Do you read the manual

[Theoden]

I haven't seen any polls about this since I became a member so..

How many of you have actually read the manual. I get the impression that most people don't. In one of the first chapters of the manual it says "The folks who make computer games know that most players never read the manual".
And the game wouldn't be funny if we didn't made so many mistakes because we didn't read the manual.

And this is my post number 300 [dance]

 

[Masquerouge]

I always read the manual. Just to be sure it's wrong
Seriously, how can you expect the manual to be correct after so many patches ? Not blaming anyone, mind.

 

[Vinaes]

A manual... what kind of geek are you

 

[Turner]

Civ2 & Civ3 - yes. Civ4 - probably not.... maybe a quick look. For 2 & 3 it was more to look something up, but after seeing how badly a manual can be mangled, I now tend to look online before resorting to the manual.

 

[kulade]

Happy 300th post!

And no i never ever read the manual.

 

[col]

With any new game I like to play for a couple of hours to get a feel for basic concepts. Then I read the manual cover to cover. Then I play for a couple of weeks. Then I read the manual cover to cover again picking up on the subtle things that didnt make an impact straight away.

 

[stormbind]

No way! Reading the manual would ruin the fun of trial & error.

 

[Barker]

Hmm... I normally don't read manuals... but you need something to read when you are doing Natures' business

 

[kulade]

Usually if i buy a game ive played it before anyway, and civ was easy to catch on to for me, i had more trouble w/ Aok and other games.

 

[LLXerxes]

I've read over the manual atleast twice.

 

[Rammstein]

I've read the original Civ3 manual once, mainly because it was the first game I actually bought. I read through it briefly to see if I had missed anything. I hadn't, but I still like manuals in general. I even read manuals to no-brainer games like Half-life and such, I just kind of like it.

 

[Theoden]

When I got civ2 i didn't have any manual, didn't look after the readme and I didn't know anybody else who could help me. So i had to figure out everything about civ (I had never heard if civ before). I that case a manual would have been helpful even if it was full of mistakes.

 

[Vizurok]

What's a manual?
Personally I didn't get a manual, but I could get every information I want form the pedia.

 

[Vinaes]

When I got civ2 i didn't have any manual, didn't look after the readme and I didn't know anybody else who could help me. So i had to figure out everything about civ (I had never heard if civ before).

Lets press the F button... oh look the little archer is building a statue of it self... cool

 

[HalfBadger]

Hmm... I normally don't read manuals... but you need something to read when you are doing Natures' business

or stuck at 38%.

 

[chancellor_dan]

My box didnt even contain a manual.

 

[dgfred]

I am with the Lanky Moderator- play a little, read the manuel, play some
more, read & study more and lurk the forums

 

[Dell19]

With any new game I like to play for a couple of hours to get a feel for basic concepts. Then I read the manual cover to cover. Then I play for a couple of weeks. Then I read the manual cover to cover again picking up on the subtle things that didnt make an impact straight away.

Thats roughly what I used to do but recently manual reading has fallen down the list of priorities and quite a lot of the games I buy seem to be sequels that essentially use the same systems so reading isn't really necessary.

 

[Barker]

or stuck at 38%.

I must be missing something here.... I don't know what you mean. Does it have to do with Prairie Dogging?

 

[shadowdude]

Civ 3 was my first experince w/civ games so reading the manual was a necessity for me.( to understand concepts like corruption, governments etc. not for actual game play though)