An SH player will spend more time looking at the sea and weather than anything else, either from the bridge or through the optics. Consequently, it is essential that dynamic weather and decent sea state behaviour is modeled. Quite why this was not done in SH3 and SH4 is beyond me.
And I very much doubt it will be done in SH5 either. The SH series is a 'game' series, not a 'simulation' series....which is unfortunate and, well, amaturish. But I don't blame the devs. We live in the 'greed' world now-a-days and UBI is just another greed monkey.
I wish someone like Oleg Maddox would do a sub sim.....sure it'll take about 6 years but i'd be more than happy to wait for the end result. God I miss the days of writing streams of code in a garage.....the quality was a million times better than the mindless crap that props up the shelves in the local game store. Even my 8 year old has given up buying games, he likens them to scratch cards, they look promising but once you scratch the surface you end up with crap under your nails and nothing underneath.
Oh well....monopoly anyone ?
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