Not big into racing games, but FH6 is making me interested. Last racing game I really got into was burnout paradise on the PS3 I think. I don’t care about online at all, this would pretty much be solo story play, and exploring Tokyo.
I just don’t know much about forza, the different editions, if I’d like the controls. Is horizon more like burnout or NFS, or more sim racing?
I don’t recall if burnout had cop chases, but if it did, note that FH games are very milquetoast, in that they try to not feature anything resembling illegal driving. If you fancy those, The Crew 1 (or 2) might be more your thing. Otherwise, FH is imo the single best non-sim open world racing game. It gives you a huge playground to dick around in, a crapton of cars, allows tuning and some limited customization, looks great (even on lower end hardware), sounds great and features arcadey but still somewhat complex handling. Its biggest sins are the fact that it requires servers, so it’s not exacly future-proof, it features some FOMO stuff and wheelspin gambling mechanics which are bound to get worse in FH6 (nothing ptw though), and it’s tied in to a microsoft account.
forzas do work offline, but since they handle connections, online features won’t, there’s no p2p
True but for FH3+ they were further integrated with the Xbox login and I don’t think you can try them without an actual account and login. I did emulate and run FH1+2 and they were perfectly playable as off SP games with no strings attached
didn’t you need to create an account since at least the 360?
or the difference is that you didn’t need to do it online there?
also did you use xenia? has it come that far? or something else
Yes, I believe it was xenia. Iirc I did have to create an account, but in the emulator, and then it acted as a wrapper and logged me in automatically when running the game. Sadly I was not offline to test if it also works like that, but I imagine it does, since it was a “fake” and not actually connected to xbox.