Nice thread :yep:

- History.
- Immersion.
- Customization, mods & game settings.
- The great community here.
- Made me aware of SUBSIM.


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1. It's a game that I can play without aggrivating my carpal tunnel syndrome.

2. I can also play it while doing other things in the room (and I'm always busy in here doing something).

3. The thrill of the hunt.

4. The sheer terror it generates.

5. The community here is really cool.

6. You can get some really cool stories from playing this game.

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I can't answer.
If I must think about this question, I'm affraid that I'll stop to play.

:rotfl: :rotfl: I got in SH3 by looking for a good game to play when i was in the 5th grade. it was a fun game back then and still is now (thx to all of the GWX crew for making it better!) Ever since then I am a WWII bookworm.:88)

I bought Destroyer Command a while back and played around with it, not getting very far (always sunk by a uboat :arrgh!: ) and saw there was a sister game....

Got SHII and was like wow this is just like Silent Service II that I'd enjoyed as a young kid (not getting very far, never did sink the Yamoto (sp?)) but way better. Also by then I'd seen Das Boot and was kind of inspired by it.

When I saw the first vid of SHIII the graphics blew me away. Amazing after SHII! I bought it as soon as it came out. Look at that sea, look at the ships. My long suffering girlfriend was so impressed that she said she might even have a shot.

I continue to play it because it presents a challenge, in terms of control, thought, tactics. Just when its another run of the mill attack, it all goes haywire and you have to get youself out of the situation.

Sure it's given me an interest in the history and I've learned a great deal about that, and some of it makes me angry for the lives that were thrown away later in the war, but what keeps me playing, really? A desire to get past 1942 without ending up :dead:

I just like U-Boats (I built two as models when I was young) and the technical aspect of the whole thing as well as history of submarines.

And I play the game (SH3) for the reason I can command a boat myself which is rather problematic in reality... it is the same as some people play FlightSims etc.
But I also like the "fight"-theme:
sneak up the enemy... set up my target..shoot... wait...bang! *cheers*
And then try to get out of there... "alife" -oh oh ... thrill - tactic - strategy etc.

If someone would ask me to analyse this I would say it is some kind of satisfaction of old prehistorical mental schemes. :lol:

What I also like about SH3 is the way one can and has to manage his crew... and the possibilty to upgrade and earn stuff.

... and of course:
Very big upgrade from SilentService2 :lol:
GWX blew it up even more
OLC's GUI and some other mods add the last bit to get max realism out of it

:up: the great community :up:

Just to relax my mind, sometimes I prefer a book sometimes SH3.

Best regards

Why do I play SHIII? Hmmm......

Only got the game a few months a go. I was never really into the whole sim thing before, and only got it because it was on offer in the local computer shop. I make a habit of trawling the internet for game updates and mods before I play any new game that I buy, so I stumbled on this site.

The level of support on here is incredible - better than any other game I've ever played. The mods you can get (GWX and OLC for me) combine to make the game massively immersive. I never thought I would enjoy a game so much where you are doing almost nothing for 90% of the time, but I do. I enjoy the intellectual challenge of manual targetting, plotting intercept courses etc, I enjoy the claustraphobic feel of having to go deep with destroyers calling out for you, and I enjoy the fact that you have to be cautious and that you generally have more time to think in this game than others I play.

Cheers,

Wibbs

I'm a sucker for all military sims: flightsims, tanksims, helosims, subsims, strategy games, you name it. Have always had a special interest in U-boats and the battle in the Atlantic and SHIII gives you the chance to immerse yourself into that experience to some extent. Must admit that I had lost the will to play it until GWX came around; it surely extended the lifespan for SHIII. The new S-boot mod is great as well and a whole new experience!

The big minus is that SHIII gobbles up large amounts of time, even for a single mission; time that I should be spending with the wife and my 2 boys, although the elder one loves to pull the trigger when daddy KaLeun has a target lined up for a kill.

Thanks for all your replies guys, you've all been a great help :up:

I won't be needing any more material, but I guess you can keep posting for interests sake...;)

I am simply fond of submarines. What's more, the game is as immersive as it can be.Do not forget: in this game you lose the war so victory and winning are not the motives.

P.S. I have to admit that if you want to be effective i.e. sinking a lot of ships,being silent especially when you are playing in high realism level then you must be somewhat of a psycho(but only for the purposes of the game!).:o

I like subsims, sh3commander GWX2.0, because it's one of the few games(if not the only game) that I play where I can use mathematics. It offers a great deal of variety with encounters, attacks, and areas to go.
Normally I play to just do something. It could be an escape from reality, anxiety, stress, or just plain fun.
I'm also a fan of submarines and have been reading about them since I was a kid. Playing games like Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, SS2, Up Periscope, etc... just came as a natural evolution to my interest. I think that submarines are as close as we can get to a starship too! I think that deep down inside of all of us is a desire to explore.

- Imersion, feeling of Atlantic WW2

- Washing my brain of my daily obligations and stress

- Like ocean activities - from my room

- General interest in WW2 activities, history and simulations

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Reamaining 96 reasons will be published in my biography...

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The last subsim I played was Silent Service I.

Then, after a quarter of a century and a zillion games later, I saw the first screenshots of SH3.

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1. I like watching secondary explosions
2. The GWX team did a great job mirroring actual ops from the war, so if you study up, you can be at the right place/right time and leave your own footprint.
3. Aces of the Deep started the sub-love I have now. The idea of one sub against the world requires cleverness/boldness that is very appealing. You're like an under-water Billy the Kid.

Interest in WW2 history, the battle of the Atlantic, and U-boats.

I like the stratigy of the game, and swearing at the computer. :ping:

Well for me ,i got into SH3 cuase i was so sick and tired of playing World of Warcraft:huh: ,i have played that game for 3 years while paying Blizzard 17 bucks a month to do so.I had played alot of first person shooters and some flight sims before that and loved the flight sims.Im not sure really how i come about SH3 but somehow i did and my heart like skipped a beat.I knew this was something i had to try.From the first 2 min. in the game i knew i found my new addiction.I have learned more historical stuff from playing this game than i thought was possible.Alot from the forums and alot in game.Its a amazing community here and a really well thought out game.With GWX it is like a masterpiece,its a challenge,its exciteing and no 2 careers seem to be the same.At this point it seems like one could play this for years to come and never do the same patrol twice.:up: :up: for me

Same as a lot of people here, I guess. Big history nut generally, with particular interest in WW2. Played Silent Service and SH2, but my pc's were never up to the latest games, so I got fed up with pc games. Then a newer pc and SH3 came together at the same time. Always liked immersion/simulation stuff.

I like the realism and the historical aspects of the sim.

1) I've always been a history buff, and WWII as we know largely created the world we're still living in.

2) I'm interested in vintage technology, WWII-era machinery included.