I miss the old times of games that came in cardboard boxes with a manual. I have fond memories of buying Icewind Dale and Fallout 1/2 and spending some time reading the manuals. SiN also had a cool manual with a backstory comic that was the coolest shit to me as a kid.
I remember the old pre-millenium video games would come in a giant cardboard box to make buying a tiny floppy disk feel more worthwhile.
Pointlessly inflating packaging should just be illegal, it's pure wastefulness.
Nintendo sells game cases with nothing inside except a code for digital download lol
They've done this for awhile. I remember getting something like this for some of the Fallout 3 DLC on Xbox 360 ages ago
Genuinely a giant cardboard box would be a significant improvement over this. At least it’s not a ton of plastic.
I miss the old times of games that came in cardboard boxes with a manual. I have fond memories of buying Icewind Dale and Fallout 1/2 and spending some time reading the manuals. SiN also had a cool manual with a backstory comic that was the coolest shit to me as a kid.
Civ 3 came with a physical copy of the rules/civipedia. It was about 6x4" but was like 300 pages. That book was thicc.
I miss the Blizzard manuals. I spent so much time looking at the art for WarCraft 1 and 2.