Have any of you ever "cured" yourself of this foul curse of moving the analog stick in the objectively wrong direction to look vertically in first/third person shooters?
I was always an inverted guy as a kid. I blame my love of Ace Combat games on the PS1/PS2 for corrupting my worldview at an impressionable age.
However, one day I was playing some multiplayer on the original Battlefield: Bad Company and realized that aiming at a target in a window of a building was far too difficult for some reason. Then it finally clicked: the reason that inverted controls are bad is because diagonal movements make no sense. If you want to move your crosshair to the Northeast in an inverted environment, you need to push the stick to the bottom-right. Madness!
After this realization, I spent a few minutes switching back and forth between normal and inverted. In the span of less than half an hour, I rewired my brain completely and have never inverted a single thing since.
(This does not apply to horizontal inverters, those poor souls are sadly beyond saving.)
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