Any advice for a skipper who's considering returning to SH3?

Bosje · 11-15-08, 08:10 PM

underdog is always more fun

Myxale · 11-16-08, 04:59 AM

Don't get me wrong.
I know the GWX4 team will really make SH4 better, but when looking back, to the time where TGW for SH3 started and how long it took; and not to mention the work involved; is it really worth trying this again with SH4? :hmm:

Sailor Steve · 11-16-08, 03:04 PM

I certainly hope so. I don't play for the kill, I play for the ambience, and GWX gives more of that than anything I've played so far.

Except of course SH3 Commander. I don't know if I can live without that one.

Schroeder · 11-16-08, 03:24 PM

I actually started with SH4 and bought SH3 a few months later. I don't miss much from SH4 and gaming experience is way more intense in SH3 with GWX (IMHO). This is because the submarine warfare in the Pacific in SH4 was plain boring to me. I almost always stumbled on lone merchants without escorts (SH1.4 with RFB and RSRDC). Hardly anything exciting and given the point, that the technological advantage over the IJN grew even further throughout the war this really became unattractive to me.
(Maybe I should have tried TMO....)

msalama · 11-16-08, 04:44 PM

Both games have their strengths and weaknesses I suppose.

I play GWX 2.1 and RFB 1.52 equally, and think they're both brilliant. GWX is the more mature of the two, but I'm sure RFB will be one hell of a supermod too once they get the kinks out...

And besides, why should I pick just one theatre when there're two available

FIREWALL · 11-16-08, 05:13 PM

The graphics in SH4 are cartoonish to me. But it has alot of other good things going for it.

11-15-08, 08:10 PM	#1
Bosje Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 732 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 0	underdog is always more fun __________________ And when an 800-ton Uboat has you by the tits... you listen!

11-16-08, 04:59 AM	#2
Myxale Admiral Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: PQ AN 25 Posts: 2,178 Downloads: 70 Uploads: 0	Don't get me wrong. I know the GWX4 team will really make SH4 better, but when looking back, to the time where TGW for SH3 started and how long it took; and not to mention the work involved; is it really worth trying this again with SH4? :hmm: __________________ SH3+GWX SH5+WoS Still Sailing....still Deep

11-16-08, 03:04 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I certainly hope so. I don't play for the kill, I play for the ambience, and GWX gives more of that than anything I've played so far. Except of course SH3 Commander. I don't know if I can live without that one. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-16-08, 03:24 PM	#4
Schroeder Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Banana Republic of Germany Posts: 6,170 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	I actually started with SH4 and bought SH3 a few months later. I don't miss much from SH4 and gaming experience is way more intense in SH3 with GWX (IMHO). This is because the submarine warfare in the Pacific in SH4 was plain boring to me. I almost always stumbled on lone merchants without escorts (SH1.4 with RFB and RSRDC). Hardly anything exciting and given the point, that the technological advantage over the IJN grew even further throughout the war this really became unattractive to me. (Maybe I should have tried TMO....) __________________ Putting Germ back into Germany.

11-16-08, 05:13 PM	#6
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	The graphics in SH4 are cartoonish to me. But it has alot of other good things going for it. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

11-16-08, 04:44 PM	#5
msalama Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In an octopus's garden Posts: 565 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	Both games have their strengths and weaknesses I suppose. I play GWX 2.1 and RFB 1.52 equally, and think they're both brilliant. GWX is the more mature of the two, but I'm sure RFB will be one hell of a supermod too once they get the kinks out... And besides, why should I pick just one theatre when there're two available