10, must have, items for SH4

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Originally Posted by Lionman

Those who don't want immersive simulation with 3D crew members and mobility around the boat - go play SH II - better yet get rid of Windows altogether and revert to DOS

A total red herring. I am completely in favour of increased detail in the ship models, ocean, weather, wildlife, seafloor, you name it. I just simply don't care about the 3d crew or boat interior, as I find navigating between stations that way boring and pointless for me. Having crew and passengers on surface ships would do far more for my immersion than having a bunch of crew models standing around the control room doing nothing in particular. And believe me, if you want them to move around and do anything convincing you're going to need to graft on a high-end FPS engine and its AI scripting and pathfinding.

My point is that in the real world there are limited resources available for game development and I don't want any more of them spent on eye candy overlaying a broken simulation. Get the guts right first and then spend all the time you want on the graphics. Maybe it's just because I come from a first-person shooter modding background and SH3's crew models and interiors are 1998-quality anyway, the engine capabilities to breathe life into them nonexistent. I know the kind of work it would take to redo those assets to modern standards and unless they double the SH4 budget and dev team, other areas will suffer.