View Full Version : My romance and GWX 2.0 v SH4
As a regular lurker on these forums, I see there's much discussion and praise for the latest GWX for SH3.
I remember installing Grey Wolves long ago to SH3 and many a great campaign I enjoyed.
However, for most of this year I've been using only SH4 (with various mods).
There's something missing, and I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it is the lack of a German crew shouting ALARM!! when we crash dive. Perhaps its the lack of my imagining being in Das Boot - not relevant in the Pacific!
Anyway, I remember first installing SH4 and being impressed with the graphics. Her poor older sister was removed from my hard drive because our romance had ended.
News of GWX 2.0 being available is making me get all nostalgic, and I'm beginning to regret ending my fling with SH3.
So, could we pick up from where we left off, or is there no going back?
How does SH3 with GWX 2.0 compare to SH4? I appreciate different mods create different flavours, and thanks to all the selfless modders who make it possible.
At the risk of sounding chauvanistic, is it like comparing your current girlfriend with an ex?
Perhaps if my ex lost a few pounds, had a boob job, bum job, facial surgery, treatment for halitosis, teeth straightened, a brain transplant, and wore a sexy new dress I would be tempted!?
If truth be known, in SH4 I spend most of my time working with the map view, and pop up the scope just to get the info I need - I seldom feel the need to drool over fancy graphics these days using the fancy camera view.
Would a return to a U-boat with GWX 2.0 be a good thing? Would I offend the younger and better looking younger sister?
Would/should GWX 2.0 enable me to rekindle my romance with SH3?
Thaum.
You'll never know without making the leap. :D
ReallyDedPoet
12-13-07, 08:04 AM
Nothing wrong with playing both :yep::up:
I have played SH4 since its beginning and it is a great game and only getting better. From the sounds and looks of things 2.0 should not disappoint, I will be
trying it soon :yep: Played the hell out of the first GWX.
RDP
MaciejK
12-13-07, 09:39 AM
Date both!!! They are two sisters! one is 2 years older, but more rough, supplied with some additional stuff..i mean GWX...she can be a hurricane;) and don't neglect her younger sis coz she's gonna feel bad and she is still a really cute and giving a lot of fun ;)
Mac
SH3/GWX1.03 was worth EVERY minute, I played it....
Well, I think that sets a benchmark for GWX2.0 .... :lol:
Nothing wrong with playing both :yep::up:
I have played SH4 since its beginning and it is a great game and only getting better. From the sounds and looks of things 2.0 should not disappoint, I will be
trying it soon :yep: Played the hell out of the first GWX.
RDP
Agree with this 100%
I am grateful for both titles Pacific, atlantic, mars - whatever - the SH franchise has never been more alive and kicking than it is right now.
SH4 had no more short comings than Sh3 did when it first came out, I belive SH4 is destined for great things.
Blacklight
12-13-07, 02:36 PM
SH4 is just a whore !!!! A FILTHY WHORE !!!!:stare:
Ivan Putski
12-13-07, 02:49 PM
Well I for one am enjoying both, the GWX team, as well as other modders have done wonders for SHIII, that did`nt happen overnight. In time, with the help from all that create these great mods, I suspect SHIV to be a jewel too. :up:
Penelope_Grey
12-13-07, 03:19 PM
Id laugh if both found out what you were doing and torpedoed your ass! :rotfl:
SH4 frustrated the hell out of me with all that i missed from SH3 GWX. As a result I never completed a single patrol in SH4 because I just wasn't satisfied, and kept giving up on it.
SH3 GWX 2.0 is the best you can get out of a subsim in terms of realism and attention to historical detail. SH4 has a looong way to go before it is on the same par.
SH4 is just a whore !!!! A FILTHY WHORE !!!!:stare:
He he, that's what her older sister always told me too! :rotfl:
SH4 is just a whore !!!! A FILTHY WHORE !!!!:stare:
Please elaborate :rotfl: :rotfl:
Nothing wrong with playing both :yep::up:
I have played SH4 since its beginning and it is a great game and only getting better. From the sounds and looks of things 2.0 should not disappoint, I will be
trying it soon :yep: Played the hell out of the first GWX.
RDP
Agree with this 100%
I am grateful for both titles Pacific, atlantic, mars - whatever - the SH franchise has never been more alive and kicking than it is right now.
SH4 had no more short comings than Sh3 did when it first came out, I belive SH4 is destined for great things.
Me too, well if I could run SH4 I would.
There's a lack of good subs in SH4 those old tubs take weeks to crash dive and then they got a crush depth thats a fraction of what a type VIIC has. I personaly can't get on with SH4 but i haven't any mods for it........ Now i'm off to patrol the Atlantic.
bigboywooly
12-15-07, 10:47 AM
The only thing that really bugs me in SH4 is the interface
Cant get around that so rarely play
Maybe OLC can work on that :hmm:
:rotfl:
simsurfer
12-15-07, 02:48 PM
I cant get used to the interface either in SHV, SHIII is so much easier to navigate through and laid out so much better, shame on whoever decided to change it.
What I like about SHIII is there are almost never any CTD while playing, no slowdowns, no bugs and there is a campaign that makes sence whille playing it. GWX 1.0 definetaly made the game what it is. SHV has no GWX...Yet but playing it is for me is a time waste, takes forever to get on station from far off bases (which I realize is historically accurate), fine but after paying the patrol you thne have to drive all the way back home, as there is no teleport...No thanks.
SHV is still on my HD but never played anymore. Maybe in a few years when there becomes a GWX for it...maybe.
For now it is all SHIII, granted the graphics arent as good but it is a solid game, something SHV is not and prob never will be.
Blacklight
12-15-07, 05:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blacklight
SH4 is just a whore !!!! A FILTHY WHORE !!!!:stare:
Please elaborate :rotfl: :rotfl:
I uh.... plead the fith.:shifty:
Fenris_Wolf
12-15-07, 08:49 PM
I have time for only one submarine simulator that I like the most -- SH3. Shiny graphics somehow do not give a game superiority over one of my favorites. Take Thief 1 for example. I still play that game sometimes. :88)
There's a lack of good subs in SH4 those old tubs take weeks to crash dive and then they got a crush depth thats a fraction of what a type VIIC has. I personaly can't get on with SH4 but i haven't any mods for it........ Now i'm off to patrol the Atlantic.
Actually the Fleet Boats were just as new as the U-boats, at least the Gato clas onwards. Diving is not so bad when you have radar, though I understand diving time is faster with the new patch?? :hmm:
How does SH3 with GWX 2.0 compare to SH4? I appreciate different mods create different flavours, and thanks to all the selfless modders who make it possible.
At the risk of sounding chauvanistic, is it like comparing your current girlfriend with an ex? As it happened, my first and only girlfriend was the one I married, and it's much the same with SH3 :D
I occasionally have thoughts about the 'attractive-looking' SH4, but I know that once I get under the surface (no pun intended, but has potential!) it won't turn out to be the loyal friend that SH3 + GWX is, nor be as interesting, so I won't be tempted away.
Everybody's different of course, but I have no regrets about sticking with SH3 and forgoing the nicer graphics. :smug:
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