Do we really need a Silent Hunter 6?

[Sailor Steve]

First, welcome aboard Deslicks and Sinkmore!

Now, down to brass tacks:

Originally Posted by Deslicks

Yes we need a new silent hunter 6, one with more options to configure crew, different and better reporting to superiors in and around u boat penns.

As I've said many times before, we don't need any new title if it's going to cost a lot of money and arrive broken and unfinished. SH3 had its problems, but it was an original and could be allowed some slack. SH4 improved on SH3, but didn't fix a lot of known bugs and had some new ones and made some "good" things bad. Before we ask for a lot of new candy we should be demanding that the problems be done away with. In fact we have been doing that for nine years now, with no results. Each new version is worse than the last. That is why we don't need a "new" SH6; an SH5 that works would be nice.

Better Graphics too cuz SH5 is kinda needing a new graphics engine badly...

Really??? I think SH5's graphics are drop-dead gorgeous. Unfortunately I also think that's the only part of the game that is worth having.

and more stock skins So we dont have to mod and deal with modding....

That will never work. How many skins should they make? Five hundred? That's the kind of thing that should be left to the modders.

Originally Posted by Sinkmore

No one's mentioned that, since this thread began, we HAVE gotten SH6 from Ubi - and it's SH-Online. I gather they didn't read this thread.

Yet another version that's been abandoned incomplete. Also due to the nature of that game it can't be modded at all, which makes it of use only to gamers, and worthless to anyone interested in simulations.

IMHO, SH3,4 and apparently SH5 (I haven't tried it), have all been modded nearly to perfection.

And in my opinion (humble or not) they aren't even close to what I would call perfection. If SH3's problems had been fixed (and none of the mods come close, nor can they), then it would have been time to add to it new actions and new graphics, and then adapt it back to the Pacific War. Then it would have been time to add an Escort game, and make them work together. Instead they kept trying to add new goodies to a broken framework they never fixed. No, for me these games are all good, and made better with mods, but all the mods in the world don't bring any of them anywhere near greatness, let alone perfection.

Actually, they keep GETTING better. So forget SH6, accept the limitations, suspend a little disbelief, and play those excellent games.

As I said, they also keep getting worse, which is the best reason not to want another Silent Hunter. As for suspension of disbelief, if you can live with truly ancient graphics then 1994's Aces Of the Deep and 1996's Silent Hunter (the original) still have the best and most immersive gameplay of them all.