Game Manuals

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
The old Black Isle manuals were amazing as well. Fallout, Baldur's Gate, those series had some really nice manuals which had notebook spirals, allowing you to fold it over nice .

They could of reduced it to the spread sheets at the back and a small pamphlet with spell descriptions.

[MattH]

I always read the manuals from cover to cover. Neverwinter nights is pretty comprehensive (with a cloth map!). Starcraft was the most fun to read. CIV IV pissed me off because it was missing half the info I wanted to know.

[Pave]

Originally posted by MattH
CIV IV pissed me off because it was missing half the info I wanted to know.

CIV IV?

I usualy read the basics of the game, aka how to move and that kind of stuff, and later, when I´m stuck I read the complicated things.

Best manual I ever seen is Zeus: Master of Olympos, it was made to be a story of Democrates, who with ancients gods and heroes builds a magnificent greek city and learns the game basics.

[SpencerH]

Two ends of the stick

Medieval Total War: Game basics, but virtually nothing else.

Great game, ****ing terrible manual

SM's Gettysburg: It even had a significant history component.

Great game, great manual

[rah]

I'll skim through the manual while installing. After playing for awhile, then I'll go back and read the manual. Manuals make more sense after you've played a bit.

And yes, no one seems to make good manuals anymore.

[General Ludd]

The less packing the better. I wish they'd just sell the CD in it's plastic case, ,maybe with an instruction card on the inside. No boxes full of air and junk, no manuals, nothing. Just put everything you need on the CDs.

[The Mad Monk]

I love manuals, every page.

They do not leave my bathroom until I'm done with them.

[Main_Brain]

Some Manuals are even finished before Installation is complete
(Half-life)

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
I love manuals, every page.

They do not leave my bathroom until I'm done with them.

Jeez, what's wrong with toilet paper?

[The Mad Monk]

Nothing, why do you ask?

[EternalSpearman]

I'm somewhere in between options 1 and 2. I usually read everything, but sometimes I install it and try out the tutorial (if there is one) before reading the manual.

[asleepathewheel]

Madmonk

I usually read a bit of the gameplay part while installing. Then I play for a while. I usually don't read the rest of the manual until i have to take a crap. A bit too much information, I know, but hey, its what I do.

[Dis]

I must be the only person who does not read on the crapper

[Adagio]

No, you're not

[Rasbelin]

I think the manual for either The Sims or Civ III, was the latest one I read completely. More and more retail games ship just in a DVD case, so the manual isn't that great, which leaves little left to read.