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View Poll Results: The better game? | |||
Silent Service (Amiga Version) | 10 | 18.52% | |
Silent Hunter | 44 | 81.48% | |
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01-21-08, 07:50 AM | #1 |
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Silent Service vs Silent Hunter
Hi. I have a tough decision. Besides playing SH3, I am sitting on the original Silent Hunter for DOS and Silent Service for Amiga (runs like a charme on WinUAE).
Which one is better? I never played SH1 (as compared to SS, I spent literally weeks locked in my basement). Any fo you guys played both more or less extensive and give me some pointers whats better in one or the other? |
01-22-08, 06:53 AM | #4 |
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The last versions of SS I ran were SS1 for the Commodore 64 and SS2 for the IBM PC (CGA graphics, later SVGA.) I think you'd like Silent Hunter for the atmosphere, I think it's a excellent simulation, better than it's younger brothers.
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01-22-08, 01:49 PM | #5 |
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I'd like to play Silent Hunter again, unfortunately it crashes at random times in my dosbox (DOS4GW Protection Fault)
As for Silent Service, I originally played it on the c64 but I really enjoyed the Amiga version later. Both are freely available and run perfectly in CCS and WinUAE.
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01-25-08, 11:23 AM | #6 | |
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04-03-08, 01:45 AM | #7 | |
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04-17-08, 01:52 PM | #8 |
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I played all of the above and I still like SH1/CE the best. I still miss the SD A-Scope in SH4. I'm hoping that someone figures out how to mod one into the con.
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04-17-08, 04:03 PM | #9 |
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I think they were all good, some things in SH1 like raiding harbours and recon missions were good, in SH2 if there were ships in a harbour they had to be scripted there by the mission author.
For its time SS and SH1 were very good, as mentioned above there weren't many subsims if any then, when I got SH2 I thought, "Wow this is mega," then SH3 was released with even better graphics, but I wish there were some things from SH2 in it. I stopped playing SH3 as I changed my PC for a notebook and it didn't run too good. I have SH4 but I'm hoping to get a decent desktop PC again soon, I recently installed SH2 and DC again on my notebook and I'm enjoying them again, but after the long break from them I'm very rusty. Col.
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