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There really is nothing wrong with them. What are you people doing with your cases that this new setup is so bad? I've never had a problem with them, and really find it difficult to discover why people are crying about them so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
I like a nice manual, full color with lots of artwork. The black & white pamphlets printed with bare minimal information using toilet-paper stock, on the other hand, won't be missed. Calling it a green initiative instead of a cost-cutting measure is an insult to everyone's intelligence, though.
James
Ubisoft can get away with this because I can't really think of any games by them that require a decent manual. On the other hand, I'd be pretty ticked off if 2K did the same thing - I can't imagine Civilization V shipping with anything less than a 50 page manual.
Modern manuals may be nowhere near the page count of an epic tome like the Falcon 3.0 manual (so large that it wasn't really a bound manual - they expected you to supply a three-ring binder for it) or the Simcity 2000 manual (with its oodles of essays, art, and history), but a decent thickness is still definitely required for certain kinds of games.
I gave your mom a decent thickness.Quote:
Originally Posted by bVork
Of course, there's always the all-time king of video game manuals-
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1272170080
Not that I ever played it or even care to, but I was always tempted to pick it up just for the incredible packaging.
James
Stop defending the fucking atrocious design of these cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
They've removed plastic from the one place it's actually needed, while leaving the manual side (which is now even more unnecessary) fully intact.
The issue isn't that cutting out plastic is a bad idea, it's that they cut it out of the worst possible part of the case, leaving the disc less protected and making the one part of the case that needs to withstand any amount of force with less support.
Um, the new cases that I've seen cut out the plastic from both sides. Personally, I don't have a problem with it, but my games don't really travel anywhere and thus aren't in any danger of being damaged.
I've only seen disc side cutouts so far, but the main problem is still the same.
If there were any real desire make these things more environmentally friendly, the cases themselves would be much smaller overall.
Hopefully that will be the case once everyone realizes that manuals and inserts are completely worthless to begin with.
in canada, we get 2 manuals with our games!
the less the merrier I figure, while having a manual is sometimes good in that you can flip through it to learn the control schemes or whatever, it ain't gonna be detrimental to build the manual into the game itself (this also has the added benefit of storing more localized versions of the manual on the disc which could be a bonus for foreigners trying to play region-free imports)
If the disc breaks, they can sell you another. Everyone who bought another 360 when theirs red ringed trained Microsoft well.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa