SH3 vs SH5

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jaxa

Many threads here about this comparison.

Master of understatement. Hundreds of threads on this in the last two years.

Asking this in the SH3 forum will get answers from people who prefer SH3. If you ask it in the SH5 forum you'll get answers from people who prefer SH5. Both will be biased.

SH5 has a lot to offer, especially with the mods that have been made so far, but it is nothing like SH3 or SH4 or SH1 or AOD. It is more oriented toward role-playing the captain, and in answering the demand for items in that vein it necessarily gave up some of the things SH3 has become famous for, like the free campaign (forced on them by we who loved it in AOD), the multiple boats (limited in SH5 by the time required to make complete interiors for each u-boat type) and the huge amount of mods (people forget how empty SH3 was seven years ago).

SH5 still has the potential to supercede them all, but not today, and maybe not ever. It still remains to be seen. Check out the SH5 forums rather than ask here, where that game is mostly disliked. You'll see what it is and why many like it.