If you could only play one career, which game

[BH]

please avoid negative comments about either game or theater, both are excellent games. I chose only the most popular supermod of each game.

[3Jane]

At this early stage, it's still a fifty fifty split :p

[BH]

It came to me that this might not be the most objective way considering there are many that inhabit the sh3 board and never venture over here.

[tedhealy]

I liked sh3 and gwx a lot. I liked the character of the german uboats, so much so that I made a typeVII model. Before sh4 came out I didn't think I'd be interested in motoring around the Pacific sinking marus, but I've grown to love it and the US subs. I can't go back to the Atlantic now.

[jazman]

Playing SH3 makes me feel cold all the way down to the bones. I like warm weather.

[CCIP]

I don't even know. If I could only eat one fruit, would I eat an apple or an orange? I don't know either :doh:

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

After seeing the nice eye candy in SH4 and looking at SH3 well, SH3 collects dust now. So good that I have two seperate installs of SH4 with TM and RFB.:yep: But I think the comparison is a bit unfair. It's like comparing PacMan with Crysis.

[FIREWALL]

I happily play them Both. And with that Addon comeing soon, At the same time.:D

[Schlippittz]

I'm a noob and haven't installed any mods yet.

In fact, until I found this place last week, I didn't know there were mods. :oops:

[AVGWarhawk]

Why yes, you forgot RFB. Personally, I enjoy the new Pacific world I'm bobbing around in.

[AVGWarhawk]

I'm a noob and haven't installed any mods yet.

In fact, until I found this place last week, I didn't know there were mods. :oops:

Welcome aboard. Go get some mods, get hooked like the rest of us nuts here:D

[Schlippittz]

I will once I feel a bit more comfortable in my boat. I just learned how to use the thermal layer on Tuesday. I need to hold off on stuff like TM and RSRDC and other mods that make the game harder at the present time. Once I get my sea legs, I fully intend to check them out. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate...no, wait.

I can only play one career, and it has to be SH3 because my computer won't run SH4 yet. When I get my upgrade, I plan to run many careers in a linear fashion in both worlds, just like I did with AOD and SHCE.

If I could only have one...I think I'd shoot myself.

[Mil_tera]

I love the way SH4 looks and love the manual targetting over SH3 manual targetting as I feel its more difficult....but I have to choose SH3 over SH4 because of the personal problem I still have with restarting a save game after the engines are destroyed.....I just can;t get over that...:(

[kiwi_2005]

Well thats a bloody hard one, SH3/GWX & OLC mod work well and im enjoying finally learning the manual targetting thanks to OLC. But SH4 & the mods TM/RSRD etc., is also awesome. I think if i had to go by the carreer i would have to pick SH4 cause of the Pacific campaign.

[SteamWake]

Dangerous waters

[SurfnSea]

In order to answer this question and vote on the poll I'm conducting some serious research. I'm leaving Pearl Harbor for my first patrol in SH4 (SH4 1.4 no mods). I'm currently on my, about 35th day in Oct. 39, of SH3 GWX 2.0 patrol, 8 torps left and about 31,000 tons.

So, if I could have only one career...well, that's a tough one which will require further testing to answer; I'll get back to you on that. It's off to the North Atlantic to shadow a co...wait, maybe I need to enjoy the cruise from Pearl to Honshu...Hmmm.

[nikimcbee]

I don't even know. If I could only eat one fruit, would I eat an apple or an orange? I don't know either :doh:

I was going to to choose peach:cool: .

[Dogsbd]

I am and always have been a Pacific Theater enthusiast. SHIV is the first sub sim I've really gotten into since the original Silent Hunter back in 1997. U-Boats just don't do anything for me. I own SHII / SHIII, but I've not spent more than 5-6 hours in either. By now I have hundreds of hours in SHI, and plan on building up that number in SHIV.

[XLjedi]

Probably skewed just for the sake of locating it in the SH4 forum...

[Wilcke]

How is this for insanity and keeping my sleep bank solidly withdrawn...

I divide my time amongst these

SH3 + GWX 2.0

SH3 + NYGM

SH4 + RFB

SH4 + TM

[onelifecrisis]

What exactly is the point of this poll?

"please try to avoid..."

Uhuh. Thought so.

[AVGWarhawk]

What exactly is the point of this poll?

"please try to avoid..."

Uhuh. Thought so.

No point really. I guess to make people think about one career in either theater. What would you think the poll was about?

[sunvalleyslim]

Need a new computer before I can play SH4

[Brag]

I have to finish the GWX war first. Then I will try SH4, but with a few crates of German beer aboard :smug:.

[BH]

I have and enjoy both games, perhaps too much. Like others who post here, sub sims are often the cause of conflicts for my family and obligations. I have owned both games played missions, but never completed a career. I've decided to finally complete a career and then give it up. I have never really used a large time compression for many reasons... so too long to complete to play both games. I just wanted to get a feel for what the posters consider would pick at this time.

[theluckyone17]

I'd love to go back to SH3, if it wasn't for one thing...

SH4 has better graphics, but meh. I play at 100%, no external views. Unless I'm attacking a lone merchant, I don't stick around to watch the pretty explosions. So this it's just eyecandy, no substance.

SH4 has American subs, SH3 is German. I like playing the loosing side, since it means things should get more difficult later on... not easier. I don't spend too much time on the moral side of things, since the morality of it occurred over forty years before my birth. Can't say what would've happened if I was born in Germany around 1920.

I can't seem to get a good a grip on the SH4 TDC as I had on the SH3 TDC. Probably since I seem to get lazy on SH4.

All those bad points are negated by one simple thing: The Fatigue System. I feel disconnected from the crew if I simply disable the fatigue... and manually shifting the crew around was too much babysitting for my tastes. My toilet paper reserves got awful low in the SH3 days, if you catch my drift :shifty:.

Now, if we ever get SH4 to the point where we can model the Atlantic... I'll switch oceans without a complaint. Or if Ubi returns to the Atlantic in a future sim. 'Til then, I'll be happy sailing warm waters.

[Schlippittz]

I agree. I like SH4 the game better, but I much favour the Unterseeboots.

[V.C. Sniper]

:rock: Stocked Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific.:arrgh!:

[John W. Hamm]

I voted SH4 but i play strictly RFB, I Played SH3 GWX forever and I loved it!! but the eye candy of SH4 is just too good, after the last GWX release came out I gave it a twist but I could only stomach it for about 15 minutes I just couldn't bare the graphics... ya know its funny to think... I used to comment to my wife(fience then) about how realistic the graphics looked in SH3 I just couldn't get over them... well guess how I feel about SH4 LOL. and not to mention I love the way the crew think for themselves (to a degree) in SH4 I don't have to tuck them into bed or wake them up for their shifts anymore that alone was something I wanted, it added a bit of realism for me. I realy do miss the atlantic and those U-boats though, and when the add on comes out I'm getting it straight away!!

[claybirdd]

I simply love the Gato and Sargo, plus there probably wont be a GWX 3.0, while SH4 mods are still growing and compiling. Though Ducimus is semi retired.

[Jimbuna]

Ask me again in the not too distant future http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/bubblegum2.gif