Why do I play Silent Hunter 3?
 

Me like blow up ships! :arrgh!:

Yah an' dat 2 Herr Kaleun :lol:

I find that 1st person shoot'em up games just don't work for me, as blasé aggression will often achieve the same results as sound strategy.

However, in realistic simulations such as SH3 (with all automatic assistance provided by the software - ship recognition, AOB calcs etc. - disabled) success depends upon good planning, preparation and execution. Steaming in, all guns blazing, will more often than not result in failure.

Being a scientist, I enjoy seeing my calculations of speed, range, AOB etc, and tactical preparation working as planned, and feel great satisfaction at success.

Also, the dynamic campaign means that, although the situations are often similar and the task the same, the actual happenings are never the same twice, giving the game longevity and enduring interest. This is prolonged by the gradual improvement of your opponents, and the ability to upgrade your equipment (submarines, torpedo types, sonar etc.) as time progresses.

Finally, the simulation acts as a practical history lesson, teaching me what crews of u-boats went through better than any documentary or film on tv (which tends to miss out the boredom, the cramped space, the feeling of uncertainty/fear when being depth charged etc).

Basically, with the simulation (and mods - great work all you modders/dev teams.) as realistic as possible, I enjoy and learn from the experience, both doing tasks that were required in real life and feeling the emotions that come with it.

To be honest, I think that this sort of game should be played/demonstrated in schools as joint lessons in history, maths, physics and socialogy. Perhaps that's a new market that game dev teams could look into?

I'm sorry; what kind of stupid question is that?

It's like a woman asking a man why the only things he ever cooks are chili and spaghetti? The only correct answer: there's something else?:rotfl:

I play it because it's there, of course.

I just happen to like WW2 simulations.

Sneak good...blow up more ship.

Aim right...blow up ship.

Blow up different ship in different place.

Enemy get better, you get better or blow up.

Learn blow up right ship at right time.

Water go boom...bowels make room. One bathroom, many men.:o

Me like blow up ships.:arrgh!:

Need more people blow up ships!:know:

I like submarines and the atmosphere of submarine games

Also shooting at British people is fun, because i'm British myself and believe me were as annoying as all the stereotypes make out.

Also my late Granddad was on the Barham when it was sunk (one of the survivors obviously :)) so I sunk it in honour of him. It made sense at the time.