Biggest Game Manual You've Seen?

[DNK]

I used to think Civ4's was huge until I picked up Falcon 4:AF.

It's over 700 pages, and that's not counting the extra couple hundred of additional features. Now, granted, Civ4's manual doesn't cover as much, it's still fricken huge.

So, what's the biggest you've seen? How big is too big? What's the biggest manual you'd read?

Got a link?

http://download.high-g.net/files/Falcon_4_Manuals/f4_AF-manual.pdf
(WARNING: fricken huge ^)

 

[Shirastro]

Probably for World of Warcraft.

 

[DNK]

Probably for World of Warcraft.

How big is that one?

 

[skadistic]

Pffffft who even looks at manuals?

 

[Perfection]

NF Stovold’s Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origin is 43 volumes each with 1400 pages.

 

[DNK]

NF Stovold’s Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origin is 43 volumes each with 1400 pages.

Yeah, that's pretty big

What sort of game is that exactly?

 

[Godwynn]

Pffffft who even looks at manuals?

Yep, I usually do the tutorial or experiment.

 

[Godwynn]

NF Stovold’s Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origin is 43 volumes each with 1400 pages.

I hear that it is out of print and can only be found at a local book store.

 

[Chieftess]

About 500 pages. It was for a Japanese import game. Now, the pages were small, though... (the size of a small book - not depth-wise).

 

[carmen510]

Mornington Crescent.

For video game, I'm thinking Civ4 or Hearts of Iron 2: Anthology.

Do you include Strategy Guides?

 

[Sims2789]

Sim City 3000'S was pretty big.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

There are game manuals?

I prefer to man up and jump off the deep end. It works for me.

 

[carmen510]

Oh yeah, I remember Simcity 3000. Can't believe I had forgotten that.

 

[DNK]

Mornington Crescent.

For video game, I'm thinking Civ4 or Hearts of Iron 2: Anthology.

Do you include Strategy Guides?

I'm thinking no on strat guides. I mean, the strat guide for F4:AF would be, well, very long. Technically, a "strategy guide" could be nearly infinite for good sims (imagine all the strategy guides put out for modern aerial combat).

What is this Mornington Crescent already?

 

[Phlegmak]

I have no limit to a what I consider a good game manual. I haven't seen any actual game manuals that I thought were particularly large. Now I'm talking about the manuals that actually come with the game, not some other game strategy guide. The strategy guides are typically much larger than the game manual and I generally don't read the game strategy guides.

 

[TheLastOne36]

There was one game, forgot,

But it had 100 pages, and they made an English Version, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Finnish sections all in one booklet. 1300 pages in total!

 

[Quintillus]

Civilization III of course! Somewhere in the range of 300 pages. I actually read it before I started playing, too, though only because it wouldn't work on my computer at the time. Still, reading the whole thing certainly helped my play.

 

[GenMarshall]

SimCity 3000 Ultimate Manual is the biggest I've ever seen. I doubt that OS manuals would count since they are far bigger than game manuals (and this is a game manual thread)!

 

[Perfection]

Well, also because they're not games...

 

[DBear]

Flight Sim games are known for having huge manuals. The biggest one I have is probably Baldur's Gate II.