For third person games, for me pressing left on the stick should move the camera left in an arc around the character, right on the stick bring the camera right. The new “standard” of making left on the stick bring the camera right to “see more to the left” has always felt unnatural to me.
So there’s no pain at all going back to the originals!
I’ll also note that I actually prefer this style camera on L/R/shoulder buttons, which was common on PS1, as well as some PSP/DS/3DS games. As long as a game doesn’t need the shoulder buttons for something else, it’s even better this way since you don’t need to move your hand to the right analog.
Yeah, that feels weird to me now as it did to me then. I don’t say your way is wrong but I never heard anyone explain it to me where it makes any sense. Left is Left right is right and so on and so forth. As long as there are options to change bad design i am fine.
I think in my head I see the camera as being like a stage camera on a circular track around the character. If I hit left, it should move left along that track. If I hit right, it should move right.
For first person games I need left to angle the character’s view to the left, and so on.
Every time someone explains it I just nod and say ok. Thing is, I don’t have any issue going from FPS to flight controls. I used to play inverted for fps too. Just one day I woke up and was like everything I thought I knew was wrong. Oddly, by making that adjustment I got better at 3D games and fps by a large margin.
Anyway, more options = better game design. Moving on.
Inverted for life! I’ve been playing inverted for first person games since the 8-bit days of Star Raiders, Flight Simulator II, Rescue on Fractalus and F-15 Strike Eagle. My brain doesn’t function in 2D when playing an FPS or flight sim.
Really glad both Xbox One and PS4 have remapping of buttons on a OS level, made it easier to deal with Beyond Good & Evil HD. I really prefer this version, it brings out the beautiful and colourful world even better.
I need to compile a list of all retro games currently on the XBOX platform that is BC on the XBOX One.
Off of memory
Original XBOX
Black
Bloodrayne 2
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Fuzion Frenzy
Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Neowave: The King of Fighters
Ninja Gaiden Black
Pirates!
Prince of Persia
Psychonauts
Red Faction II
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Other Console & Arcade Ports
Beyond Good & Evil HD
SotN
Sega Bass Fishing
Daytona USA
Final Fight
Crazy Taxi
Ikaruga
Guardian Heroes
Sonic Adventure
Soul Calibur 1 & 2 (HD)
Bunch of Neo Geo Ports
Bunch of Genesis Ports
Also should mention OG XBOX Games I wish we had.
JSRF
Mech Assault 1 & 2
Halo 1 & 2
Jade Empire
Gun
Riddick
Morrowind
Panzer Dragoon
GTA Series
MGS 2
Conker Remake
Kotor 2
Otogi 1 & 2
Republic Commando (loved this game so much)
Stubbs the Zombie
DoA 3
Mercenaries
Yeah, I got the game pass 14 day trial and I was like man I should play gears. Played most of it on my PC because I can do native 4K ultra 60 but the xb1x was a lot cheaper and did a good job keep it at 60. Gears has some incredible art direction. Honestly, I wanted more bots.