A sad goodbye to the instruction booklets of old

Remember that feeling when you read through a nice big booklet on the game you bought, giving you a chance to learn the controls, build up hype or brace for disappointment? Can you also recall the feeling you get now? The feeling that what you’ve bought is lesser than everyone else’s due to the amount of advertising shoved down your face for season passes and other ways the developer’s are trying to grab your hard earned cash? For some reason these booklets are becoming a thing of the past, and I cant understand why.

[XxNxWxOxX]

Oh how I remember the good old days of reading the instruction manual of a brand new game while my dad drove me home. It was such an awesome way to get acquainted with the game before I got home.

[thomasprince2326]

We have a McDonald's right next to our regular game shop. So after buying games we would go there, eat and read the booklets.

[naruga]

though some first-print editions like Dark Souls 3 include normal colored manuals as first guide ...while companies seem to ditch manuals as the new normal, still will be included as in limited or 1st print editions

[thomasprince2326]

In reply to naruga: I still don't think that's acceptable though, because now get are charging for it and using it as a collector's exclusive.

[Erik7357]

This sounds like a amazing childhood lol

[thomasprince2326]

In reply to Fries: It isn't just my childhood. We still have our old 360, and the shops still around. We sometimes still go there. Just recently we picked up a copy of the Family Guy game. My dad does not care for the manuals though. He wasn't bothered with learning the controls, he just wanted to shoot stuff.

[blackblades]

I remember reading them after I played a good amount of a game and learned somethings that I didn't know.

[XxNxWxOxX]

I remember that that's when I figured out you could click in the thumb sticks :/ it wasn't until I got the 360 that you could do that on PS2 as well :D

[isarai]

A bit late don't you think? It's been this way for years now, and yes it sucks big time.

[thomasprince2326]

If you let something go because it has been a while, you are falling in to acceptance.

[isarai]

"a sad goodbye" implies something recent/current though. Saying "goodbye" means nothing 5-6yrs after the fact. Not saying to let it go, just saying the title contextually makes no sense

[thomasprince2326]

In reply to isari:

Good point, can't fault you on that.

[ZwVw]

Blame Ubisoft, they were the pretty much the first major gaming publisher to announce that they were ditching paper manuals.

[Kallisti]

Damn, Ubisoft even downgrading game cases, haha

[JakeNoseIt]

Never forget being on the playground reading the booklet to Ratchet and Clank: Deadlocked because I had been anticipating it forever haha

[IIFloodyII]

I think it was Dark Souls 3 that had one in it recently and put a big smile on my face, went and read it on the toilet for that authentic feeling of old.

[Playable_Gamez]

The Witcher 3 had one to.

[Pancit_Canton]

Maybe someone with a lot of time can do a kickstarter and sell it for about $2 a piece.