Poll for Gamers - The Y-Axis (1 Viewer)

[Mad Cow]

I have been a Y-axis inverter pretty much as long as you could do that. I have a feeling most older gamers, especially PC gamers will invert, but I don't know. Had a conversation with my son and another 16-yr old last night and they mocked my inversion of the Y. Wanted to see what was more normal.

Talking about in 1st and 3rd person games. I know flight games would definitely skew to inversion, but we are talking otherwise.

 

[WampusCat43]

Absolutely. First thing I look for in the options.

 

[BroadwayG]

If I push up on the stick/pad I want my sight to go up towards the sky. Is that inverted or not?

 

[Mad Cow]

If I push up on the stick/pad I want my sight to go up towards the sky. Is that inverted or not?

No, inverted is you want to see up, you pull down, like a flight stick.

 

[tonydead]

I think some of the poll questions are inverted.

 

[BroadwayG]

Then only inverted for flight games.

 

[TLEF316]

Only for flight

 

[Harry Manback]

Well, I'm a console gamer under 30 and you apparently hate me.

So I'll keep my opinion to myself.

 

[belljr]

Only for flight

this its weird too because it's very hard to find a game that I'll let you do it that way and then the other way for everything else

 

[Jobber]

Inverter here. I cant imagine playing anything in first person any other way.

 

[Dickies]

I've been inverting since I started playing on the PC in the 90's. Most of my friends think I am nuts, but I don't think the non-inversion is intuitive. I will never understand why some games give the option to invert the x-axis.

 

[GregR]

Great topic. Old gamer, about equal between PC and console. Invert everything flight or first person or over the shoulder 3rd. This has me thinking back and wondering why. I did do a lot of flight stuff.

 

[TheAristocrat]

I'll invert your Y-axis.

 

[SlaX]

Here's an illustration for those who don't understand. Granted, I think it makes more sense to invert using a joystick/thumbstick than when playing on PC. But that's my personal opinion.

 

[TLEF316]

Only for flight

this its weird too because it's very hard to find a game that I'll let you do it that way and then the other way for everything else

pretty much every shooter game with vehicles (battlefield) has separate control screens for all the various vehicle classes.

 

[jonessed]

I don't think I could even say without sitting at my computer and playing something. Odd.

 

[Borden]

Mostly console. Play whatever the default is.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Mostly a console gamer nowadays....I invert the Y-axis for every type of game. I'm 25.

It either started with old 007 shooters on the PS2, or with X-Wing games on the computer back in the day.

What's weird is my brother is four years younger, we grew up playing the same games together, but he thinks I'm a freak for inverting.

 

[Instinctive]

In my early 20s, basically gamed my whole life. There is no poll option for me :(

I hate inverted y-axis control. Hate it. I push up, of course I should look up. Anytime I've played a game on someone else's console or on a guest profile I get immediately lost and die and then pause ASAP to change the setting.

I don't understand why inverted is the default.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just turn the monitor upside down

 

[Mad Cow]

What a mess. I did it in a hurry this morning and left out four options. I am stupid.

 

[LBH]

I thought this was a thread about axis and allies

 

[Brony]

40 yo console gamer and I always invert. Thought about just spending a day and force my brain to reinvert, but then who's got time for that?

 

[matuski]

I am older than 30 and do NOT invert.. I don't see this as an option.

 

[Mad Cow]

Sorry, it was a mess, think I got it fixed. Did not change order since it would skew results.

 

[Rustoleum]

I'm 44 and I used to always invert but now I just go with the game's defaults, and woe unto he who plays on my profile and changes the €#>|!! button layout.

Nothing better than playing COD and finding out the hard way your nephew remapped the melee button.

 

[SkyRattlers]

Must invert.

The day that consoles adapted to learn that I like all my games inverted I gave a hearty Hallelujah!

 

[OC Zed]

I can't play a game without inverting the y-axis. I honestly can't understand others who prefer it the other way... different strokes for different folks, I guess.

I thought the Xbox 360 allowed you to set your y-axks preference in the system settings and would automatically set up games that way for you. I think they did away with that withe Xbox One... that's a shame.

 

[EYLive]

Mid 30s, console, invert