I for one have always had a soft spot for the pacific spending a lot of time growing up in Papua New Guinea, so i say bring it on, it will mean i can finally shelve SH1 :)

I love u-boots, but for me, the pacific is the better option, i don't believe for a minute the argument that the war will get easier, as japanese sonar improves and the japanese begin evolving to the threat, if nowhere near as effectively as the allies.

Plus the option of playing the japanese submarines is something i can only hope against a lucky star for, but i'm not holding my breath. To command the long range cruiser subs, or try fight the war in an RO-35... Too awesome to think of

SH 4 Yes
 

I love the U-Boats in SH III, but if SH 4 improves the quality of sub simulation, I'll be in the Pacific with many of you. :up:

The two-disc idea with both Atlantic and Pacific campaigns is also very interesting, provided that there is new and improved "stuff" for the Atlantic side.

So I guess this information is false?

I've been playing submarine games and simulators since I was 5 years old on a home built Zenith computer. With my fathers help we’d play USS Fast Attack for hours. The following year we purchased our first PC and played Sub Battle. Always had a special place in my heart for WW2 Pacific Theater, and since the last game in this theater was the original Silent Hunter, I’m really excited for it.

Well, I guess I'm the odd one out... as usual.

After reading the new interview and seeing the screen shots of SH4, as impressed as I am with the improvements, my heart lies with the U-Boats and the Atlantic. It's just my particular intrest and in no way ignores the efforts of the American and Japanese crews.

Since SHIII was released I have been running most of my partols realtime on a dedicated machine, so, as most of you have run through the game probly 4-10 times, I'm still in 1943. Which really works out as I don't have to speed up my exsisting experience to make way for a new release.

However, as I will probly pass on SH4, I look forward to the improvements that SH4 will offer future releases of Silent Hunter if/when UBI returns to the Atlantic. Hopefully I'll be done with SHIII by then.... just make sure we get some resupply out here dammit!!!:ping:

Lynch

It will be interesting to try new boats and equipment. I played SH1 in it`s day and in the early war years it was quite difficult because the boats I had then couldn`t dive very deep to evade deptch charges. It was something like 250 ft/80m if I remember correctly. Later in the war it became easier, but I loved sailing out of Manila in my little boat:)
As you may have noticed I like being the underdog and the epic struggle in the Atlantic interests me more on a historical level since it`s closer geographically. One thing I never will get used to is the lame "dive dive dive" sequence. I prefer the more dramatic AAAALLLLAAARRRMMM!!!!!!:lol:
Anyway, I think it is the right decision to go Pacific this time.

Any new sub sim is a good thing:cool:
Started with the pacific, it will be good to go back there.

at the end of the day i am just pleased to have a new SH/sub game. Silent Service 2 in the PTO on the commodore 64 was my first sub game, and i really liked it.

Well,,as a big fan of the "orginal" SH , I'm really looking forward to SH4:D

SH3 will always stay on my harddrive.:arrgh!:

My very first computer game back in 1985 was "Silent Service" for the Commodore 64. I became addicted to playing it and actually did dream of realism such that we have today. Later, I bought the Amiga version which was a pretty good leap in that direction.

With the PC came Silent Hunter and I was again playing a sim that was very much like Silent Service but with a lot more realism.

Now Silent Hunter IV is coming and my dream is being realized finally after 21 years!

Good things come to those who wait.

scrapser

Yup same for me,,went through Amiga 500/600/1200 and played SH all the time,,many,many late nights.:D :D

I've never played a Pacific subsim other than Silent Service for NES. I am very much looking forward to SH4 so I give it a resounding YES! I am so bloody sick of the North Atlantic. Why does a subsim always have to be about U-boats anyway? How boring it gets. I think it would have been suicide for the devs if they based SH4 on U-boats yet again.

In case you're interested, you can get the WINUAE Amiga emulator and most of the original Amiga games for free on the Internet. Then you would have an Amiga 4000 to go back and experience those games all over again.

I use WINUAE and AIOB (Amiga in a Box). I'm not sure what will happen once the new Window's Vista is released and becomes mainstream. You can also get a Commodore 64 emulator and there's another emulator out there called MAME that plays just about every Arcade game (the actual games) that were every produced.

scrapser