Best in box surprise you ever received? Anyone?
For me it was the cloth map and manual that came with Ultima 4 or something.
The map in GTA3. There was a mission towards the end of the game I kept failing; to deliver a corrupt FBI agent to the airport. Eventually I realised, after studying the map, I could bypass all the road blocks by taking the light rail system. I felt like an 11 year old Einstein.
Is that the timed mission where they posted up enemies everywhere with rocket launchers along the normal route? That mission ended my last attempt at a playthrough, still never finished GTA3
That’s the one, I think it’s the 2nd to last mission.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos came with a scratch-n-sniff card. If I recall correctly, you can’t win the game without it.
is this real? no way right?
Sadly, yes. Got a switch for Xmas this year. Went and bought a mario game, and was completely taken aback when the inside of the case looked just like this. I sat there totally feeling this exact post.
For like a decade yes
It’s why I stopped buying physical games, I’ll just pirate everything if they take away my digital library.
You stopped buying physical copies of games because they stopped putting manuals in the box? How is that better?
They want you to feel that way, say “what’s the point” and buy digital…
Physical I can sell again! Big advantage right there.
Now you’re on Nintendos list.
They don’t like that part lol
At least it has something in it, not just a piece of paper with an online download code…
… and cloth maps. And developer notes. And figurines. And trinkets from the lore. And the game costing under $20. And…
So much plastic. We need to go digital only already
Yes, because who wants to own their shit when they can just perpetually lease it with the unending dread of losing it all at any moment (digital platform of choice) shuts down or just says fuck you, we’re taking the games away and you cant do shit about it.
I didn’t say you don’t get to own it. Stop defending plastic which just ends up in the environment, slaughtering innocent animals.
Just back up your games to a HDD
and imagine how much pollution was created just for you to be a stupid cunt on the internet.
between you and physical games, I know which one I could surely go without.
Stop being so attached to plastic nerd
DRM-free digital copies that can be backed up to personal storage so access cannot be revoked.
Still better than just a code 😅
weird take ngl
- Buy cheap microsd
- Copy game from pc to chip
???
Sounds like a shitty way to play games ngl
Tell me what console or system or even game manufacturer that lets you buy their game, download it to a portable micro SD and then lets you play it from there.
Not even steam lets you do that and you don’t even have a direct way of knowing what’s on the micro SD card without making a label for it which good luck.
First, you can totally make a steam library on a portable device like a microsd or an external drive (I do and I play on different places with the same drive), and play it on any device running steam.
And don’t start the “oh but you need steam installed”, since with the proprietary sd, you gotta have the propriety device as well.
Second, sure I can just lavel it, a 3 seconds job. Don’t you need the proprietary sd to come labeled as well? Also, I don’t need to label anything, I have dozens of games there and select which one I want to play.
Your defense of OP’s comment is also weird but that’s okay, we all are always learning.
Each format of game has its own merits ans they are only better than another on an objective comparison, as for subjective, just use whatever you want.
as for subjective, just use whatever you want.
That’s like, your opinion, man.
Kerbal Space Programm - and I guess most non-DRM-games on Steam, as long as they keep all their stuff in the game dir.
No steam is definitely not the bastion to use as they really aren’t gonna work. They like games tied to accounts.
You could say GOG games but it really still defeats the point of it not being even close to similar to a physical game you could resell and having a nicely labeled piece of physical media.
I know you aren’t the person originally with the really bad argument btw, but yeah the list is super small this would work for.
There’s quite a lot, actually. Definitely not the norm, but not extremely rare either.
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Why are there clips for a manual yet never a manual or even an info card? Seems like this started in the PS3/360/Wii generation.
Yeah, as Godort said, some games do come with manuals. The Knights of the Old Republic (the first one) port to the Switch is one example. (Presumably KOTOR II as well.)
Some games come with an insert or a manual, but it’s rare.
And it’s cheaper to have only one case design rather than two
My wife got me a copy of Mass effect Andromeda as a gift once. She bought the physical copy (or so she thought) since that makes a better gift. When I opened the case, there was literally nothing in there but a code for EA Origin on a sticker.
I mean, do you even have a bluray drive on your PC? That’s why they do it, I remember having the option to buy San Andreas on one dvd or 8 cds or something, precisely because people don’t often replace their drives.
I haven’t had a disc drive of any sort on my PC for over a decade
They can sell codes in stores all they want. But… print them on a nice greeting card or something instead of using about 100g of ABS plastic?
Ea games are awful for this. I bought sims 4 when it first came out and had the same issue. It’s so cool that I can’t own games even if I try to buy the physical copy. I’m just glad that other companies haven’t been doing digital only hard copies.
They literally sold you plastic trash that could have been a man email 🤦♂️
You paid all that for my PlayStation memory card!
I’m estatic! Look a physical copy!
The height of new game glory for me were the old school huge boxes PC games came in. It wasn’t uncommon to get a thick manual with wonderful art, sometimes spiral bound, maps, other neat add-ins. Even console games had nice manuals with useful information you may not otherwise know. I miss that stuff.
I still have all my big box PC games, and they all have thick manuals full of lore, character biographies and art. We lost an art form.
I collapsed and recycled all of my large PC game boxes out of necessary, but I have every single manual/map/pack-in though!
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Way back in the day places like Working Designs sent Lunar and Lunar 2 out with badass merch and maps. They were amazing.
I very distinctly remember pouring over the City of Heroes art book/manual they shipped with that game.
Man I loved that game. So fun.
I wrote a similar reply to a higher comment without seeing yours, and I completely agree - I miss it.
I was a bit younger in the 90s and half the magic of the ride home was reading the manual so you could hit the ground running when you installed it/put the cartridge in/loaded the tape.
Me too, all of these automatics and the paddle shifters… It’s not the same.
Untitled goose game was surprisingly the last game I bought that had a case full of swag.
