Time for a new poll, that old one was starting to grow stuff on the edges. After getting a bunch of new games for the PC, I noticed that most of them came in ye olde traditional PC box style. However, inside was a big cardboard filler, which existed to basically just hold the CD and usually skimpy manual and registration card in place.

Personally, I think I'd rather see a move to DVD style boxes for PC games, which is a turnaround for me because I've always loved the old PC boxes - I guess mainly because I enjoyed getting big phat manuals with them, in days that are long gone. I'm a bit sick of getting boxes that are mainly just 90% quality cardboard, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. I'd be perfectly happy with a nice simple DVD case, in which the small manual fits in quite nicely. Place your vote and let us know what you think in the comments!

I saw Deus Ex in a DVD type case and was almost tempted to buy it again cause it looked so purdy!

DVD style cases are the go. they dun brake as easy if not at all when you drop em like slimline cases etc etc

what about collecters style Tin boxes? :P

Of course I loved the old boxes, they looked so impressive sitting up on the shelf. But move to DVD style cases would be good.

You missed an option which if I tell you will probably get me nuked into oblivion!

Yeah they actually started putting games in dvd packaging last year and everyone had a s*** about it because it meant that the manul was really crap and they didnt 'feel' that they were getting their money's worth.

Also i think some people were getting confused and thought thte games were actual dvd movies...

what about collecters style Tin boxes? :P

well, yeh, you have to buy them!

i like the newer DVD cases, the boxes are just a waste of cardboard and get chucked out.

only thing with the newer DVD cases is you cant stack them in your existing cd holders unless you take them out and put them in a normal cd case (which makes the DVD case redundant) or you have to go out and buy a new storage system for them.

but personally i would love to see all games move towards the newer DVD cases, surely theyre cheaper and the money saved could be put back into making better quality manuals instead.. cause with a DVD case and a 2 page instruction insert, you kinda feel jipped :-) remember manuals from years ago! i still have my hard bound falcon 4 one in my bookcase ;-p

what about collecters style Tin boxes? :P

Who says you cant make tin DVD boxes?

I recieved Trainz in a DVD case, good stuff, store them easly in your room, plus more games on shelves at retailers, might mean they dont have to change stock asmuch :)

Boxes get all old and ratty no matter how you look after them. DVD cases are the way to go imo.

sifnt oldskool bawxes :(

oh well

What do people mean getting jipped on manuals?

DVD cases could easily hold 99% of manuals relesed for games today.

In cases like flightsims and stuff just chuck them in a big box.

Flight Sim 2002 didn't bother with manuals - they're all just PDF these days.

What good is a PDF file when you're playing the game? That's just lame how they did that.

...and on the 7th day, god created the printer.

this trainz manual is around 40 pages and covers the game very well, and fits in the DVD case. so its not compleatly impossible to include a manual.

dvpd cases i think they are called, are being used mainly for releases of games and such, and have online manuals. i prefer the boxes myself, both having to stack them on shelves but also because of their novelty :)

I hate them because it makes me want to keep the. When inf act it is jstu a bunch of air surrounded by cardboard.

Well a game like falcon 4 had a massive manual. And yes, .pdf files are lame.

Boxes rule! I cut up all my old ones I liked and framed them. Now it sits in the living room...

http://members.optushome.com.au/k-man/Picture.JPG

Now I'm building up for a second master piece!

Nice.

I want one!

kman, that's rad!

I was gonna make seperate ones of RPG's, FPS's, and entire series of games... Didn't have that many games though... :(

LOL U NERD :-)

though i have one of the green/xray style quake2 posters...

haha Kieranlame.

DVD's all the way. Boxes take up too much space, I'm throwing all mine out soon.

(you want them kieran?)

Hell yeah Deeps!

I loved the old ultima boxes,
cloth map, books and amulet (that I never even even considered using). But its still a great thought that people went to the trouble of bundling more then just a disc/s in a box at one stage.

Ive got an uber display of boxes in my room, ill have to get a picture some time. I love the old boxes, they look nice, and large manuals are great. I too still have my falcon 4 binder, with all the maps and so forth. But then, I have never stopped playing the game since it came out :)

uncap my download and let me download the games at full speed.

the world has enough plastic.

Yeh, that would have been a good option, shoulda thought o' that.

Doesn't max payne have one of them

haha Kieranlame.

Huh? What'd I do now?

I like the DVD cases. Manuals? What manuals. It's a rare game nowadays that comes with anything that could rightly call itself a manual, mostly they're just a couple of sheets of paper stapled together with #10 staples, if that. And the boxes are never the same sizes. baldurs Gate II is twice the thickness of anything else on the shelf, but shorter. Shogo et al are way to tall, make up your minds.
I bought SS:TSE a few weeks ago, it's in a cardboard box (even though the original was in a DVD case), opened up the box, and gues what's inside? A FSCKING DVD CASE!!! What was the point of the box?!?
And yes, people get the cases confused. The number of times i've been browsing at HN, EB and the Sunday Computer market, and heard people say `$85 for a DVD? must have a lot of extras'. Dumb phucks. Can't they see the `PC-CDROM' in the corner? And how many DVD's are called Serious Sam, Deus Ex, etc? Death to the cardboard box.

Nozehed, you're a tard.

I'll second the guy who said put 'em in a regular CD case. If you're going shrink from a full size box go all the way so I can slot the games into a regular CD case instead of having to go buy a stupid DVD cabinet. For that matter I wish DVD movies came in smaller CD sized cases.

As for games that need manuals (like flight sims) hell they can still release them in a regular sized box.

Games come with boxes? :O

Yeah .. I have always liked having a huge stack of boxes, but nowdays I think I would much much prefer a DvD style type case thing, basically it is a total waste.

I would prefer that the games came in a DVD-style case: just not made out of the flimsy plastic they use now. If the DVD cases were constructed out of a more sturdy plastic (sort of what they have now but a LOT more stiff) they would be a lot easier to stack. They also need to fix up the CD-holding mechanism because its quite easy to scratch or even break a CD when trying to remove it from its vice-like grip.

Uh 9 out of 10 DVD cases I've seen the release mechanism is extreamly simple. You either push down on the centre and it 'pops' the CD out, or you pull two little tabs togther and it also pops out.

All the PS2 ones are excellent too, they use the push button but when you push in your finger is inside the hole in the middle and you've already got the cd etc.

I'd personally prefer DVD cases, boxes are a waste of packaging, but I can understand some games which require whale beaters as manuals needing a box (see anything made by Janes)

A common option in the US now is DVD-like boxes, which is basically the full box shrinked down to DVD size (i.e. the front is the same as a DVD case, the width is the same as the full box but the game still comes in the jewel case).

I personally prefer the DVD packaging however it is unlikely that you will see it taken up here for the forseeable future (except for value products). The reason being is that research has shown that average consumers perceive less value in the smaller DVD packaging compared to the full box.

I thought the release mechanism for the moulin rouge dvd was excellent.

no struggling at all. things pop stright out.