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It's amazing they managed to create those visuals back then. #AGE OF WONDERS III GUIDE MOVIE#Ps: The first TRON movie is still awesome. The first game that gave me total immersion and a goal I felt was sooo important. Preferable with a good index (This is apparently hard to do except for random gamers doing FAQs on the internet.) and paragraphs indexed with for example 1.2.5 for easy searching.Įlite. Just give me a simple text file and I'm happy. Doesn't help if the game designers get creative with naming stuff. Having to search for keywords is NOT a optimal way of finding information. IF they absolutely have to have a ingame pedia the least they can do is have a professional write the abhorrent thing so information like for example Production doesn't get buried in a paragraph about Landscape Features or something. #AGE OF WONDERS III GUIDE HOW TO#My favourite hate feature with ingame pedias is when they are organised by a developer or someone else in the company that have absolutely no knowledge how to write the darn thing. Especially when they decide to do one of three things:įlynn GET OFF MY.sorry about that. Still have a copy of Elite Plus for the PC. A lot of my high school years were lost to that game on the C=64. God, I've turned into the guy that yells at the kids to "get off my lawn!" already. You know, what they used to call a Quick Reference Card? ![]() Even if the game has a in-game tutorial or encyclopedia, a simple file that explains the controls without needing to look up screens of tiny fonts or such would be a huge help. #AGE OF WONDERS III GUIDE MANUALS#In fact, I'd prefer PDF as I often use my Kindle for walkthroughs, manuals and other documents for playing games. Put together a real manual, even as a PDF file. Especially when they decide to do one of three things:ġ) Use a very tiny font - because every gamer has 20/20 vision or better, right? And UI scaling is for weenies.Ģ) Use a script or "ye olde English" font for "immersion."ģ) Combine 1 and 2 to make it a real treat to read. Tarm: This trend with having manuals in game as a kind of shitty pedia thingy of some kind is a lazy developer habit I really dislike. I rarely do that but in this case I may need to. That's a good thought with watching Let's Play videos. My biggest gripes so far are the lack of a easily browsed proper manual, the map looks cluttered and not as alive to me and last one thing that have bothered me since the second one is that walls are even less of a hindrance now. Only started playing it a couple days ago. I haven't decided if I like AoW 3 as much as the rest yet. I understand that must have been annoying. Sorry they weren't available when you started playing. His current one is in the form of a tutorial, and has given me some nice pointers on how I could improve my game. I'm also watching some Let's Plays by Das24680. AoW 3 is much more to my liking, and I've managed to acquire the basics, despite the lacklustre manual. Some of the design decisions in them just weren't for me. Still, it doesn't matter anymore, because I've given up on those games. #AGE OF WONDERS III GUIDE MANUAL#Gaunathor: The proper manual weren't available on the net, when I was starting to play, only the reference cards. In strategy games like the AoW games where you need to start planning BEFORE you start playing to be effective it's just a head scratchingly poor fit. Learn-by-doing is perfectly fine in games like FPS or adventure games for example. I think Civilization 5 started that and it stinks. Oh and let's leave the information vague so we don't have to change the manual all the time." ![]() #AGE OF WONDERS III GUIDE PATCH#We'll just patch the errors as we go and change the manual accordingly. "We put the manual in game so that we don't have to think features and other stuff through. This trend with having manuals in game as a kind of shitty pedia thingy of some kind is a lazy developer habit I really dislike. So it's irritating but not that bad that they aren't on GOG. Well the other games have proper manuals and you can download them on the net. I'm just not that good at learning-by-doing. The previous AoW games here don't have manuals either, which made learning how to play them quite difficult for me. ![]() Well, or at least the closest thing to an official manual you can get. Gaunathor: The Tome of Wonders within the game is the manual. ![]()
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