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- Comment on Day 637 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 hours ago:
One of the few games I enjoy buying on multiple platforms.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 day ago:
I looked it up, it’s optional. What I was remembering was from online racing where it’s just off regardless. But, another option for OP to change how he wants!
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 2 days ago:
I’d say you’d be more likely to enjoy it than not. Obviously racing is a big part of it, but exploration is another, and it usually does a decent job of that. It’s a little hamstrung because you have a GPS, so you know where all the roads are, but they usually tuck some stuff away and have some things to find and collect, if it isn’t just a little over done (I think Horizon 5 had you breaking signs to get followers, and there were like almost 300 signs?). They’ve had some car unlocks hidden as well, but you get pointed to the area and it’s pretty hard not to find them. But it gives you plenty of visuals to look at, usually some decent music, and a good variety of driving activities.
Story is usually a little rough, because the premise railroads you on every game. Usually a festival goer in-universe with “normal"car and you work your way into better cars by winning events and such. Not much else to it, and how else do you get the progression to better cars?
One of the aspects you may enjoy, especially if you’re artistic, is designing car liveries and staging photo shoots and such. I haven’t done in-depth liveries since Forza Motorsport 4, and I think people have found ways to basically import images to the car, but doesn’t mean you have to.
Controls are going to be basically bog-standard car controls, and controller is perfectly fine for Horizon or any Forza game, really. I’ve put, pretty easily, probably 2k hours into various Forza games, all on controller.
I’d say it is not Sim racing. It’s not Mario Kart, you do have to brake and understand a little bit about racing, but the AI is usually pretty forgiving and adjustable as you see fit, and also usually has some built in slow-downs to keep things close. Fits somewhere on the sim side of the scale, but it’s definitely not difficult racing by any means; car damage I don’t think exists outside cosmetically, and you can ram AI cars all day without much penalty.
- Comment on love u Switzerland but i’m so much happier since coming to Vietnam, hot weather is the best 2 days ago:
Slow down just a little there
- Comment on Day 628 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
It’s a double edged sword, because it can be iffy with competitive games, but for those of us not playing comp….it’d be nice to have lol. Cheaters gonna cheat regardless.
- Comment on Day 628 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I’ve wanted to go back and play Halo: MCC campaigns again, but for whatever reason, MCC doesnt allow dual-input. I have an Azeron I use cause of arthritis, which means I can’t use it, because I have a full second delay between a mouse input and the Azeron input. I could just use a controller, but like…I don’t wanna. Lol.
Maybe I’ll keep messing with it, see if I can figure it out next weekend. You have inspired me. Also, always love seeing these!
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 3 weeks ago:
Forza just kinda lost its racing appeal, I think. The settings are great, the visuals are great, the vibe is usually good, if a bit corny, but Forza has just turned into a hardware showcase with a good-if-dated physics model there. I don’t think anyone is playing Forza Horizon because the racing is great, and that is kinda the crux of my issue with it.
Which sucks, cause I played the HELL out of FM2, FM3, especially FM4, and they have just kinda coasted since. The most recent Motorsport was supposed to boast some robust online ranked racing, and it was the most measly ranked system in existence, penalties weren’t consistent, and the game has basically died out, even as of 2024.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I just don’t know how my system is in context, but it’s cool to see it would comfortably fit in the Extreme RT category. Didn’t peg a 9070xt for that performance spec, but I won’t complain.
Won’t be on Horizon anyway, shit is….bad imo, for a big racing fan. The driving just kinda sucks, and such an emphasis is placed on off-road driving, you’d think it would have any kind of emphasis placed on how it feels and handles. But nope, shit is just….bad. I don’t expect 6 to improve in any meaningful way either, because why would they need to? The hype is insane simply because Japan and Cherry Blossoms.