Timeline for Why do some people play inverted?
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| May 31, 2011 at 4:08 | comment | added | Weegee | @Edward If anything that link has just made me even more skeptical. Out of the comments on that blog post, about 3/4 of them are people feeling the exact way I am about this; that this is more myth than fact. More importantly, I don't think a blog post written by a game reviewer who appears to have no formal Psychology or Neurology training is a great citation for this. I'm sorry, but my -1 stands. I think the answer here is much simpler than Mr. Robertson believes. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 2:50 | comment | added | Edward Black | @Weegee gamepeople.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/down-is-up (Citation) <-- What I posted is true, however I did refrain from posting some information that might have addressed why certain people play non-inverted, and for that I apologize. | |
| May 30, 2011 at 23:52 | comment | added | Weegee | @Juan Yes, I agree, but I'm skeptical that inverted gives you "faster reflex-shots" as the OP mentions. That sounds more like myth than fact to me. This isn't like the left v. right hand thing that Oscar is mentioning; that actually works because in that case a left hander is left eye dominant, thus he favors his right hand since its closest to his dominant eye. I'm giving this answer a -1 because this is one thing that seriously sounds more like myth being portrayed as fact to me. | |
| May 30, 2011 at 17:47 | comment | added | Oscar Godson | @Adeese i didn't know that! Looking that up now... @Edward this makes sense actually. When you lean back you are looking up. However, maybe if you were taught from the an early day thats wrong (because all games default to normal) you'd start to deal with it. This is like many left hander stories i hear. They were taught left is wrong so they deal with being right handed but in reflex situations (like catching a ball) they use their left hand... | |
| May 30, 2011 at 13:39 | comment | added | juan | @Wee, as with everything, I think you get used to it by practicing. I know I could play normal if I used it for some time... but I prefer to just go with what I know and enjoy it :) | |
| May 30, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | Weegee | Do you have any citations for this? I've always thought that normal v. inverted is completely dependent on how the player learned to play. For example, when I play, I play with "Normal" settings, and if I switch to inverted I struggle. For me, my brain then has to take an extra step, and its noticeable. I've always thought it boils down to the player's muscle memory. | |
| May 30, 2011 at 13:32 | comment | added | Adeese | @Juan FWIW, on the Xbox 360, you can set Inverted as the default in your profile, and all games will honor that. So that's something. | |
| May 30, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | juan | Also, this should be the default. I'm tired of checking the checkbox in every game | |
| May 30, 2011 at 11:14 | history | answered | Edward Black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |