This or Boneworks?

[Gamling]

I am deciding between either. Or are those complete separate experiences and should not be compared? :)

[[RUST]Grumplestiltskin]

The only thing they share in common is that they both have guns and physics.

[ReverendTed]

I haven't played Boneworks, but my understanding is that it's more of a story-driven game, while H3VR is more of an enormous toybox. H3VR is also in active and ongoing development.
It is very much an apples and oranges comparison.

[honored0ne]

both are must owns for any owner of a vr system

[Gamling]

Originally posted by Chris Hansen:

both are must owns for any owner of a vr system

Can I have a seat?

[Baldrickk]

Originally posted by RUSTGrumplestiltskin:

The only thing they share in common is that they both have guns and physics.

And the way they approach both is completely different too

[Baldrickk]

Originally posted by Gamling:

Originally posted by Chris Hansen:

both are must owns for any owner of a vr system

Can I have a seat?

You can play either sitting down.

Boneworks has a seated mode and crouch controls, H3 doesn't, but you can just use a playspace mover for that

[Dovah1356]

Originally posted by Chris Hansen:

both are must owns for any owner of a vr system

Meh I wouldn't say that. I was pretty un impressed with boneworks

[Rissien]

Originally posted by Baldrickk:

Originally posted by Gamling:

Can I have a seat?

You can play either sitting down.

Boneworks has a seated mode and crouch controls, H3 doesn't, but you can just use a playspace mover for that

I think that went right over your head. The question had nothing to do with the game.

[Baldrickk]

Originally posted by Rissien:

Originally posted by Baldrickk:

You can play either sitting down.

Boneworks has a seated mode and crouch controls, H3 doesn't, but you can just use a playspace mover for that

I think that went right over your head. The question had nothing to do with the game.

in that case, yes, it did

[badgerish]

H3VR first, Boneworks later (maybe wait for a sale).

[HamBunger]

Originally posted by Gamling:

I am deciding between either. Or are those complete separate experiences and should not be compared? :)

i world say this for the guns but for physics boneworks

[Ad Hominem]

I'd say totally different, apples and oranges. Bonewerks has a story, level progression, that kind of stuff where as H3 is more of a sandbox with smaller self contained levels. I say "smaller" but Rotweiner is pretty big.

But it's like a bunch of sandbox ranges, king-of-the-hill style game called Take & Hold, rogue-lite RPG zombie adventure kinda thing in Rotweiner, survival horror with Meat Grinder, skee ball but with grenades with Boomskee. Meatmas colosseum has a bunch of christmas themed mini games, my fav is king of the grill. I'm sure I'm missing at least one mode but that's what comes to mind.

H3 has vastly superior gunplay and simulation on all aspects. By far. The best guns I've ever played in VR, hands down. Not just the gun handling and the quirks of operation but ballistics for different cartridges and calibers too, penetration through different materials, the whole 9 yards.

My personal fav mode is Take & Hold, for that I would suggest first going to a flat range and playing with different guns to get somewhat proficient and comfortable with at least one gun. Because T&H kinda relies on you to be able to pick up and use a bunch of different guns effectively. So I'd get comfortable with just one or two, then launch into T&H with the item spawner enabled so you can spawn those 2 guns you know how to use. Get used to the game mode and the flow of it. Then after a few shots maybe turn off the spawner and get a scored run.

[TheDreamer]

Boneworks was a decent tech demo back in the day, but I never really enjoyed it with how janky everything is. Especially when I was already spoiled by H3's controls and gun handling, I could never really enjoy it.

[The Collector]

Both are defiantly worth playing and experiencing for a VR owner. They are completely different games though and aren't very relateable at all. Boneworks has a good story mode to play through but after that I just got bored after unlocking and playing everything. Mods entertained me for a bit but the sandbox just doesn't keep my attention for long or give me any drive to stick a headset on and load up the game for it.

H3VR on the other hand I keep returning to and it's being actively developed so there is always new stuff to play with.

[Ottomic]

I personally got both when I bought my Rift, and fair warning, Boneworks is a lot more intensive than H3VR on a computer, Rotweiners aside. So that's food for thought depending on your specs (I was on a 2400G and a 1060 3GB at the time).

I refunded Boneworks because it's mostly a linear romp through the story and then you get a horde mode, which is cool and all but personally not what I'm looking for. H3VR works much better for me because you can pick it up, do a Take and Hold or ten, and pick it up the next day. As a procedurally generated roguelike first person shooter kind of thing, it's pretty much perfect. Boneworks feels a little more like discount Alyx to me.