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MicroProse simulator manuals were the best. I can still identify pretty much any aircraft because of the F-19 Stealth Fighter manual. Talk about your favorite doorstopper manuals here.
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Not an old PC manual but any manual written in universe owns Raidou v. soulless army is a good one Whoever decided modern games should not have manuals should be executed
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Oct 3, 2014 08:37
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I still have the spiralbound billion-page manual for Neverwinter Nights. It's pretty cool, lots of lore on monsters and detailed info on spells and poo poo, it's basically a D&D rulebook. It's one of the only games I had a manual for at the time. I mostly just played Genesis and SNES games at the time and I had just gotten the GameCube but all my games for all the above consoles were secondhand and had no manuals. I got Megaman X Command Mission but couldn't play for like a week due to being on the road. I took the manual with me and pored over that for the whole time, then had my dreams horribly crushed by the terrible game when I got home. It wasn't a long manual or anything, I just like, never had game manuals before that.
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Oct 3, 2014 09:06
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bigass manuals were great for reading on the train/bus home when you just bought a game so you were ready 2 game when you got home earth 2015 has a great manual with literally every unit in the game and huge backstories for each faction
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Oct 3, 2014 11:17
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Still have my homeworld and mechcommander manuals
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Oct 3, 2014 13:53
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i still have the manual/novella that came with the original Dark Reign kicking around somewhere. and the Starcraft and Diablo ones. my friends traded the diablo manual around like some malevolent and forbidden text back in middle school, which seems appropriate.
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Oct 3, 2014 14:11
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Lords of Magic had a pretty good manual.
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Oct 3, 2014 14:28
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i would bring manuals with me to school to read during lunch and study halls and everyone made fun of me for doing so and also one time a really cool person ripped the book out of my hands and ran away and stole it forever and i never saw it again and my dad told me to never bring those loving things to school again (his words)
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Oct 3, 2014 15:16
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Hell ya now games just come in a box with a key :c Homm2 book was great.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:11
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We already talked about this in the last homeworld thread but it's worth bringing up Homeworld: A Historical and Technical Briefing again. It was probably one of the greatest items to ever come with a pc game. I remember reading it for hours between gaming sessions
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Oct 3, 2014 16:16
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I remember all the Blizzard games at least up to and including Warcraft 3 having awesome manuals. I remember the Starcraft and Warcraft ones including Chris Metzen's 'art' which looked like something a bored middle schooler might doodle during math class.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:37
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Fallout and Fallout 2 had awesome manuals, I'm going to dig through boxes now, thanks IMPS.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:45
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Omar_Comin posted:Fallout and Fallout 2 had awesome manuals, I'm going to dig through boxes now, thanks IMPS. The vault dwellers journal entries in both are good but the fo2 ones are the best
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Oct 3, 2014 16:48
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i would carry around the sim city 2000 manual + a giant guidebook for it and read both over and over
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Oct 3, 2014 17:34
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Jackie D posted:Still have my homeworld and mechcommander manuals really miss my homeworld manual
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Oct 3, 2014 17:38
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I remember buying Falcon 4 from Wal-Mart for $20 and going loving nuts at how drat cool the manual aka BINDER was. That poo poo has to border on being a realistic flight manual.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:52
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I loved the Illusion of Gaia manual.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:02
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red alert had cool manuals and i think i remember it had 2 distinct ones for allies and soviets and they were written totally in-character rad as gently caress
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Oct 3, 2014 18:35
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Why did they have to die out. cant games just include them as pdfs at least?
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Oct 3, 2014 18:37
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Agean90 posted:Why did they have to die out. They have been replaced by 4 hour long tutorials. Paying people to write a manual costs money so they don't do it.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:40
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titaniumone posted:red alert had cool manuals and i think i remember it had 2 distinct ones for allies and soviets and they were written totally in-character Tiberian Sun probably had the best manual of any C&C game. RA2 had a fold-out tech tree that I looked at maybe once.
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Oct 3, 2014 22:07
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SimCity SNES had the biggest manual I'd ever seen for a console game, it was more like a small strategy guide.
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Oct 3, 2014 23:09
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My coworker printed out the manual for Civ V. It's about the size of a phone book.
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Oct 4, 2014 01:29
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I spent hours of my youth reading the Hero Unit Biographies in the Empire Earth Manual
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Oct 4, 2014 01:31
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sacrifice's manual wasn't novel-sized but it owned because each faction was written up unit by unit by their faction leader/god of a specific domain
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Oct 4, 2014 08:39
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Apparently the red alert one had morse code messages on each page that eventually become two soldiers basically texting each other about giant ants. http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Alert_1_manual
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Oct 4, 2014 08:54
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The only thing I liked about Master of Orion 3 were the paragraphs of lore scattered throughout the manual.
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Oct 4, 2014 12:02
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My favorites were the early Ultima Online manuals. Also Myth: The Fallen Lords and Soulblighter had good manuals with cool art. 
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Oct 4, 2014 14:05
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 Ah, a tome of arcane knowledge! What secrets could it hold?  lol
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Oct 4, 2014 17:30
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Pretty sure the Jane's manuals were actually just the real helicopter manuals with a new cover.
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Oct 4, 2014 19:26
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manuals > tutorials, itio
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Oct 4, 2014 19:33
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SimCity 2000's manual was more a textbook on urban planning and civic engineering than the actual game.
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Oct 4, 2014 19:41
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I used to lug around my old Baldur's Gate manual and read it in middle school.
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Oct 4, 2014 20:50
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huge manuals owned gently caress digital manuals and lovely tutorials
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Oct 4, 2014 22:02
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I don't need some tutorial to tell me that pressing right makes me go right.
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Oct 4, 2014 22:48
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Shakin my fool head no mention of the Alpha Centauri manual.
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Oct 4, 2014 23:04
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ctrl-f arcanum, no results smh it was worthless because it was like 10 pages on how to play the obtuse piece of poo poo and then 200 pages of neato lore
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Oct 5, 2014 00:05
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:MicroProse simulator manuals were the best. I can still identify pretty much any aircraft because of the F-19 Stealth Fighter manual. I think Civ 4 (or was it 3) was the last game to do this, now it's all in-game.
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Oct 5, 2014 00:06
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you could probably actually play D&D with the baldurs gate manual
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Mach2 posted:I still have the spiralbound billion-page manual for Neverwinter Nights. It's pretty cool, lots of lore on monsters and detailed info on spells and poo poo, it's basically a D&D rulebook. hell yeah, i still have my gold box krynn trilgoy manuals and they're ballin and then you realize that you rolled a half-elf and the manual reveals he'll never progress past fourteenth level and you're like gently caress this game
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