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Originally Posted by FightingSteel1
This post isn't meant to offend or somehow complain about submarine sims, like the Silent Hunter series. I realize I'm posting this on Subsim..., but there isn't a warship sim forum like this anywhere! I've been a fan of a variety of simulator games in my life, and own Aces of the Deep, SH3/4/5. I like sub games, but would love a surface war game.
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First, this is the 'General Games' section, so you really don't need to worry about the site being called "Subsim".
I too really liked
Fighting Steel, and the
Great Naval Battles series. A part of the problem as I see it is that no one game can be all things to all people. I've been working for more than two decades on my own tabletop miniatures naval game, and one of the problems I've run into is that most people want to run an entire fleet at the tactical level, if not the entire strategic war. I, on the other hand, want to be the captain of my own ship and know everything that's happening to it. GNB let me do that, whereas FS lets you run the entire squadron if you like. I'm not sure it's possible to make a game that does both. Do you want a game that lets you see everything that's happening everywhere in the battle, or do you want a game that puts you on the bridge, and half the time you can't tell what is going on?
I agree that a new modern surface sim is needed ("modern" in the sense of gameplay and graphics, not modern warfare), and I don't care which of the types I described it should be, I would certainly play it.