Destructoid reader "Cat Goat" sent us a very disappointed email earlier this evening, wanting to make us, and by extension, the entire world know that Silent Hill: Homecoming doesn't let you invert the camera. At least on the 360 version of the latest in the horror series, our hapless Cat Goat cannot play SH the way he wants to.
I have been playing inverted camera since Goldeneye on the N64. It's 2008. SH5 on the 360 does not let me invert the camera. Instead of being scared of crap popping out and such, I'm infuriated by the lack of camera inversion. I'm not saying inversion is better or worse, I hate when people argue about which is better. I am pissed because they do not give me the option that almost every other game I have played that uses a 3d camera has given me since FOREVER!
Wait ... people actually argue over which type of camera is better? Jesus Christ on a plastic rhino, that is ridiculous. But to the matter at hand -- this is actually pretty rubbish if true. For some people, that can be a deal breaker and not including the option is something of an oversight.
Our very own Colette Bennett, Dale North and Brad Rice are playing this for review so we will have confirmation soon. I'd get confirmation right now, but unfortunately those buggers at Konami aren't release Homecoming here until November. In the meantime, a motley crew of Destructoid editors gathered round and discussed the problems of the inverted camera issue in our own special, rather disturbing way. Read on!
Samit Sarkar: Holy shit, for real?!?! Can someone (Dale, Colette) confirm this? If so, that's retarded. I simply can't play games without inverting the vertical camera control.
Joe Burling: Are you serious? This game is on it's way to me via gamefly as we speak, and I am really excited about playing. However, I too am an invert player, and if it doesn't have an invert option I will be sending it back immediately. :-(
Samit: Me trying to play a game without an inverted y-axis camera = trying to jack it with the left hand. It just feels like you're retarded, and it doesn't work.
Grim: Good analogy. Although I'm right handed and can fap with only my left hand for some reason.
Dick McVengeance: Playing it after dinner tonight. Let's see how retarded this game gets ^_^
Jim Sterling: I used to fap with my right hand, until I discovered the Internet and realized I needed that hand on the mouse. Soon learned to do it with lefty after that.
Grim: Exactly. It comes in handy.
Chad Concelmo: Why don't you just use your left hand for the mouse? :)
Jim: Because I could run the risk of slipping with the mouse and accidentally clicking on a link to a Kevin Bacon photo gallery, Chad!
KEVIN BACON!
WHILE I AM TRYING TO HAVE ONANISM!
Orcist: The trick is tabbed browsing. Ctrl+tab is you friend.
Chad: Good lord, how much porn do you all have on the screen at one time? Isn't focusing on one window enough? :) :)
Aerox: What do you think dual monitors were originally created for?
Samit: Ctrl+Tab (and Ctrl+Shift+Tab, to go to the previous tab) is a GODSEND.
Jim: Chad, I like my porn the same way I like my food -- in a variety of flavors and in copious amounts.
Chad: Hahaha. Amazing. :)
Orcist: Besides, it gives you eye candy while one tab is loading.
Jim: Exactly, Orcist! If you're using something like Xtube, for instance, you can stream one up while watching another. It's the same kind of efficiency that the Germans would approve of. Except with more masturbation and less persecution.
Orcist: And less scat fetishes.
Jim: Maybe for you.
Aerox: Xtube has a very strict no pooping policy.
Jim: I noticed. Nice to see a site where people can video themselves pissing in a forest has some standards.
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8:25 PM on 10.01.2008
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The men of Destructoid truly do get the common gamer male.
Fucking wow.
lol
I love me some silent hill.
This article was hilarious. I had to try really hard not to laugh too loud since I'm still at the library.
If the PS3 version is the same way I will NOT be buying the game...I'm an invert myself.\
Patch maybe....?
Ambidexterity-free fapping!
But you guys have not experienced anything if you don't have three monitors hooked up at once. That's where it really gets "fun".
As for Silent Hill, I was already sketchy on getting this game (loved the first couple) and the camera thing is just inexcusable. Being an inverted player since the first Medal of Honor, I'd be too frustrated trying to mess with the damn camera to actually get scared by anything.
2. I wish I were on the internal emailer.
The only way to go.
This reminds me of Worms 3D for the PS2. I play with Y invert but this game didn't have the option, even though it was in the manual.
Ooh just thought a Siegalpun for it.
Worms 3D: This game has more BUGS than WORMS!
Also, no inversion is really stupid, I always invert every game I play. N64 platformers taught me that in their first-person viewpoint, so I can't help it. Only game I didn't mind was in Resident Evil 4 and Rez, both of which only allow shooting without being able to control the character's movement at the same time.
Also best conversation ever!
that's where inverted camera/aim control comes from.
I honestly get all messed up and frustrated when I'm unable to invert it.
Its actually a very good game a great follow up to SH, I have no idea why all the bitching about the no camera invert.
Oh who cares, most of you will just read the review and follow along like good little sheeptoids.
there's a couple of things that so far bother me about SHH, but the "invertedness" is not one of them
I'm playing on PS3 btw
And inverted camera is the only way to go. Deal breaker!
Le wah!
I dont' use the invert anyway so correct me on this if I'm wrong.
It is a big deal to people who use inverted controls, something I have doing since StarFox on the SNS. It's almost the same as switching your dominant writing hand for people like me.