I picked up Gears 3 yesterday, for some casual Horde mode-in' until Skyrim comes out. I remember when Gears 2 came out, I got a 32 page manual explaining all the game modes, weapons, hints, and plot elements, AND a month of XboxLive to play the online. I was completely disgusted to find, that when I picked up Gears of War 3, Microsoft's SIGNATURE game, the game that is supposed to exhibit the best-of-the-best of their platform, the game that gets ALL of the vast resources Microsoft has, that the only thing inside of it was a piece of paper folded in half with the button layout on it and copyright info. In essence, a ONE PAGE manual. And a sticker. a [censored] sticker. Riddle me this, if the game is rated M, and people under 17 can't get it, what is a 17+ year old going to do with a sticker? Beyond that, it was a [censored] recycle case, which I hate. I mean, REALLY MICROSOFT? You're going to be THAT cheap? REALLY? This is 60 [censored] dollars I'm spending here, PLUS the money I'm
already paying for XboxLive in order for me to experience THE BULK OF THE GAME. Reall [censored] disgusting. Gamers are friggin' sheep.
But I guess you're wondering what this has to do with Skyrim. I;ve noticed that if big games have manuals, especially longer ones, they're printed in B&W to save on ink. compare ME's manual to ME2's. This is fairly unattractive, but at least it's a manual. Bethesda had a lengthy manual for Oblivion AND it was in color. Fallout 3's manual was the best manual I've ever seen. It was incredible. Even the garbage Brink had a damn good manual in full color. So do you think Skyrim will follow suit, or do you think they'll finally cheap out on us?
And what about the case? Will it be a proper case? Will they put a slip case over it like Fallout: New Vegas and Brink?
I remember back in the previous gen, basically ALL games had elaborate full color manuals....
» Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:26 am 
