£39.99 for an xbox 360 game...

dannyjo22 · 13 Apr 2006 at 21:22

You would think they could make instruction manuals bigger than a couple of pages. Top spin 2 tells you practically nothing about what the stats mean.

Are you supposed to guess?

Nismo · 13 Apr 2006 at 21:28

I found the Fight Night R3 manual to be absolute rubbish as well, and the GRAW one was full of typos or incorrect info.

Who bothers reading manuals anyway?

dannyjo22 · 13 Apr 2006 at 22:42

Normally not me, but there's stacks in top spin that there is no explanation for. Are you supposed to guess. Its pretty annoying to get 3 years into you career to find that you needn't have bothered training stamina at all

Kainz · 13 Apr 2006 at 22:50

They're good to read on *** bog

Only decent informative manual I've seen so far is the Oblivion one. They should put more effort into them I agree. I think it was Full Auto which had the control description totally wrong when I last looked.

dannyjo22 · 13 Apr 2006 at 22:54

Yes but in top spin no one even seems to know how long the career lasts, when you retire ect. Or wnat the significance of each star is. Etc Etc.

NokkonWud · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:14

Manuals are made by the publishers at the 11th hour because all the important people are too busy doing other things.

As with anything it's production costs, the manual will be the next thing to go, in the future I wouldn't be surprised to see .psd files on the discs rather than an actual manual.

Boogle · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:16

NokkonWud said:
As with anything it's production costs, the manual will be the next thing to go, in the future I wouldn't be surprised to see .psd files on the discs rather than an actual manual.

You mean .pdf as opposed to a native Photoshop file?

NokkonWud · 14 Apr 2006 at 00:31

Boogle said:
You mean .pdf as opposed to a native Photoshop file?

Haha, I was working in photoshop at the time! Stop noticing things you!

JUMPURS · 14 Apr 2006 at 07:18

yeah i got to agree i think manuals are appauling these days, tell you nothing and where they do tell you things its so poorly layed out that you miss it anyway.
But you would also think they would sort out the bugs before they released the games too

dirtydog · 14 Apr 2006 at 07:23

Kainz said:
They're good to read on *** bog

/makes a note never to buy a used game off you

I agree with the OP, game manuals are mostly useless nowadays. They only seem to tell you the most basic stuff which you don't really need a manual for anyway unless you're completely dense. When you consult the manual for more detailed information it isn't there :/

da_mic_1530 · 14 Apr 2006 at 10:53

i read the manuals on the bog n all, or if thers none of them then thank god 4 wireless internet

/serious i agree though some manuals are just tripe, i only look at the manual until i get stuck, but they provide such basic info that theres no point