Poll: Screen watchers

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Okay so I've been playing MW2 all night in my house with my buddies. Yet somehow, one of my friends knows exactly when your behind him or above or whatever. This really posses me off beacause I consider it cheating. But what do you, wisened sages of the escapist think of screen watching?

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Jedamethis]

Eh. Means it pisses them off more when I still kill them.

Also, didn't we have a topic on this a while ago?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Well, it is quite impossible to exlcude parts of a spilt-screen play from one's vision, so nothing is wrong with it.
You can't help it. In real life, you would use everything availabe.
That is like having a spy in the enemy headquarters, but ignoring all the information they gather because it is 'unfair and cheating'.

 

[Saul B]

When me and friends have system link gatherings, (usually with 4 TVs) we have all TVs facing away from each other to minimize the problem. We all do it and hate it at the same time.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Well, I don't like it, and refuse to do it.

However, when I'm playing with friends, it's always for fun if we're on the same tv, so it's cool.

 

[Volafortis]

I don't really run into this issue with friends, because we've trained ourselves to not do it. But if I notice hem doing it, I just do it to them to balance things out.

 

[fix-the-spade]

The game is being played on the same screen, I don't know of a single human being with selective vision that effective that they can look at one half of a moving image and not the other. I'm sure you can try to ignore it, but what is the point? It's there, make use of it or he will woop you.

It would be cheating if you couldn't see his screen but he could see yours. As it is it's just tactical competence on his part.

 

[Justice Shades]

Since everyone can do it, I see no problem with it. Think of it as an extension of the radar system.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

huh some good points. But to be honest the screen watching isn't the worst part of it. It's when they start gloating about how great they are. And when you do it after the fiftieth round just to try and balance it, they sudenly become mister high and mighty, accusing you of cheating. Which is just bullshit in a hat.

 

[jowo96]

Its fair, both players have the opportunity to screen watch and its not really that easy to avoid

 

[teisjm]

It's kinda hard to avoid/not do when playing split screen. If it's on seperate PC's at a LAN i'd consider it cheating though.

 

[Beartrucci]

Meh, I do it all the time, but own up to it when I get called out on it. Unlike my brother who is clearly watching our screens then has a ***** fit and denies the whole thing.

 

[IamQ]

I gloat, and they gloat. It's fair.

 

[The Infinite]

It's annoying yes, but hilarious if you still be them by a large margin. Also one guy was screen cheating to the extreme since we had a LAN with two TVs and the teams sat with their backs to each other and there was this one dude you kept turning around to look at our screens. Hilarity ensued because he usually died when looking at our TV.

 

[PureChaos]

i do it. i'm just using my skills to my advantage, helps when i'm playing a game for the first time and i'm against someone who plays it a lot.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

When me and friends have system link gatherings, (usually with 4 TVs) we have all TVs facing away from each other to minimize the problem. We all do it and hate it at the same time.

That is, without a doubt, the best avatar I have seen on this site.

OT: I hate it when people do it to me. But I do it all the time so I'm quite the hypocrite.