how many play both SH3 and SH4?

[Rockin Robbins]

I have both games installed. I haven't played SH3 in about a year though. I find that playing U-Boats without wolfpacks is as pointless as playing SH4 without water. There is no way GWX or God himself can fix it because you would need AI wolfpack buddies with some reasonable behavior to recreate anything close to reality. The only reason SH3 is so popular is the movie "Das Boot" which also was light on wolfpack activity, focusing on life in the boat. This makes players think they are playing something close to reality. They are not. Just the same, I just enjoy the flavor of SH3. The "yesterday's" graphics just fit the game perfectly. Yeah, it's a hokey effect, because the world had just as much detail then as it does now, but just like the newspaper who prints the 1971 color photograph in black and white to make it look old, it works. The only thing that made me buy SH4 was that SH3 kept forgetting my career if I didn't maintain some arcane list of nonsensical rules for saving the game. SH4 has none of those problems.

I'm enjoying the heck out of SH4. But if it didn't exist I'd be enjoying the heck out of SH3, only saving when outside of sight of land, no targets or aircraft in detection range, never when submerged, always facing Mecca, never with a black cat in my lap, while reciting obscure incantations in German.....