SH3 can run on Win 7 fine, if you purchase it online and get the direct download version it will install without any of the miseries that many experience with the CD. I've always thought of SH3 to be like the first few Final Fantasy games for the NES, the graphics left a lot to be desired by the content of the game was amazing and was what made the game enjoyable, not a bunch of eye candy with a flimsy plot. Since it's realease 5 years ago there's been many mods to improve its graphics (and more continue to come out even as Ubisoft releases more (bugged) versions of the SH series) and gameplay.
When I first saw the trailers for SH5 it looked like everything we'd been asking for; for me at least the biggest change being a dynamic campaign where the course of the game isn't always the same regardless of your performance (mainly that the course of the war can change in the players favor). Shortly after it came out and it saw pretty much unanimous 1/5 or 1/10 stars on the reviews (not to mention the DRM, that's probably the most volatile subject I've ever seen in these forums ever) and that the hard core vets seemed to gravitate back to SH3 said it all for me.
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