Possible new submariner out there somewhere!

[thefretmaster]

I was at work over the weekend (good old woolworths) and i sold a copy of silent hunter 3 to some ten year old kid. it made my day, and reminded me of when i bought it when i was younger and looked forward to diving for the first time and just was mega excited

[flag4]

I was at work over the weekend (good old woolworths) and i sold a copy of silent hunter 3 to some ten year old kid. it made my day, and reminded me of when i bought it when i was younger and looked forward to diving for the first time and just was mega excited

why, how old are you - y' big kid ? :lol:


keep on pluckin'...

[bigboywooly]

Hope you pointed him to Subsim too

:yep:

[Brag]

The initial excitement of getting the game is something special. I visited various forums, read reports, looked at scrennies and got a new computer before buying SH3. So it was quite a build up for the moment I came to the bridge screen and started the Academy thinggie. (And I am not a kid :D ).

[Jimbuna]

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

[von hally]

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

dont know what woolies are asking...but ive seen sh3 in the bargain bin in many a shop........i see people pick it up and put it down and walk away....and i think
"there goes the most fun you can have whith a tenner!!!!"

it saddens me that they'l never know the tension and terror that little box in the bin would give them! ive thought of telling them but standing there explaining crash diving and depth charge attacks to a total stranger would probably get me thrown out o the shop

[JU_88]

You gotta remember hardcore gamers are a minority now.
Naval sims and sims in general, require alot of time an patiance that most people just aren't willing to invest into a game. Hell the majority of casual gamers wont even complete Half life 2 or Call of duty, both of which take about 3-to-7 hours.

I was very nearly one the of the people you mentioned, I had ZERO interest in submarines prior to purchasing SH3, when i saw it I though I'd take a chance and try something different, but really had the expectation I would get bored/frustrated and regret the purchase.....
..... two months later it was pactically my religeon and I also owned Das Boot and Iron coffins. My flat mate at the time who liked story driven games with character development- joked that I bought the book and the movie to compensate for what was missing in SH3 -in a funny kind of way I guess he was right, But to me I was just feeding my new found obsession.
By the way, if a non Uboat enthusiast ever asks you what type of U-boat is the one in Das boot, just answer with 'I dont know' I answered with 'type 7c' and got called sad git as a result LMAO!

That said, even now my sim collection only consists of SH3 & 4 and IL2 complete edition.
I love them to pieces but they alone satisfy my sim needs, the rest of my games are action adventure, FPS, survival horror and RTS. I like the odd racing game too.

[Jimbuna]

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

dont know what woolies are asking...but ive seen sh3 in the bargain bin in many a shop........i see people pick it up and put it down and walk away....and i think
"there goes the most fun you can have whith a tenner!!!!"

it saddens me that they'l never know the tension and terror that little box in the bin would give them! ive thought of telling them but standing there explaining crash diving and depth charge attacks to a total stranger would probably get me thrown out o the shop

In Woolies, in Edinburgh http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

6 months at Her Majesty's pleasure I should imagine http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7975/gigglebigtb9fg3.gif

[Tessa]

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

dont know what woolies are asking...but ive seen sh3 in the bargain bin in many a shop........i see people pick it up and put it down and walk away....and i think
"there goes the most fun you can have whith a tenner!!!!"

it saddens me that they'l never know the tension and terror that little box in the bin would give them! ive thought of telling them but standing there explaining crash diving and depth charge attacks to a total stranger would probably get me thrown out o the shop

Same way I found my first copy, seemed out of place after looking at the box and reading it. The game looked to be far more advanced than your average bargin bin game. Scarry that such a small innocent looking box can become as addictive as heroin once you finally get going :doh:

[Jimbuna]

A bit like Pandoras box

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6356/av129190fjwl3.gif

[GoDeep]

I think hardcore sim players are now and probably always have been a minority. It takes a lot of time to get to know a sim and also it takes effort, two things which the large majority of gamers are not willing to invest, especially in today's "instant gratification" culture. They just want to pop the CD/DVD in and be blasting away once the installation finishes. If it comes with a 200 page manual, then forget it... :nope:

I remember when I was playing "Das Boot", all my friends were playing "Doom" and "Duke Nukem" and they were wondering why I could sit behind my computer, run "Das Boot" and basically have nothing happen, while they were constantly blasting away at things. There's nothing wrong with "Doom" (I played it too, back then), but I find such games like depth (okay, pun intended) for me. There's only a paper-thin story behind it, the replay value is next to zero and they basically fail to capture my imagination. SHIII can be frantic in a way that "Doom" can never be, but it's a different kind of frantic, that appeals to people like me and you guys.

I've been fascinated by U-Boats for as long as I can remember. I even watched "Operation Petticoat" when I was a kid. :oops: Not because it was funny, but because it had a submarine. And if the Beatles could have a yellow one, I could stand to watch a pink one. :lol:

So in short, for a sim to grab you, you need to have three key ingredients, imho:

an interest in the subject
willingness to learn how the sim works
time to find out how the sim worksWhen those three ingredients are there, the sim will probably hook you for a long time... :ping:

[barrass808]

i got sh3 from morisons for 6.99 about two months ago. was looking for something to feed my passion with combat and saw it on the cheapies shelf.
best game i've bought for years. also lucky that gwx 2.1 was just about to come out so thats where i started.

[Madox58]

I started with SH1.
Never did any mod work on it but played it to death!!
SH2 didn't work well on the old system I had and makeing a liveing
was more important.
Sh3 came out and I bought it but real life said it had to wait.
I was never a Navy guy in real life.
I was the idiot that jumped out of planes!
So the Sub Sims for me was a kind of change but related type thing.
I love the stalkeing and setting up the kill.
That's what I did on land in Real Life.
When I engage in the Sim I do the same.
I pick a target, make the shot and then evade.
Tonnage means little to me.
It's the impossible shot and kill that I seek!!
:rotfl:

[gimpy117]

he's 10...eventually he'll look for god mode mods...and if you google Sh3 mods...guess what comes up first...so he'll find us...

[Puster Bill]

he's 10...eventually he'll look for god mode mods...and if you google Sh3 mods...guess what comes up first...so he'll find us...

He will be assimulated.


Yes, it was an intentional pun.

[Brag]

he's 10...eventually he'll look for god mode mods...and if you google Sh3 mods...guess what comes up first...so he'll find us...

He will be assimulated.


Yes, it was an intentional pun.




Ha ha ha ha, assimulated --brilliant! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Ditto to JU 88.

I was surffing the web and came accross this forum and became addicted to
you guys. I immediately went and bought SHIII (Unpatched) fired it up and was hooked. I had to get a new computer (Alienware) to handle all the great mods. Expensive but I have not bought a new game in over 18 months. I did buy SH4 but do not play it thanks to our SHIII Modders.

http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii113/laufen345/th_Corsair_animatedgifpropspinning.gif

http://silent-hunter-addict.com

[von hally]

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

dont know what woolies are asking...but ive seen sh3 in the bargain bin in many a shop........i see people pick it up and put it down and walk away....and i think
"there goes the most fun you can have whith a tenner!!!!"

it saddens me that they'l never know the tension and terror that little box in the bin would give them! ive thought of telling them but standing there explaining crash diving and depth charge attacks to a total stranger would probably get me thrown out o the shop

In Woolies, in Edinburgh http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

6 months at Her Majesty's pleasure I should imagine http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7975/gigglebigtb9fg3.gif



deep in woolies :o :D

and its only 60 days at her maj pleasure up here :lol: :lol:

[Jimbuna]

LOL http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7975/gigglebigtb9fg3.gif

[thefretmaster]

sorry guys! started a thread and didn't check it
I got the game when i was 14 or 15 i think now coming up to 18 im still interested.

oh and guess what...
i sold another copy today! it was some old guy today. I pointed him this way.:ping:

I recently bought sh4 but i dont think it has the same addiction as "last years model" sh3 was and still is a classic sim.

oh btw i think its £4.99 if youre lucky (and want two copies?)

[Teh_Diplomat]

I bought this game in early 2007, I had seen it on shelves and eventually I gave in and bought it.

Wow! :o
After learning the controls and getting accustomed to controlling the sub and lurking and searching the forums here I've learned alot about tactics to employ and as such I've up'd my difficulty to around 57% - from 29% when I first got the game - and It's now in my current "All Time playable Games" list that I always end up coming back to (Starcraft & Rome: Total War are also on this list).

I played the game and then once I learned the DiD moniker I tried that and got up to 1943. I bought SHIV but felt as if while more visually appealing I was less immersed into the game.

I think it's just the plain and simple HUD, that coupled with the feeling of having the War shift as it get progressivly harder. I mean you start out hunting with impunity and by '42 you start to see that you've become the hunted. In '43 I would only surface at night.


I must say this is a fantastic game and an awesome community. Kudos Gentlemen :up:

[moscowexile]

I started with SH2 in 2004. Bought it for 80 rubles (about £1.50) on the street in Moscow. I had already become interested in historically accurate wargames and naval warfare seems to be sadly neglected in this field, so I snapped it up. A few months after that, SH3 appeared. I bought that for 80 rubles as well and have been totally hooked ever since.

Then GWX appeared as an update on Game Shadow. Big problem: my 80 ruble Silent Hunters were clearly copies of SH3 1.0. It's often hard to find the genuine article here and even those which are sold as the real MacCoy are not. In the end, I managed to get the real thing then updated and modified it to GWX. Then last August, for the first time after many years, I went back to England for a fortnight, where, to my great surprise, I saw SH3 in a video games shop bargain bin in the Trafford Centre, Manchester: it was under a fiver (£5), namely £4.99.

From what I read on the web, so-called "adult" games are big money spinners now: I am talking about "Grand Auto Theft" and such like. Can't understand why. But as they say here: What's food to a Russian is poison to a German.

[BootsmanBoof]

There's another new subsimmer, too. My old dad. :D

He went to sea aged 16 in 1948 (scrubbing decks on merchants), retired only a few years ago having spent the last 30 or so years as a Master Mariner, a Torres Strait Pilot. He even piloted the QE2 through from Sydney through the Great Barrier Reef when I was a kid :rock:

Anyway I showed him SH3 when he last visited, and later sent him a copy. He thoroughly enjoys it, although in old sea dog style he does have a bit of a verbal blast at the map scale in northern and southern latitudes, things like that. I think he enjoys trigonometry with interceptions as well as the TDC more than anything (but he's pissed off about the lack of spherical trig involved lol).

So I guess SH3 can catch them young or old.:D

[Tombow]

Have to report in here as a new submariner. A friend of mine just gave me his DVD as he rather enjoyed FPS games. Didn't install SHIII until I got to do some PC upgrades. Well, installed it about a week ago and am still struggling with torpedo practice. Being no new to high-standard-sims (in fact, I am an MSFS aircraft designer) I just couldn't afford going on a mission without a self-imposed merciless training drills (you guess, it's my standard - I wouldn't even think on going on a single mission without having mastered the training part to perfection). Navigation and gunnery was relatively easy, so now trying to get some confidence and experience in putting those eels dead on.

Found subsim.com by myself and spent most of my recent time off reading Laughing Swordfish's U46 story and enduring self-imposed torpedo drills (see above). Let's see how I will do at the last training mission (convoy attack). Maybe setting sail for some of the single missions in a couple of weeks.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard to you all....Good Hunting http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9708/piratebf4.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD, new kaluens!:sunny: