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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:10:55PM -0500, Patrick Carr wrote: > However the natural moving technique in Halo 2 (and a million other > games, I'm sure) with the two joysticks is brilliant. I have no problem > running around and facing forward. It's the up-down that ass-backwards. > The up-down should be like the joystick in a plane, where pushing > forward tilts the gun down and pulling back tilts the gun up, as if > you're pivoting the gun on the point of your body. Because you ARE > pivoting the gun on the point of your body. And also because I spent too > many hours playing Wing Commander to re-wire my brain. That's too much thinking. Users are goal oriented. The target is above me. I need to point the gun up. I move the stick up. Requires no logic, just instinct which is how it should be. Furthmore, IRL only if you're using some sort of mounted weapon would you ever push down to point up. Even then the goal is still the same: move the end of the weapon up. Up. Everything about the action screams UP. The only reason you might think to push down in order to go up is because you've been trained by flight simulators which parrot airplane controls for reasons I don't really know but were probably originally purely mechanical in nature and just stuck. Fortunately nearly every game in the universe allows you to reverse this.There's stuff above here
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