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Started by Thomasew, September 28, 2016, 09:55:13 AM

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glen55

I tried to get RSR to work a couple of years ago: no dice. What a fabulous game.

I never was able to get as deeply into any of the Silent Hunter or other sub sim games as I was with RSR and Sid Meier's Silent Service.

SMSS is even older than RSR, but also a great game. It was less focused than RSR as a Pacific War American sub career simulator, and there weren't as many target ship types, at least in typical battles, but what a great game. More balanced than RSR, where your boat is just so crap-diddly hot that in most battles you could just toy with the Russkies and choose what sort of poison to administer to them and when.  (Exception: going up against those Kilo diesel subs, which could usually get the drop on you.)
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mirth

Silent Service...what a great game. One of my very first sims.
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glen55

Quote from: mirth on September 29, 2016, 12:51:08 PM
Silent Service...what a great game. One of my very first sims.

Talk about white-knuckling it: doing corkscrew turns in shallow water at flank speed to dodge depth charges. Or letting fly at 500 yards with a Japanese tin can bearing down for the ram at 30 knots: you miss, you die. I haven't experienced that kind of tension very often in a computer game.

I wonder if my imagination was just more forgiving back then.
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JasonPratt

Can't Greenlight it at the moment, but I'll try to do so later. Played many a campaign of RSR on my C64.

Ditto Silent Service and then later SS2 on the PC. I still dream about crazy sub action (often in rivers for no clear reason  ???  :crazy2: ), and those dreams go straight back to the SS series.
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mirth

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Toonces

Man, I have to admit, I am too excited for this game.  I sure hope it is awesome.

By awesome, I don't mean realistic.  I have realistic with CMANO.  I'm looking for FUN. 

If this can really be a "spiritual successor to Red Storm Rising" I am all-in. 

Mid-2017...could be soon!   :dreamer:
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mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

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Tuna

Isn't this like a 'tablet' game? Or is it totally different from Atlantic Fleet?