Let`s hear it for inverted controls!

ALWAYS BE INVERTED! NEVER NOT INVERTED! 

Amen Brother!

Invert for LIFE. Always be inverting!!

Yeah! There is no "up" or "down" on a controller, unless you are holding the controller straight out in front of you and parallel with your face. The thumbstick moves forward and back. Put your hand behind your head and push it "forward", what happens? You look down. Now put your hand on your forehead and push back, what happens? YOU LOOK UP.

" Why would I point up if I want to look down? It makes no sense. The only things that ever need to be inverted are planes. "

I play inverted on gamepads and non-inverted when using a mouse. I never get confused with this convention. 

I'm more of a forced inverted player. First FPS I ever played much of was Timesplitters on the PS2 and my brother handed me his controller which was inverted. Didn't even know that it was a thing for about a year. I have no regrets. Inverted 4 life.

Can the mods please lock this madness?

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You guys are crazy.

@ThatFrood: That's an interesting way to think about it. I always just saw it as, if I want crosshair to go up, my thumb goes up. "

inverted controls are great for "flying" games but any other game, inverted controls are for crazies!!

I was inverted for a long time and then I got sick of changing every time I started a new game. So one day I just bit the bullet and went "normal"

I used inverted controls for the longest time, then I stopped being crazy.

I'm an invert!!! 

I used to be inverted all the time until a few months ago my mind just flipped on me. I still use inverted controls for flight-based games though but that's kinda normal really.

Okay let me break it down all easy-like for all y'all who don't understand what inverted controls are all about. You trackin'? Cool. There are mainly two reasons people use inverted controls that I hear constantly:

Never not inverted.

More like perverted controls.

I used to invert, because that's how games used to control on it's default settings. That is not the case anymore, and I have since learned to control games normally. 

This thread is a trap to get all the users who invert to admit it and then they shall be rightly banned. Nothing personal its just not right having criminally insane people on the forums, I mean this is the internet for gods sake! Lets keep it classy.

I don't invert anymore on shooters as it became a little annoying having to adjust whenever I played one at a friend's house or on a demo station, but for games with camera control as opposed to crosshair control? (I know you're still actually moving the camera while the crosshair just stays in the middle of the screen, but whatever) Definitely.

I own 100+ PS2 games, and with the exception of the 3 or so shooters I own for that system as well as the oddity that is Drakengard 2 (and perhaps Beat Down as well), every single one of them -- Western or Japanese -- is inverted by default, and some don't even give you the option to uninvert (FF12 comes to mind). Even today most Japanese games are inverted by default. I find it really strange how "normal" controls became the standard so quickly. I guess the rise in popularity of console shooters is to blame as people like to fool themselves into thinking they're actually controlling the crosshair, but when controlling a camera, inverted controls feel far more natural.

" Yeah! There is no "up" or "down" on a controller, unless you are holding the controller straight out in front of you and parallel with your face. The thumbstick moves forward and back. Put your hand behind your head and push it "forward", what happens? You look down. Now put your hand on your forehead and push back, what happens? YOU LOOK UP. "

I'm inverter, and here is how I explain it to my friends:

This un-natural

" @CaLe said:

" Why would I point up if I want to look down? It makes no sense. The only things that ever need to be inverted are planes. "

Yeah.

I can never understand you people.

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Oh, people hating on inverted controls...again. Another meme being buried deeper and deeper into the ground.

I remember being at my friends house handed me the controller and it was inverted. At first i would go to the options and switch to non inverted but then didn't want to pause the game and do the steps. Ever since then I have never looked back. INVERTED FOR LIFE. COME AT US BRO

Inverted is the only way to go.  Everything else is just plain backwards. 

@Progn0sticator said:

B) People, like myself, invert their controls because this is the way they learned to play games. .. You then go home, buy a console and a first-person game and immediately find the "standard" controls to be "wrong" and thus change it to the controls you're familiar with.

In my case, in the case of B), I literally cannot play with "standard" controls."

At least we can keep you all in one place to keep an eye on you.

" @ThatFrood:  With that logic, back is up and forward is down. "

" Yeah! There is no "up" or "down" on a controller, unless you are holding the controller straight out in front of you and parallel with your face. The thumbstick moves forward and back. Put your hand behind your head and push it "forward", what happens? You look down. Now put your hand on your forehead and push back, what happens? YOU LOOK UP. "

I knew there were some wackos on Giant Bomb, but I didn't expect this many. Christ people, be normal. 

We should make a clan

You bitches be crazy.

EDIT:  When flying, are inverted controls really inverted?  I mean, up is down when you fly...as that is standard so it's not inverted when you fly, right?

" @ThatFrood said:

" Yeah! There is no "up" or "down" on a controller, unless you are holding the controller straight out in front of you and parallel with your face. The thumbstick moves forward and back. Put your hand behind your head and push it "forward", what happens? You look down. Now put your hand on your forehead and push back, what happens? YOU LOOK UP. "

Well said, my man. "

" Yeah! There is no "up" or "down" on a controller, unless you are holding the controller straight out in front of you and parallel with your face. The thumbstick moves forward and back. Put your hand behind your head and push it "forward", what happens? You look down. Now put your hand on your forehead and push back, what happens? YOU LOOK UP. "