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Originally Posted by urfisch
Thanks a lot, for this detailed answer, Neal. But you forget, the romanian developers are part of the ubi-machine. This makes the whole thing of judging quite complex. And your personal relationship to some of the devs, lets SUBSIM not getting more objective, even i understand your point of view a lot better.
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To a degree, but please understand: I know what objective is, to friends and strangers. When I review the games, I am conscious of my obligation to the players, my friends in the community like you, to be objective, to be honest. I may soften the blow as compared to other reviewers who adore cheap shot rhetoric, I may state factually that this or that feature is not very good, but I really would not be an honest person if I covered it up or lied about it. And devs understand that, they know where their work falls short (and in a computer game, there is always some parts that they wish they had more time to work on). So, yeah, when I put on my reviewer hat, I'm serious about it.
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Originally Posted by urfisch
But the strategy behind and the whole game concept are more or less far from what we all exspected to come, right?
So, one cant blame the devs for beeing unpassioned. But one can blame UBI for the result we have now.
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Agreed. Agreed! Yes, I think that is correct, but I advocate blaming Ubisoft with the level if dignity that I hope sets Subsim apart from the the old usenet rabble approach.
The strategy of the game is very different from what I expected. I think like most, I was expecting SH3 2.0; an SH3 with full boat access and wolfpacks, a continuation of the traditional career based simulation. When I learned the scope was narrower and the aim was to replicate a Das Boot experience, I thought, Hmmm... well, let me wait and see before I decide. Hell, I cannot count how many things in life I thought I would not like only to discover how great they were.... like when the girls in Mrs. Peabody's 3rd grade class would flirt with me, I just wished they would leave me alone...
So, yeah, this was not what I was expecting, and I may not like it. There are plenty of subsims I did not care for. One thing I will say, I hope if there ever is an SH6 (doubtful), they will not neglect the great resource of this community like they did this time.