Yep. Thanks, Bungie, for not hiding Luke away.

School'd.

For jet fighters, left/right on the stick corresponds to roll. If you imagine a physical control stick attached to the object, it would be sprouting up from the top of the aircraft. Push the knob forward, pitch down; push the knob backwards, pitch up; push the knob left, roll left; push the knob right, roll right.

With FPS controls, left/right on the stick corresponds to yaw. The hypothetical physical control stick would stick out from the front of the character's face. Push the knob left, look left; push the knob right, look right; push the knob up, look up; push the knob down, look down.

For FPS games, non-inverted creates a more consistent correspondence between vertical and horizontal behavior. Not that it really matters, as our brains don't have a huge amount of trouble fudging axis direction with some acclimation.

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Do you hold your controller vertically when you play? If not, then there isn't an "up" or "down" for the sticks. Just forward and backwards.

This is exactly why I always used inverted controls, for years... until one day I just stopped.

All my years of playing FPS and space combat games left me feeling completely at home using inverted controls. But for some reason, it never felt right when I played 3rd person games. So I'd always switch to "normal" while playing Gears of War or something like that.

Back in the summer of 2013 I found myself playing a bunch of 3rd person games back-to-back. The Last of Us, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Tomb Raider, plus I was still playing a lot of Gears 3. Then one day I went to play some Halo, jumped into a match and... I couldn't do it. I just couldn't go inverted anymore. It's like old age set in over the summer and I became permanently set in my ways just as I was playing a bunch of 3rd person games. I've been stuck on "normal" ever since.

On a related note, I now wonder if that's why I still have trouble aiming Nova Bombs. I spent so many years switching my control layout based on 1st or 3rd person perspective; having my view change mid game triggers an impulse in my brain to "switch directions". I get momentarily flustered every single time I fire one.

You left out the part where you press right on the stick and your character falls over sideways.

Seriously, it won't play for more than 3 seconds straight for me. Why the hell do sites insist on using their own video players? Just use Youtube.

I switched to SD and it worked fine for me.

For those who've wondered whether or not there is a big plan behind Destiny's story at all, Smith was pretty sure he knew what was in the Traveler, and also, somehow, completely unprepared to parry the question about whether or not it was secretly evil. Poor showing, sir.

I don't agree with your interpretation. Just because he wasn't instantly ready to answer that question does not mean they don't have it planned out.

You've misread my post to make it mean the exact opposite of what it meant.

Smith's ready answer to the question about whether or not he knew what was in the Traveler indicates to me there IS some kind of a plan, rather than the opposite.

Smith's complete inability to dodge the obvious question about whether or not the Traveler is evil to me ALSO indicates there is a plan, and that Smith was ludicrously unable to deal with that question-- and you can see it on his face. He's either hilariously overacting there on purpose, or got caught out unable to decide whether he should ignore the question, or deny it. A stone-faced "no comment" would have been much, much wiser.