Are you you rooting for failure for SH5?

[Ducimus]

Tater,

If your lurk on these forums enough (SH3 through SH5), you'll notice that people are VERY nitpicky over the smallest visually oriented items. Infact, its often at ridiculous lengths. The watchword here is "immersion", and immersion seems to be defined by what they can see visually, first and foremost. Technical details is only a secondary thought, if not an freaking afterthought.

I honestly think the devs were watching the community here, and made exactly what they were clamoring for. More RPG via "The Das boot experience" (everyone seems to want to live the movie), and more "immersion" as defined through visual graphics.

[tater]

You are probably correct. I tend to see the visual stuff the way I see everything related to SH—does it increase or decrease the quality of simulation?

What is immersive for me is to have the targets, sub, world, and enemies behave realistically (and look appropriate).

I remember seeing mod changelogs with stuff about the uniforms, etc, and chuckled 'cause I'd paid as much attention to my XO's hat as I do to any guy's shoes I meet in RL—which is none at all. My wife, OTOH, she'd notice stuff like that.

tater

PS—yes, I'm saying that anyone who notices uniform problems probably pays a lot of attention to men—not that there's anything wrong with that!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by tater

I remember seeing mod changelogs with stuff about the uniforms, etc, and chuckled 'cause I'd paid as much attention to my XO's hat as I do to any guy's shoes I meet in RL...

Well naturally, who looks at the XO? The navigator's the hot one.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by tater

You are probably correct. I tend to see the visual stuff the way I see everything related to SH—does it increase or decrease the quality of simulation?

What is immersive for me is to have the targets, sub, world, and enemies behave realistically (and look appropriate).

I remember seeing mod changelogs with stuff about the uniforms, etc, and chuckled 'cause I'd paid as much attention to my XO's hat as I do to any guy's shoes I meet in RL—which is none at all. My wife, OTOH, she'd notice stuff like that.

tater

PS—yes, I'm saying that anyone who notices uniform problems probably pays a lot of attention to men—not that there's anything wrong with that!

I hear ya. I remember the first time my GF saw me playing SH3. I went into the command room and she went "ooo, nice graphics". I was surprised. Normally she couldn't care less, and I've played better looking games that she didn't comment on. So I said "yeah, look" and panned the camera around (away from the CE) to show her the rest of the sub. She sighed and said "the graphics were better when you were facing in the other direction". That's when the penny dropped.