Poll: What do you call split screen cheating?

[Jadak]

I don't have this problem, I settle for making a contraption out of cardboard boxes preventing proper viewing of both sides of the screen.

Or at least I used to, not aware of such a thing as quality splitscreen versus games existing anymore.

 

[feeback06]

I've always heard it as screen watching.

 

[X10J]

Screen whoring. A term passed down from cousin who was the first person my brother and Ivplayed multiplayer with.

 

[SergeantAnt]

oh man split screen, haven't played that in forever.
but i always grew up calling it screen peeking. i've never even heard anyone call it otherwise.
it just rolls off the tongue better. i think its the ee in both the words that make it flow

 

[skeliton112]

I call it screen hacking and so does everyone i know.

 

[scyther250]

Everyone I know says screen peeking. Gotta be a locational thing.

Yeah, same here. Never even heard any of these other terms.

 

[Cheesus333]

I call it screen looking. I've honestly never heard it referred to as anything else before now.

Maybe it's based on local dialect and such?

 

[Rinji]

Yup, to me it's Screen Looking. But I never used this full term, really. All I said, when the other player did this was "hey, stop looking!". But I've never accused him to be a "Screen Looker".

 

[ShockAndDismay]

Screen watching.

Pretty sure there is no 'proper' terminology. But interesting topic, still.

 

[drisky]

Sceen looking, but its interesting how most of us have only herd it being called one thing until now. The development of language is a funny thing.

 

[health-bar]

screen hopping mostly.
but i have used 'screen watching'

 

[tombman888]

Screen watching is what we call it.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

It's not cheating. It's called being good.

OT: Screen being awesome.

 

[Haydyn]

Only ever heard screen watching. Nothing else sounds natural to me. Screen peeking? What are we 6?

 

[Nouw]

Screen-cheating, just a phrase I picked up from friends.

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

Refer to Reach and older split-screen games

I know I play Doom 2.

 

[Henrik Moeller]

Ghosting indeed.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Winning.

Seriously. Use whatever is available to crush your opponent.

I have never really seen it as cheating since both people have an equal advantage.

 

[Kair]

We call it ghosting because of the similarities.

 

[MasterV]

Screen Looking, and I never considered it as cheating. I haven'tmet one person who's notdoing it. It's actually something that I enjoy about split-screen, when you know the others know what you're going to do, you have to play extra better (sic) to outsmart them.

 

[zhoominator]

Why is it cheating? Cheating implies an unfair advantage. If both players can look at both screens then neither one can really be "cheating". Split screen cheating is when you're playing a racing game with a friend and kicking them from behind to put them off.