Inverted Y-axis controls in videogames make more sense and is more organic than the default controls, amirite?

It makes sense in any 3rd person flying game. But in first person games it doesn't make sense. I'm not pointing the stick how I would want my head to move, I'm pointing the stick where I want the curser to go

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I'm always pointing the stick how o would want my head to move. But I'm a veeeeery casual gamer.

by Dibbertgiovanna 4 months ago

Why wouldn't you point the stick where you want your eyes to go, why are y'all thinking about it like it's your whole head haha

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I don't know! It's just always felt more natural to me. Maybe my brain is broken.

by Dibbertgiovanna 4 months ago

How does following my logic not make sense for the x-axis? You wanna go to the left, you push the thumbstick to the left. My point was that the right thumbstick, the one that controls where you look, is like your head. So when your head looks up, you pull back on the stick. That concept does not apply to the thumbstick that controls the direction that you walk.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

My point was that the right thumbstick, the one that controls where you look, is like your head. So when your head looks up, you pull back on the stick And when your head looks left you would pull right, but yet you don't invert your x-axis.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Ok, I see what you're saying, and you're still wrong. If my head is the thumbstick and I want to turn my head to the left, I'm still pressing the stick to the left. I'm not pressing it to the right.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

which is why he said ur logic makes no sense

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I think there was a miscommunication or misunderstanding somewhere, maybe on my part. The up and down controls should be inverted. Not the look left and right controls.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

yes, that is clear. But your reasoning for why the up and down controls should be inverted, also applies to horizontal. So why don't you think horizontal should be inverted?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I agree with you but what they are saying is, follow that logic out with the x axis. If you want to "roll" the view around the the left, you would push the thumb stick right as that would effectively rotate towards the left? I think that's what they're saying? I do not agree with them. I also invert my Y axis and that logic doesn't really add up to me, about also inverting X axis but hey, I think that's what they're trying to say

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Everyone got that. Their point is that you're not consistently applying your logic. If pushing the stick down means you're lifting your head up, then pushing the stick right should mean you're tilting your head to the left. Imagine a stick stuck to the back of your head as an analog for the actual thumb stick. When you push the stick up, the head will look down. And if you want the head to look left, you have to push the stick to the right.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I like my Y inverted and agree that it is as if you are tilting the head back…but everything you say here is truth

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I only invert Y because it was the default on Starfox . I fully acccept I'm a weirdo

by Technical_Grape_8899 4 months ago

First actual unpopular opinion I've seen in a while

by WholeFit 4 months ago

Inverted only makes sense to me when ‘flying' a craft. If I'm walking around in a game I like up as up and down is down for viewing. But if I'm flying a craft pulling back on the stick to climb is just intuitively correct.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

It does make sense from the logic of the stick relating to the position of one's head… but that's such a weirdly complicated view. It makes a lot more sense for stick up = look up, stick down = look down.

by No-Persimmon4868 4 months ago

Inverted is the way!

by Head_Hamster7332 4 months ago

lol, no.

by Kuhiciva 4 months ago

M husband plays that way. When ever I need help on my games, he always whines about my f'd up setup and I have to change it for him. Is it an age thing - original ps console default maybe?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Must be young because inverted Y used to be the default

by Dry-Huckleberry 4 months ago

I can only play with a controller on inverted y axis.

by terrymelyna 4 months ago

Inverted always. Thanks to early flight sim games. Pull back go up.

by Sweaty_Present_7924 4 months ago

I use inverted y-axis, because that's what I grew up using, back when I was good at them. Nowadays, I'm awful, but without inverted y-axis, I'm beyond useless.

by Otherwise_Garbage966 4 months ago

This one is sure to rile up the chublords.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

This is the way.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I'm old enough to remember when every FPS game had inverted controls by default due to the influence of very early flight sims, so I've been inverting Y for over 30 years. I agree with you 100% OP.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Yeah, the non-inverted Y axis people are just bad at video games and life in general

by Anonymous 4 months ago