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Re: Dude, no. by laudablepuss 11/01/2004, 4:23pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Arbit wrote:

FABIO wrote:

Fuck manuals. They've been obsolete since the late 1990's. Advances in intuitive, uniform interfaces (within genres at least) and superb in-game tutorials have made reading instructions totally unnessecary. From Ico's and Silent Hill's entire plot to who's going to join your party in RPG's, all they can do is ruin things. Any game that requires you to read the manual to get the hang of it is automatically docked 2 points on the 1 to 10 scale.

Computer game manuals are the premiere shitter reading material, especially for RPGs. There is something indefinably pleasing about skill charts and class descriptions that just really gets the bowels moving.


I agree, the best grumpers I've taken in my life have been immediately following the purchase of Fallout and BG2.


ICJ


A hillarious word for poo that I'd totally forgotten! Once again this site fulfills its mandate.

For me, the Total War manuals are excellent bathroom material. As an added bonus, they're full of lies and terrible playing strategies that you can later discover while playing the game. Keeps it exciting. (Note: still haven't purchased Rome: Total War yet, so I can't comment on that particular manual.)
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Wanda and the Colossus by Berlioz 10/30/2004, 9:29pm PDT NEW
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    Ico love by FABIO 10/30/2004, 9:59pm PDT NEW
        Echoing Sentiments... by Berlioz 10/30/2004, 10:45pm PDT NEW
            Everyone loved Ico, actually. by Fussbett 10/31/2004, 12:07pm PST NEW
                Re: Everyone loved Ico, actually. by Berlioz 10/31/2004, 5:11pm PST NEW
            Re: Echoing Sentiments... by FABIO 11/01/2004, 1:15am PST NEW
                Dude, no. by Arbit 11/01/2004, 10:51am PST NEW
                    Re: Dude, no. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/01/2004, 11:14am PST NEW
                        Re: Dude, no. by laudablepuss 11/01/2004, 4:23pm PST NEW
                    the manual was the only good part of Arcanum NT by FABIO 11/01/2004, 8:29pm PST NEW
                Beyond Good and Evil comes closest NT by Mischief Sellout 11/01/2004, 2:08pm PST NEW
                Re: Echoing Sentiments... by Mood: Perplexed 11/02/2004, 3:36pm PST NEW
 
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