You know what
Silent Hunter V is reminding me of, in comparison to the two previous titles?
The
Oregon Trail series.
Don't laugh. In
Oregon Trail II, the player could choose to travel anytime between 1840 and 1860, choose from four different starting and ending locations, and travel just about every westwards trail emigrants used in real life. You could choose one of 25 different professions before hitting the trail, and could choose up to five skills for your character. As a result, the replay trail was ridiculously high. The graphics weren't that great, and the voice acting was pretty corny, but I must have played that thing for 1,000 hours.
Oregon Trail III came out a couple years later. You could only travel one trail, and only in 1848, and there were only about six starting professions. The developers put all of their effort into prettier graphics, mini-games, and FMV actors...and I only played it through twice before shelving it.
I feel like history is repeating itself.
