Invert x and y axis on both. It's that way when I steer an outbard motorboat, and it doesn' bother me. My husvand and kids all play where left is left and right is right,...etc.

I play inverted Y-axis on FPS games. If it starts on default it looks like its my first time ever playing a video game. "Ooo the sky! Wait I wanted to look down?!"

On a console I always invert the "look" axis. I find something unnatural about it being default.

But on the PC everything has to be normal.

Only invert flying games. Like Tie-Fighter with a joystick.

As it's suposed to be. Up is up, down is down, left is left, right is right :shrug: There are some very rare exceptions were I use inverted, but 99% of the time I'll just use default.

To me, it makes sense that pushing up on the anolog stick (or moving the mouse forward) makes your character look up, and the same goes for other directions. Inverted is a mind [censored].

I play default, inverted is as alien as writing with my left hand. Inversion makes no sense at all when moving a cursor over a 2d screen, inversion only makes sense in flying because its tailored to how your body reacts to flight, when you pull back and go up you're pushed back into your seat so pulling back makes sense because you're going with the flow of your body.

I do inverted in flying games, just for realism, and I can control it fine in those I'm assuming because I understand why it works.

Both make equal sense, saying otherwise is ridiculous. The only factor is which feels natural to you, which is likely whichever one you played first.

I play default on everything as I said before, but when playing warhawk on PS3 I have inverted Y-axis on for every vehicle, tank, turret, aircraft. That way it really feels like I'm controlling the tank/aircraft and when I go out of it, I have my default setting on again.

Even in third person I like to think that the camera is part of the players head, so if I look up (tilt towards TV) then my character should also look up.

But I'd like to ask the inverted Y axis players, how good is your aim? I'm just asking because I cannot hit anything with inverted on, and even if my sister playes with inverted, she cannot hit anything either.

I played flight sims with joysticks for years before the anologue stick became ubiquitous. So in my mind, the right abalogue stick worked like a joystick; i.e. pull back on it to look up, push it forward to look down.

I guess you could think of the anologue stick as representing a person's head. You move your head forward to look down, back to look up.

I've tried on occasion to leave the controls as they are in FPS games, but I just can't play properly with the Y axis being inverted. I guess it's just what you're used to.

Obviously, I don't invert the X axis and I don't invert the Y axis when using a mouse.

My thoughts exactly.

Inverted Y-axis if I'm using a controller, default if using a mouse.

Depends on the game, though in general first person is played with up up right right, and third person in reverse - the first one being an emulation of moving my head, the latter one of camera movement.

In flight simulators it's reversed up-down in first person for me though, as I move the nose of the plane and not my head.

Ah! So there is a reason for that to make sense. On it's own it seems like lunacy, but when you think of like that it makes sense.

Inverted is for flight and space games only. Any time I see other people use inverted for something like first person shooters I just shake my head.

I keep the x-axis default, where left is left and right is right, but I invert the y-axis no matter what kind of game I'm playing. It all happened as an accident when I was playing Halo: CE and pressed A too quickly at the start up to choose inverted.

But now that I think about it, it's more intuitive that way to me. When I look up in real life, I tilt my head backwards. I don't push my head forwards to look up. I tilt it backwards. So I do the same thing with the control stick, I tilt it backwards like I would my head. So for me it's not down is up, it's backwards is up and forwards is down. The control stick moves the same way my head would.

The default setting in 1st person can be thought to control your nose, when you "drag" your nose to the right, you look to the right. Left goes the same way and also, when dragging your nose up, you'll look up

My aim is great, but that's because i'm used to the controls with an inverted Y axis. If it switches over to default, I can barely hit a thing since it feels weird to me.

Do you use inverted controls to shake your head?