Do you miss instruction booklets/manuals with games? Old school/New school rant

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Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:04

It's pretty sad how every new game now doesn't seem to come with a manual, that the devs skimp out cheekily let it players need to search either a badly drawn out wiki page or Youtube users who went ahead and made a video "tutorial".

I really loved instruction manuals that came with games when I used to buy them around the 90's to 2005 when I was into anything from Mega-drive and Nintendo, right up to the Dreamcast and Xbox. I had allot of the golden consoles and quality games were presented with a lovely case and fancy manual that I would sit and read on the bus home from the games shop, miss those times.

I wouldn't mind.. but I am charged the same amount for a half finished game now a days with no manual with more bugs then a nature convention. The manuals were the core of anyones purchase then, try to trade an old game without a manual back in the day, it would cost you a few quid! We needed to and could read about the game and get the information to understand the game better with a manual, at least I did anyway.

The presentability of instruction manuals were lovely, okay, maybe I am going to far here, but nothing says effort then a lovely desighned manual, especialy when I got them color and with great extra bits of art on each page. May never see the likes of the pasts golden gaming age but what will be hard to be forgotten is just how lovely it felt to buy a game and have almost all the information in front of you.

It's just a mess now, really hate to need to search online for clear information that should come with a game, tips, advice and etc that just are not included with digital game. That extra effort goes to us poor sods who make videos showing how to play games through tutorials were not even paid to make.

Yeah the gamers in this day and age are certainly duped when buying new games...

What's your thoughts?

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zert 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:06

In short, yes.

Wish my 6 yo self hadn't destroyed all those SNES booklets...

Fork_Q2 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:07

1) No.
2) Manuals can be accessed through store page.

Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:11

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Fork_Q:
1) No.
2) Manuals can be accessed through store page.

Are they actually devealopers manuals? I tried opening some by the way and it's left Steam quite confused on where to go next...

Fork_Q2 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:12

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GTXTyson:
Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Fork_Q:
1) No.
2) Manuals can be accessed through store page.

Are they actually devealopers manuals? I tried opening some by the way and it's left Steam quite confused on where to go next...

The few I've looked at seem to go where they should go, which ones giving up trouble? Also, manuals sometimes could be found in the computer folder where the game is installed.

Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:13

Store Page>View Manual> Constant loading, give up.

Fork_Q2 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:15

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GTXTyson:
Store Page>View Manual> Constant loading, give up.

Which games? Manuals seem to be on the Steam services rather than third party.

Val 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:19

Nobody ever reads them anyway.

Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:19

I tried Skyrim, Boarderlands 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas to name a few popular games.

Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:20

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Nobody ever reads them anyway.

Is that because your not into reading them? Did you used to when you bought any physical copies of games in the past?

Fork_Q2 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:25

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GTXTyson:
I tried Skyrim, Boarderlands 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas to name a few popular games.

They all work, but because they are fairly big files you might be better off right clicking and saving them to your computer.

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Tekias2024 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:31

Very good information thanks.

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Bad Aim 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:36

I don't miss the manuals, per say... What I miss is the neat stuff that would come with the game. Like in the game "Star Wars: Rebellion", you got a map of the galaxie. In a couple of the Star Trek games, you would get a poster..

My favorit had to be when I bought the Warhammer 40k game, I got a little pewter Warhammer 40k Orc.

Basicly, the swag is what I miss.

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Lagger 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:39

Oh yeah... I really do miss 'em sometimes. When I want to read, I read from a paper, not by looking at some internet page. Plus, you could read something while the game installs...

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Kargor 10 Ιουλ 2014, 9:52

Depends. I have some nice boxes, some nice manuals. And I have super-cheap boxes and manuals that are pointless.

Of course, I also have limited space... and there's not really much use in "decorating" the nice boxes.