Devs need to explain their games

[Ikagawa]

youll find tons of videos/wikis/guides etc online

Which reinforces his point.

[Viryu]

Sort of off topic, but I actually miss the days when you had real game manuals. Not only for instructions but they would often give a quick back story and have amusing art work at times. Now all game manuals are is advertisements and a bunch of legal jargon.

The times of RPGs based on Dungeons and Dragons were so great. Does anyone remember the manual for Baldur's Gate II? It was actually a quite interesting lecture.

[Fuzzy Skinner]

Nothing will ever erase the smells from the cards in the back either.

OMG, YES! I loved those as a kid. I remember the monkey smelled like bubble gum (because he used it to fly) and the puke monster smelled like, well, take a guess.

[Defy]

Which reinforces his point.

yeah but I mean thats how games are nowadays, and its better that way because you end up with way more details then what you'd find in an instruction manual

[Ikagawa]

The times of RPGs based on Dungeons and Dragons were so great. Does anyone remember the manual for Baldur's Gate II? It was actually a quite interesting lecture.

I actually still have my BGII manual and original discs. It is pretty thick, and they went into an amazing amount of detail. The manual is 250 pages.



Blizzard did close to the same thing with the D2 manual. A bunch of bits of lore sprinkled throughout it.

[Fuzzy Skinner]

yeah but I mean thats how games are nowadays, and its better that way because you end up with way more details then what you'd find in an instruction manual

maybe, but you can't get any scratch n' sniff cards that way. :P

[Ikagawa]

yeah but I mean thats how games are nowadays, and its better that way because you end up with way more details then what you'd find in an instruction manual

It's not better this way. Companies should be able to inform their user base of basic functions in an easily found manner. Shoving it away into a sub-menu within a sub-menu is not conducive to learning about a game.

[Jardian]

Yeah its not like you should be smart enough to figure stuff out ...This is simple game for gods sake your not building a atomic reactor from parts in a junk yard...

[Ikagawa]

Yeah its not like you should be smart enough to figure stuff out ...This is simple game for gods sake your not building a atomic reactor from parts in a junk yard...

If we were, I'm absolutely positive you would be standing there telling us how easy it is and how documentation is completely unneeded.

[Defy]

also remember defiance is an mmo so its constantly evolving, balanced, etc

so a printed manual might quickly become outdated