How often do you watch others' screens on TV games?

YoshiKart

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YoshiKart 2009-04-14T23:26:05+00:00

Watching others' screens is a multitasking way to gain an advantage in games, mostly racing and FPS. Cheating, exploiting a technique, or part of the game? You decide.

I'm guilty of this in nearly every Mario Kart. I'm in first place, armed with bananas and green shells, ready to annoy 2nd place when he starts snaking. :3

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lukewarmholiday

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lukewarmholiday 2009-04-15T01:25:49+00:00

My response to this issue

JUST LOOK THE FUCK ON MY SCREEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE ME LOOKING AT YOURS.

Ekaru

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Ekaru 2009-04-15T02:45:39+00:00

My brother apparently does. I can tell from some of the comments he makes. "Why did you do that, you idiot?" "Haha, you just fell"

I don't, I'm too focused on my own screen. ><;

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cyanberryio 2009-04-15T02:52:22+00:00

Every time.

Most FPSs I look at their screen while still looking at mine.

Heehee, so what? It's just so easy sometimes. Most of the time I still lose since that person is the kind that plays everyday.

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awp 2009-04-15T04:47:41+00:00

Mario Kart, yep. I don't look at their screens, per say, just what items they have and occasionally their position.

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Cuddlebun

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Cuddlebun 2009-04-15T10:38:42+00:00

I do it for every multiplayer game. Even better since my brother is honorable and doesn't, so when we're playing and he can't find me he gets frustrated because I always drop down out of the blue and kill him.

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Kasada 2009-04-15T12:53:48+00:00

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Atmey 2009-04-16T10:14:43+00:00

Not very often.

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awp 2009-04-19T00:40:38+00:00

I also do it all the time in Brawl and RE5.

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mm201 2009-04-19T18:52:12+00:00

I do this sometimes in shooters (Halo or Goldeneye) mainly to find out where on the map my enemies are and what guns they're equipping.

I don't find it all that useful on racers, where I prefer to look at the road ahead of me to sustain the best line. I do watch for items in MKDS (which they purposefully tell you on the bottom screen anyway) so I can prepare to dodge blue shells or block reds. Snaking is not an issue since both myself and my opponents should be snaking at all times.

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Brawl

There's only one screen. .__. Of course you're allowed to look at the enemy you're fighting with! His HP, too. They tell you the damage on CPUs after all.

YoshiKart

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YoshiKart 2009-04-19T20:44:03+00:00

awp wrote:
I also do it all the time in Brawl

Cheater; I'm not gonna play with you ever.

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Ivalset

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Ivalset 2009-04-21T04:17:52+00:00

Never.

Audio is fair game though.

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Neo@lex 2009-04-21T22:06:55+00:00

It's not cheating if they can do it too.

Srsly, if people don't like you watching their screen, tell them to GTFO and go get their own console and TV.

Although, I really don't play much splitscreen games. It's always either PCs on ad-hoc or DS' on... ad-hoc.

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Ivalset 2009-04-21T22:13:36+00:00

Some of us live by a code of honor, you know?

And some of us are just too lazy to watch two or more screens at once to get a slight advantage.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose.
The only thing that matters is whether I win or lose in this game called life.

KawaiiLily

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KawaiiLily 2009-04-29T13:47:58+00:00

Im trying to avoid it but its just too hard.

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Xiao_old 2009-07-20T15:21:19+00:00

lukewarmholiday wrote:
I watch my friends screen whenn playing BlazBlue.

It doesn't work very well for me when I try to do that.

Isn't an issue for me since I almost never play locally. When I do though, I screen-look every player as do the people I'm playing with. There is no honour here; it's kill or be killed. Fuck that honour nonsense. If you're too lazy to keep track of screens okay, but if you wanna say you don't want to screen look because it's cheating go play a Hannah Montana game or something

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mrbubl3s

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mrbubl3s 2009-08-02T02:25:56+00:00

i almost never, maybe when i get bored or something, but thats almost never

Two_old

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Two_old 2009-08-02T10:16:04+00:00

I'm pretty sure every human naturally can see what's going on outside their screen? I mean, I can easily and my vision is just a step below needing glasses.

mrbubl3s

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mrbubl3s 2009-08-02T21:18:50+00:00

thats true, but for me i can only really, REALLY focus on one screen, unless maybe ive had a red bull (or four)

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