Why do you play Silent Hunter?

kylesplanet · 03-02-08, 02:35 PM

Honestly, I'm really not a gamer, I only had a couple of flight sim games and thought that was all I would ever need. Got bored one night and downloaded SH4 and have just been deeply involved in it and the history of the US sub war ever since. I keep coming back, day after day, because it really puts you in that submarine. Like RR was saying, you experience the frustrations, fears and jubulation of these heros . When I sit down at my computer and fire up SH4, it 1942 again. When I turn on the in-game radio and hear the Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, cigarette commercials and the newscast of the day, it's like I'm there and in my mind I am.

I love SH4 because it focuses on an area of WW2 that is so often looked over or just recieves a passing mention, though I imagine part of that is because of the cloak of secrecy the Silent Service has always operated under. I guess in the end, in some fabricated way, I get to participate in a time that has past that truly facinates me and reminds me daily of what these great men did not only for themselves and their shipmates but the entire world. I'm not one of them but for a few hours a day, I feel like I am.

03-02-08, 02:35 PM	#15
kylesplanet Commodore Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 629 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Honestly, I'm really not a gamer, I only had a couple of flight sim games and thought that was all I would ever need. Got bored one night and downloaded SH4 and have just been deeply involved in it and the history of the US sub war ever since. I keep coming back, day after day, because it really puts you in that submarine. Like RR was saying, you experience the frustrations, fears and jubulation of these heros . When I sit down at my computer and fire up SH4, it 1942 again. When I turn on the in-game radio and hear the Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, cigarette commercials and the newscast of the day, it's like I'm there and in my mind I am. I love SH4 because it focuses on an area of WW2 that is so often looked over or just recieves a passing mention, though I imagine part of that is because of the cloak of secrecy the Silent Service has always operated under. I guess in the end, in some fabricated way, I get to participate in a time that has past that truly facinates me and reminds me daily of what these great men did not only for themselves and their shipmates but the entire world. I'm not one of them but for a few hours a day, I feel like I am. __________________