Is this package cheap or what?

[Crostoneman]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

Sadly, most games are coming out with sorely inadequate manuals lately. HoI was nice for history, but didn't explain crap about how the game worked!

Makes you want to add an extra course for an computer progamming degree. Manual 101, if you don't pass it, you won't be able to write a computer game.

[Malleus]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

Sadly, most games are coming out with sorely inadequate manuals lately.

Lately? LATELY?!? Remember the BOOK you got with Colonization? The wonderfully clear explanations for Command and Conquer?

Now, you are lucky if you get 10% of the keyboard commands explained outside of a readme file....

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[mactbone]

Whoah - the problem isn't that game devolopers don't know how to write a manual, the problem is either they didn't hire a Technical Writer (or enough), the writer they hired sucks, or they didn't give the writer enough info.

They had three people write the manual - two of them were also heavily involved in the other writing tasks associated with the game. They may have been understaffed - but I can't be sure.