1. Take out the instruction manual and read it carefully and thoroughly, hoping the knowledge gleaned from its glossy pages will help you in the game?

or

2. Pop the game into your game console and start playing immediately?

When I'm flushed out, I feel ready.

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Alidane wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I normally glance through the instruction manual, looking for anything lore-based. Since those are fairly rare, the manual ends up in the trash after 10 minutes of gameplay.

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I can't buy games without the manual or throw the manual away.

The game box feels incomplete and although I'll probably never look at the manual more than once, I hate not having it.

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Mr. Parcelan said:
Whenever I play a game, I take the instruction booklet out and go into the bathroom and read it for awhile. I'll sit in there for awhile and read it while I'm going poo.

When I'm flushed out, I feel ready.

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I usually do this too.

Though most manuals these days are 4 pages of worthless crap. Not like they used to be, they used to be storehouses of lore that were fun to flick through. The last memorable one was the Oblivion manual and even that was a pale shade of manuals from ages past.

If this particular game is something I feel I'm going to appreciate enough to warrant looking through the booklets

or

If I feel this game has a control scheme or mechanic that sounds like it could be confusing even to an ICE PRO GAMER like myself

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Greenlit.
grandma please we didn't even look at the manual forbuy Armed Assault

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Ragabash stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Depends if I have to go to the bathroom.

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also if I think that the manual will be funny, like Contact's for DS.

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Mortious had this to say about the Spice Girls:
I usually do this too.

Though most manuals these days are 4 pages of worthless crap. Not like they used to be, they used to be storehouses of lore that were fun to flick through. The last memorable one was the Oblivion manual and even that was a pale shade of manuals from ages past.

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I miss those thick manuals as well. The last two instruction manuals I've read through that fit that description were for World of Warcraft and Civilization IV.

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Mortious wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I usually do this too.

Though most manuals these days are 4 pages of worthless crap. Not like they used to be, they used to be storehouses of lore that were fun to flick through. The last memorable one was the Oblivion manual and even that was a pale shade of manuals from ages past.

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Homeworld

I also miss the old thick manuals, especially the old Ultima series manuals.

it gives the game replay value right?

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Led said:
Homeworld

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OH NO YOU DIDN'T JUST GO THERE.

Homeworld manual =

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Tribute? You steal men's Alidanes, and make them your slaves!
I normally glance through the instruction manual, looking for anything lore-based. Since those are fairly rare, the manual ends up in the trash after 10 minutes of gameplay.

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Tell me you also throw away the case to make this anecdote worthwhile. Seriously, what else are you going to do with the part of the case designed to hold the manual that you go out of your way to toss it in the garbage?

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Alidane impressed everyone with:
I normally glance through the instruction manual, looking for anything lore-based. Since those are fairly rare, the manual ends up in the trash after 10 minutes of gameplay.

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In the TRASH?!

so hardcore it hurts

-H

If there's a tutorial in the game I go through it anyway even if I know what I'm doing, because sometimes you get stuff in there that makes the immediate future much easier (see: Neverwinter Nights 2).