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Title: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: castor on September 08, 2007, 05:16:16 pm
Just realized that I've never read it thoroughly :nervous:
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 08, 2007, 05:24:14 pm
I basically never had one. My copy of FS1 was from the bargin bin (actually no, it was by the register) at Fry's Electronics. The FS2 copy was acquired in a manual-less condition I'm sure you can figure out for yourself.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: CP5670 on September 08, 2007, 05:28:59 pm
I read the whole thing back when I got the game in 1999. :p I also read the official strategy guide cover to cover at some point. I still have that in my room somewhere.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Flipside on September 08, 2007, 05:34:57 pm
I think I read most of it at the time, but it's long since vanished into the realm of wherethehelldidthatgo
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: jr2 on September 08, 2007, 06:04:43 pm
I don't know... can you provide a linky?  If I start reading it, I'll know if I have read it before or not.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Bob-san on September 08, 2007, 06:07:00 pm
I never read it. I don't even have it. Funny--I generally read the manual of every game I have (because I'm bored during installation).

Oh, and here's a short little tribute to a member from long-ago... back from when I was a very occasional lurker (I've been to this site hundreds of times before registering)

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Kudos if you know who....
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: FSW on September 08, 2007, 07:31:41 pm
Yeah, I usually read the manual for games. The quick-reference default key-binding card was very useful, too.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Hippo on September 08, 2007, 07:43:42 pm
At the VBB you were basically castrated, beaten with a dead frozen goat of justice, set on fire, and tossed into a pit of snake infested fecal matter if you asked anything that was in the manual or fred walkthroughs, or showed other signs of being retarded.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: MercFox1 on September 08, 2007, 07:44:45 pm
Yeah, I remember going to the store and picking it up, too. The other game I bought at the time was....Earth 2150, I think. Freespace 2 has WAY outlasted that...

I even saved the box, too. I just think someone else threw it away. =(
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: redsniper on September 09, 2007, 12:05:01 am
Dave's House o' Fighters
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: phreak on September 09, 2007, 12:16:03 am
I think i still have the FS1 and FS2 manuals lying around somewhere.  I'll read the manuals for every game i get.  Rather sad that most manuals are 10 pages tops these days.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: castor on September 09, 2007, 04:29:37 am
I don't know... can you provide a linky?  If I start reading it, I'll know if I have read it before or not.
Look at the "Documentation / Extras" part down the page. (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=4150)
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Wanderer on September 09, 2007, 06:33:34 am
Got to answer 'i don't have it'... As that i only have the pdf versions that came with the game.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Mobius on September 09, 2007, 06:37:06 am
I read "the most interesting parts", AKA how to create a squadron logo ;)
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: colecampbell666 on September 09, 2007, 07:57:46 am
I read the manual when I got the game last year. I've read it several times.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: S-99 on September 10, 2007, 11:13:16 pm
I never found the fs2 manual interesting really. The box was cool, and i played the fs1 and fs2 demos before i bought fs2 so i already knew how to play the game. After that there was nothing interesting in the manual at all. So i flipped all of the pages, put it down, and watched the  pretty installer.
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: Fozzy on September 11, 2007, 03:17:36 am
i read it on the bus, going back home it was ace, i was so excited (wow spaaaaaaaaaccceeeeeeeeessssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiippppppppppppsss sss!!!!!!!!!)  ;7
Title: Re: Did you RTFM?!
Post by: jr2 on September 12, 2007, 02:04:30 pm
Nope, didn't read it.