Comment on Who plays like that x_x
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 1 day ago
If the first game you ever played with a stick was a flight simulator, then down is up.
Yep. And for me, it changed. I played fps on controller my whole childhood, I was always standard. I started playing less controller and more noise and keyboard as I got older.
A few years ago I started flying fpv drones.
Recently tried to use a controller again? Whoops I can only play inverted now 🤷♂️
Same here. But “downward stick is flying upwards”. I play regular, but the horizontal axes inverted when in 3rd person mode. In first person I’m looking the way the stick moves, but in 3rd person I move the camera where I point the stick. Like Lakitu in Mario 64
Same. The first few PC games I played in the mid 90’s were ms flight sim and my dad had the joystick. Then MechWarrior 2. Also inverted by default. Tbh it’s a perspective shift. In most games with 3rd person I usually don’t invert. But if I’m first period I have to invert.
Elite, Wing Commander, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe shaped me before looking up or down was even a thing in FPS games.
Also probably if you played Descent
There it is. Old guys unite!
Yes!. I remember when my brother and I played our first 3D fps (half life), we both agreed it made more sense to invert the y axis. I hadn’t even considered all our history playing joystick flight sims as an influence
I was this way up to roughly the Xbox 360 era.
And then it just didn’t feel right any more. In fact neither way felt right for a while.
Now I’m a right way up boy.
Literally just realized this is why I always invert.
Except I have to change from the default in flight simulators too.
Well first game I played was pacman and down was down!
Or anything on the N64. Nintendo really loved inverted y in the early days of 3d.
Even before that the down-arrow key was “up”.
brap@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember playing the original Rainbow Six game in 1998 inverted. Can’t remember why, or if that was the default, but I got used to it and haven’t been able to use the controls backwards since. Besides, if you lean forward you look down - why would controls be any different?
hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 day ago
By that logic, tilting the stick to the left should either make you look to the right, or just rotate the view without actually changing the direction you’re looking in
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Tipping makes sense. Idk it’s like if the joystick is the top of your character’s head.
hikaru755@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If you see the stick as the top of your character’s head, you’d have to twist it to look left or right. Tilting it would just rotate the image you see under that mental model
brap@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mind blown. That actually never occurred to me.