Just a word of warning - - Walmart Prima Guide
timelycorruption:
One does not simply walk into Walmart and buy a Prima Guide. There is evil there that does not sleep.
Hook:
Given the sorry state of game manuals these days, the Prima Guide serves as the manual for the game. I'm surprised more people aren't bitching about having to buy a manual separately, but then what percentage of the game buyers ever read their manuals?
Anyone remember the days when games came with nice thick manuals? Those manuals had no more errors in them than the Prima Guides do today.
Condemning the Prima Guides for an error is like condemning a shop manual for your car because an illustration showed a screw in a different place, especially when that screw wasn't important. Do you trust the info in the Guide 100%? No. Do you trust it more than a bunch of random people posting on the Internet? Hell yes.
Yeah. I'll buy the Prima Guides (already did, actually). But thanks for the heads-up on the Wal*Mart mini version. That sucks.
Hook
Zazazu:
The NeverWinterNights manual is epic. Heck, the manual that came with Ultima IV had maps and was huge.
Tsarina:
Quote from: Hook on 2009 June 04, 22:33:45
Given the sorry state of game manuals these days, the Prima Guide serves as the manual for the game. I'm surprised more people aren't bitching about having to buy a manual separately, but then what percentage of the game buyers ever read their manuals?
I read the manual for games. It's a part of the anticipation. You buy the game at the store. You just can't wait to play it, so you take out the manual and look through it on the bus. Then, when you get home, you start the installation of the game, make a nice cup of tea and read the manual thoroughly while the game installs.
Manuals probably got thinner because computers got faster, eh? :P
Quote from: Hook on 2009 June 04, 22:33:45
Anyone remember the days when games came with nice thick manuals?
I think I enjoyed the brick that is the World Of Warcraft manual more than the game itself.
Kyna:
Quote from: Hook on 2009 June 04, 22:33:45
Anyone remember the days when games came with nice thick manuals? Those manuals had no more errors in them than the Prima Guides do today.
*sniffs sadly* Yes. Like the one Civilization came with (that's Civ1). Roughly the same size as a TS2 Prima Guide, or possibly slightly bigger. It was also on the floppy disks in a text file.
I think the reason nobody minded if the manuals had errors back then was because they were included with the game. Part of the reason we're so quick to criticise the Prima guides is because we now have to pay for something that used to be included when we purchased a game, and we resent paying extra for something with errors. People figure that if we have to pay separately for the manuals then those manuals better be as close to error free as possible and unfortunately that's not the case.
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