Why is This?

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Frankly, the fuzzy graphics, and insanely long load times have made me never to want to play SH3 ever again. It's not like i'm missing much, the gameplay for SH3, sh4 and sh5, is exactly the same. All that really changes is number of tubes you have and minor details on psuedo representations of a TDC. Everything else plays out the same regardless of game or theater. Find, chase, sink, evade. Repeat, ad nauseum for a few years, with all three games, and you end up making posts like this one.

I agree that math of getting torpedos to collide with ships is much the same in any SH game. I would say the historical context and geography makes the theaters different though. If I did not read much about WWII, I doubt that I would be very interested in any Silent Hunter game; certainly not enough to fret about which version of RFB/TMO/GWX/Whatever to install.

I don't understand why SH3 is so much more popular than SH4. I would have thought that being on the winning side and having a fair chance of living till the end of the war is more appealing than being a U-boat Capt. and getting killed in '43 for a lost cause. Do SH3 fans consider the gameplay superior?

The thing that bugs me about the SH series is that a serious player is forced to sort through and test a hurricane of mods to put the game into a fairly realistic level, when Ubisoft could have done it much better, if only they had taken the time.