Games with Good Manuals

Odd topic I know but today I was looking through my game boxes and realized something. Most games have a crappy manual that is either mostly on the disc or a 10 page quickstart guide. Does anyone else miss the days of big manuals that were actually printed out? I will start the list of games with good manuals that I have

-Anything made by Blizzard

-Witcher

-Neverwinter Nights

-Baldurs Gate II

• World in Conflict
• Civilization 4's manual is HUGE and informative
• Rome Total War

The Witcher

and i just got AGE OF EMPIRE 3 today, and boy does that have a fantastic manual. Hands down one of my favs. I know i am missing some of my old games manuals, but meh.

• World in Conflict
• Civilization 4's manual is HUGE and informative
• Rome Total War

And I love the game but The Orange Box's manual is only one page that only has controls so it kinda sucks....:Dpvtdonut54

hahaha, i agree, i was hoping for a much bigger manual for such a kick butt game:P

I think EA makes the worst manuals, some of them are just one or two pages and thats it.

*** Also the newest Banjo Kazzoie game has a fantastic manual aswell ***

Summoner, an older RPG, actually had a 25 page color manual. I was impressed.

Homeworld, Arcanum, Ultima IX, Wizardry 8...hell any old rpg came with a freaking book....aah the good ol days....TheCrazed420

Ahhh, the good ol days is right... Wizardry and Ultima games i loved so much when i was younger;)

The Witcher has a manual? My Enhanced Edition came with lots of paper, like an install guide, a map and a walkthrough, but no manual. mysterylobster

Im not sure about the enhanced version, but the normal version i have has a pretty big manual in it (70+ page sif im not mistaken).

Vampire the Masqurade: Redemption

Fallout 2 (I'm sure Fallout 1 also has a nice manual)

Vampire Bloodlines has an pretty nice manual too, although not quite as awesome as Redemption.