Lol IM sure there have been a bajillion questions like thisbut:

So Im going to UNi this year (In Australia) and Im thinking of getting a laptop. My budget is about $2000AU and I was wondering if I could get a somewhat decent laptop for gaming. I know I wont be able to run Crysis on high or anything but I was wondering what opinions on the Qosmio and the xps are.

So if you reckon thats a fair budget for a decent gaming PC then gimme a shout on what laptop you think I should get

Thanks in advance

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I think Twilight Princess was an epic adventure that really brought back the Zelda spirit. It was based on Zelda: Ocarina of Time, when it comes to the progress of the game, but it's too easy to say that it was a remake, a ripoff, or whatever. The dungeon design was quite original and very well-crafted, and certainly raised the Zelda standard in a lot of instances. Actually I think WW was more similar to Zelda in that the dungeons ofter next to nothing new, and much of the game's progress was even more similar to OoT than TP. At least TP was a great, enjoyable, complete game, whereas WW was not.

What needs to happen in the future I think, perhaps some voice acting. Link can still be mute, but Zelda finally has to come with time. Perhaps make the next Zelda game a side-story instead of another chapter in the legends of Hyrule. Like with Majora's Mask, it could prove to be a more daring and original game.

So you want the next Zelda to be a medieval GTA? As the poster before me said, Zelda has its own charm and if you want something like you described you should go play Fable or something. To implement this in a Zelda game would be utterly stupid, unnatural and pointless.

The rest of your post kind of betrays that you have the misconception that a game = a story. It's nonsense. They could release a game with Dark Link in the main role (which would be stupid but still), and still have virtually the same gameplay, only with another layout and description. In many ways, Twilight Princess was one of the darkest Zeldas yet, so I don't really get what you're complaining about as many of the previous Zelda games were much brighter (bar maybe MM).

Shielder7

TP was not an epic adventure it was simply OoT 1.1 only Fan boys can't see past this and my point was the golden boy role of link has become boring and repetitive time for a change.

It definitely was. But again I dont really give that much of a crap about Link (Although I was fairly intrigued to where TP. was heading. I liked the end fight). In fact its a nice change to have a character like Link and also because in the context of the game world it makes sense.

If you changed Link's character youd have to change everything including game structure. I definitely see your point but Id prefer-like I saidto have them keep the puzzle solving element which IMO is the MAIN thing about Zelda becasue thats what your doing 80% of the time, and change or do soemthign interesting with that. Id prefer them to have a fresh start if theire going to do a "dark" game.

K concerning Twilight Princess and I know I'm going to get flamed by fanboys for this but it wasn't that great & that's looking passed that its not really a next generation game, keep in mined I've been a Zelda fan for years.

"The Linear Adventures of Goody Too Shoes" or TP I'd only give a 6-7 out of 10 it was ok but nothing special or new, it was enough to make fanboys rave and hype it up but that's it. You can only save the girl from the same railroad tracks the same way so many times before it gets boring and it seems the Zelda series seems to be unwilling to change.

What needs to happen is simple they need to step away from the golden boy who does nothing wrong and is flawless. Darker Heroes or Heroes with at least some flaws are just more interesting to me this needs to happen to Link or at least have the option of it happening, he doesn't need to always like or want to do the right thing.

I prefer a Darker Hero or at least an option to be Darker more Evil etc. I would like to see an option to be a Dark Link or options and choices that would turn you one way or the other + he looks better in black IMO and could use a bit more of a bad boy Attitude.

It might be an idea as to also give options on how you start who says you have to be someone from Hyrule and the plot where he starts out as a peaceful farm boy life and latter learns he's the legendary hero has become predictable and boring, in traditional Zelda games you get to make up a name anyway this is just stretching the idea.

Enough with the stupid kid Quests This one has really been a pet peeve for years guy goes from doing so dangers monster killing quest to happy go lucky kid picking up chickens WTF? How about giving me a choice like beating someone up for money robbing someone or actually killing some bandits or something and there's always the classic Baldur's Gate response "Just give it to me or I'll kill you" instead of chicken collecting? Now before you start ranting that's not Zelda play something else, TP was rated T for Teen and a lot of Teen games have that sort of material and if you're going to make a Teen game might as well make it an actual Teen IMO.

Weapon system - Shields are gay give me an option to dual wield swords

Armor - He really needs to lose the night cap for realz no matter how cool they try and make it look it just doesn't fly anymore. Also again he looks better in black.

Shielder7

A while ago I would have agreed but think about it. If you want to play as a "dark" hero and whatever go play fable, or something else. Zelda has its own charm and regardless of how dark link's character is or how good the story is I still love Zelda. Take Wind waker, it doesnt have much of a story but the way they played out the interactions and facial expressions made me like the characters.

Seriously, what is it with this dark link crap, it sounds fine on paper and if you only own a nintendo wii but come on. Zelda needs new gameplay features, not a dark story. Good stories dont have to be dark. Also the game you just described does sound fine, but it would be straying away from the core Zelda formula.

Im not saying that there has to be the same Dungeon, item, boss thing again in the next one. IM saying the core of Zelda is its puzzle solving. If you want options go and play an rpg.

Look at what they did with SMG. They took the core platforming elements of mario and turned it into something new. Yes your essentially doing the same thing but its masked and integrated behind a new layer of gameplay features.

And dude, some things just should not be messed with, like link's costume

last i heard about this game was that secret message thingy in MP3. anyone heard anything about it lately or has it been canned?

deathmasterk

No I dont think so

I dont think it has ever been talked about officially. The dread thing in MP corrupotion might also have been like an easter egg thing and not a hint.

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I dont know, Things like the boss, your gun model 9especially the pistol), hands look really good, shadowing is fine but the lighting (eg. in the sewer) and the general detail of the world isnt looking too good. Also the lack of any physics really stands out, the canned animations arent perticularly good, the enemies have no sense of weight to them IMO.

But this is still in development so I hope they will rectify all these, Imn really excited for this game and I also hope they do something with the story.

HurricaneHugo

You're not to get most of that since all of that requires more power...

I guess so, but I mean even some crap ragdoll, Halo style would be alright. Right now the death animations seemed a bit too much the same, like theres taht one video where the player is with a machine gun and he kills 2 of those aliens and they fall back in exactly the same way. Games like GRAW dont have physics simulations but they do something that makes it seem real.

That said all the other stuff their doing looks really neat, like the running speed (Itd be awesome if you could hotkey a preset to a button so that you could switch in real time) and the 2 control options with the bounding box and aiming speed.

But Im worried about it turning into a good looking red steel, I mean really, the all seeing eye sounds like a bad cliche and unless its an integral part of the experience which it currently looks like it isnt, itll seem like a bad gimmick. Also it looks linear in these videos, but maybe thats because its an e3 build.

But Im hoping for the best, I really want this game to do well.

I dont know, Things like the boss, your gun model 9especially the pistol), hands look really good, shadowing is fine but the lighting (eg. in the sewer) and the general detail of the world isnt looking too good. Also the lack of any physics really stands out, the canned animations arent perticularly good, the enemies have no sense of weight to them IMO.

But this is still in development so I hope they will rectify all these, Imn really excited for this game and I also hope they do something with the story.

I hope Dark_Link142 is right.Toro_Nev

He is, currently all youd see is a repeating slideshow of happy people holding ocontrollers and stuff on a giant screen.

And lots of chairs

im guessing im the only one here who enjoyed red steel then:S

might be becuase i didnt really know about it so didnt have any expectations of it. plus at least it wasnt a PS2 port and had local multiplayer and a decent story

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I thought the graphics at times were quite good, like the outside of the Dojo and stuff. The story and premise was horrible though.

ok so i got gta4 i got about 37% into the game and i got bored. i was like omg im bored of a gta game!

see the thing is with gta sa i like the ablilty to change hair, get tatoos ...est

i dint find this in gta 4, i liked the story but i found the missions repatative.... and theres too many follow this guy or kill this guy mission.

so i traded it in and got £30, £10 less than i payed but o well... i got mass effect and assisins creed for £30.

mass effect: i love it! cant put it down the story the world you get put in simply brilliant.

its that good i havn't even played assasin creed yet.

no dobt i will get gta 4 agen at sme point but when its cheaper and i have nothing better to do.

stephen_360

The customise stuff was really cool, but yeh I like the way they scaled back a bit on that stuff cos I found it quite useless.

Apart from showing myself how awesome he looked. I mean clothes are fine but tattoos and hair? GTA isnt an mmo.......

they r making halo wars where there like castles i read and looked at screen shots in 360 magazine i think its gonna be rubbishacridbradderz

I thought ensemble was making Halo wars......

I loved the first trailer, when the spartans came out......