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

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Barthheart

Quote from: GJK on September 28, 2016, 06:55:36 PM
I'd like to see the UI, this looks to be an arcade game and not a "sub-sim" ala Silent Hunter.  I never played RSR, was it more more "game" and less sim (i.e., light)?

More game, less sim.

jomni

Maybe like Janes Fleet Command or Naval War Arctic Circle.

Lowenstaat

Great news. A big yes vote.
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Nefaro

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Quote from: jomni on September 28, 2016, 08:22:39 PM
Maybe like Janes Fleet Command or Naval War Arctic Circle.

You run a single sub, as in RSR, around the N. Atlantic from how it's described.  Not a group or anything.

Like a sub sim "lite".  With dynamic campaign!   O0 

While RSR was based on the real stuff, it played out in a faster Hollywood style & with more abstracted controls.  Which was fine because it was action-filled fun, as opposed to long stretches of sonar listening, and solution slider playing, in the 688i/Sub Command/Dangerous Waters series (which I also greatly enjoyed). 

In RSR most encounters featured lots of weapons fire, decoys, and dodging weapon seeker cones after a short period of firming up a firing solution and IDs.  Great fun.  I still want to play that nearly 30-year old game, to this day.  Luckily we'll be having this similar one coming soon™.   :smiley6600:

Between Cold Waters and the digital version of Check Your Six! & CY6: Jet Age, I'll be in new nostalgic heaven.

jomni

Ok thanks for the info.

Nefaro

Quote from: jomni on September 28, 2016, 09:25:50 PM
Ok thanks for the info.

Although, while you only run your chosen sub, you will definitely encounter enemy surface & sub groups.  Being a sneaky nuke sub, you'll often be in unfriendly waters and outnumbered.  :)

WallysWorld

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Toonces

Yeah, I think Nefaro nailed it.  I would call RSR a sub sim lite.  But it was just a hell of a lot of fun to play, and is in fact still fun.  If they could just modernize it a little bit, mostly graphics and some of the UI conventions we take for granted now, it would still be an awesome game.  The dynamic campaign layer was brilliant.

Why other games don't do this I just don't know; it's so much more entertaining than single scripted missions.
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Sir Slash

I'm surprised that so many of us played Red Storm Rising. I loved it on my Amiga back in the day but I thought I was the only Nerd in the world playing it.
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Barthheart

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You were the only nerd playing it... the rest of us were cool.  :coolsmiley:

Capn Darwin

RSR was awesome. Loved all those Microprose games from back in the day. I hope this game is just as cool.
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FarAway Sooner

Everybody who votes to have this game Greenlit is now being tracked by Russian para-governmental hacker groups.  Webcam footage of each of you, unknowingly recorded while you were surfing porn at some point in the next month, will be posting to your Facebook accounts shortly before the US Presidential election in November.

O0

Nefaro

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Quote from: Capn Darwin on September 29, 2016, 08:31:28 AM
RSR was awesome. Loved all those Microprose games from back in the day. I hope this game is just as cool.

I played the hell out of those Microprose games on my C64. 


But I'm quite sure Red Storm Rising got more hours than any other.  Probably even more than Sid Meier's Pirates, which I hadn't thought possible up until that point.  Next highest was probably Gunship.  But RSR eventually held the crown.  I also recall picking up the GDW version of Harpoon about the same time.   O0

Still remember that RSR red box, with the red manual and the red floppy disk.  Fond memories of wasting my youth, staring too closely at a tiny tv screen, and turning into a troglodyte albino cave dweller whilst dodging fat little pixel torpedoes.   ;D

Dammit Carl!


Sir Slash

Anybody remember what the original RSR went for? Was it north of $30? I remember having a real hard time choosing between it and The Pool of Radiance at Toy's-R-Us because I couldn't afford both.
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