Mike "Scrimshaw" Potts discusses the sad decline of the instruction booklet, as demonstrated by comparing Halo CE's manual to Halo 4's.
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Not really. 4, 5, MCC, and Infinite are only remembered for their shortcomings and failures when the franchise was purely known for being a system seller and an all-time great. There's a reason 1, 2, 3, and Reach are looked back on fondly, and it's not because of nostalgia.
I don't know of anyone that speaks fondly of the later Halo games, I would like to play 5, but I know it's not good, and I'm just waiting on Infinite to hit my strike price. I played MCC a lot later after it came out, so must of those bugs/issues were gone by the time I played it.
To say it dropped the massively is just not true. Many in the community hold H5 as the best mp mechanics in the entire series and say its what 4 should've been. Its campaign was trash but the MP is Fantastic and many faces of the community still play today and it only made 500mill in the matter of months but sure it dropped the ball massively. 4 was hated due to all the changes at once. And CoD like feature and rightful get hate but it's campaign story was liked by a majority of ppl. 343 hasn't nailed ot 100% but they get 1 thing perfect but F up in other places. Infinite had a good campaign and design but the story was a mess. The MP improves upon what Halo 3 was and is what many ppl wanted to go back to but it lacked content severely. So massively aint the word. Dropping the ball massively is when it's pure trash and unplay/unenjoyable. Most ppl blind by nostalgia so soon as 1 thing aint the same its hated cause Halo set the bar so high
FYI reach was not that good.
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I used to love reading the instruction manual. I agree with the author, I wasn't always with my game console, so sometimes I would read the instruction booklet to tide me over until I could play the game. Or sometimes I just liked to learn more about the story before I jumped in and started playing.
I guess some kids nowadays don't have the patience us older gamers have. They are all in guns blazing without a care in the world. What story they say.
I understand with companies trying to cut costs where they can, they figure that all games share the same basic controls now, so why show them when they can just learn it on the fly. Plus, they figure they can just give us a story synopsis during the opening credits of the game.
May the instruction booklet Rest In Peace.
The were nice but in theory a waste of money and time. It does make sense to put them on the disc now/ have a good tutorial
I prefer an in game guide in the menus. I'd rather pause to look something up, instead of grab the case and pull out the book. Plus most games first levels hold your hand with a tutorial... which is getting old in itself. How many virtual target ranges do I have to visit?
I noticed this last night.
It's sad, to be sure, but at least it's cost effective and saves trees.
I don't think I have ever used one of those "manuals". But I think we can all agree that when we were younger we tried to find "cheat codes" or "level walkthroughs" in the manuals. Or maybe that was just me.