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Originally Posted by gi_dan2987
After doing some research and bringing myself up to speed here on Subsim, I realized that SH3 is sadly becoming a cult classic with those of us who like to remain in the stone age technology wise.
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I completely agree with the sentiment but have to disagree with the "stone age" comparison. SH3 was better out of the box, because like AOD and SH1 before it the campaign was king and they all fulfilled that function well. SH5 is about walking through the sub and talking to the crew. Those are welcome additions, as are the graphics, but if SH5 had attempted to match the earlier games' functions and add in the new stuff while at least trying to fix the flaws in SH3 it might have been far more widely accepted. Rather than fix and update the old they tried for something completely new, and failed. Even three years of the best modding has only managed to make it work better, while SH3 is still popular not because people like the old ways but because the new version threw out a lot of what was best, rather than build on it.
If SH5 had been an update and upgrade and fix rather than a complete rewrite, SH3 would now have been on my shelf gathering dust for the past three years and I would be praising SH5 as the improvement it should have been. Doubly so since if done right it should have been easy to update the SH3 mods to slip right into SH5. Think how good
that would have been.
