149512-do-you-invert-your-mouse

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I do.  I can't play games unless it is this way.  I always imagined a flight stick controlling a plane when I was a kid.  Playing some games as a pilot would always feel weird if it were not similar in function as real-world.  I trained my brain to make that normal and... here I am today.
 
  Who else does?  Why do you do it?  Why don't you do it?  Is it a mechanical thing, or is there another reason?	
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			I've never liked the inverted mouse however the first game I ever played with A,S,W & D movement keys was in Quake and the very first thing I did was change the S key from being backwards to the X key instead and 20 years later I still use this configuration. My S key remains open for multifunctional purposes across several games and as far as I know I'm the only person that does this. In Wildstar I use S for Stimpacks... Wierd eh?	
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			I grew up playing RTS/Shooter games, and non inverted was always standard. With no reason to change it, I never did. Plus non inverted makes sense from a real world standpoint (pull down on a piece of paper it goes down). 	
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I grew up playing RTS/Shooter games, and non inverted was always standard. With no reason to change it, I never did. Plus non inverted makes sense from a real world standpoint (pull down on a piece of paper it goes down). 
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			I can't play a game that doesn't let me invert the Y-axis on the mouse, for the same reason.  I played flight sims before there was such a thing as a FPS, so I default to pushing down and pulling up.	
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Inverted actually makes "more" real world sense, as most controls work on a fulcrum. Many other things as well, including controls on planes, or even if you were using a globe of the world. Pull down on the globe and your viewpoint goes "up".
 
Even a piece of paper on a desk, if you pull it toward you...your viewpoint goes up (inverted axis).
 
Come to think of it, even all the touch pads and tablets use an inverted scheme in that sense.
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			i only invert my mouse with fps and flight games using a joystick or thumb stick.  in any other instance, normal.  that is just how my brain works with a joystick, but with a mouse up is up and down is down.  with a joystick or thumb stick up is down and down is up.  not sure why my brain is hardwired that way.  but it never fails if I am having a hard time aiming in an FPS the first thing i have to do is check the inversion.  it can be quite funny playing with friends where we have to change settings back and forth if we are using the same controller and passing it back and forth.	
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That was a bad comparison on my part (I've been doing my taxes for the last few hours- my brain is jello). It would be better to say it makes sense because non inverted mimics how you see the natural world in regards to body movement. If you see the mouse as a hardware equivalent of your head, then it makes sense to move the mouse down to command the game camera (your "in game head") to look down.
 
Or I could still be making no sense at all. Those taxes did me in, I need a nap!  :lol:
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Even thinking of your head, you can consider it inverted.
 
If you move your head forward, you are looking down...move your head back you look up. Left is still left, right is still right. This is inverted.
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