What will become of the Silent Hunter Series?

[longam]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Since I'm not allowed to call people retarded anymore I'm going to subtly suggest that you presenting a personal anecdote as any sort of evidence is indicative of developmental disability, possibly stemming from blunt trauma to the skull at an early age.

Not to stomp on the thread to much, I agree that my response was of a nature of stupidity, but I think I was responding at an equal level.

[artao]

This may sound black, but my intent is more on the hopeful side .... I hypothesize that the Power of Ubi perhaps scares other developers off of developing another subsim to compete with them. If Ubi were to drop SH, perhaps, as others have mentioned, it would open up the field again. Remember, the SH series wasn't always Ubi's baby. The sim field needs a new Microprose or SSI or Jane's. Sure, in-depth, historically accurate sims aren't all that popular these days, and they never really were the 'big-sellers' that action-oriented games have been .... If a smaller upstart developer were to get into the field, albeit with smaller budget, but at the same time lower operating costs, I suspect they could do rather well.

[theluckyone17]

Originally Posted by Kapitanleutnant

Since I'm not allowed to call people retarded anymore I'm going to subtly suggest that you presenting a personal anecdote as any sort of evidence is indicative of developmental disability, possibly stemming from blunt trauma to the skull at an early age.

Well spoken . Not that I'm agreeing with personal attack, mind you, but that's a really verbose way of putting it.

Anyway, some of us with reasonably reliable 'net connections still object to OSP on the grounds that: our 'net access is still not 100% reliable; we can't control the uptime of Ubisoft's servers and have been bitten before by promises of reliable service; object to the need of having constant internet connectivity for a single player simulator/game; object to the privacy issues; worry about what Ubisoft might do now or in the future with a constant connection; refuse to purchase software that we cannot resell; and object due to the general principle behind OSP.

So thank you, longam, for pointing out that your experience tonight with RoF was fine. When the rest of our complaints regarding OSP (which you obviously have no issue with, judging from your purchase of RoF), we'll consider purchasing SH5. That's assuming the rest of us don't take issue with the stock career ending in '43, only the VII class being modeled, and the creative license taken with the crew's characterizations.

[Kapitanleutnant]

Ask yourself this - would a war orphan from Darfur be able to play SH5?
The answer is no, therefore Ubisoft Romania are racists and everybody should boycott this game until African orphans can play without a net connection.

[Brag]

Originally Posted by artao

@Meo --- yes, Danger From the Deep IS under active development, albeit slowly perhaps. I was just on their (developers) IRC channel yesterday (#dangerdeep at freenode) and they were there, discussing this and that, and directed me where to download the current alpha, and to ignore the 0.3.0.0 version ... of course, I couldn't get it to run, and they said it was probably due to my older vid card (ATI Radeon X700) ... if we were to encourage them a bit more, perhaps it would get somewhere faster. Heck, I'd be willing to pay them for their efforts if it turns out as good as it looks/sounds. They're talking about actual control of ballast valves and suchnot, wow!! Hopefully dive planes and dive angle as well ... we'll see.

Danger from the deep deserves, at least, our interest

[longam]

Its all overkill, drama, what ever you want to call it. I'll buy the game and so shall you when the time is right for you to do so.

Then we shall have a new topic ranging from 'left sleeve button wrong' to 'XO doesnt stand at attention' debates.

Can't wait to check this game out.

[KL-alfman]

Originally Posted by artao

Danger From the Deep

these people got my sympathie.
I intend to visit them within the next days.

[artao]

Danger From the Deep looks, to me, like our next, best hope ...

[V.C. Sniper]

^ maybe we should invest in it

[Reece]

Originally Posted by artao

Danger From the Deep looks, to me, like our next, best hope ...

I just checked this out:

Is this from the old or next version, not familiar with this game, will have to do some research!

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by Reece

I just checked this out:

Is this from the old or next version, not familiar with this game, will have to do some research!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=75759
Maybe danger from the deep should have its own forum on subsim ?

[Weather-guesser]

I'm holding my official opinion until after release, but I'm more worried after the meet the crew section of the official website.

[artao]

@sober Danger From the Deep has it's own thread in the Indie Subsims forum, prolly all it needs for now, considering the development status .... but we should certainly be encouraging them. The devs have an IRC channel, as well, #dangerdeep on freenode.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Sure, there will be other sub games, but I'm willing to bet we won't see anything as good as SH3 or SH4 for ten years.

And that includes SH5.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by JScones

And that includes SH5.

Oh you are naughty, but I like it!!