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Subject: Does the small screan offur a disadvantage?

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

Poll: Does the small screan offur a disadvantage?  [closed]
It makes me play worse, there is a disadvantage:  54%
(19 Votes)
I play the same, there is no disadvantage:  26%
(9 Votes)
I don't care Splitscreen sucks!! Live is better!!:  20%
(7 Votes)
Total Votes: 35

In Splitscrean multiplayer, many people who play use the fact that they had the smaller sized screen as an excuse for why they didn't play well. I personally have never had a disadvantage playing on the small screan. Am I just good at playing on the small screan, or are other people just using this as an excuse because they suck? I really can't figure this out.

  • 09.18.2007 5:37 PM PDT
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i personally do play worse... say i have the battle rifle... on the spilt screen the cursor becomes much much smaller meaning head shots are harder to obtain... thats just me though

  • 09.18.2007 5:45 PM PDT

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

See, I totally disagree with that. Don't take this the wrong way. Your opinion is valid, but it doesn't make me play any worse at all. Weird.

  • 09.18.2007 6:38 PM PDT

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Sniper Supremacy..... & BRs too.

To be honest the reason I didnt vote is because sometimes when i play splitscreen i do good.... sometimes terrible. Example: Team Snipers: I blow...... Team SWAT:ownage. I dont know why this happens but whatever.

  • 09.18.2007 6:58 PM PDT
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you should have saved time and made your poll "what color is the sky?"
smaller cross hairs, smaller targets, can't see as far away, can't see as far up down left or right.
of course there is a disadvantage.

  • 09.18.2007 8:13 PM PDT

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A friend of mine always does great when we team up on live if it's just us. Me at my place on my tv and him at his place on his. Whenever he had friends on and was in split screen he always sucked. The first time I was over at his place I could easily see why. It wasn't that small of a tv but in split screen it was horrible. Definite advantage for someone on their own tv and even more if it is decent sized. On Gemini he really really sucked because the contrast was too dark and he literally couldn't see anything on such a dark colored map. Instead of purple it was almost black.

  • 09.18.2007 11:48 PM PDT
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it throws me off when i try and play by myself again

  • 09.18.2007 11:56 PM PDT

stop looking at me u perv >:(

lol to tell the truth i voted it makes me play worse, it makes me cheat by screening i just cant help it :(

[Edited on 09.19.2007 1:34 AM PDT]

  • 09.19.2007 1:33 AM PDT

I don't really think of it as a disadvantage. When I play snipers its kinda nice to have that second person playing with me. If I get shot and don't see where it came from, chances are the person I'm playing with did. It also helps if you use teamwork to find camping people. I will run into the open and draw fire while the other person watches both screens to see where its coming from and take out the shooter. Having two different angles to see where shots are coming from is a big help. Its all in how you use it, it can help you or hurt you. You should always try to use anything you can to your advantage, as long as its not some form of cheating.

  • 09.19.2007 4:21 AM PDT

if you are used to it you can play well on it. personally i cant do split screen anymore. there was a time where its all i would do. log 2 of my accounts in and play lots of ranked matches, and i did just fine. Now that i dont do it anymore though, going back to it every once in a while is terrible

  • 09.19.2007 5:25 AM PDT

Yeah I think it's a bit of a disadvantage. You can't see as much vertically as you could with a full screen, unless your split-screen is vertical in which case you wouldn't be able to see as much horizontally. Plus, everything is a lot smaller so I think that could make it harder too.

  • 09.19.2007 5:45 AM PDT

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

That is interesting. I didn't ever realize that it made people worse.

  • 09.19.2007 4:29 PM PDT
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Framerate is an issue too. Although some lighting effects are turned off and the textures toned down in split screen the framerate can still dip. On Foundation if you play on split screen you can't even see the numbers on the walls labeling the rooms.

  • 09.19.2007 8:27 PM PDT

1% Onyx S9
2% Onyx S8
20% Onyx S7
LW 50
TS 50
TD 50
SWAT 50

It makes me considerably worse, even on a large TV. I rely on sound a lot, and split screen totally disorients me on where shots are coming from. Also, I think that I may get distracted with all the other things happening so close to my screen. I play well on small TVs, so I do not think that it has to do with the size of the screen (unless, of course, it is split screen on a very small TV to begin with).

Also, like the guy above me said, framerate. I totally forgot that, and that may be the biggest problem for me. That makes it a fact that you play worse on split screen because you are automatically put at a disadvantage for that. I guess the average player would not notice as much as better players because they play for fun, while most of the people I play with do not even know why they (and I) play. We are just so good that we want to perfect every move that we make(I am not trying to brag). Off topic- Being really good is a curse- you just keep playing all night because you keep winning, or when you lose, you know exactly what you did wrong so you fix it. It is not even fun- I do not envy pros for that fact (maybe for the money). Now that I am in college, I don't even have time to log in. I will find time for Halo 3, though.

Well, sorry for going on about nothing. Bottom line- split screen makes me bad enough to where my neighbor (who is decent) can come close to beating me. At least it does not make me bad enough to lose to noobs.

[Edited on 09.19.2007 10:06 PM PDT]

  • 09.19.2007 9:55 PM PDT

I don't know about any of you but I find it far easier to snipe in splitscreen, more specifically when with at least 3 people and using one of the 'box' sections, because the ratios between reticle size and screen size are distorted. While the battle rifle reticle is small, the sniper reticle is pretty big. I rarely miss in splitscreen games (when I have a corner, not one of the half-screens)

  • 09.19.2007 11:01 PM PDT
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I generaly stay the same, though the only time i've had the screen made smaller is in co-op so generaly doesn't matter to much against the AI.

  • 09.20.2007 2:08 AM PDT

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

Posted by: BattleRifle BR55
I don't know about any of you but I find it far easier to snipe in splitscreen, more specifically when with at least 3 people and using one of the 'box' sections, because the ratios between reticle size and screen size are distorted. While the battle rifle reticle is small, the sniper reticle is pretty big. I rarely miss in splitscreen games (when I have a corner, not one of the half-screens)
That is a good point. Acctually, I totally play BETTER when I play split screan. Is that weird?

  • 09.20.2007 2:50 PM PDT

Posted by: HaloKing343
Posted by: BattleRifle BR55
I don't know about any of you but I find it far easier to snipe in splitscreen, more specifically when with at least 3 people and using one of the 'box' sections, because the ratios between reticle size and screen size are distorted. While the battle rifle reticle is small, the sniper reticle is pretty big. I rarely miss in splitscreen games (when I have a corner, not one of the half-screens)
That is a good point. Acctually, I totally play BETTER when I play split screan. Is that weird?


Nope, not weird at all. My friends can't touch me in splitscreen but in system link (each to their own tv) they're able to kill me.

  • 09.20.2007 3:34 PM PDT
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I hate hearing their sound. They have somebody shooting at them and I don't know who it is since I have vibration off.

  • 09.20.2007 6:24 PM PDT

I'm a dude playing a dude desguised as another dude. I hate heritics, non-logical thoughts and people who are better than I am. People tell me that they like a lot of games, but I hate them all. Whenever I play a video game, I always go crawling back to Halo 3. Never go full retard!

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I hate hearing their sound. They have somebody shooting at them and I don't know who it is since I have vibration off.
Yeah, that definitally gets annoying. Just channel it out and it is easier. That is what I do. I have acctually learned to do it and I can play naturally.

  • 10.09.2007 6:41 PM PDT

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No disadvantage for me........i actually get a disadvantage when playing on split screen then my gues quitting and the big screen throws me off a bit.

  • 10.09.2007 7:04 PM PDT