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Pomorza · 01-28-10, 08:09 PM

Whats next.
Well to start off guys I was pretty happy to hear another Silent Hunter was coming out. But then I read that interview with the developers and that all left. I've been playing the SH series for...decades. I owned the original silent hunter. As non exciting as the graphics were in that game I was pretty much addicted to it from the start. Then they came out with SHII and I was even more excited. Graphics were enhanced and the game play changed a bit. SHIII came out and it was the same. Game play changed a bit and graphics enhanced. This past Christmas I bought SHIV. At first I never really wanted to buy it. To be honest I promised myself when it came out that I would never support any game UBI released. I played it and I must say that its not half bad. Its really just SHIII with better graphics which if you guys look at the series is basically what they did with the games, added better graphics to an already good game play mod. They did remove a number of things that I found nice about the other games but thats fine. Yes it isn't the best, but it can be modified and altered and really changed to fit what you want. (at least some of it can anyway)

So you asked whats next. SHV is next. A game that pretty much takes everything that we know from the Silent Hunter series and throws it out the window. First off not everyone likes tpye VII's. I personally prefer type IIs as they are great for port raiding and are hard as hell to find. So only having one choice in subs. Really? Secondly, just because the u-boat erea "ended" in May 1943 according to people doesn't actually meanit ended. The war if I'm not mistaken ended May of 1945. Thats two years, TWO, in which I don't know you could sink a couple of more ships and attempt to live through hell. I'm sure the surviving U-boat guys didn't really have the choice of ending their careers in 1943. (although many of them didn't have much of a choice. RIP). I personally I find what they have done as blasphemy. They took something that was good and changed it completely so that they can gain a more broad audiance. Business wise that's great but in the process you loose people like me who LOVE sub simulators.

So whats next. Whats next is me working on my 76' Datsun 280z and playing SHIII + GWX on my free time. I'm not going to buy SH5 unless they change it back to what all the other Silent Hunter games were. Unless they bring back all the uboats to choose from and all the other great things that I've come to love about Silent Hunter then forget it. I'm not spending $ on crap.

Sorry for the rant guys but I had to get it off my chest.
Sorry
Jan

01-28-10, 08:09 PM	#1
Pomorza Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 14 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Whats next. Well to start off guys I was pretty happy to hear another Silent Hunter was coming out. But then I read that interview with the developers and that all left. I've been playing the SH series for...decades. I owned the original silent hunter. As non exciting as the graphics were in that game I was pretty much addicted to it from the start. Then they came out with SHII and I was even more excited. Graphics were enhanced and the game play changed a bit. SHIII came out and it was the same. Game play changed a bit and graphics enhanced. This past Christmas I bought SHIV. At first I never really wanted to buy it. To be honest I promised myself when it came out that I would never support any game UBI released. I played it and I must say that its not half bad. Its really just SHIII with better graphics which if you guys look at the series is basically what they did with the games, added better graphics to an already good game play mod. They did remove a number of things that I found nice about the other games but thats fine. Yes it isn't the best, but it can be modified and altered and really changed to fit what you want. (at least some of it can anyway) So you asked whats next. SHV is next. A game that pretty much takes everything that we know from the Silent Hunter series and throws it out the window. First off not everyone likes tpye VII's. I personally prefer type IIs as they are great for port raiding and are hard as hell to find. So only having one choice in subs. Really? Secondly, just because the u-boat erea "ended" in May 1943 according to people doesn't actually meanit ended. The war if I'm not mistaken ended May of 1945. Thats two years, TWO, in which I don't know you could sink a couple of more ships and attempt to live through hell. I'm sure the surviving U-boat guys didn't really have the choice of ending their careers in 1943. (although many of them didn't have much of a choice. RIP). I personally I find what they have done as blasphemy. They took something that was good and changed it completely so that they can gain a more broad audiance. Business wise that's great but in the process you loose people like me who LOVE sub simulators. So whats next. Whats next is me working on my 76' Datsun 280z and playing SHIII + GWX on my free time. I'm not going to buy SH5 unless they change it back to what all the other Silent Hunter games were. Unless they bring back all the uboats to choose from and all the other great things that I've come to love about Silent Hunter then forget it. I'm not spending $ on crap. Sorry for the rant guys but I had to get it off my chest. Sorry Jan