Possible new submariner out there somewhere!
 

I was at work over the weekend (good old woolworths) and i sold a copy of silent hunter 3 to some ten year old kid. it made my day, and reminded me of when i bought it when i was younger and looked forward to diving for the first time and just was mega excited

why, how old are you - y' big kid ? :lol:


keep on pluckin'...

Hope you pointed him to Subsim too

:yep:

The initial excitement of getting the game is something special. I visited various forums, read reports, looked at scrennies and got a new computer before buying SH3. So it was quite a build up for the moment I came to the bridge screen and started the Academy thinggie. (And I am not a kid :D ).

How much are Woolies asking these days ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/181...kbigsw1yo4.gif

dont know what woolies are asking...but ive seen sh3 in the bargain bin in many a shop........i see people pick it up and put it down and walk away....and i think
"there goes the most fun you can have whith a tenner!!!!"

it saddens me that they'l never know the tension and terror that little box in the bin would give them! ive thought of telling them but standing there explaining crash diving and depth charge attacks to a total stranger would probably get me thrown out o the shop

You gotta remember hardcore gamers are a minority now.
Naval sims and sims in general, require alot of time an patiance that most people just aren't willing to invest into a game. Hell the majority of casual gamers wont even complete Half life 2 or Call of duty, both of which take about 3-to-7 hours.

I was very nearly one the of the people you mentioned, I had ZERO interest in submarines prior to purchasing SH3, when i saw it I though I'd take a chance and try something different, but really had the expectation I would get bored/frustrated and regret the purchase.....
..... two months later it was pactically my religeon and I also owned Das Boot and Iron coffins. My flat mate at the time who liked story driven games with character development- joked that I bought the book and the movie to compensate for what was missing in SH3 -in a funny kind of way I guess he was right, But to me I was just feeding my new found obsession.
By the way, if a non Uboat enthusiast ever asks you what type of U-boat is the one in Das boot, just answer with 'I dont know' I answered with 'type 7c' and got called sad git as a result LMAO!

That said, even now my sim collection only consists of SH3 & 4 and IL2 complete edition.
I love them to pieces but they alone satisfy my sim needs, the rest of my games are action adventure, FPS, survival horror and RTS. I like the odd racing game too.

In Woolies, in Edinburgh http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/181...kbigsw1yo4.gif

6 months at Her Majesty's pleasure I should imagine http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7...ebigtb9fg3.gif

Same way I found my first copy, seemed out of place after looking at the box and reading it. The game looked to be far more advanced than your average bargin bin game. Scarry that such a small innocent looking box can become as addictive as heroin once you finally get going :doh:

A bit like Pandoras box

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6...29190fjwl3.gif

I think hardcore sim players are now and probably always have been a minority. It takes a lot of time to get to know a sim and also it takes effort, two things which the large majority of gamers are not willing to invest, especially in today's "instant gratification" culture. They just want to pop the CD/DVD in and be blasting away once the installation finishes. If it comes with a 200 page manual, then forget it... :nope:

I remember when I was playing "Das Boot", all my friends were playing "Doom" and "Duke Nukem" and they were wondering why I could sit behind my computer, run "Das Boot" and basically have nothing happen, while they were constantly blasting away at things. There's nothing wrong with "Doom" (I played it too, back then), but I find such games like depth (okay, pun intended) for me. There's only a paper-thin story behind it, the replay value is next to zero and they basically fail to capture my imagination. SHIII can be frantic in a way that "Doom" can never be, but it's a different kind of frantic, that appeals to people like me and you guys.

I've been fascinated by U-Boats for as long as I can remember. I even watched "Operation Petticoat" when I was a kid. :oops: Not because it was funny, but because it had a submarine. And if the Beatles could have a yellow one, I could stand to watch a pink one. :lol:

So in short, for a sim to grab you, you need to have three key ingredients, imho:

1. an interest in the subject
2. willingness to learn how the sim works
3. time to find out how the sim works

When those three ingredients are there, the sim will probably hook you for a long time... :ping:

i got sh3 from morisons for 6.99 about two months ago. was looking for something to feed my passion with combat and saw it on the cheapies shelf.
best game i've bought for years. also lucky that gwx 2.1 was just about to come out so thats where i started.

I started with SH1.
Never did any mod work on it but played it to death!!
SH2 didn't work well on the old system I had and makeing a liveing
was more important.
Sh3 came out and I bought it but real life said it had to wait.
I was never a Navy guy in real life.
I was the idiot that jumped out of planes!
So the Sub Sims for me was a kind of change but related type thing.
I love the stalkeing and setting up the kill.
That's what I did on land in Real Life.
When I engage in the Sim I do the same.
I pick a target, make the shot and then evade.
Tonnage means little to me.
It's the impossible shot and kill that I seek!!
:rotfl:

he's 10...eventually he'll look for god mode mods...and if you google Sh3 mods...guess what comes up first...so he'll find us...

He will be assimulated.


Yes, it was an intentional pun.