Poll of the Day > Month of the Ogre 12: Do you even read your game manuals?

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Most of the necessary to even mechanics in Ogre Battle are hinted at or explained in the manual only... and some that are mentioned in-game are mentioned in very late stages of the game

La-Mulana famously bragged that all relevant information was in the manual, and it was right.

But ya, NES manuals are works of art. I still remember all the cool drawings and stuff in the Zelda 1 and 2 manuals. I also remember the Zelda 2 manual saying the enemies sometimes pop out of P bags, instead of the other way around.

My copy of Breath of Fire 2 was from a used game store, and in the back of the manual I still remember the one thing written there "Blu is in a dis"... that's it.

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hell yeah, I miss manuals sometimes.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

hell yeah, I miss manuals sometimes.

Ya, I think I stopped caring around the N64 era, which may also have been the last era of big giant manuals.

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Depends on the game. It's largely become unnecessary due to in-game tutorials, etc, and the fact that many -- if not most -- retail games don't even include instruction manuals any more. Even the Pokemon games, which had absolutely gorgeous instruction manuals, haven't been doing it.

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that was the best part of old PC strategy games and some infinity engine games (BG1, BG2, and IWD all have *amazing* manuals.)

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Zeus posted...

Depends on the game. It's largely become unnecessary due to in-game tutorials

It's not that the manuals was unnecessary in a sense to people who enjoyed it, it was just nice to look at art work and read some back stories, but I know you're a boomer so you don't enjoy that stuff.

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