Comments on: PT Boats, Shipshape Demo

By: UK_John

UK_John — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:50:51 +0000

I still have my Commodore 64 and games, as well as all the PC games I have ever bought. This means I still have Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, Destroyer Escort, Strike Fleet, Carriers at War and more for my C64, and Gunboat, Task Force 1942, Fleet Command, Silent Hunter, Sea Rogue and many more on PC (mostly DOS).

Is it any wonder Retro gaming is the fastest growing genre!

By: schurem

schurem — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:51:19 +0000

Why do naval sims always insist on the player being in one of the smaller and flimsier things on the battlefield? i want to drive/command one of them huge battlewagons! shure it may be slow slogging gameplay. Give me gratuitous naval battles with such an engine and i am in heaven :D

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:37:10 +0000

Man, I kept seeing comments (elsewhere) about how weak the graphics were, and now I have to wonder what they were smoking. Look at those waves! Look at how the ships actually cut through them as they move… it’s beautiful.

By: invisiblejesus

invisiblejesus — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:52:06 +0000

[Francis]I hate Tetris![/Francis]

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:32:40 +0000

I take it you hate Tetris, then?

By: Peace of Eight

Peace of Eight — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:53:47 +0000

Have to partially disagree, Mr Bigglesworth. I quite like the IL-2 series, even if some of the flight models are a bit wonky in places. However, I’ll meet you in the middle: All Akella games suck. I swore off them forever after the third time being disappointed by one of their buggy pieces of crap. Their idea of playtesting is “sell it quickly before somebody notices that we didn’t bother to debug the code.”

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:07:00 +0000

Wot? I thought this had died aborning? I thought the devs released a beta for free as their company went under, and I had it on my hard drive…?

By: moltobenny

moltobenny — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:57:21 +0000

> Why has no-one made a WWI naval sim?

http://www.stormeaglestudios.com/public/Html/se_Jutland_v2.html

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:57:22 +0000

The L block disagree…

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By: Mr.Bigglesworth

Mr.Bigglesworth — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:45:53 +0000

Russian “games” suck.

By: Dozer

Dozer — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:12:37 +0000

Instant turn-off in the huge columns of thick black smoke the navy ships are producing. My understanding (based on lurking on the Silent Hunter forums recently) is that oil-fired warships didn’t produce much smoke, unless they wanted to lay a smokescreen.

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:38:38 +0000

Why has no-one made a WWI naval sim? The ships are much prettier. And the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow is the real life equivalent of the nuke button in Lemmings.