Why is This?

[Sailor Steve]

Ah, I missed that part. Of course I can only speak for myself. The main reason I prefer SH3 to SH4 is the modding that has been done for SH3, while SH4 has none of the cool things GWX, LSH3 and WAC bring to the table. Also there is nothing comparable to SH3 Commander.

SH4 looks better and works better, and loads faster, and I play it as well, but until it has all the attention SH3 has recieved it still won't stand up.

SH5? Of course everyone knows I've sworn not to touch it until the DRM is completely gone, but I've seen and heard enough to know that while it has a great many improvements over its predecessors it still lacks things like Type II and IX u-boats, which for me are very important. Also things that were new to SH5 are not necessarily things I wanted in a u-boat sim in the first place. It doesn't really improve my experience to talk to crewmembers about personal things, especially when you can only talk to a select few and then only talk about one or two things. When I can talk to all 50 men about anything and everything under the sun, maybe it will make a difference. Also having every single compartment is cool, but having crew members who do nothing but stand around no matter what the situation doesn't really make me feel more like I'm there. Once the DRM is gone and I buy it I'm sure I will think it's cool, but I'm also sure my negative observations won't change.

But your initial question was about why so many people read and post in this particular forum. The SH5 drones (and I don't mean everyone who prefers that game, only the ones who talk down to everyone who feels differently) will talk about SH3 players living in the past or irrational passion, but most of us have things we like that just haven't been addressed by the later versions. Me, I read most of the forums, including all the SH threads and 'Classic Subsims', as I still play AOD from time to time. We like what we like, and we can't always explain why.