Wonderful Chocobo
Member 559
Level 20.83
Mar 2006
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Feb 8, 2007, 05:08 PM
Local time: Feb 8, 2007, 05:08 PM
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I rarely look at the manual for a game, unless I get a chance to read it on the way home (if I'm not the one driving) or if it has some decent illustrations or worthwhile information in it. 90% of the time, they end up like EA's "poster books" where it gives the bare minimum as far as how to play the game (which you'd rarely need unless you've never played a game in that genre before). And worst off, those don't even help you when you DO get stuck or have questions about something (how do you eliminate your squad leader beacon in BF2142 without destroying it? Who knows! The manual doesn't say!). The only recent case I can think of where I had to reference the manual to do something was to find out how to activate Progressive Scan in RE4 for the PS2.
So overall, modern manuals are pretty pointless. There's a few good one out there, but lately publishers have really been skimping on them. Working Designs had the greatest manuals ever though. Those I would always read, if only for the translation notes at the end since it's nice seeing what they changed about the game.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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