted the Y-axis on the mouse.

Just over a month on consoles, and when I go back into an FPS game on PC I am all over the frigging place! turned off invert mouse, and its better, but my poor old brain still struggling to adapt - one minute it wants to move the mouse one way to look up, next the other way :D

For some reason, inverting the axis on xbox just didn't feel right so stuck with it, but its totally messed me up :)

Its amusing but annoying at the same time. I used to be pretty darn good at shooters in mp, but I'm like a friggin noob all over again :D

Anyone gone through this? How long is this going to take to get used to?
 
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I don't understand why anyone uses inverted controls to be honest :p Seems a bit weird... I mean if you want to look up, your head moves up - The right thumbstick is like my head.

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I'm an inverted mouse PC gamer who plays inverted on the 360 for fps.

However, I can't, at all play Rez HD inverted for some reason and now have to play that normal.

I think I'm just confused now.
 
I dont understand inverting the controls, never even knew it ws possible on the pc! as said before, moving stick up is like moving your head up surely?:p

obviously i'm too young to appreciate it hehe
 
Inazuma said:
I don't understand why anyone uses inverted controls to be honest :p Seems a bit weird... I mean if you want to look up, your head moves up - The right thumbstick is like my head.

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OK look up... What have you just done ? Tilted your head back.. That's why its natural for people to invert.

Also flight games, When you want to pull the nose up, you pull back..

Seems a bit weird not to use it if you ask me.
 
Thats pretty much it. Have always looked at it as tilting forward or backwards. It also used to fit with other things like space and flight sims... wonder if I will still be able to do those the "normal" way now? :)

But for some reason, the tilting concept didn't work for me on console and so stuck with up is up, down is down.

Think tomorrow am going to play COD4 for hours on pc without the inversion, until I get used to it :D
 
I always use inverted since Goldeneye, anything else is weird! (even if it is the default on many games lol).
 
Like has been said, inverted controls is because of flight sims. If you started off playing flight sims then that is most likely why.

Flight sims were some of the first 3D games so hands up all you old gamers :p

I couldnt switch from inverted now sorry and playing a FPS on a console seems to give me a headache for some reason and 3rd person view is no good. Tried saints row and I dont like it at all purely because of the control system

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I also invert my controls, well the y-axis anyway, dont know how it happened, guess im old skool, i get a load of **** off mates for it!!
 
always been inverted since quake 1 on the pc, i cant remember if it was default or not but either way i stuck with it. console fps i started on goldeneye and i remember that had invert as default... but i would have inverted it anyway it wasnt default :p
 
it just feels normal to invert on the 360, i`m just worse than useless with the default. Like uoi however when I used to play on the PC it was not inverted. I put it down to just my hand coordination, however my reactions times still can be measured on a calender :p
 
I have always used inverted for exactly the same reasons as thedoc46 has stated. Also, the first FPS that I actually used keyboard and mouse with was Jedi Knight and I think that wa sinverted by default. (I had actually played Quake 1 before with just keyboard in single player before :p )
 
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