Im getting so antsy Im getting bord with SHIII. :D

Hi Neal,
It's been awhile. Thanks for the writeup while awaiting release of SH4. I guess at 68 I'm old enough to enjoy the anticipation, as you are. Been spending my time with Company of Heroes and Titan Quest, but after 13 years spent in the Navy, I want to go back to sea....even if it isn't flying a Skyhawk!

I'm really looking forward to returning to the Pacific. Besides actually having participated in the Southeast Asian Wargames of the 1960's, I got hooked on Microprose's Silent Service and I helped with a little of the technical stuff and a lot of the testing of the original Silent Hunter. As you say, SH2 was a disaster, but yeah, they seemed to get most things right in SH3, especially with the patches. But I REALLY miss the Pacific. The Atlantic just never did for me what the big pond out West has done and I'm looking forward to installing SH4 and heading out on patrol.

My one drawback is I now live in rural Kentucky where broadband is still a set of big drums. There's no cable and no DSL in my immediate area so I'm left with DirecWay satellite broadband which, at the best of times has a ping roundtrip of around 950ms so on-line multiplayer is pretty much out of the question. That's why a good dynamic single player game is important to me.

Again, thanks for the anticipatory writeup and I look forward to many posts sharing sea stories of our war patrols.

Bill Waldheim

Is it really two years since SH3 ? It still feels like the new kid on the block.

- Unlike SH2 which seemed to be around for decades.

There's going to be a Silent Hunter 4?

No. Go back to sleep.

Ah, 10 years of Subsim.com and I've only been around for 8 or 9; must have been the second of third announcement of SHII :rotfl: I find it amazing how many of the "old guys" are still around from those days; a true testament to the longevity of subsims and SubSim.com! Cheers to all the old timers and the newbies that come along every day to this hobby. Did I say hobby? I meant obsession!

One of my first sub simming memories was discovering that if you held down the firing button on the joystick in Silent Service it would make your transit across the Pacific go by much quicker! I never thought I was going to get to that patrol zone from Midway!:D

Hi guys

Remember this?

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3...hunter1ae7.jpg


I found this old game in my basement. All though I had some waterdamage there last year, the cdrom is still intact!

A sub sim survived the flood. How poetic. :smug:

:rotfl:

Oh...my.....GOD!
How I loved that game!!
And now I can smell the pacific all the way from Sweden....
Mmmmmmmm.....
Come to me you yellow b-s, and I´ll give you some sushi to chew at!! :)

/VV

Yep!

I still have a Silent Hunter CD. I actually played it about a year and a half ago on DOSbox. I missed the Pac theater so much.

I started out playing Spectrum Holobyte's GATO back on my IBM compatable in the 1980's. I also had a buddy with a C128 that we played Silent Service on. After that I played Sub Battle Simulator, IIRC I was a beta tester on that one.

By the time Aces of the Deep came out I was out of my parents house with my own apartment. I wanted to get it pretty badly but I couldn't afford it!

So I didn't get back into the sub genre until SH III. And now I have SH IV on pre-order, along with a DVD of Run Silent, Run Deep.

Bungo Pete will be mine. Oh yes, I'm coming for him and I'm sending him straight to the bottom. :p

Yes!! That good old Silent Service! That was my first subsim. I bought it for my C128. The game was on a floppy and tape and costed fl20,-
I still have it!! Another subsim that survived the flood:lol:

Hello smoothvirus and welcome to the forum. I also look forward to meeting up with Bungo Pete, while watching my 'Run Silent, Run Deep' DVD! I'm going to get him and his Akikaze to come at me bow on and give him shots from tubes 3 and 4 with decks awash at 26 feet. His funeral will be at the bottom of the Bungo Straits! :rock:

Cheers

ZZZzzzzzz.....

Well I'm getting pretty pumped with all the new info starting to spring up around here. (thanks especially to Neal, of course) :)

Though I must admit that I'm trying not to get over-excited, since it will probably need a few patches. But then again, since the SH4 dev team started their process with the SH3 engine, then maybe there's hope that the amount of problems will be fewer than the past, especially if they've read the wealth of comments here at Subsim as well as taking notice of the vast amount of mods that have come out since the release of SH3. :yep: :know: And from what I've been seeing, my expectations are getting higher every day.

P.S. My background with Subsims is very limited since SH3 was my first, therefore I can't comment to prior history, but I'm sure it's all gotten better over time, so cheers to all of you good people at Subsim. Hope we all enjoy the ride. :)

I also played Gato on the Atari ST. Buggiest game ever created and I prob lost 10 pounds playing it night and day.

Silent Service was perfect logic. As primative graphics could be produced, but a solid game true to history. I got pretty good after a while of timing my long transits to hit historical convoy and military concentrations. I've longed so much to get those days back. There's a trail of slobber all over my carpet now. I still remember peering through the scope at jungle coast lines and palm trees waiting to round the bend hoping to see the target before he saw me.

Does anyone remember what part of Japan Bungo Suido and Bungo Pete action took place?
-Pv-

The Bungo Suido is located in southern Japan I believe between the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku.

Another newbie, and like most, I started with Silent Service II, which was one of the first real PC games that I had access to. I still remember the ONE time I got a shot at a carrier in the career mode and passed it down to take out the battleship it steaming with :D. I still remember my dad watching in shock as I returned to periscope depth after the escorts had moved on leaving the BB for dead, which I gladly obliged.:arrgh!:The ironic thing was that it was literally about three or four days into the career mode, and I already had bagged a BB.

A little later we got Silent Hunter I and with it went a year of my life. We still have a copy of the original printing as well as the CE somewhere around the house.

As for SHIV, excitement doesn't even touch what Im going through waiting for it, since I had played SH1 I had become quite the PC Gamer, with quite a good selection of titles. I can't help but feel like Im coming full circle in much the same way Silent Hunter has in its return to the Pacific.

Welcome to the boards Sandman!

It's always good to see someone who got their feet wet on PC games with a sim. It's becoming fewer and far between lately.

I toast to your taste. http://www.madcowssteakhouse.com/ima...occasion14.gif