Thread 720345830

What's the most creative game manual you ever read?

>>720345830 (OP)
all of the old MGS games' manuals were gorgeous with detailed comic books explaining the premise and mechanics

>>720345830 (OP)
We Love Katamari
https://archive.org/details/we-love-katamari-manual-ps-2

>gamers miss manuals so much they make their own

creative hobby is healthy for mind

>>720345830 (OP)
I always liked warioland 4's manual with wario giving all the instructions

>>720345830 (OP)
the moment manuals died so did gaming, prove me wrong

>>720348760
how many updoots did this get on reddit

>>720348886
There's no such thing as being too cool to make something, you soulless husk.

>>720345830 (OP)
>>720348859
Wario World had a good one.

Can't remember for the life of me wtf game it was where the whole manual was basically a small comic book.

We're there even any "interactive" manuals?

I am thinking about something like:
when you beat a boss or stage, game gives you a code you open the book, then pull right tabs ,it opens a section about the said boss/location

Is it necessary? No. Is it redundant? Perhaps. But could be fun to do IRL

>>720352098
*Were there

>>720352098
gloomhaven does this, though it's a tabletop game that really should have been a video game instead.
There are blank spots in the manual and after certain events you're instructed to take the correct sticker from the supplies and basically add more content to the manual as you play

>>720345830 (OP)
Some I remember in no particular order:
>Constructor
The manual was thick as a thesaurus because they printed the whole thing in like 8 different languages.

>Fallout 1 & 2
I remember both as being good and written sort of in character, I think the first one had some recipes for wasteland food.

>Arcanum
Just a really good manual with thorough information about the game, I still have it on my bookshelf

>Starcraft
I remember really enjoying the backstory of the game, don't remember how useful the information in it was though

>Sin
Again, great backstory, the mental image of the main characters burned to a crisp mom waking him up for school sticks with me to this day and I was probably 10 when I read it.

>>720352317
That's amazing. I will check it out in future.

TUNIC

>>720352098
Tunic has a manual built into the game and is used to decipher wtf's going on as you learn the in-world language, if that counts.

>manual looks more worn out with each subsequent game

Even if they had to squeeze out sly 3 asap I'm glad they didn't forgot about such details

>>720353632
*didn't forget

Ah, fuck me and my grammar

>>720345830 (OP)
i always liked the GTA manuals that looked like touring pamflets for the city

>>720353764
What a beautiful thing

>>720353632
Soulful but why did they have to put a rating on it and then specify it's an instruction manual

The manuals that came with the original Guild Wars games were amazing
Full of lore and cool artwork, great to read while it was installing

>>720353764
Goddamn Falcon 4.0 is such a based game. So much fun.

>>720345830 (OP)
Saints Row's instruction manual is written from the PoV of the undercover cop that's currently in the gang, with hints towards who it is

>>720353903
Sony.

It's a pretty stock standard manual as far as the contents inside go but I've always liked the look of the first gen pokemon manuals looking like an in-universe booklet, a worn leather journal handed off to new trainers.

>>720345830 (OP)
Games used to have manuals?

>>720355090
Weak bait.


But some new games still do

>>720355594
That just seems to be Marvelous's shtick right now for good PR.
>committing to full Switch 2 cartridges instead of key cards
>actually putting a manual in their boxes and not just being a big plastic box for a small cartridge
Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma and Daemon X Machine are the same.

>>720355685

Sheet. This is great.

>looks like envelope

Now imagine if they committed more

>>720356006
>and Toby

>>720348954
>nintendie
>cool

My favourite manual of all time is Killzone 1, the game is kinda shit to actually play, but everything else about it is 10/10, especially the manual. It’s a war-time newspaper and all the different sections are disguised as articles, including the mandatory boring stuff like “how to turn on a ps2”. It’s the most high-effort manual I’ve ever seen.

I'd say it's
Homeworld Cataclysm
Half Life Opposing Force
Warcraft II
F-Zero
Link to the Past

I hear Arcanum's has an actual cake recipe in it

>>720359394

Damn this is amazing. So much effort out into thing no one gives a damn about

>>720353952
>great to read while it was installing
Oh yes I remember doing this

>>720353952
What today's gamers do when they install new game?

>>720362048
Technology come so far you don't need to wait for a game to load, you just install it on your SDD and pla-
>This game needs day one patch , 50gb file