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Subject: "Screen Watching"
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Poll: Is scren watching terrible?  [closed]
Yes!:  14%
(1 Votes)
No....:  71%
(5 Votes)
Only when you stare so hard you end up suiciding.:  14%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 7

To start off, I would like to mention that my friends and I have made it more than a habit to play halo 2 almost everyday since last year, which brings me to my next habit. Recently, its not uncommon to hear some thing like "How did you know I was there?" or "why were you watching my screen?". I still play that way I have played halo since as far as I can recall, but it seems that with my friends, if they believed they shouldn't have died the way they did, or when they did, some one gets labeled as a "screen watcher". What they do of coruce, would be, to say, watch my screen and pretend that it's alright, until I kill them, im labled as a "SW". Anyway, my question here isin't about the injustice my "freinds" portray, its more like, is watching someone elses
screen area a really bad thing? Im going to admit that I do it on occation.

  • 03.29.2008 3:34 PM PDT
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Screen watching is a skill I developed back in Halo:CE. I honestly can't help but do it. My mind constantly focuses on what others are doing. I can see it out of the corner of my eye. And yes, people always use that as the excuse of why I beat them in Split Screen.

Tell them that they should get a second XBox and play System Link if they don't want you doing it...

  • 03.29.2008 3:41 PM PDT
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We do play with two or more xboxes 60% of the time. I don't mean to boast, but I played on an xbox by myself in a diffrent room during a 1 vs 3, and won 50 to 23., but of coruce, as you say, they use screen watching as an excuse to lose, and try to down play my skill. I really don't think it's such a bad thing to get a reference of where every one else is in the game.

  • 03.29.2008 3:45 PM PDT
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Even if you're not trying to screen watch how can anyone ignore the sounds that give away your opponents position? The sounds from using or being near a gravlift or the telltale grenade, powerup or weapon pickup can just as easily give away ones position or drastically narrow down their present location. No matter how hard I try to look away I can always see from the corner of my eye when someone is camping or has stopped moving in anticipation of springing a trap on me or when they're zoomed in and waiting for me to pop out. Short of playing in different rooms with separate televisions with headphones there's really no way to ensure a fair game on split screen.

  • 03.29.2008 4:40 PM PDT
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Wow, thanks for the input. Just wanted to make sure my view wasn't just mine. I mean, there aren't any rules against it or anything right?

  • 03.29.2008 7:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: QueensGangsta
Wow, thanks for the input. Just wanted to make sure my view wasn't just mine. I mean, there aren't any rules against it or anything right?


If anything there would be an honor rule or a house rule against it since the game cant tell you are screen watching. Really though as the others have said it is very easy to see something out of the corner of your eye, get distracted by something moving, or just be used to using the entire screen and accidentally looking over at the boundary lines.

  • 03.31.2008 2:12 PM PDT
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Inevitable.
Try not to.
But, there are circumstances in which screen looking can actually be non-beneficial.
(At least with us old people) There can be temporary confusion as you try to right yourself/respond.
It's accepted in our house.

Takes some fun out, but, who's got the $ or another console, game, and system link ?


  • 03.31.2008 5:59 PM PDT