First thing you do when have open a game?

So what do you do?

I smell the booklet. I don't know why but that smell is just amazing. Like the new car smell of video games. Anyone else do this?

So what do you do?

I smell the booklet. I don't know why but that smell is just amazing. Like the new car smell of video games. Anyone else do this?

CruelPleasure

Ahaha nope, you're not the only one XD I do that for instruction booklets and new books/magazines too.

I usually never touch the instructions (not since the intervention, anyway). I just pop the game into the console.

I usually just take the cd out and put it into the console or sometimes take out the booklet first and scan through it for anything interesting.

I flip through the manual to get an idea of the controls

I used to read the manuals, but I think I started to get tired of doing that sometime during the PS2 era. When I bought my DS Lite, I read the instructions for most of those games until I reached a point where a lot of the games I was getting weren't that good anymore, and it wasn't worth reading the booklets anymore.

I don't really touch the booklets for my XBox 360 games, I mean if a game has to tell me something I don't already know then that's what tutorials and in-game guides are for.

Getting back to the original question, I don't always play a new game right away when I buy it. If it is a game I am really excited about and I'm in the mood to play it, I play it, but if it's a game I have to be in the mood to play, it just goes on my game rack and stays there till I decide to play it.

I think anymore the first thing I do when I buy a game from Gamestop is check to see if the case is broken - they like to give me games with brokencases a lot, I notice.

I read the manual first. The second poster is win though.

Browse through the manual, check for a Cd-Key if it's a computer game and then the clock to see if I have time to play the game alittle.Treflis

Play the game.

I pop out the disc and make sure theres no scratches on it. I'll take a quick glimpse of the manual afterward just for the sake of it...I dont read it.

Play it for just 1 or 2 minutes just to see how good the graphics are, and then shelve it...

damn...

andI thought I was the only one that sniffed the booklets.

Now I'm not alone 8D

I open the case and smell it, then open up the manual and read through it.

I usually smell the insides before opening up the instruction booklet and reading the manual.Yagr_Zero

This is me. Like the TC, I appreciate the "new game" smell after cracking the seal. Then I just about always take a look through the manual before even considering playing the game. Sometimes it's a couple of days that I haul around the manual, reading and re-reading it, before I even put the disc in the drive.

[QUOTE="Yagr_Zero"]I usually smell the insides before opening up the instruction booklet and reading the manual.muthsera666

This is me. Like the TC, I appreciate the "new game" smell after cracking the seal. Then I just about always take a look through the manual before even considering playing the game. Sometimes it's a couple of days that I haul around the manual, reading and re-reading it, before I even put the disc in the drive.

The first thing I do is smell the case. I do that with just about everything that I buy. I also smell my food before I eat it, and that includes everything. Glad I'm not the only one!

i play it duh

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So what do you do?

I smell the booklet. I don't know why but that smell is just amazing. Like the new car smell of video games. Anyone else do this?

LiftedHeadshot

lmao!

I typically just play the game; I don't think I've ready through a single game manual, because I'd rather learn the game from actually playing it...

I flip quickly through the manual and check the controls part a little while the game finishes installing. I don't check anything else in fear of spoilers.

I pick up all the leaflets that fall out of it and throw them in the bin.

i read the instructions, smell the box then play the game. :D

I smell the case and then i lick the disc.

I smell the case and then i lick the disc.

sukraj

read the manual front to back

So what do you do?

I smell the booklet. I don't know why but that smell is just amazing. Like the new car smell of video games. Anyone else do this?

CruelPleasure

psh weirdos... i go straight online and look for cheat codes

I sleep with the disc, then it makes my breakfast in the morning. ;)

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[QUOTE="Yagr_Zero"]I usually smell the insides before opening up the instruction booklet and reading the manual.ricosuave84

This is me. Like the TC, I appreciate the "new game" smell after cracking the seal. Then I just about always take a look through the manual before even considering playing the game. Sometimes it's a couple of days that I haul around the manual, reading and re-reading it, before I even put the disc in the drive.

Lol. I don't actually read the manual for how to play the game, actually. I just read it for fun. I read the features and the story and the characters and all of that stuff. I don't usually actually look at the controls.

i also smell the case and booklet just like a new car or a new pair of Jordans, Any how I also briefly check the manual and then the case and condition of the game, If you are a person that sells your games the NEW SMELL is a huge reselling feature,

I flip through the manual to get an idea of the controls

BuryMe

smell the case and booklet

Yes. I sniff the inside of the case too-- as long as it's an Xbox game. Some of those PC DVDs/cases smell like stale urine. Not even kidding

:o