Poll: What do you call split screen cheating?

[Hypertion]

neither.

only thing i can say about split screen atm is that occaisonally ill use a guest controller to drive while i also use my main controller to gun in games like halo. i have acually done this in online multiplayer with some effect but it eventually gets too boring keeping track of the 2. its easy enough and useful once you get used to it...

btw dont ask me to prove it because its been a long time since i played reach and for me to be able to effectivly pull off the single player doing both driver and gunner on a warthog trick it requires me to be so heavily in the mindset of the games controls as well as a good amount of time to remember which screen links to which controller which takes another good peroid of time, and im quite frankly bored sick of halo multiplayer.

now... a long time ago when i still had friends in my local area it probably would be "Cheating by looking at my Screen" but that always fell short when i pointed out i didnt care if he did the same thing because it was for all pratical reasons pointless to not do so, and it was my TV so i could look were ever i wanted on it.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I've always used (and heard) screen watching. But I don't consider it cheating; matter of fact, there was a thread about that a few months back, and no consensus was reached on that issue at all.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Usually?

"... You just looked at my screen, didn't you?"

"... mehbeh..."

"Ass-ho."

And then we both start constantly watching each others screens. I'm glad I don't have super competitive friends.

 

[Wither]

we have a rule at my house: if you screen watch, you have to put down the controller and wait for the other player to find you and brutally chainsaw you (we play a lot of gears)

 

[Dango]

I call it "screen-peeking", which I thought was the general term. "Screen-watching" and "screen-looking" just sound kinda clunky.

 

[Bobbity]

I call it screen cheating, as do all my friends.

 

[flamingjimmy]

It may not make any sense but I and everyone I've played with calls it screen looking.

 

[Lightning Delight]

I call it screen looking. It is the only strategy my brother uses when we are playing versus split-screen. Its so bad that we cant be on different teams or else he does nothing but cheat. And it most definitely is cheating.

 

[kortin]

One of my friends call it "Screen Hacking". I want to tear my ears off every time they say that. I call it Screen looking.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I've only known it as screen cheating.

 

[LordRoyal]

I tend to call it "Getting worked up over stupid shit" myself.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Ok I got into an argument over what the proper terminology for split screen cheating is called. I have always used "screen hopping" and all my friends looked at me like I was crazy, but then again I am crazy...but I digress. They were set on it being called "screen peeking" or even "screen cheating". I'm not saying I'm right and they are wrong, but am curious as to what other people use.

EDIT: i added screen looking to poll. I've heard of this, but just forgot about it

It's called screen watching. No other correct name for it.
-Tabs<3-

 

[Thumper17]

"Screen Peeking" and if your dealing with someone who continuously does so after being called out on it repeatedly. Regardless of gender, that person is known as a "Screen Queen."

I've heard it called "ghosting", since you can see where your opponent is and stalk them.

Ghosting is only for when you die, and can follow a player while waiting to regenerate. Since, your invisible and doing things that make life hard for the player your watching it's like Ghosts messing with a person. I've only heard the term actually used in TF2.

 

[Vicarious Vangaurd]

Screen peeping

 

[Telemachus]

what? i didn't know they still made good split screen games

 

[mjc0961]

I have never heard a single one of these names before. If I was playing anything that seriously on split screen with a friend, I'd probably just go with cheater. But come on, it's a game with a friend. It should go down like this:

Usually?

"... You just looked at my screen, didn't you?"

"... mehbeh..."

"Ass-ho."

And then we both start constantly watching each others screens. I'm glad I don't have super competitive friends.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Screen watching

Or at least that's how we say it in America, is Screen looking something they say in England or Australia

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

Screen Gazing.

My family likes words with odd letters.

 

[zehydra]

making it a rule to not look at the other's screen is really really stupid.

 

[FalloutJack]

I have no idea what you're t- Hang on.

PLEASE EXPLAIN!