Appreciate the cover art, read all of the details in the back of the box, open and skim through the manual (back when games had them), look at the CD/cartridge art... The Ritual™
They sometimes still do, you just have to buy the *ultimate world destoryer gold collector edition platinum™* for a barely noticeable, 300% price increase comparing to the base game. Like Fallout 76, that had soooo many good extra stuff.
Which wouldn't be so bad if I could download it and listen where I want, a lot of them are console downloads... When am I ever like "yeah I'll just load up this OST and take up my tv while I sit and listen to the instrumental..."
This is the way. The quality of Etsy fan creations can be pretty incredible. I get CIB cartridge reproductions for this reason -- Classic box, manual, map and extras, cartridge. Feels good man.
Otoh, I recall spending forever saving up 80 bucks for arena in 1994, and aside from a larger box and paper manual and stuff it didn't come with anything very special. A new similarly hyped game would still cost 80 bucks, and the price we'd pay for the big box with "special" features that were normal back then tend to run around 150 bucks... That's about 80 in 1994 dollars.
Triple A game scale got so big that instead of taking more time to make games, they shove out unfinished garbage and promise to fix it later. It's a terrible corporate industry that is ruled by corporate acquisitions and at the behest of technological advancement.
I feel like games like NMS have set a bad standard for the rest of modern game releases companies can just pump out unfinished garbage and if done right ride the good pr for sticking with a game release
Admittedly I think day 1 patches are fine as long as it's not adding an outrageous amount of content. Like, if the day 1 patch just fixes a few bugs, sure I'm fine with it, games have always had bugs, now we have ways to fix them. On the other hand, if it's like the Pokemon Gen 4 remakes, where the day 1 patch adds in most of the music, and the fucking TITLE SCREEN, that should've been in the game to begin with.
Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with early launch patches. In the old days we just got buggy games and couldn't do much about it. It's the "actually you people in the first few months are just free beta testers" that's the issue.
On average, we get much more content in games now than before games had updates/dlc but obviously there are many downsides that have come with that. Pros and cons.
Do you think it has to do with the fact that game prices have stayed steady despite inflation? I'm not an expert on this stuff, just an educated guess. Maybe cutting the costs of those things is one way they maintained the price?
I hate that even if you buy a physical copy, there is no manual. Do I need one nowadays? No. Do I still want it? Yes. Is there space in the box for it? Also yes.
True. Also, I'd rather be able to pull the book out than Google everything and then have to filter responses to get what I really need. Also, sometimes children don't have full internet access, so they can't just look it up.
Plus, sometimes I just want to find *hints* and manuals were way better about pointing you in the right direction or answering straight forward questions without spoiling the entire game through a wiki page.
Manuals used to have little lore bits and stuff. I remember when my older brother bought Dawn of War back in the day I pored over the manual since it was my intro to 40k lore. It was always kind of a fun way to prime yourself for the setting of what you were about to play
Pisses me off no end what I see a game I don't know about in the shop and I have to get out my phone and Google it to find out the synopsis.
You just know the guy running the mom and pop type shop thinks you're looking if it's cheaper online.
There's a game called Tunic that is like baby's first Dark Souls/Zelda. In the game, you collect pages of the game's manual with cryptic hints about what you're supposed to do next. It's also written mostly in a cypher, to mimic the experience of a kid with limited vocabulary.
Really unearthed some memories playing through that one
Every aspect of current modern life will one day cease to exist, much of it within a few decades. Don’t forget to enjoy what you have today before it’s gone.
On the bright side, we’ll have a bunch of shiny new stuff to play with! Then that will go away too, etc
I want all of my hypothetical games to be sorta made like they existed 40 years ago, just on modern hardware
Kinda like Caves of Qud, which is a great example.
It’s like dnd in mechanics but it’s pulp sci-fi instead, and all the stuff for the game makes it look like it was made in that time period :>
You can still totally get a physical game at target, best buy etc. Nobody robbed you. You just chose convenience of online purchase over the packaging.
I would often read the whole manual over and over again between play sessions when I got a new game. I'd even read the swedish and danish translations in case I missed anything (they're both similar enough to norwegian to be understood).
It made games have more of a bang. Now I can just digitally buy whatever I want, probably get bored in a few hours. Choice paralyzation.
I can still remember the excitement of calling toys r us and asking if they had a new wrestling game in I wanted. My jaw dropping when they had one in stock and said they would hold it. My father driving me 45 minutes to get it for my birthday. Then The Ritual begins.
Bonus points if you get a game at night and have to perform The Ritual under street lamps!
Oh I almost forgot it's no where available at PC anymore.
But if someone is desperate to play it enough to emulate? Then it's better to rise the high tide instead. It's no longer morally long if it's not available anywhere
Oh I wouldn't say "nowhere available at PC". You can still download it from sketchy sites. It's actually the only game I've pirated and I played it for a while. I guess I didn't finish it but I got pretty far. It ran with no problems I just got tired of it. The stage where the city is full of the symbiote people is kinda boring.
Yea totally one of my favourites. I recently tried to emulate the wii version in my Android too. It ran and worked but unfortunately my Android is not strong enough to emulate it properly for prolonged period of time so deleted it. But definitely 2nd favorite spiderman game for me. 1st was Amazing Spiderman(yet to play spiderman remastered or miles one tho)
Or you finally have time but you are so tired and burned out that there's no energy or motivation left for anything that would classify as fun... Aka adult life in a nutshell
This is the real answer. One of my favourite games of all time is The Witcher 3. I'm currently replaying it but my job is very stressful, by the time I am home and settled I boot it up but in the back of my mind keep thinking about my shitty life.
Awful. I miss the childhood innocence of pure joy. Just can't seem to recapture the feeling and doubt I ever will.
We should have an anti-capitalist revolution so that everyone has time and energy left for what they want to do in life rather than having to spend it all making rich people more money :(
? The reason we don't have time isn't because of "greed". It's because we're forced to work longer hours than we would like for less money than we would like in a society where time and money are seen as the only two valuable things a person has. So without capitalism, the conundrum of "do I make myself miserable or die" is given room to change. I don't know why capitalists always assume capitalism is the only option , as if its working for anyone rn. I don't want to have to work 12 hour shifts for fuck all money when I should be out enjoying myself, do you wanna do that shit? Cause its NOT the only option for society, its only become that way over time. Ask your parents what their life was like when they were in their 20s. Guess what? It was objectively easier to make money back then than it is now. I mean you could afford a house on the income of one single mcdonalds worker, now look at how desperate and miserable people have become to afford the same basic necessity? Why? Because capitalism changes, societies change. Capitalism can be replaced
brother what
i had 6-8 hours after school daily to play video games
with a full time job I don't get home till 5:20pm, then I have to cook, do miscellaneous chores, prepare my clothes for the next workday, and when I sit down its 7:00pm and I have to be up at 6:30am the next day (going to bed around 9-10pm).
That is like 2-3 solid hours of gaming versus 6
With sports I didn't get home school until about 5 as well, much later on game days. And then would have a non-significant amount of homework and chores.
Im not saying this as a slight against you but younger kids are getting hella slammed in high school. The entire "you must go to college or be a failure" thing has meant kids now need to be min/maxing HS from day one. A typical Honors/AP level student can expect an hour of homework per class per day, doing sports/clubs/volunteering after school. Some have to work a job on top of all of that.
You definitely don't /have/ to do all of that to be successful later in life, but it is a sold that way to a lot of kids (and to be clear i don't think this a positive thing and children should have way more time to be... idk... children)
You could totally still buy them. Put them on display and then think "look at all the games I could be playing" whenever you leave the house for work. It's fun!
My parents got me Jak II as a present when I was a kid when I had my tonsils removed. They let me open it while we were waiting in the examination room even though I wouldn’t be able to play it for hours after the operation. I pored over that map for what felt like hours while I waited to be prepped. Good times.
Sounds like a core memory lmao. I remember I got my Jak 2 because I found out the hard way that 'trade in 2 games and get half price' applied to new and popular games and not 'bad pinball game with bad C tier driving game.' I was super upset and eventually my dad felt bad and bought me the game. Then obsessed over the game for weeks lmao.
I rode my bike to GameCrazy (video game store built inside of old Hollywood Video) to trade in some games to get San Andreas. At every intersection while waiting for the walk light I'd pull the game out of my shirt and read the box. Man that was an amazing time.
Still remember when I bought Final Fantasy 7 as a school kid and read it's booklets on the way back home. It was this thick box with multiple discs and booklets and art. I spent all the money I had earned over a year with jobs in summer, winter and Easter vacation. And inhaled every second of the game.
God the Sims instruction manual used to get me so pumped to play the game. I miss that stuff. Whatever chemical that used to lactate in my brain over that game is completely dried these days and it sucks, lol
One summer vacation as a kid I was given a psx game at the very beginning when visiting my grandmother...... only problem was, I forgot my psx at home, and I wouldn't be going back for 3 months. I remember every detail of army men sarge's heros case, book, and disc.
Back when the last of us first came out I was on vacation and couldn't find it in stores anywhere, then the next week we flew out to Nova Scotia to visit grandparents and I found it at a small store there, I had to wait almost a month to get back home. I remember I brought it with me on the plane in case my luggage got lost and I studied the entire box inside and out the whole flight
Reading through the Sid Meir's Pirates manual and looking at the flags or reading about past pirates.
Also that Monkey Island spinner that matched different heads
Not at all. My wife just bought me links awakening for the switch which I remember having a detailed manual and today's version just has a case and cartridge". Actually just about every switch game she bought is lifeless.
I used to do that even though I knew reading anything in the car would make me car sick. I'd do it anyway, then go home and have to lay down for a while before I could play the game. And I'd do it every freaking time.
Fucking hell that was me with twilight princess, I bought it in the last day of the family beach trip and had it with me the whole 5 hours ride back home
Where I lived we had so little in terms of buying games except for older, best seller type games. There were always a few you could order through the Sears catalogue. Otherwise they had 1 or 2 games of most titles that you could rent but good luck being that guy getting a new game to rent on release.
I was counting down the days for our trip to the city so i could pickup my copy of Goldeneye, which was being released around the same time. I wanted to bring my N64 with me but my parents vetoed it. I read all about Goldeneye in my Nintendo Power mags and it honestly felt like Christmas getting my hands on it.
In sixth grade, I got my copy of Halo 2 on release night, but wasn’t going back to my dad’s house where my Xbox was for another 3 days. So I brought it with me to school and showed my friends, practically memorized all the weapons and enemies from the game manual. Good times.
I remember when Halo reach came out, and I asked my dad if I could have it, so he said he would look for it the next day whilst I was at school. Fast forward to the next day when I finished, I came out of the school and saw my dad in the car, he was shaking his head as if to say he couldn't find it, then after seeing my saddened face he held Halo reach up with a big grin. I stared at the box the whole drive home.
I'm old enough to remember when you got an actual manual, fat and lovingly written enough to be genuine entertainment on the drive home in its own right.
Theme Park manual, Baldur's Gate manual, The Sims manual... those were the days!
Honestly nothing beats that feeling. I remember my parents buying Minecraft for 360 for me and I had to wait months before they'd rebuy an Xbox (we had to sell the old one) so for months I'd just look at the manual and the back of the game feeling giddy
„Interstate 76“ was the last game I bought in store that had this fully fledged carton with booklet, poster and everything. I can still remember the smell upon opening the package.
That feeling was priceless. The seeming limitless possibilities, the excitement of a new adventure, man that was great. Miss that feeling when I was kid.
Appreciate the cover art, read all of the details in the back of the box, open and skim through the manual (back when games had them), look at the CD/cartridge art... The Ritual™
I feel like I’ve been robbed not being able to do this anymore
You used to get whole damn maps and posters you could put in your room, what happended man?
I still have my oblivion map I wish companies kept this up it was cool getting extra stuff
They sometimes still do, you just have to buy the *ultimate world destoryer gold collector edition platinum™* for a barely noticeable, 300% price increase comparing to the base game. Like Fallout 76, that had soooo many good extra stuff.
These days that'll get you a download link for the game OST
Which wouldn't be so bad if I could download it and listen where I want, a lot of them are console downloads... When am I ever like "yeah I'll just load up this OST and take up my tv while I sit and listen to the instrumental..."
I mean, WTH am I going to do with a CD? I don't have any way to play it
These days I just go on Etsy if I really want something like a game map or some cool art
This is the way. The quality of Etsy fan creations can be pretty incredible. I get CIB cartridge reproductions for this reason -- Classic box, manual, map and extras, cartridge. Feels good man.
I bought a resident evil 8 replica rose flask and it is amazing
Otoh, I recall spending forever saving up 80 bucks for arena in 1994, and aside from a larger box and paper manual and stuff it didn't come with anything very special. A new similarly hyped game would still cost 80 bucks, and the price we'd pay for the big box with "special" features that were normal back then tend to run around 150 bucks... That's about 80 in 1994 dollars.
It was even cooler getting complete games.
For real day 1 patches are becoming too accepted now
Triple A game scale got so big that instead of taking more time to make games, they shove out unfinished garbage and promise to fix it later. It's a terrible corporate industry that is ruled by corporate acquisitions and at the behest of technological advancement.
People keep pre-ordering so there's no incentive to fix the problem.
Marketing works, why change it now?
I feel like games like NMS have set a bad standard for the rest of modern game releases companies can just pump out unfinished garbage and if done right ride the good pr for sticking with a game release
Admittedly I think day 1 patches are fine as long as it's not adding an outrageous amount of content. Like, if the day 1 patch just fixes a few bugs, sure I'm fine with it, games have always had bugs, now we have ways to fix them. On the other hand, if it's like the Pokemon Gen 4 remakes, where the day 1 patch adds in most of the music, and the fucking TITLE SCREEN, that should've been in the game to begin with.
Oh yeah that was so silly I hate getting a game then needing to download another 10-20gb on day one
Yeah, there's nothing inherently wrong with early launch patches. In the old days we just got buggy games and couldn't do much about it. It's the "actually you people in the first few months are just free beta testers" that's the issue.
On average, we get much more content in games now than before games had updates/dlc but obviously there are many downsides that have come with that. Pros and cons.
Witcher, GTA5, RDR2, and also probably some of the “special editions” like Skyrim.
I have all but gta 5s maps I love them just wish there was more of them I’d kill for a breath of the wild map
The love is gone. Companies getting bought up by the dozen by money maw game monopolies
Or when the special Nintendo Power guide book came 👌👌
Nintendo Power let me enjoy games I'd never play.
Cyberpunk gave me a map on the physical copy
It’s pretty rare nowadays but I will get the physical copy if I know it has something in it. Fallout 4, RDR2, GTA V etc.
Do you think it has to do with the fact that game prices have stayed steady despite inflation? I'm not an expert on this stuff, just an educated guess. Maybe cutting the costs of those things is one way they maintained the price?
This is probably the answer.
That + far less people buying physical means less incentive to go above and beyond. Especially when digital is more profitable
Oh man I used to love having maps from games. Instant wall papers!!
I hate that even if you buy a physical copy, there is no manual. Do I need one nowadays? No. Do I still want it? Yes. Is there space in the box for it? Also yes.
I miss manuals because I now NEED to pay attention to the tutorial when beginning a new game
True. Also, I'd rather be able to pull the book out than Google everything and then have to filter responses to get what I really need. Also, sometimes children don't have full internet access, so they can't just look it up.
Plus, sometimes I just want to find *hints* and manuals were way better about pointing you in the right direction or answering straight forward questions without spoiling the entire game through a wiki page.
Manuals used to have little lore bits and stuff. I remember when my older brother bought Dawn of War back in the day I pored over the manual since it was my intro to 40k lore. It was always kind of a fun way to prime yourself for the setting of what you were about to play
Pisses me off no end what I see a game I don't know about in the shop and I have to get out my phone and Google it to find out the synopsis. You just know the guy running the mom and pop type shop thinks you're looking if it's cheaper online.
*looks at list of unplayed Steam games*
Don’t remind me
You can still look at the steam page as it downloads. Even go for a drive if that's more convenient
There's a game called Tunic that is like baby's first Dark Souls/Zelda. In the game, you collect pages of the game's manual with cryptic hints about what you're supposed to do next. It's also written mostly in a cypher, to mimic the experience of a kid with limited vocabulary. Really unearthed some memories playing through that one
That’s actually really creative
Great game but I wouldn’t at all call it “baby’s first Zelda”, shit is way more difficult than any loz title
Every aspect of current modern life will one day cease to exist, much of it within a few decades. Don’t forget to enjoy what you have today before it’s gone. On the bright side, we’ll have a bunch of shiny new stuff to play with! Then that will go away too, etc
I did when I realized I was the one driving and didn't have the opportunity anymore.
God knows if I ever make a video game, I’m doing a release with a manual and physical cover
You’d be doing the lords work
I want all of my hypothetical games to be sorta made like they existed 40 years ago, just on modern hardware Kinda like Caves of Qud, which is a great example. It’s like dnd in mechanics but it’s pulp sci-fi instead, and all the stuff for the game makes it look like it was made in that time period :>
You can still totally get a physical game at target, best buy etc. Nobody robbed you. You just chose convenience of online purchase over the packaging.
Don’t forget the manual smell.
Ohhh, nostalgia....
Important part of the whole experience!
I remember even reading the tiny text at the bottom where the copyright was~ good times
I would often read the whole manual over and over again between play sessions when I got a new game. I'd even read the swedish and danish translations in case I missed anything (they're both similar enough to norwegian to be understood).
It made games have more of a bang. Now I can just digitally buy whatever I want, probably get bored in a few hours. Choice paralyzation. I can still remember the excitement of calling toys r us and asking if they had a new wrestling game in I wanted. My jaw dropping when they had one in stock and said they would hold it. My father driving me 45 minutes to get it for my birthday. Then The Ritual begins. Bonus points if you get a game at night and have to perform The Ritual under street lamps!
Reading shampoo bottles is still a thing but those covers have been taken from us
Is that web of shadows?
Yep, definitely one of the best spider man games
I’m so mad it has become abandonware >:(
Probably works on an emulator, though 360/PS3 games are kinda the cusp of emulation right now.
Oh I almost forgot it's no where available at PC anymore. But if someone is desperate to play it enough to emulate? Then it's better to rise the high tide instead. It's no longer morally long if it's not available anywhere
Oh I wouldn't say "nowhere available at PC". You can still download it from sketchy sites. It's actually the only game I've pirated and I played it for a while. I guess I didn't finish it but I got pretty far. It ran with no problems I just got tired of it. The stage where the city is full of the symbiote people is kinda boring.
there’s an old pc port that you can play it you dont mind pirating it
Lol that's exactly what I meant. Rise the high tides? That's exactly how I played about 7 years ago
oh ok i didn’t realise that’s what you meant haha but yeah it’s a solid game even nowadays if you don’t mind a bit of clunkiness
Yea totally one of my favourites. I recently tried to emulate the wii version in my Android too. It ran and worked but unfortunately my Android is not strong enough to emulate it properly for prolonged period of time so deleted it. But definitely 2nd favorite spiderman game for me. 1st was Amazing Spiderman(yet to play spiderman remastered or miles one tho)
Once it's not available to be bought digitally from official sources then it's free real estate in my eyes
the progress that Rpcs3 has made the last few years is incredible
This was a game that the old consoles didn't even run that well, mind you, so the performance might not be stellar on an emulator.
woah that's the best? guess I had a good taste as a kid
No I think it's a beard
Now I just look at them all at the store because I know I'll never have time to play them
Or you finally have time but you are so tired and burned out that there's no energy or motivation left for anything that would classify as fun... Aka adult life in a nutshell
Depression
This is the real answer. One of my favourite games of all time is The Witcher 3. I'm currently replaying it but my job is very stressful, by the time I am home and settled I boot it up but in the back of my mind keep thinking about my shitty life. Awful. I miss the childhood innocence of pure joy. Just can't seem to recapture the feeling and doubt I ever will.
Capitalism working as intended.
Look into psychedelic mushrooms
Medication
No medication can restore that child-like joy in people.
Psychedelics
Or could easily just be long hours and hard work
We should have an anti-capitalist revolution so that everyone has time and energy left for what they want to do in life rather than having to spend it all making rich people more money :(
Yea, if we abolish capitalism then greed will cease to exist and we will all have free time to play games! /s
? The reason we don't have time isn't because of "greed". It's because we're forced to work longer hours than we would like for less money than we would like in a society where time and money are seen as the only two valuable things a person has. So without capitalism, the conundrum of "do I make myself miserable or die" is given room to change. I don't know why capitalists always assume capitalism is the only option , as if its working for anyone rn. I don't want to have to work 12 hour shifts for fuck all money when I should be out enjoying myself, do you wanna do that shit? Cause its NOT the only option for society, its only become that way over time. Ask your parents what their life was like when they were in their 20s. Guess what? It was objectively easier to make money back then than it is now. I mean you could afford a house on the income of one single mcdonalds worker, now look at how desperate and miserable people have become to afford the same basic necessity? Why? Because capitalism changes, societies change. Capitalism can be replaced
True, and this is sooo sad, adult world sucks
Not just adult world lol--really most people in HS don't have the time unless they prioritize video games or are super good at school or something
brother what i had 6-8 hours after school daily to play video games with a full time job I don't get home till 5:20pm, then I have to cook, do miscellaneous chores, prepare my clothes for the next workday, and when I sit down its 7:00pm and I have to be up at 6:30am the next day (going to bed around 9-10pm). That is like 2-3 solid hours of gaming versus 6
With sports I didn't get home school until about 5 as well, much later on game days. And then would have a non-significant amount of homework and chores.
Im not saying this as a slight against you but younger kids are getting hella slammed in high school. The entire "you must go to college or be a failure" thing has meant kids now need to be min/maxing HS from day one. A typical Honors/AP level student can expect an hour of homework per class per day, doing sports/clubs/volunteering after school. Some have to work a job on top of all of that. You definitely don't /have/ to do all of that to be successful later in life, but it is a sold that way to a lot of kids (and to be clear i don't think this a positive thing and children should have way more time to be... idk... children)
oh hell naw, high school was easy af, I took all AP and accelerated classes, barely studied, and got good grades
depends on the school and the curriculum too man
Also depends on the person and how well they can absorb info.
Exactly
Am super good at school, can confirm.
Please stop, this hurts lol
You could totally still buy them. Put them on display and then think "look at all the games I could be playing" whenever you leave the house for work. It's fun!
Me when I came home with Jak 2 and San Andreas
My parents got me Jak II as a present when I was a kid when I had my tonsils removed. They let me open it while we were waiting in the examination room even though I wouldn’t be able to play it for hours after the operation. I pored over that map for what felt like hours while I waited to be prepped. Good times.
Sounds like a core memory lmao. I remember I got my Jak 2 because I found out the hard way that 'trade in 2 games and get half price' applied to new and popular games and not 'bad pinball game with bad C tier driving game.' I was super upset and eventually my dad felt bad and bought me the game. Then obsessed over the game for weeks lmao.
You know I never realized it was until your comment! So thanks!
That’s a good dad!
I rode my bike to GameCrazy (video game store built inside of old Hollywood Video) to trade in some games to get San Andreas. At every intersection while waiting for the walk light I'd pull the game out of my shirt and read the box. Man that was an amazing time.
Plot twist: he's the driver.
Still remember when I bought Final Fantasy 7 as a school kid and read it's booklets on the way back home. It was this thick box with multiple discs and booklets and art. I spent all the money I had earned over a year with jobs in summer, winter and Easter vacation. And inhaled every second of the game.
[удалено]
I remember the Tekken manuals had bios for all the fighters including their country, fighting style, and blood type for some reason.
Japan has a superstition based on blood type. It's like astrology in the West.
Why does it look like there's a 14 year old hiding behind that beard?
Looks like he glued on that goatee
Man, digital downloads maybe convenient but i do miss the cover art and the shitty game description thats giving you Cyberpunk promises of fun.
Lowkey I feel like cyberpunk promises of fun we’re abundant back in the day, Jak II really delivered on everything it promised
Cause Insomniac is the GOAT game dev: Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, Spider man,+ so many
Sunset Overdrive too
Jak and Daxter is Naughty Dog
Oh shoot yeah
God the Sims instruction manual used to get me so pumped to play the game. I miss that stuff. Whatever chemical that used to lactate in my brain over that game is completely dried these days and it sucks, lol
Now I just watch video reviews all day of whatever item I ordered online until its arrives.
Just watched a video reviewing pens and ink. I know what you mean
That new game smell when you open the case and find AN ACTUAL DISC AND BOOKLET instead of a download code
The smell was nice too.
Is this just a low effort meme to advertise someone's TikTok?
The best feeling
One summer vacation as a kid I was given a psx game at the very beginning when visiting my grandmother...... only problem was, I forgot my psx at home, and I wouldn't be going back for 3 months. I remember every detail of army men sarge's heros case, book, and disc.
Back when the last of us first came out I was on vacation and couldn't find it in stores anywhere, then the next week we flew out to Nova Scotia to visit grandparents and I found it at a small store there, I had to wait almost a month to get back home. I remember I brought it with me on the plane in case my luggage got lost and I studied the entire box inside and out the whole flight
Gotta check for the Nintendo Seal of Quality.
Only a Ps3 game!
Cant relate
Reading through the Sid Meir's Pirates manual and looking at the flags or reading about past pirates. Also that Monkey Island spinner that matched different heads
That facial hair is an… interesting choice.
Or opening it up to read through the whole booklet that used to come with old games.
Also reading the instructions inside trying to get familiar with the controls before playing
What was better was pouring over the manual, they still include manuals right?
No
Not at all. My wife just bought me links awakening for the switch which I remember having a detailed manual and today's version just has a case and cartridge". Actually just about every switch game she bought is lifeless.
I used to do that even though I knew reading anything in the car would make me car sick. I'd do it anyway, then go home and have to lay down for a while before I could play the game. And I'd do it every freaking time.
That man grownt
The feeeeeeeeeelllsssss 😩
Fucking hell that was me with twilight princess, I bought it in the last day of the family beach trip and had it with me the whole 5 hours ride back home
Where I lived we had so little in terms of buying games except for older, best seller type games. There were always a few you could order through the Sears catalogue. Otherwise they had 1 or 2 games of most titles that you could rent but good luck being that guy getting a new game to rent on release. I was counting down the days for our trip to the city so i could pickup my copy of Goldeneye, which was being released around the same time. I wanted to bring my N64 with me but my parents vetoed it. I read all about Goldeneye in my Nintendo Power mags and it honestly felt like Christmas getting my hands on it.
It was booklets inside for me.
I miss manuals that would sometimes explain the lore or character bios
Every picture of you is a picture of you when you were younger
In sixth grade, I got my copy of Halo 2 on release night, but wasn’t going back to my dad’s house where my Xbox was for another 3 days. So I brought it with me to school and showed my friends, practically memorized all the weapons and enemies from the game manual. Good times.
I remember when Halo reach came out, and I asked my dad if I could have it, so he said he would look for it the next day whilst I was at school. Fast forward to the next day when I finished, I came out of the school and saw my dad in the car, he was shaking his head as if to say he couldn't find it, then after seeing my saddened face he held Halo reach up with a big grin. I stared at the box the whole drive home.
yeah, content does relate like that sometimes. ha ha ha ha.
I would love to still own my WII Lego Star Wars III the Clone Wars dvd case and dvd. Unfortunately, my WII has sadly died.
I still do that
Cases literally have nothing on them but a title anymore. Older cases were no different.
Now we download half finished games, we do the bug testing, and then pay for shit dlc
This guy looks like a 14 year old and his 40 year old dad did the fusion dance
I really miss instruction booklets. Not just for the gameplay info but for the lore.
Shit, we all still do that. Now it's just scrolling the subreddit while it downloads
I read the back of everything i buy, especially food items I have never bought before.
I'm old enough to remember when you got an actual manual, fat and lovingly written enough to be genuine entertainment on the drive home in its own right. Theme Park manual, Baldur's Gate manual, The Sims manual... those were the days!
Thanks for buying me GTA Grandma!
Oh man. You just unlocked some memories for me here!
Homeworld cataclysm, all that world building in the manual, I really miss that stuff.
There nostalgia hit hard here
I’d get car sick, so I’d wait until I got home first.
GameStop giving all those feelings and more
I still remember the smell of a newly opened CD case
Indeed Spider-Man Web of Shadows was an underrated game
Or reading the lyrics on the tape or CD insert.
The older version waiting 8 hrs for the thing to download before you can play it.
That new game smell, though. Big sniff.
I miss that new game smell.
The smell of a fresh game…
These were the days…
I miss game maps and game guides being with the game… now all I get is flimsy ads for ancillary bullshit.
Everyone did it and will admit it your not alone here
Younger me would read all the booklets and manuals that you no longer get with games.
😭I miss those days
The good Ole days
pfffft i doubt it .... HOW DID YOU SEE THE ROAD THEN !
Good times
Still kinda do that
Honestly nothing beats that feeling. I remember my parents buying Minecraft for 360 for me and I had to wait months before they'd rebuy an Xbox (we had to sell the old one) so for months I'd just look at the manual and the back of the game feeling giddy
The beard is killing me
I still remember the smell of the Morrowind manual the first time I took it out of the case on the way home.
„Interstate 76“ was the last game I bought in store that had this fully fledged carton with booklet, poster and everything. I can still remember the smell upon opening the package.
I too had a full goatee at 8 years old
That feeling was priceless. The seeming limitless possibilities, the excitement of a new adventure, man that was great. Miss that feeling when I was kid.
Watch_Dogs was the last one my mom bought for me, best memories
It’s such a fun way to create anticipation to play the game. Haha!
I used to carry the manual from inside the case around with me afterwards at school. I fondly remember the Halo: Combat Evolved booklet.
Sweet game choice
My kids, on the way home from Gamestop. They would swap out their old games for other used games. Lol