[Nightcloak]

OoOOooO - I am so glad this topic came about. If there is one thing I love about CRPG's, it's their rich intense manuals that come with them! Screw the gold edition maps, soundtracts, and collector's gifts. I love to read through my manuals, formulating plans for my next character, reading the backgrounds of the gameworld, current story, NPC's, weapons available, the list goes on. Intended of course to just be nothing more than an instruction book, I sometimes even consider them full pledged works of literature, but some of them i've found to be faulty and contain miss information (::cough:: Bioware).

To keep things short, give them to me big, full of pages, and long! - Gotta love skimming through a freshly new manual. But, I have to say, I usually read them after ive initially started the game and am well into it. (or when I rip it open the box and read it untill I get home from the trip to the software store)