Lets's learn something from SH3....

[TDK1044]

If history teaches us anything, then several things will happen when SH4 is released. There will be much anticipation from people waiting for the game to arrive in the mail, followed by the initial excitement as they install the game and read the user manual for the first time.

Then the fun starts. Once people check out the eye candy and the graphical and gameplay enhancements of SH4, most people will happily play and enjoy the new game, possibly spotting a game flaw here and there, but not really caring about that as the game is still very enjoyable and there will undoubtedly be a patch to fix the relevant flaws at some point anyway.

A few people though will make mountains out of mole hills, pointing out flaws that they have discovered, and dramatically asking why these flaws weren't spotted and corrected.

So, out of respect to Neal and the other Beta Testers, I'd like to point out a couple of things: Number one is that people testing games such as this are not always given the most current version of the game to test, and they can't test what they never had. Number two is that not all of the problems found by the Beta Testers in any game will necessarily be addressed in the initial release of the game. There are other factors in play.

In my opinion, Silent Hunter 4 will be the best WWII sub sim yet seen, and the game will be great to look at and a lot of fun to play. There will undoubtedly be a few bumps here and there, and the modders will make their usual awesome input to the game in the fruition of time.

This Forum has always been the best subsim Forum out there for my money, and one of the reasons for that is that, unlike other similar Forums, we tend to have a 'glass is half full' attitue here. We also have Moderators like Gizzmoe and John Channing who ride the line between spirited, constructive discussion and petulent nonsense very well. Both of them have taken me to task in the past and they were both correct when they did so.

So let's learn from SH3, folks, and give SH4 and the excellent Dev team a fair shake. Let's also be as quick to praise as we are to criticise, because it's so much easier to be negative than positive.

Enjoy the game and don't sweat the small stuff!