I'm just curious...

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">I do like big manuals with lots of background information. But if they are not very organized I prefer them short and sweet. All basic controls to play the game should be in the first 2 or 3 pages and not scattered throughout. I would read the rest whenever I need to take a dump. </font> :D

[ 05-03-2004, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

I like manuals such as the baldurs gate ones, they give you a nice lot of background info etc. which you can read time and time again and never get bored of (ok Im said I know :D ) I also must have my manuals, I hate manuals which are in PDF format, they just piss me off.

ROFL pritchke, I do the same thing. I must've been in the bathroom for three hours going over the BG II manual.

I like the paper large manuals [img]smile.gif[/img] Got a manual on Emire Earth 225 pages, and on Europa universalis which is large as well, both with background and game controls. Everything I could possibly want to know needs to be in there.

Also I don't like those manuals on CDs. Recently I bought BG and BGII (SoA again was in a bundle and they didn't have tob loose) and I got a full CD with manuals. Didn;t look in them. Also it was pretty stupid cause on the same CD were manuals for like 10 other games as well.

I never really look at manuals. I just figure out the buttons myself. This is easier ona console than on PC, so I may just glance periodically at PC game manuals. The one manual I do read, though, is the BG2 manual - packed with useful information and character backgrounds. ROFL, pritchke :D ! I know what you mean ;)

Yes, I HATE non-paper manuals, just like I hate reading journal articles online or newspaper articles online. And I can't edit my written work unless I print it out and get a red pen :D . The worst manual I experienced was for Europa Universalis (probably why it remains so unpenetrable to this day ;) ) - it had no contents and no index. Rather hard to get into you might imagine ;) . I like a lot of examples and things explained simply. I thought the wizardry 8 manual was an excellent one for instance.

I like big manuals with lots of background info. Like Wizardry 8 or BG2. Me neither I don't like manuals on the CD. Never read one of those before.

The manuals need to be paper so you can look at them while your playing the game.

How stupid is it to have it on CD when your in the middle of a game and you have to exit the game, take out the Game CD, put in the manual CD and look something up.

Both the BG2 and NWN manuals were great!

I never read any manuals. just throw them away. they make my headhurts. though I do keep maps that come with it. I can memorize maps very easily.