Here's to Silent Hunter IV, hoping to be the best of the best, the waiting is finally almost over...HAIL the Dev team!!

Shame EB up here won't get it until the 23rd.

Great post and thread!


I am another one of those who have been waiting for a Pacific campaign for quite some time. No disrepect intended on anyone, but every since first "cutting my teeth" on the orginal Silent Hunter....I've been dying to hit those seas again.

I'm patiently (ok...not so patiently) waiting for my own copy to arrive and I can't hold back my own enthusiasm. I'm not an often poster here, but I do try and read quite a bit from the wealth of knowledge and information.

Time to break out the bubbly, soon we will all set sail again!

Great post Neal! Here's to SHIV and our return to the Pacific Theatre! Good luck and good hunting to all of our virtual skippers out there!

4 days and counting! :yep:

sh4
 

One minute of silence for the grandfather of SH4: The unique Silent Service II:yep: . My expectations for SH4 are very high because of that game. Nevertheless SH4 is already a great success as SH3 and its wonderfull mods!:sunny: :up:

Thanks everyone for spreading the love amongst the subsim fans of this world. I hope SH4 lives up to our collective high-expectations, especially since the bar was set so high by SH3 GWX et al, but from what I've seen so far I'm confident it's gonna blow us all away! By-the-way, are there gonna be icebergs in this one?

Congrats Dev team. And to you to Neal!:up: I've been an unknown lurker of the deep around here since SHII, and you have done a great job with SUBSIM.com and to help keep the community going with sub facts, humor, pics, and mods!! Hats off to you!! :sunny:

Nice story Neal. I remember some upbeat in your 'tone of voice' when SH-2 & SH-3 were about te be released, but not too much of it now! Better that the community expectations are not too high so we have still room for the 'Vista-WOW!'. I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks for sharing your soul Neal ... I love the real thing, but I'm too old to go anymore. I have lived and breathed diesel boats, boomers, Mare Island, Newport News, Groton, Conn, Adak Alaska to Rota Spain.

Sub sims just help it all come back alive for me ... I love them.

The Pacific Ocean in the middle of WWII must have been a beautiful, but terrifying experience. Silent Hunter 4's new feature that lets you hit replay and start over again from the point in time (right before you made a mistake) sure would have come in handy in WWII, uh?

Silent Hunter IV is likened to a woman that we all get to share ... :lol:

I'm going to have a real good time with mine ... :yep:

Cheers
 

Good post, Neal.

I especially enjoyed reading the historic recap as I didn't get involved with sub sims until SH3. Nonetheless, here's to raising a glass of champagne for a global toast to all the imminent SH4 maiden voyages.

Cheers!
:()1:

:up: Great read bro. Thanks

SW

Would you please stop already ! I learned last week it was nearing release and have been on edge ever since ! :D

Congrats to the developers for getting the product on the shelves and from what Ive seen and read so far it looks really exciting.

I just wanted to take a moment and thank the developers and espically the modding community at large for their efforts on the previous version. Between the patches and mods they took a good title and made it a great one. I cant wait to see what they come up with for this version. :up:

Ive been pretty quiet on the boards in the last year or two but yall can look foward to a little more from me in the future (nobody cares :cool: ).

Waiting with great anticipation !

Thanks for the post Neal.

edit; to get Niels name right.

Niel?
 

Just an FYI; Niel didn't post it, Neal did!

;)

"STUNTCOW" near Parker,Az

Great speech again, Neal. Spoken as a natural subsimmers' leader. Here's a virtual toast to you, to SH 4, and this fine subsim community.

Alas I will not be playing SH4 right away as I am not about to upgrade my PC just yet. My DT PC which is just fine for SH3 GWX and my (older) sims (until 2004) is to be the successor for my old yet still running strong office PC and my 2006 DELL laptop is not up to the task. Because I hate waste I will not replace anything that's still good hardwarewise. Therefor I will postpone my SH4 experience/participation until later in 2007 or even early 2008. Bummer :down: but dont pity me... bought me a nice new (second hand) sailing yacht, have been busy buying additional stuff for it, and planning to have some nice trips with it in between my independent work and family labour. With some subsimming on the side in the evening, while 2 great kids are vast asleep (4.5 y old boy already fascinated with SH3-my bad gave him some peaks but box says 7) life isnt that bad and familywise even very promising for team/multiplay; silent hunter 6 ?

Thanks for hyping me up even more, Neal!

I just got my copy of Silent Victory in the mail today and am planning on burying my nose in it until Wednesday! Yee haw! Can't wait! :arrgh!: :rock:

Good post Neal. :up:


I remember the great anticipation prior to the release of SHII, mostly because of the possibility of good multiplay action. After being involved with the beta testing I had a lot of mixed feelings when it neared released. A sense of dread, a hope that patches might save it. I hoped it would not be the end of the genre, but it could have been.

Then we got SH3, a great sim. Beautiful graphics and good gameplay with replay value. We are getting a new WWII subsim this soon because of how well SH3 sold......I'm very sure of that point.

Subsim had a lot to do with that. What SH3 lacked, you guys here rolled up your sleeves and either fixed or added. It was a good game out of the box, and it became spectacular.

You guys Rock!

Thank you for SH4.

A good thing is that - unlike with the previous titles - one better knows what to expect as the same developers had already done SHIII. So I am pretty confident that it will just turn out fine!

Here's to next week!

Kai

Semi-related:

Can you imagine the confusion at the Silent Victory publishing house as recently - and for no apparent reason - copies of this obscure tome are being snapped up like hot cakes?!? :hmm:

This is actually the first subsim game Ive been anticipating. Submarine games have always been doing their best to surprise me. Pop, surfacing they go and I am "oh, whats this then?". Then Im hopelessly submerged in their universe for weeks.

First sub game I was "sunk" by was the Sid Meier one, wosname now... :damn: Well anyways, ended up playing that every night for at least 3 weeks. Which was A LONG TIME back in my younger days :) A few years later I ran across Sub Battle Simulator from Epyx. Was scooting around the med for weeks with that one too. Then by accident I played Red Storm Rising, and that game was unbelievably cool. Microprose if I recall correctly. Was exciting and challenging. I never again felt any love for modern submarine games.

Then we had that Sid Meier thingy 2. Silent. something. :damn: A game I also just spotted on the shelf in the game shop :-D

Aces of the Deep was thrown in my face by my editor for review. Had no idea it was coming. And down another 3-4 weeks of my evenings went on a stupid submarine game :)

Then, I must admit, I left computer submarining for almost 9 years untill SH3 surfaced and I was suck back under again.

So Im a kaleun by accident :arrgh!: This time, however, Im genuinely anticipating the new game. Good I have Europa Universalis III to keep me company during the long wait.

I am glad that Ubi revitalized this narrow genre. They have done it with a balancing act of "wootness" to lure in the hussars and some depth (haha!) to keep the long term fans enraptured. And they do it two times in a row!

And Neal, dont worry about the pc games market. It ain't dying. In fact I think its blooming a bit. 10 years ago all the CRAP games was released on the pc. Then the Playstation came and sucked up all those. These days you get more room for the gems such as Silent Hunter, the hardcore strategy games. There will ALWAYS be a market for those. Ubi knows it.

And I like them for not snuffing their noses at low sales numbers between their million selling Tom Clancy games. They want to beat EA? Good, start by doing what EA doesn't do. Do not ignore low volume games, since EA doesn't touch anything that doesn't shift 1 mio copies at least.