u/martupdown

I've been hoping Motorola would do a book foldable for so long.

How is it?

I can get it (through work discount) for 900 euros from Motorola's website. Worth it?

I love AW1. Played it when it came out and have played it many times since, including the remaster. Even bought the limited edition back when it first released on Xbox 360.

It is the ultimate cosy horror game, right next to deadly premonition.

The world feels real, the characters alive and it has many memorable locations and moments. Just running to the peak of the mountain to get the manuscript up there gives you a sense of scale as you see the places you've visited off in the distance.

Driving down long roads made it feel like a connected journey.

Cable cart rides, the lodge, the mines, the forest where you could actually wander off the path, the dam, bright falls main Street and diner. Fighting the horde as they swarmed the stage with gods of Asgard blasting through the speakers. So many locations and moments.

I must admit, in my opinion, the world of AW2 if far less memorable and somehow feels a lot smaller. I never really had any wow moments (apart from the one music level) and I'd say most NPC's are either zombies or forgettable.

Now I'm not saying AW2 is a bad game. I enjoyed it as something different, more akin to a movie in game form.

However Alan Wake 1 was something else.
You arrive by boat and the story never stops.

Things I think AW1 did better:

• TV shows.
• Radio shows.
• Memorable characters.
• Pacing.
• World building.
• Locations.
• Combat.
• Gameplay.
• Story (seems tighter and had better flow)

Things AW2 did better.

• Graphics.
• Unexpected "hmm that's neat" moments.
• Expanded lore.
• Tom's movie (wow)
• Changing reality through writing mechanic

Things I hated in AW 2:

• The mind place pin board and I can't believe one of the final levels revolved around clicking objects and then pinning them to to board. I avoided that thing unless needed by the end just so slow and boring.
• The apartment being different (nitpick 100 percent)
• No driving (why couldn't we have the option to drive between locations).

I love Alan Wake and hope to see more of his story though.

I've played through 1 many times but one time is enough for number 2.

So am I alone in preferring the first? Looking through posts here it seems I am and will be crucified for the fact. People even recommend not playing the first!

Really just talking to the void as I don't know anyone else who has played any Alan Wake game and have no one to discuss them with.

Here's hoping for AW3.

I love the original Xbox s controller. My current controller has stick drift and I am looking for something new.

I am leaning towards the hyperkin duchess but I am nervous about durability as I have read bad things about their duke controller.

I also am not sure if I can go back to having no back buttons. I do love hitting them instead of the bumpers.

How do you find your duchess? Daily driver? Comfortable? Long lasting?

It's 50 euros so a good price I think.

It's going to be that or 8bitdo ultimate 3 but I don't like the look of the shape.

Moved from an ender 3 pro to the hi with CFS and I've been loving it. I use the printer offline with a usb stick and with orca slicer. Everything works well and there isn't this constant need to adjust that I used to face with my ender 3. (I still love my ender 3 though)

I'm just wondering if anyone has some top level quality profiles for orca slicer?

I used to use cura and I had a load of custom profiles for the 3 pro. Would love a shortcut to get some high quality profiles without all the tinkering.

m looking for the most portable, pocket friendly, full featured controller to play game pass on the go.

At the moment I am looking at:

The 8bitdo sn30 (40 euros)

The iine mini retro (pc layout) (20 euros)

Acegamer t50 pocket (10 euros)

8bitdo has the wrong button layout (I guess this is superficial).

Iine mini has terrible looking triggers.

Acegamer does not have hall effect sticks.

Any other options or opinions on the three I have found?