Was listening to the bombcast and was thinking, how many of ya read the manual during/before playing this game?
 
After getting frustrated with the combat and what not, I booted up the pdf and read it, cause you know, pc ass game has pc ass manuals. Haven't had a gameplay problem since. I kinda just wish the game 'tutorial' just told people to read up the manual instead of the weird thing they do. 

I haven't played that particular game, but I always read the manual, and when watching Quick Looks, I often find myself wondering if they did read the manual. Like in the Conduit 2 one when all Ryan did was complain about the controls. I haven't played that game, but I specifically read in GameSpot's review that the game has classic controller support, which would have at least let Ryan play the game without complaining about controls. 

I haven't played that particular game, but I always read the manual, and when watching Quick Looks, I often find myself wondering if they did read the manual. Like in the Conduit 2 one when all Ryan did was complain about the controls. I haven't played that game, but I specifically read in GameSpot's review that the game has classic controller support, which would have at least let Ryan play the game without complaining about controls. 

I haven't played a game in my life without reading the manual front to back before starting, including The Witcher 2. For recent Ubisoft games that takes about 10 seconds.

I ALWAYS READ THE MANUAL.
Ever since Just cause 1's manual.... that was great.

Yeah, but didn't learn all that much.
Forum posts helped me a lot more.

Yep.

Nope, I just read the tutorials in the journal and had no issues.

I don't recall it ever explaining how to counter in game.

Nope, I just read the tutorials in the journal and had no issues.

@emem said:
Same here. Hm I always take a look at the manual of a physical copy of a game, but usually I don't "read" manuals. Pretty much every new game has a tutorial and there is no need to read them anymore.. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, though.

I used to read manuals religiously as a kid, but at some point during the last generation I started getting frustrated because I'd just end up having to go through a tutorial anyway, so I don't think I've read a manual in the last 5 years or so.  Until Witcher 2, anyway.

Never.

Yep. Almost never do, but the game doesn't explain a lot of the systems (didn't play Witcher 1). Felt good to have a real, useful, paper manual in my hands again.

I have a habit of reading manuals while waiting for a game to install.

I have a habit of reading manuals while waiting for a game to install.

I read the readme file on the launcher, the manual and the in-game tutorials.

Yeah.  To be blunt I always read game manuals but that's because I read them on the shitter.

I have a habit of reading manuals while waiting for a game to install.