Ship Simulator Extremes Sale!? Worth it!?

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

Is this game any good? Is the price perfect for this game or should we hold out till it goes lower?

[iwanplomp]

Yes if you got a good pc. it uses a lot of resources.

i bought it a cople of days ago an payd full price for it... me no like.

but annyhoe. its a good sim if you like this sort of thing.

and your computer can handle it.

Regards Iwan Plomp

O.. and if you call it a game it's probably not your thing. its a sim...

[BaSeBallDuDeR]

What are the goals in the "sim" that make it enjoyable?

[DEATHx2]

yea I need too know if this game is worth it aswell I love sims and ships n stuff lol so it looks like a good game but does it suck?

[Phileosophos]

I bought the game direct from the vendor, before it was even available on Steam, and I've had a fair bit of fun with it. Some of it is downright challenging, like driving a massive cruise ship through a very busy harbor with narrow channels. That first campaign mission really opened my eyes to how tricky it is to handle such a beast. It takes a long time to get it going, but it takes even longer to stop it.

Mostly what I enjoy, though, is the free play. I pick an ocean, a boat, the weather, and so forth, and then I roll out and drive around the waves. If I'm in a bad mood I find it fun to dial up a storm and skip from wave to wave in a little powerboat on a heavy sea. If I'm looking to relax, like after working out for example, then bringing up a big, blue-water vessel on a fine calm sea and a beautiful, sunny day is surprisingly relaxing--doubly so when it's cold and gray outside.

Having said that, though, there is some fun to be had with the "campaign" (such as it is). Rescuing folks, driving a tug, etc. can be engaging, though it's not really a "campaign" in any interesting sense. It's more a string of semi-interesting things you can do. If you're the kind of player who needs a spellbinding narrative or a real reason to keep playing, well, this game probably isn't for you.

So far I have two real complaints. First, the game is really demanding on your system. I just built a new gaming rig with a quad-core, hyperthreaded CPU, 12 GB of RAM, EVGA GTX 580 super-clocked video card, and X-Fi Titanium audio, and the game still doesn't run that well sometimes. The graphics in particular can slow down a bit in busy situations with weather. Oh, and I haven't found any way to force anti-aliasing to work as I'd like, which leaves some jaggies here and there. The water is simulated magnificently but some of the other visuals don't quite measure up.

Second is a complaint that's really my fault: this game cries out for a dual-throttle controller! If you use the keyboard you'll have to constantly hold down keys and that gives you a very binary on/off control over the engines. What I really need to do is break down and buy some nice HOTAS that has a dual throttle so I can get the most out of the game. I guess the complaint is that I don't think the keyboard controls are all that great; you'll really want a dual-throttle controller of some kind. The only joystick I own has but a single throttle and that really doesn't cut it.

So the short version of the story is this: I think the game is definitely worth its sale price, if you're the sort of gamer who enjoys simulations and has a beefy PC. I'm half tempted to re-buy it on Steam just so I don't have to deal with manual updates and such, but that's not worth $14.99. Maybe if it ever hits $5 or $10 I'll re-buy for the convenience.

[smejki]

Is this game any good? Is the price perfect for this game or should we hold out till it goes lower?

have you tried the demo?

[General I.D.]

um anyone can tell me if the game is less laggy than the demo? because I'm aware there was an update