Hector or Bone?
Both are on sale on Steam and am curious which one you guys have enjoyed more: Hector or Bone?
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Both are on sale on Steam and am curious which one you guys have enjoyed more: Hector or Bone?
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Hector if you like raunchy british humor.
Bone is really outdated and hasn't aged well. Plus it only goes over the first 2 comics in the series.
I would pick Hector, but there's also Strong Bad Cool Games for Attractive People (For 5 Bucks), Sam & Max Season 1,2,and 3 (Each for 5 Bucks), and Back to the Future ($6.24)
Yep. I got out my Bone comics and read it as I was playing the game. It's pretty much WORD for WORD.
Isn't Bone the only game Telltale has made that is just a straight up adaptation of the comics rather than an expansion of the original work?
Yep, especially the first one. They got a little bit looser with Great Cow Race (with the excellent jab at the length of the first episode and the "second biggest pot I've ever seen" Monkey Island/Get Smart reference), but it was still an adaptation of the events that happened in the comic.
I still like the Bone games (they're definitely showing their age now, as they were made at a time long before Telltale sorted out the nature of episodic gaming). The story's left unfinished though, which is a shame. Telltale does have a working relationship with Warner Bros, who currently own the rights for a film adaptation, so it's possible they might continue some day (but very unlikely).
So I guess the Bone games in general aren't as creative as Telltale's other projects then, huh.
Yeah, they've definitely gotten a lot better at adaptations of licenses since then. The Bone games are interesting to play though to see how much Tellale's improved though, and The Great Cow Race isn't a bad game actually, since they do add to the story even though it's an adaptation. The Great Cow Race is longer than the first episode, and is about the same length as an episode in The Walking Dead Season Two or The Wolf Among Us. The first episode of Bone has been improved since it was released too, as the cutscenes setting up the overall plot of Bone and the new Thorn model help a lot, but it's definitely one of the Telltale games with the roughest edges. I'd say Out from Boneville, and episode 2 and 3 of Sam & Max season one are the roughest ones to go back and play out of their early titles, since they were just learning how to do episodic gaming at that point, but none of them are actually bad games.
They got a lot better at doing episodic gaming with Sam & Max Season One episode 4 onward. By Season Three of Sam & Max they pretty much were at the level they're at now (with the season long plotlines that were all connected with episodes with cliffhangers, and a very cinematic style of presentation), but with puzzles as the overall gameplay mechanic rather than choice and consequence and quick time events.