I like reading the manuals, sometimes it gives you important plot elements that aren't talked about in the game. I feel that making manuals is becoming a lost art. Why don't they make involved ones anymore, like with Wario Land 4? It's a shame.
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I totaly agree! Manuals is important, some game producents don´t make them that good, but they should put more effort into making them. I wish that they would put artwork or something like that, i know that it´d propably cost more to make them but i´d enjoy spending that little extra price if they made that ;D
[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]I used to read manuals when they were actually worth something.Flame_Blade88
This. Most of the time they're just 12 pages now, with 4 of them just being credits.
I concur.
Remember the good 'oll times of Baldur's Gate? 140 pages describing spells, skills and atributes. Or 688 Hunter Killer - 300 pages of several different courses: learning morse code, basics of trygonometry, echolocation, basics of hydrophysics and sea navigation.
i never read the manual before playing the game. generally games show you how to play it at the beginning. however i do read manuals (they make for great bog read :P). its a shame very few games have good manuals now. the best manual i have read is the one to arcanum: of steel works and magick obscura. big think thing with loads of extra lore and little side things. ultima 9 of course had 2 manuals....one for the general play og the game and ultima lore....and one for the magick system. baldurs gate 1 and 2 also had very nice manuals (generally black isle/bioware manuals were ace). diablo 2 also...i always enjoyed reading that.
i never read before playing, sometimes i never read them at all, usually the only time i read a manual is for RPGS, sports game ( to figure out all the botton usages ) fighters ( see sports ) and GTA/Saints Row type games with the funny adds and what not
Manuals aren't as useful as they used to be. Now they are made pathetic purposely so you buy the strategy guide. But I will read them if they have use such as Oblivion's manual which gives you details on race characteristics etc.
I very rarely do. Either I can learn what I need to on my own, or it's taught to me in the game. The only time I pull out the manuals is when there's somethign obscure that I have to do that I just can't figure out on my own.
I only read manauls when there is an action in the game that I can't figure out how to do. But even then I can usually just pause the game and look at the controls.
I don't feel there's a need to. Most games of today dedicate the intro/first act/whatever you want to call it, to explaining the controls. I'm not really a big fan of that. Also, manuals are pretty boring these days. I like when there are useful things, like pretty pictures and maps. A Link to the Past came with a sweet map...I'm not a fan of GTA 4, but the map it came with was pretty cool.
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