Silent Hunter 3 vs. Silent Hunter 5 ... who's the best?

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Faamecanic

Im feeling man-love for JS right now

Agree with all but your last statement.

The fact that FIVE years later (5 years?) a GWX modded SH3 can even hold a candle to a NEW SH5, given the devs had MONEY, TIME, and the source code (and STILL left bugs in SH5 that were in SH3!!!) says there is a serious problem.

You know, I thought this exact thing a few hours after I posted. You are spot on.

All those saying that it is "unfair to compare" the two, are, in fact, correct. But not for the reasons they'd like to believe. It's unfair to compare not because the modders have had five years to tweak SH3 (while the devs lived in a vacuum, presumably), but because Ubisoft has had a) the source code, b) at least 80 fulltime staff working on SH5 (and as DanFans will have us believe, a standard day is at minimum 12 hours - no full-time employed modder could spend this time each day on the game long term) and c) all the learnings, bug reports and so on from modders and other players (combined with a, they had the chance to fix things modders couldn't). So yes, Ubisoft has had an unfair advantage. Did they exploit it...

[Faamecanic]

Originally Posted by JScones

Did they exploit it...

That answer is what we have in SH5..... disappointment.