I'm very tempted by the game because I love the comic series but given the utter lack of support for The Walking Dead (360) by TellTale, I'm not sure I want to take another chance.
I'm still unable to play The Walking Dead because of the 'Storage Device Lost' error and the only thing TellTale seem to have done about it is remove most of the posts about the subject from the help section of their forum.
I've had that issue several times as well. All I can find on it is advice saying to back up your finished game saves, delete all the memory of the game on your hard drive, and start over hooked up to live while avoiding use of the third save slot. Not sure how effective it's been.
So far I haven't personally seen TWAU have many of the bugs that TWD had, but I still wish their was more tech support addressing their older game.
What did people choose in regards to the bar patrons?
Personally I was sick of the lack of respect being payed to Sheriff. And Grendel going so far as to attack (and apparently try to kill Bigby) was the last straw. I'd been perfectly pleasant to him, it was time to remind people of why the Big Bad Wolf is the sheriff. So off with the arm!
What did people choose in regards to the bar patrons?
Personally I was sick of the lack of respect being payed to Sheriff. And Grendel going so far as to attack (and apparently try to kill Bigby) was the last straw. I'd been perfectly pleasant to him, it was time to remind people of why the Big Bad Wolf is the sheriff. So off with the arm!
I definitely could use some support and info from the poor Fables and therefore tried handling everyone with velvet gloves. Including Gren. Gotta build a reputation for myself, although I can see that being feared could be useful too.
I found the entire sequence with Woodsman in the bar completely hilarious, therefore I was in a good mood already. Besides, I can see Gren's point of view. Nobody does jackshit to help them.
Wolf Among Us is a great change of pace from TWD but there are some similarities between the series. Mainly both characters are dealing with a community that is forced to rely on each other for survival but also carry grudges between one another that can spill over any minute. Unlike Lee, Bigby is in a position of power and is a very threatening. While in Walking Dead you had to balanced survival with keeping Clementine Happy here you are tasked with how strict do you lay down the law and who do you trust in your investigation and how much of the truth do you leak out.
One of the great strengths of TWD was that it mainly used original characters thus giving writers freedom to do whatever they want. Elements from the comic mainly lie in how you contracted the virus and how people treat each other. Fables is completely different, not only are we dealing with major characters from the comic but you are controlling one of the core protagonists. My biggest worry is how exactly are the subplots and character arcs going to be resolved given how the comic shows the final resolution. While in Walking Dead you had some freedom in shaping Lee, here you ARE Bigby and are faced with the tough choices he makes on a daily basis. It's not so much that you are playing your own Bigby but more about seeing what the player would do if they were in Bigby's shoes.
Its absolutely superb. Done two playthroughs. First is "what would I do?", the second is BIZARRO BIGBY where I choose the complete opposite of what I did. Bizarro Bigby seems to be more of a lunatic than my Bizarro Lee.
But anyway, I wish this was an animated show on TV! Love the opening titles.
Not even one minute in, I fell in love with the game. Everything was done extremely well, it just knocked my expectations way out of the park.
When I saw Faith's head, I didn't know what to think. After the mirror said "My lips are sealed," about her whereabouts, I thought she might not actually be dead. I'm not a reader of Fables, but if a magical illusion can make non-humans look normal than why would it be impossible for magic to make someone look dead? It may be fairly farfetched, but I think it's to try and scare someone into action (possibly Ichabaud) and get revenge. I doubt I'm right about the reasoning, but I have a gut feeling Faith and Snow aren't dead. Really looking forward to Smoke and Mirrors.
It was excellent. They've done a superb job with both the setting and the story thus far. I read some of the comics when I heard the game was coming out to see if there was anything interesting there for them to work with. Turns out there was and they've executed on that beautifully. I can't wait for the rest of the episodes.
One of the most heartening things about the "game" though is that it shows that Tell Tale not only understood what it was that made The Walking Dead so successful but are capable of replicating it and using it in a very different setting and style. 500 days had shades of this where they played with some of the mechanics but here it really shows that they know how to work with this system and tell a good story without just copying what they did before.
Personally loved it , i was a little hesitant at first but i can honestly say i don't regret getting it.
And with regards to the name i feel it's perfect because it acts as a double meaning. The first is the literal you are the big bad wolf among other fairy tales. And the second meaning is metaphorical representing the murderer, a figurative wolf hunting and killing, using anonymity to stay among his prey without being revealed.
Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. There were very little contenders for my favorite film noir game, but this one has blown what little there was out of the water. I am a huge fan of Fables, though I admit I'm probably only half way through the whole series. I am so tempted to say that I like this more than the Walking Dead, but I need to play the full thing before I can lay down that claim. I owe Clementine that much. However, I feel no guilt in saying that, as far as first episodes go, Wolf Among Us handily beats WD in the introductory department. I'm completely sucked in.
Side-note, to those who are wondering what the...
"ribbon" around Faith's neck
...might be, I have a rather viable theory:
Alright, now this is based on my own knowledge of fairy tales, but I might know something about that ribbon business which would make a lot of sense in the long run of things. Hear me out.
When I was a wee lad of six, my first grade teacher read us a short story. The premise was about a young girl who wore a ribbon tied tightly in a bow around her neck. Foggy memory, but for some reason she was not allowed to take it off. At some point in the story, she does, and her head falls off right there. End of story. I don't remember if she died, I don't remember what it was called. But because it was such a graphic story for one so young as I, it was burned into my memory.
Thus comes my theory: this ribbon is a magical artifact in the Fable world. It results in someone being completely decapitated with the appearance of death, but as soon as it's dispelled and/or the head returned to the body, it will be like nothing happened.
This would line up with a lot of clues we've discovered in this episode:
- Snow's decapitation in this prequel, yet she shows zero visible side-effects in the rest of the series. (even the gunshot to the head made her walk with a cane for the rest of the series).
- Bigby's comment that the cut that severed Faith's head was possibly done by something magical.
- The strange focus on the neck-ribbon in the narrative.
So there you have it, make of it what you will, gents. But you have to admit, if this vague memory of a fable is real, the similarities to the case on hand is rather uncanny to be a simple coincidence.
Also I didn't really care for Snow's death. She was a comforting and otherwise shining character, but she had nothing going for her other than her distracting TJ for you and reacting to Faith's death. She doesn't have a flawed past like Bigby, or a tiring facade like Toad, or the mystery of Faith, or the conflicting moralities of the Woodsman, or Colin, she was just there, not really interacting with the story other than giving a reason for Bigby to explain something to the audience. And now that she's dead, she's just going to be a reason for Bigby to find the murderer after all. She is, to me, a tool of the plot instead of a character. Really, Beast with his twenty second cameo had more character going for him when he was franticly looking for Beauty.
I think the real shock behind Snow's death (if she even is dead) is that you never see her as a valid target for murder. At least I didn't. Faith was obviously a girl who was down on her luck and had pissed of some dangerous people, so when she ends up dead it doesn't come as too much of a surprise.
But Snow is introduced as sort of Bigby's crime solving partner, and just like with nearly every crime/mystery story this should make her more or less immune to the risk of death. It's kind of similar to the movie Seven...
...where you never would've expected detective Mills to become part of the death toll, because he's the detective.
You see, at first when I saw the cop cars at the building near the end, and Beast was standing behind the police tape, I was really expecting to see Beauty's head lying there. Seeing as the game made an effort to show you her and Beast were having some sort of trouble. But instead this was used a red herring.
Alright, now this is based on my own knowledge of fairy tales, but I might know something about that ribbon business which would make a lot of sense in the long run of things. Hear me out.
When I was a wee lad of six, my first grade teacher read us a short story. The premise was about a young girl who wore a ribbon tied tightly in a bow around her neck. Foggy memory, but for some reason she was not allowed to take it off. At some point in the story, she does, and her head falls off right there. End of story. I don't remember if she died, I don't remember what it was called. But because it was such a graphic story for one so young as I, it was burned into my memory.
Thus comes my theory: this ribbon is a magical artifact in the Fable world. It results in someone being completely decapitated with the appearance of death, but as soon as it's dispelled and/or the head returned to the body, it will be like nothing happened.
This would line up with a lot of clues we've discovered in this episode:
- Snow's decapitation in this prequel, yet she shows zero visible side-effects in the rest of the series. (even the gunshot to the head made her walk with a cane for the rest of the series).
- Bigby's comment that the cut that severed Faith's head was possibly done by something magical.
- The strange focus on the neck-ribbon in the narrative.
So there you have it, make of it what you will, gents. But you have to admit, if this vague memory of a fable is real, the similarities to the case on hand is rather uncanny to be a simple coincidence.
When Bigby asks Faith who she is working for, she is unable to tell him due to whatever magic is concealing the truth, and instead she segues into talking about her ribbon. If Bigby complements the way it looks, she thanks him, but still clearly looks disappointed and distant for a moment. If he continues to question her instead, she says she's answering "as best [she] can". Her drawing attention to the ribbon is a clue she is attempting to pass on to Bigby.
I wonder how this is connected with her pimp (who seems to be Georgie Porgie)? I doubt that the enchantement gagging Faith and the mirror concerns some seedy backalley pimp. I think Faith was working for someone else as well. She says to Bigby that she "isn't going to be doing this much longer", so my guess is she was offered a way out of the gutter for herself and her husband if she got involved in a conspiracy.
Finished the first episode, and I'm really really looking forward to the next episodes.
While I did love the Walking Dead, I feel like I'm going to like this series a lot more.
I personally haven't seen anything like it in terms of the story and what not, zombies have just been over played etc.
Was I the only one who ripped the monster's arm off in the bar? Cause it was bloody awesome.
And damn, that ending. I really wanted her to survive.
By the way did you happen to catch the name of that monster? Because if you did he is from the epic of Beo Wolf and no you aren't I also ripped his arm off simply because of the reference.
I haven't read the comics (yet!) but The Wolf Among Us is a prequel. As I understand it, the events of the game occur around 20 years before the beginning of the comic series, setting the game in the 80s or early 90s. The Adversary isn't mentioned by any character in the first episode, only alluded to, but I think he may be mentioned in the codex entries you can unlock.
Nobody knows the release timetable, but The Walking Dead episodes released every 1.5 - 2 months, so I imagine this'll be similar.
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, i was a little hesitant at first but i can honestly say i don't regret getting it. 
