Even if we still had them it wouldnt be the same. Lets be honest here, we all read them when went to the store with out parents and needed something to tide us over from the absurdly long trip back home
Totally agree! I would rip throught he plastic and read that big colorful instruction booklet on my way home.
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I remember back when manuals (well at least first party GCN games) had a "notes" section at the end
I'm still love reading about the progress I logged when I was five years old in my Super Mario Sunshine booklet
I really liked the beefy full color, 30 page manuals. I even used to put all the manuals and jewel cases on separate shelves so I had quick access to the manuals, and I would read them during car rides and what not.
So I do miss them, but I guess we'll have to accept the change. Having a built in manual has great benefits though, so it's not all that bad!
I also used manuals to hide my money when I was a kid. no one ever reads manuals(especially if they're someone else's manuals)
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Instruction manuals, meh, but I am a big fan of things like art books. That's why I generally go for pre-order bonuses - the extra 10 bucks for a book of concept art and notes from the developers, plus maybe a music CD or something, is worth it for me.
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I remember back when manuals (well at least first party GCN games) had a "notes" section at the end
I'm still love reading about the progress I logged when I was five years old in my Super Mario Sunshine booklet
I really liked the beefy full color, 30 page manuals. I even used to put all the manuals and jewel cases on separate shelves so I had quick access to the manuals, and I would read them during car rides and what not.
So I do miss them, but I guess we'll have to accept the change. Having a built in manual has great benefits though, so it's not all that bad!
I'm glad you brought that up! I loved that little notes section that had in the back haha. I would always put cheats for games and stuff like that back there
We're not getting as much. Now that Nintendo patches, updates and offers DLC on games and the console itself, I just don't see my wii u lasting as long as my nes/snes/n64. It's not nintendo's fault. Im sure if they could stay in the 90's, they would. God knows they try. I'm just getting old, but I love how complete the old systems are. The reliance on digital content strips some intrinsic value that games/consoles used to have.
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The death of the manual sucks and does reduce a game's value but everything else is a positive move isn't it? When Super Mario World came out as fantastic as it was it would have been awesome to have Super Luigi World DLC six months after launch. The original Pokemon games would have been more fun if they had the online battle/trading component of the new ones as well as gifts downloaded over the internet. Even better are the patches that fix game-breaking bugs, even recently I'm sure Red Steel 2 would have been much better if it could have been patched.
Nostalgia is one thing but I don't think it's wise to throw the baby out with the bath water.
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I remember buying collectors editions of some games and ending up getting massive manuals all in about 8 different European languages.It just made me wonder why they just made a smaller manual for each country thats in the language they speak,rather wasting loads of paper.
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This was the art from the original Legend of Zelda booklet. I would have never imagined those sprites were supposed to be such hideous monsters like this
Man, I love manuals. I still do! If a game comes with one, I still will sit down and take a good half hour or so to pour over the manual before I start playing. I will always remember the first Zelda manual. And Everquest - whoa boy, that one was a doozy. Final Fantasy XI ... World of Warcraft. MMOs had fantastic manuals.
Sadly, they do seem to be a rarity these days. It really is a shame, I always liked looking through a good manual. The manuals for Sly 1&2 were the best ever made. The entire manual was made of a conversation between the Sly, Bentley, and Murray with different color text to indicate whichever was speaking too. I've read through those manuals multiple times just cause they're fun to read. I've actually kept those manuals after selling the PS2 versions of the game (I bought the Sly Collection) cause they're good manuals. I do like to refrence annual from time to time too. Nothing is worse (barring no manual at all)than a manual you have to quit the game to bring up on the system though.
Yep interesting you brought that up, because I noticed that WW HD doesn't have a manual inside at all and the cover of WW HD is the same as the cover of the instruction booklet for Wind waker on GCN.
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