I liked them... especially if they where book-like and enriched the lore of the game . Now its just a DLC voucher or nothing. I can count on a single hand how many games had "manuals" from the ones I have purchased in the last couple of years

I miss manuals, same as song text booklets and background info with lps and cds. Same with movies, laser discs had some beautiful artwork with the movies. Blu-ray could really use that since it takes a long time to actually start the movie...

Most games have day 1 patches, install times, perfect time to check out the manual. Sure you can usually start playing after a few minutes without the patch, but there is that nagging feeling that maybe it will run better if you wait for the full install and patching to be done.

Those old pc boxes were the best. No need for a special edition, cloth map, aged paper manual, tarrot cards or other extras standard included. Concept art still looks better in printed form than viewed on a tv screen.

I don't miss manuals. I miss the story booklets. When the manuals had info on the game. I cared about reading that. Not the button information. Which manuals devolved into. Then became obsolete.

They're not victims of the 8th gen. They're victims of the very thing you used to make this thread...the internet. The internet has killed or is killing so many cool things. CD's, DVD's, Blu-Rays, physical magazines, books, news papers, comics, game manuals, strategy guides, trading cards, video games...it's staggering.

I remember playing this mission in PSO where this news reporter wanted you to escort her to the planet so she could try to uncover what happned. She starts musing about "the old days when people would get their news in print." It's pretty crazy to think that it's actually happening, less than 15 years later.

YOUTUBE.... GOOGLE and MANUALS are for CHUMPS

Eh.. I kinda liked using them during the 90s, but they became obsolete thanks to the internet!

Never cared for the manuals really, i liked to smell them and look at the art and such but that was pretty much it.

I do remember DBZ Ultimate Battle 22, it had like 5 fighters which were not unlockable by beating the arcade nor the tournament mode. So i thought these guys were not playable, but then like 6 years later a friend told me about this code or combination of buttons that are on the last pages of the manual to unlock these on-disc fighters.

I was amazed by this because i could have unlocked those guys right from the start, that's what i got for not reading manuals. Now that was pretty cool, but nowadays we have on-disc DLC and microtransactions which are SO MUCH BETTER so we definitely don't need those manuals anymore.

Couldn't miss them less. Never bothered to look at them most of the time.

Somewhat miss them but for the most part they already mostly disappeared a more then a couple of years ago can't even think of the last game I got new that came with a proper manual.

I miss them, but at least Nintendo tends to put some colored paper. .-.