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Electronic manuals for PC games are amongst the most stupid thinks ever, in my opinion.
I hate it when I'm playing a PC game (Which isn't that often) and I can't figure out how to perform a certain function, and I have to open up a separate menu to have a look at the cursed menu. Especially considering that this makesmany, many games crash on my below-par PC.
Am I the only one that likes to have the information at hand? In the box, where I can look at it when I need it.
I know I can print out the manual myself, but why the hell should I?
I've just forked out £30 or so for a game, I don't want to also have to run my printer out of ink, just so I'll be able to look up how you cast a certain spell, build a certain tank, or save the bloody game without having to force the game to crash!
I wouldn't mind if they stuck some of the stuff oon a disc, but essential things that you need to know to play the game really do need to be where you can see them until you get used to how the game plays.
Age of Empires was nice like this, as it had a big chunky manual (War and Peace?) and also a little guidance sheet. A pictoral guide lettign you know what you could get at which age, and what you'd have had to build previously in order to get it.
But these days, more often than not, before I can play the game, I have to look at the damned electronic manual.
I hate it when I'm playing a PC game (Which isn't that often) and I can't figure out how to perform a certain function, and I have to open up a separate menu to have a look at the cursed menu. Especially considering that this makesmany, many games crash on my below-par PC.
Am I the only one that likes to have the information at hand? In the box, where I can look at it when I need it.
I know I can print out the manual myself, but why the hell should I?
I've just forked out £30 or so for a game, I don't want to also have to run my printer out of ink, just so I'll be able to look up how you cast a certain spell, build a certain tank, or save the bloody game without having to force the game to crash!
I wouldn't mind if they stuck some of the stuff oon a disc, but essential things that you need to know to play the game really do need to be where you can see them until you get used to how the game plays.
Age of Empires was nice like this, as it had a big chunky manual (War and Peace?) and also a little guidance sheet. A pictoral guide lettign you know what you could get at which age, and what you'd have had to build previously in order to get it.
But these days, more often than not, before I can play the game, I have to look at the damned electronic manual.
I know, its bloody annoying when you don't have the manual right in front of you. Does anyone, just... like read them thorughly when they go to bed? I know I do. When I get a new pc game. (About 6 months ago) :-D
Publishers would rather inconvienience us with the excuse that it is "better" than having hard copies.
Now I can't read the manual on the bus home! DOH!
(I used to read games manuals on the way home from buying the game)
Now I can't read the manual on the bus home! DOH!
(I used to read games manuals on the way home from buying the game)
Electronic manuals for PC games are amongst the most stupid thinks ever, in my opinion.
I hate it when I'm playing a PC game (Which isn't that often) and I can't figure out how to perform a certain function, and I have to open up a separate menu to have a look at the cursed menu. Especially considering that this makesmany, many games crash on my below-par PC.
Am I the only one that likes to have the information at hand? In the box, where I can look at it when I need it.
I know I can print out the manual myself, but why the hell should I?
I've just forked out £30 or so for a game, I don't want to also have to run my printer out of ink, just so I'll be able to look up how you cast a certain spell, build a certain tank, or save the bloody game without having to force the game to crash!
I wouldn't mind if they stuck some of the stuff oon a disc, but essential things that you need to know to play the game really do need to be where you can see them until you get used to how the game plays.
Age of Empires was nice like this, as it had a big chunky manual (War and Peace?) and also a little guidance sheet. A pictoral guide lettign you know what you could get at which age, and what you'd have had to build previously in order to get it.
But these days, more often than not, before I can play the game, I have to look at the damned electronic manual.
I hate it when I'm playing a PC game (Which isn't that often) and I can't figure out how to perform a certain function, and I have to open up a separate menu to have a look at the cursed menu. Especially considering that this makesmany, many games crash on my below-par PC.
Am I the only one that likes to have the information at hand? In the box, where I can look at it when I need it.
I know I can print out the manual myself, but why the hell should I?
I've just forked out £30 or so for a game, I don't want to also have to run my printer out of ink, just so I'll be able to look up how you cast a certain spell, build a certain tank, or save the bloody game without having to force the game to crash!
I wouldn't mind if they stuck some of the stuff oon a disc, but essential things that you need to know to play the game really do need to be where you can see them until you get used to how the game plays.
Age of Empires was nice like this, as it had a big chunky manual (War and Peace?) and also a little guidance sheet. A pictoral guide lettign you know what you could get at which age, and what you'd have had to build previously in order to get it.
But these days, more often than not, before I can play the game, I have to look at the damned electronic manual.