1st September 2015, 6:31 AM
Nintendo? Everyone has "cheaped out" and ditched manuals, or didn't you notice? Heck, Heart of the Swarm came with little more than a leaflet, more or less, and Blizzard are about the only ones even doing that.
Frankly, I'm okay with that. The days when you actually need to read a manual to know what the story is or how to play the game are long behind us. Yes, I do collect manuals for my old games, but I do know where the future is headed. Also, you might notice that all 3DS and Wii U games include a digital manual. They're sorta... "standardized" with all the same basic pages for each one, but it's something. I do wish that at least VC games got the full original manual scanned in though.
Those notepads are a Blizzard tradition. I've never, not even once, actually USED one of those things, but if I ever need to actually write down a note (and I don't have my phone's built in notepad available), I'll know where to find one.
Frankly, I'm okay with that. The days when you actually need to read a manual to know what the story is or how to play the game are long behind us. Yes, I do collect manuals for my old games, but I do know where the future is headed. Also, you might notice that all 3DS and Wii U games include a digital manual. They're sorta... "standardized" with all the same basic pages for each one, but it's something. I do wish that at least VC games got the full original manual scanned in though.
Those notepads are a Blizzard tradition. I've never, not even once, actually USED one of those things, but if I ever need to actually write down a note (and I don't have my phone's built in notepad available), I'll know where to find one.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)