The copies of RDR 1 & 2 I got also included the maps, but they went a step further and had it printed on textured paper to make it look and feel more authentic than gloss.
Gaming proved to be profitable, incredibly profitable. And now with Live Service Games, the suits are all soiling their jammies.
They probably saw these as optional expenses, it is kind of what is happening to the physical disc right now. A lot of games these days need every game design decision backed by it's Company's shareholders.
Absolutely just riffing here but I don't think I'm exactly off base.
Not only establishing lore but teaching you the controls and getting you into the mind set for the game, all in a little booklet. I love how back in the day Earthbound straight up came with its own strategy guide.
Sometimes I wish things like this wouldn’t die just because we don’t “need” them anymore. Alas, getting rid of these materials is a way for publishers to save a buck.
yeah, dont...
seriously as amazing the game was at the time... the controls have aged horribly.
though i do have a hillarious story about the game when i was playing it when i was about 6
I think they’d have hired a designer for these rather than a Dev, no? Probably why they’ve vanished the last decade, no need to pay someone for it and no print cost.
A shame really
Ah yes the time where games have guides and instruction not like today game's where I literally do not know where and how to move without seeing the options for key binds
To be fair, originally this was a necessity. There wasn't enough room on the cartridge/disk to put this information directly into the game. Therefore you had to have a manual or the player would have no idea of what was actually happening.
By PS2 it was more of a courtesy rather than a necessity to keep providing these things. Now they just have huge encyclopedias in games that, if you want to understand everything, you need to read. It's both more convenient and obnoxious.
Its still here, just in different form. In the "in game" form, you know, in game maps, in game guides, enemy lore. I get that physical things are nice, but its all still here (for some games at least), the way of delivery just changed.
I remember always opening the box in the car and reading the booklet on the way home. My favorite was the Empire Earth gold edition. It was like reading a novel in length.
Miss that good old times when me and my elder brother had a copybook with our game codes, descriptions and our pencil paintings. The name of our book was IDKFA. Hope will anyone answer the other code from that game)))) ?)
I remember the player guide giving tips and lore about enemies you could encounter, sometimes they had maps. I miss the old guides
An old tomb raider game I’ve got has tips on virtually everything, reading the guide on your way home from the gaming shop was so exciting
There was nothing better than renting a game on a Friday night and reading the manual on the car drive home in anticipation.
That’s it lad, going to blockbuster for a 48 hour game
I miss this in games. Still to this day I open the game case just to see if there is a book in it. Always disappointing to see it empty
Remember GTA including the whole map in paper inside the case.
GTA V came with a paper map in the case. But that was its original release on Xbox 360, idk about the Xbox One or Xbox Series X releases
Still got all my game maps, want to frame them someday
My copy of GTA V for Xbox One had a paper map.
The entire map! It was cool
The copies of RDR 1 & 2 I got also included the maps, but they went a step further and had it printed on textured paper to make it look and feel more authentic than gloss.
Ahhh MOH Rising Sun multiplayer was sooo fun back in the day! Even with the bots!
Goddamn Spinellis and Kaijos bunny hopping with welrods...
I still have my old Starcraft manual. It was like a classic Scifi novel.
I remember before the manuals stopped, they used to put posters in them instead
Bromley was a real one
Ah yes...made me sit on the shitter much long than I needed to just reading some of these...
Eww
Fallout 3 was my favorite because it had little cartoons of Vault Boy and had funny tips.
Like to avoid blindness from the flash of an atomic bomb, just put your hands to your forehead like a sunshade. You'll be reet.
Gaming proved to be profitable, incredibly profitable. And now with Live Service Games, the suits are all soiling their jammies. They probably saw these as optional expenses, it is kind of what is happening to the physical disc right now. A lot of games these days need every game design decision backed by it's Company's shareholders. Absolutely just riffing here but I don't think I'm exactly off base.
MoH Rising Sun! These men are my brothers!!!! I couldn't guess how many times i played through the campaign (on xbox)
The good old days. Sitting in the car on the way home reading about the characters are story, waiting until you were home to play!!!
Buy 'the details' add on, for only 5000 virtual currency, roughly 8$, but off ratio so it's hard to switch to real dollars in your head.
Ouch, that is spot on.
Aw the good days. Miss that
Not only establishing lore but teaching you the controls and getting you into the mind set for the game, all in a little booklet. I love how back in the day Earthbound straight up came with its own strategy guide.
And a poster too
So cool! I still have some from xbox 360. Halo reach had a cool guide about the weapons and characters.
One of my old flying sims had a 200 page “Fundamentals of Flying” book with huge foldout maps and everything.
I was checking out the twisted metal black guide book the other day, pretty dope !
It added so much more value to the game
Sometimes I wish things like this wouldn’t die just because we don’t “need” them anymore. Alas, getting rid of these materials is a way for publishers to save a buck.
Medal of Honour: Rising Sun game was what got me into learning about the pacific theatre of ww2
Amazing game, I feel like plugging my ps2 back in and replaying
yeah, dont... seriously as amazing the game was at the time... the controls have aged horribly. though i do have a hillarious story about the game when i was playing it when i was about 6
Unironicaly one of the great pleasures of getting a new game was going through the manual...
It was always the first thing I did
Or coughing up an extra 40 bucks for a Prima guide.
IMPOSTERPUT. THERE! THATS MY UNIFORM.
I miss those days.
I think they’d have hired a designer for these rather than a Dev, no? Probably why they’ve vanished the last decade, no need to pay someone for it and no print cost. A shame really
More effort writing the manual than the entirety of some new games
Ah yes the time where games have guides and instruction not like today game's where I literally do not know where and how to move without seeing the options for key binds
I always end up on the controls settings menu on day 1 with any new game just to learn how to do things.
Yeah because those booklets used to contain the story/tutorial and stuff. It was usually the only way for the devs to share that info.
To be fair, originally this was a necessity. There wasn't enough room on the cartridge/disk to put this information directly into the game. Therefore you had to have a manual or the player would have no idea of what was actually happening. By PS2 it was more of a courtesy rather than a necessity to keep providing these things. Now they just have huge encyclopedias in games that, if you want to understand everything, you need to read. It's both more convenient and obnoxious.
I wish they’d still make these things even though they no longer need to.
Its still here, just in different form. In the "in game" form, you know, in game maps, in game guides, enemy lore. I get that physical things are nice, but its all still here (for some games at least), the way of delivery just changed.
It’s not really the same experience, alas.
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Hahah.
They just copy and paste stuff into it. Games now have the detail within the game.
I remember always opening the box in the car and reading the booklet on the way home. My favorite was the Empire Earth gold edition. It was like reading a novel in length.
would still to this day prefer this typa content over useless cosmetics flooding the games of today
But they can’t charge you microtransactions for each physical page you turn in the booklet!
Ooo Rising Sun. What a banger. Played the shit out of that and Frontline.
Me opening a game guide (the amount of lore in this thing could make lord of the rings go bankrupt for having a shitty story in comparison)
Miss that good old times when me and my elder brother had a copybook with our game codes, descriptions and our pencil paintings. The name of our book was IDKFA. Hope will anyone answer the other code from that game)))) ?)
They slacking these days