Do you read ingame books?

[d1nolore]

Sometimes I collect them and intend to read them but when I try they are usually drivel and I go back to playing the game. These days I put them in the same category as commoner npc dialogue; waste of time no patience.

 

[Lord_Potato]

I read ingame books when they are well-written, funny and provide some useful information concerning the game world - like in Witcher trilogy.

Ingame e-mails though...

 

[Decado]

I did in Morrowind, can't think of a game since then where I actually, intentionally read the in-game books. But MW did it the right way, by connecting the main story to what you could find in tomes -- and by making books quest items.

ETA: and by making them well-written, for the most part.

 

[Kainan]

And by giving you skill points

 

[Sunri]

I read books and jorunals in Arcanum they were required to solve puzzles

 

[gurugeorge]

Sometimes, yeah. It depends on how immersed I am. Sometimes in the TES games it felt appropriate - like, you're dungeon crawling, chance on a book with an interesting title and get absorbed by it

 

[bobocrunch]

I never read books in games but started to after playing Morrowind for the first time (not being a kid) with all the expanded area mods and it was really great for immersion and just learning about the world. My favorite is when books include stuff you can experience in the game world, Enderal was great at that