Comments on: Screen Peeking http://blueshellmagnet.com/2009/07/screen-peeking/ Behind the wheel. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Llocsird Nosrebma Mada Relyt http://blueshellmagnet.com/2009/07/screen-peeking/#comment-15 Llocsird Nosrebma Mada Relyt Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:14:00 +0000 http://blueshellmagnet.com/?p=18#comment-15 I've run into this debate many times with game other that Mariokart as well. What I've come to terms with is that it is all on the same tv, looking will happen. It does, as so stated, require skill to do so effectivly. When I first used to screen peek I'd crash or go off course or what have you, but after doing so so long have gotten rather good at it. Overall I think it is just another factor of the game and should be treated as such. I’ve run into this debate many times with game other that Mariokart as well. What I’ve come to terms with is that it is all on the same tv, looking will happen. It does, as so stated, require skill to do so effectivly. When I first used to screen peek I’d crash or go off course or what have you, but after doing so so long have gotten rather good at it. Overall I think it is just another factor of the game and should be treated as such.

]]> By: Paul Gansen http://blueshellmagnet.com/2009/07/screen-peeking/#comment-11 Paul Gansen Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:16:33 +0000 http://blueshellmagnet.com/?p=18#comment-11 I usually don't have much multiplayer experience with any game, but the few times I have played Mario Kart Wii with other people in the room, I have come across an inadvertent way of "peeking". When playing with other players, and someone shoots off a blue shell, you can hear it several seconds before it reaches you in first place. So, just because I can hear a blue shell coming, does that give me an "unfair advantage". Possibly. Does that mean I should be able to look at my opponent's screen with one of my other senses (sight)... maybe. I can see both sides... the way the game was meant to be played (like in GBA or DS versions) is with you looking at your screen and a radar if available. But if you have the option available, why not use it? I usually don’t have much multiplayer experience with any game, but the few times I have played Mario Kart Wii with other people in the room, I have come across an inadvertent way of “peeking”. When playing with other players, and someone shoots off a blue shell, you can hear it several seconds before it reaches you in first place. So, just because I can hear a blue shell coming, does that give me an “unfair advantage”. Possibly. Does that mean I should be able to look at my opponent’s screen with one of my other senses (sight)… maybe. I can see both sides… the way the game was meant to be played (like in GBA or DS versions) is with you looking at your screen and a radar if available. But if you have the option available, why not use it?

]]> By: SSJ Ranulf http://blueshellmagnet.com/2009/07/screen-peeking/#comment-9 SSJ Ranulf Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:45:33 +0000 http://blueshellmagnet.com/?p=18#comment-9 This is my strategy. I'm a mediocre player at any of the Mario Kart games, and this is the only way I can counter my friends (rivals) better skills. In one instance, I used it to find where the guy who was about to lap me was, so that I could turn around, drive at him, and use mushrooms/a star to give him a nice load of pain, for all that he had caused me. I mean, he'd just won, like, 10 races in first place, well I'd been fighting for 3rd/4th. This is my strategy. I’m a mediocre player at any of the Mario Kart games, and this is the only way I can counter my friends (rivals) better skills.

In one instance, I used it to find where the guy who was about to lap me was, so that I could turn around, drive at him, and use mushrooms/a star to give him a nice load of pain, for all that he had caused me.

I mean, he’d just won, like, 10 races in first place, well I’d been fighting for 3rd/4th.

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