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| hoverboots:
It hurts me to open up a new game and find no manual, but instructions on how to access your digital manual. Does anyone remember how cool instruction manuals used to be? The Pokemon Red/Blue one in particular. I always looked forward to reading the manual before I even popped the game in, it set the stage in a magical way, provided that much more immersion into the adventure that was about to unfold. Just part of the magic, man... and we're slowly losing it. :/ A huge reason I want to learn to make covers, and why I joined this site, is to make cases for all my games that ARE digital only, like Double Dragon Neon, Strider (PS3), Shovel Knight, etc... Waste of space? Maybe. But it's a display more than anything, right? |
| Hoggs17:
Agree 100% with the manuals. After I started collecting games again, i started with the manuals (affordable ones at least). They still smell like they did 20 years ago...what magic! I mean I can't sit down and play F-Zero until I know the story and how much the Wild Goose weighs! |
| sheep2001:
I can remember as a kid, meeting with friends in town, going to the game shop for ages, and playing the games, and looking at them, before choosing one, opening it on the bus home and reading every page in the manual. Building the excitement before actually getting it home and playing. Kids these days miss out on all that. Digital distribution takes all the fun out of it. |
| hoverboots:
All that anticipation is traded for instant gratification. I guess there's an argument for both sides... but I know how I like it, and nobody's going to take that away from me. That's also a huge draw to me when looking at Kickstarter projects. If they've got physical rewards? Just shut up and take my money lol... |
| Thom Grayson:
--- Quote from: Hoggs17 on December 29, 2014, 12:02:04 PM ---<gets out of rocking chair and picks up cane> Keep you fancy digital media you meddling kids, I will keep my physical copies! --- End quote --- Yeah, shelves beat the pants off of menus. Physical copies give your collection a physical presence... no one ever doubts my game collection credentials! But a menu with over a thousand things in it isn't impressive... it's sort of tedious. |
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