Do you read the notes/memos/codex in games?

Just a curious thought after I started up Dragon Age:Origins today.
 
Have any of you guys get deep into the fiction of games involving notes and such?

I try and always end up not caring and marking everything as read, I guess it just doesn't interest me enough

Yeah I've been doing that with Dragon Age. I did read some of the codex stuff in Mass Effect however.

I didn't read all of the Dragon Age stuff, but in general I try to read all I find. It's just sometimes the volume of it is so much, like the codex in Bioware games or the books in Bethesda games.

I appreciate the effort, but I usually get bored while reading it if it's not especially exciting.

I read almost all the Dragon Age codex stuff.

I usually don't do that but I had a sick obsession with DA:O.

Oh yeah, errtime I find something.

I spent 2 hours one morning catching up on all the Codex entries I'd collected and hadn't read yet... Yes, I eventually read all that stuff in all the games I play -- all the history and location blurbs in the AC series, all the Landmarks boxes in LA Noire... all of it.

Not really, I guess.

I love reading all the backstory and history, legends, and mythology of the game worlds.  In games like Dragon Age it can get to the point where you skip some of them, but generally I like to acquaint myself with the game world's history.

Yes, it helps flesh out the world massively in games such as Dragon Age or The Elder Scrolls series (with it's in-game books and what not).

Only in the Mass Effect games. I love those games so I read everything I can about them.

I don't usually go through all of them but I'll always read at least some of them. Mass Effect has some of the best.

In mass effect games do I read everything. But only on my first playthrough.

No

I read stuff that interests me. If its boring I skip it. Also I have to be into the whole universe and back story to read it all. I decided to just let it go with Dragon AGe 2.

Only in the Mass Effect games.  I do like reading some of the cool landmark descriptions and stuff in Assassins Creed 2 & Brotherhood, but I'm not obsessive about it like in Mass Effect.

Only if I'm really interested in the story like Assassin's Creed.

I'll go back and read them, but usually if I'm in the middle of a mission or something, that's what I want to be doing, not reading the stuff I pick up

Not always but if I'm really interested in the story then sure.

I rarely read that additional stuff, as most games really don't give you the time for it, when you have push-forward driving pacing it just feels out of place to stop, open up the menu and go read for an hour. And well, once the game is over I rarely go back to catch up on all the stuff, as it won't really help we when the game already been done. I much prefer audio logs or Tomb Raider Legend-like voice over dialog for that reason, as it provides you with much of the same information, but in a form that mixes better with the pacing of the game. One of the few exceptions is probably Resident Evil 1, exploration is a large part of the game and thus it feels much more natural to read all the notes, but by far most modern games don't really have that kind of exploration, even the Open World stuff just pushes you from one quest marker to the next.

Depends on the game

Depends on the games. If is a RPG with a deep story I will, if it's an action game I don't.

I enjoyed Mass Effects codex because mister awesome voice would read it to me.

If I'm really excited while playing the game. Otherwise i just pass.

Mass Effect is one of the few codex heavy games I've grinded through everything. But that's mostly because you get to warm up with a narrator reading the important ones for you, and then you continue on to read the side stuff.

I used to, until Oblivion

Only if it's about something I'm interested in learning more about.

Depends on the game, really.

I read all the books in Morrowind and Oblivion if that counts.

Yes, it helps flesh out the world massively in games such as Dragon Age or The Elder Scrolls series (with it's in-game books and what not).

I tried reading through all the codex stuff in Dragon Age, but they're so ridiculously long that I just skimmed through most of them. I don't do that in all games though.