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truthfultemporarily@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Elite, Wing Commander, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe shaped me before looking up or down was even a thing in FPS games.

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• GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literally just realized this is why I always invert.

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• Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except I have to change from the default in flight simulators too.

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• sausager@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well first game I played was pacman and down was down!

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• Ryktes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or anything on the N64. Nintendo really loved inverted y in the early days of 3d.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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• hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 🤷‍♂️

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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• lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also probably if you played Descent

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  • bigbabybilly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There it is. Old guys unite!

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even before that the down-arrow key was “up”.

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• terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• brap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if you lean forward you look down - why would controls be any different?

    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

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tipping makes sense. Idk it’s like if the joystick is the top of your character’s head.

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      • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • brap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mind blown. That actually never occurred to me.

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