Ill try to keep it short and simple.
and this is just my opinion so here is a grain of salt - gratis
Why i think Sh3 is technically superior to SH4 - in stock condition of course, is that SH3 had more out of the box stability.
i could tell that ubi wanted to do a lot of neat things with SH4 because it has so much potential but - in the end that potential was left unrealized until modded.
while i appreciate the attempt by ubi to attract new gamers to the subsim genre - they went about it by "hollywooding" the game into oblivion.
what i mean is they added all this eye candy, souped up the graphics, made it look good... but in the end i think most hard core sub simmers want substance. (they would rather have an intelligent cutie vs. a stupid mega-beauty)
to make SH5 they should avoid this mistake in the future.
personally I would love to see the entire sub interior modeled.
some rigs cant handle that so...so make an option
perhaps check boxes?
[] pretty grahics / plain jane command room
[] ok graphics / but fully modeled interior
[] pretty graphics with fully modeled interior (fast machines only)
[] piss for graphics with fully modeled interior etc
the range of experience of the subsimmers is vast... so the game has to be highly scalable in realism and difficulty.