So I'm headed off to college this fall, and I'm curious about getting a gaming laptop.

I want to get a fairly decent laptop, and I've been looking at several ASUS laptops all around the 1000-1100 dollar range. That's not necessarily the important bit of this post, but if anyone has any suggestions regarding a laptop around that price feel free to chime in ;)

So...my main question is whether or not there are any disadvantages to having a gaming laptop rather than a more "mainstream" laptop in college. I understand that gaming laptops generally run hotter, but if I, for example, used power saving mode when I was just doing work like writing a paper, would it be much hotter than any other laptop would be? I'm just afraid there are some unknown differences that I'm unaware of, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[QUOTE="Marth6781"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

The problem doesn't lie with the move list it lies in the reactions to those moves.

The game doesn't veer from the "hard hit" "light hit" reactions for certain moves.

There's no way Smash Bros is even close to a fighter like Virtua Fighter because all the reactions are the same for a bunch of different attacks.

Jaysonguy

No they aren't, smash is more deep and creative, alot of things are done off the fly, if you press the move stick too hard you may mess up your combo and have to improvise a new strategy.

You missed my point

I'm not talking about the attacker I'm talking about the attackee

The reactions are all the same, who cares if you have 40 moves if 20 of them make the character react the same way?

It's a simple beat'em up. The junk food of gaming.

the reactions may sometimes be the same, but the number of frames it takes to preform and recover from the different attacks are different. different situations call for different attacks.

[QUOTE="Onetouchable"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"][QUOTE="Onetouchable"]

so give an example of why it's not complete?

ArcticSnake

Because it's a simple fighter, is it a complete simple fighter? Yes

Is it an overall complete game? No, not at all.

If that's a complete game then games like Virtua Fighter are perfection.

And Virtua Fighter isn't.

if you think that it's a simple fighter than you need to play more ssb :/

And then we can spend the whole night on how other fighters are much more advanced then SSB.

He uses "simple fighter" as an attack on the game when in reality it just means that its easier to pick up so people can get into it faster. Don't start.

lol. you could say that it's easier to pick up and play, but he acts like it has no layers, which is obviously incorrect.

[QUOTE="Onetouchable"]

so give an example of why it's not complete?

Jaysonguy

Because it's a simple fighter, is it a complete simple fighter? Yes

Is it an overall complete game? No, not at all.

If that's a complete game then games like Virtua Fighter are perfection.

And Virtua Fighter isn't.

if you think that it's a simple fighter than you need to play more ssb :/

[QUOTE="Chargeagles1"]

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]I don't see how unless you just think games with a lot of characters are complete.Jaysonguy

Robust single player mode with cutscenes.

Complete Storyline

35+characters

25+Stages

Music from 30 legendary composers

One of the best, if not the best multiplayer

Trophies

Stickers

Photos

Stage Builder

Record Brawls, multi-man melees, HR contests etc

Gorgeous Graphics

30+Items

Assist Trophies

Co-op adventure mode

Target Test (also co-op)

Online HR-contests, brawls, multi man melees etc.

Virtual Console demos

Tournament Mode

Yep it's complete all right

Ok, did you just say that a cutscene is an advantage?

When did it become 1986? I'm pretty sure the return of Pong had a cutscene on the Playstation.

Most of what you said there is full. Oh assist trophies? Well that's amazing

so give an example of why it's not complete?

bawwwww

get over it and leave

wow this is disturbing... Mario princesses are like 12 year old girls.... you really going there....?
colmusterd28

so? perfect age

In before 9.5JLAudio7