Poll: When playing an FPS - invert mouse or not?

Do you invert mouse for FPS games?

  • Yes

    Votes: 46 20.1%

  • No

    Votes: 183 79.9%
  • Total voters
    229
Always used inverted, ever since quake.

I know its all just banter (At least I hope) but for the people who are saying that inverted is crazy and that they could never use it, tell me this - When you are in a video game and want to look up or down, do you think "Ok, I need to move the mouse up/down", or do you just instinctively do it? You could even reverse left and right and you would eventually stop being aware of it.

I believe that if I wanted to switch, it would take me about a week to kill off the "instinct" of inverted, and maybe a month to get up to speed with normal mode.
 
Normal Mouse. When I play with a mouse it's like it's my 'eyes' so i'm playing from PoV and if I want to look up i'm moving my eyes up.
Inverted Mouse. Only when flying.

Inverted Pad. When I play with a pad it's like I'm moving the head with the thumbstick, so to move the head to look up I need to lean it back. So I'd press the stick backwards. Also depending on the game I sometimes have L/R inverted as well. I can't play with a pad on 'normal' at all.
 
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Inverted for flying, Normal for everything else. Weirdly the GF cant play at all on the normal setting (on controller) has to be inverted.
 
Nope, inverted is for flight only, and it really messes me up if flight controls are not inverted too :(
 
Linkex said:
Always used inverted, ever since quake.

I know its all just banter (At least I hope) but for the people who are saying that inverted is crazy and that they could never use it, tell me this - When you are in a video game and want to look up or down, do you think "Ok, I need to move the mouse up/down", or do you just instinctively do it? You could even reverse left and right and you would eventually stop being aware of it.

I believe that if I wanted to switch, it would take me about a week to kill off the "instinct" of inverted, and maybe a month to get up to speed with normal mode.
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There's also the fact a lot of people learnt to use the mouse before operating systems that had "desktops". The first time many people used a mouse was on a MS-DOS based flight sim, so it was only logical for early FPS games to use the same controls.

I think the only reason I don't use inverted, was because I spent years as a "keyboard only" noob, unable to get to grips with "mouse-look" until quake 2. ;)
 
When I first started playing games in the 80's anything first person was inverted, Elite I'm looking at you.

The habit stuck.
 
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