best place to buy SH4 + general question

[bowsewr]

Question Answered. Thanks!



hello all o7

the silent hunter series always caught my eye when i was younger but never got into it. recently i decided to give things ago. I had gotten SH3 on steam during a sale for super cheap and have been playing with it + GW3 + huge list of other mods and have been enjoying it for the most part.

i recently watched some SH4 videos on youtube and was really impressed with the changes made and workings with mods like TMO. Then the added uboat missions and i believe atlantic campaign (mod?) it sounds great.

so my question is this:
1) am i going to get enough of a gameplay enjoyment boost for the $20 to 'upgrade' from SH3 --> 4? I understand there is a difference in sandbox style open-ness but SH4 does look impressive.

2) If yes; where is the best place to buy it? is Steam version ok or do i need to find the gold box on amazon or something for example? ive read that a lot of the download versions dont have the proper patch version incoporated (1.4 or 1.5) and dont want to get screwed over on my purchase if that is the case.


thank you!

(ps...if you have a recommendation on best place to buy it for price or know someone selling a used copy id be more than happy to take suggestions. Grad student living on loans atm and the wife wont justify another video game purchase most likely lol)

[CCIP]

Best place? If you can, I would recommend buying it from Amazon via the Subsim link here, because that way Amazon gets a cut of the sale

http://www.subsim.com/store.html

Otherwise, Steam is okay, but because it forces you to run the game via Steam (and creates problems if you want to modify the .exe, along with sticking the game in the Steam folder where it can be easy to confuse things with mods), I prefer other options first. Gamersgate ( http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SH4GE/s...4-gold-edition ) is a good other option.

[bowsewr]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Best place? If you can, I would recommend buying it from Amazon via the Subsim link here, because that way Amazon gets a cut of the sale

http://www.subsim.com/store.html

Otherwise, Steam is okay, but because it forces you to run the game via Steam (and creates problems if you want to modify the .exe, along with sticking the game in the Steam folder where it can be easy to confuse things with mods), I prefer other options first. Gamersgate ( http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SH4GE/s...4-gold-edition ) is a good other option.

Ok, thanks for the input. i probably could of worded the 'best place' question. my main concern was if example the steam copy only installed w/ say 1.3 game version and/or caused other conflicts which i know steam has a tendency to do sometimes especially with modding.

ill go with the hard-copy version like you recommended from either amazon or gamergaste.

thanks o7

[Aktungbby]

bowsewr!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Best place? If you can, I would recommend buying it from Amazon via the Subsim link here, because that way Amazon gets a cut of the sale

http://www.subsim.com/store.html

Otherwise, Steam is okay, but because it forces you to run the game via Steam (and creates problems if you want to modify the .exe, along with sticking the game in the Steam folder where it can be easy to confuse things with mods), I prefer other options first. Gamersgate ( http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SH4GE/s...4-gold-edition ) is a good other option.

I think you mean that it is SubSim who receive a small percentage cut of the sale

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim bowsewr

[CCIP]

Yes, Subsim, typo

[bowsewr]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

bowsewr!

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Welcome to SubSim bowsewr

Thank you for the kind words =D

I am pretty excited to get into silent hunter series after always seeing in on the shelves of CompUSA and BestBuy as a kid. (i do miss the days of going to the store and going up and down the isles and isles of PC games in BOXES....something about looking at a game box and holding it)


any suggestions for mods in addition to TMO to get started with? (i can reference the great stickied links, just see if you have a personal preference)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I think you mean that it is SubSim who receive a small percentage cut of the sale

Amazon get nothing?

[CapnScurvy]

A wise shopper is an informed one.

Another site is iNetVideo. The DVD Gold Edition is today selling for $14.99, excluding shipping. Shipped from UbiSoft's Canadian Division in Montreal. Got mine in four days after making the purchase.

Steam had been selling the SH4 (version 1.3) as its basic download. As far as I know, they still are. Version 1.3 is a terrible version of the game, that required version 1.4 to fix some of what 1.3 changed. Why does Steam do it? To get you to purchase their second offering...... their U-Boat Missions Addon download (version 1.5) for extra money!

GET A DISK COPY OF THE GAME.

[thegrindre]

I bought my Gold version, 1.5, at ebay for $12 a couple months ago.
Yet, another source to buy the game from. (Although mine was new)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silent-Hunte...item2a4f982776

By all means, GET A DISK COPY OF THE GAME!