StingingVelvet: It's really frustrating for me reading people complaining about this stuff because I thought all gamers secretly hated tutorials as much as I do. I mean when an FPS tells me to shoot with RMB I want to scream at someone, I have been doing this shit for 20 years and I know how to play videogames. If there is anything in particular I need help with I know the reference material is there for me.
Down with tutorials!
Wasn't Portal like 90% tutorial? It was just a really good one so no one cared. Good tutorials are fine, the longer they take to complete the better they need to be to not become bothersome, though.
Even some good games like Red Dead Redemption has the most horrible tip and tutorial system. Luckily, through no prompting in the game, I figured out where to dig up the old lines of text they'd thrown up for all of 3 seconds during an action sequence. And it's not like the manual had crap all for info in it.