Manuals are not a victim of 8th gen. They have become obsolete during last gen already, because it is a waste of money and paper to print them when they are easily available on the internet.

Yeah, I miss manuals. Even Nintendo got rid of manuals, though they have digital manuals now that are more than the page long things you get in the case. But I miss my good old paper manuals with the pretty artwork that sometimes even had an extra bit of story.

Digital manuals? Doesn't every game come with one?

Most games to be honest manuals didn't matter that much but i remember the Civilization 2 manual was great and also very much essential for new players.It is more tedious having to read a faq or help menu online to find help as opposed to having a proper book, and the Civ II manual was literally a book.

When I bought a game from a shop it was always fun to read the manual before arriving home.

Yeah, I miss them. But I still like to browse my old manuals. Anyone here has a Falcon 4.0 manual? That one's the shit as 600+ pages.

No more big manuals means there's less trees being grown.

You haven't seen the great manual for ACIV.
2 pages of button mapping and 20 pages about DLC.

I actually get excited when I find a game with a manual, it's like finding a pack of gushers you forgot you had lol

Nope. Don't care at all.