"fictional state of Colorado" Jesus, didn't think such a small joke would crack me up so much. I'm sitting here listening with headphones and randomly busted out laughing like a maniac. ' thanks salt

Hopefully Thrustmaster keep throwing cash and plastic at you so we get "A Half Century later - Comparing every Microsoft Flight Simulator Game". Mostly because I want to see Salt deep dive into Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0.

The reason FH3 was removed from every PC storefront was because of licensing issues, not whatever technical issues you were suggesting. It's delisted on Xbox consoles as well, no longer available for sale.

29:02 There was a time where you actually COULD buy wheelspins with premium currency (could be earned ingame, not too grindy, not too easy) but that also had a way for you to buy that currency with real world money. But due to community backlash, they eventually removed that 'feature'.

"they don't have matte from here on out" They do, it's under "special colors," it's a red matte, but you can edit it with a color wheel to put a matte texture on whatever you want. I'm one of those nerds that make paintjobs. Also, Forza Horizon is notoriously slippery, I've got around 40 psi in all of my horizon cars to get them to stick to the road. Edit, try getting deadnamed by a robot bc you forgot to change your name on Xbox 😳

27:50 matte is definitely an option in 4 and 5 it is a little weird tho so I can understand why you may not have found it, you have to go into a special paints section with camo, gold, and other patterns/styles matte is an option in there and you have to press a button to change colour.

FH2 was my first horizon game. Played the piss out of it with an old friend of mine. Didn’t know there was a 360 version. We played the XB1 version. There wasn’t a day between release of FH2 and FH3 that we didn’t do the “BIG RACE” at the end of the game because it netted so many credits and so many wheelspins.

1:33 "In the fictional state of Colorado" 😂

Now this is a welcome surprise

Not a video essay I was expecting from Salt, but thanks regardless

I didn't start playing until 4. Had a lot of fun with it. I like street racing games more than kart racers or sims. Although I really enjoy Crash Team Racing, the original, haven't played the remake.

Something that not many people have talked about is how the auction house went to shit in Horizon 5. In Horizon 4 I almost never bought a new car and here i have no choice, most of the cars in the auction house cost more there than in the festival showcase. I don't know why they allowed that

the reason fh3 was removed from storefronts is car licenses not how bad the pc port was, its the same reason you cant buy fm7 anymore as well

Monday blues becomes obsolete as a concept when Solt drops a video on that day

Play Dirt Rally with the wheel, and a VR headset if you have one. Literally the most terrifying experience of my gaming history.

Salt. You and your wife are wholesome. Thank you for pumping out content. I appreciate you.

Forza Horizon 4 is still my favourite. It was my introduction to the franchise, and as a British dude myself, I absolutely loved the gorgeous and realistic world to explore. They really captured the beauty of our countryside, including of course the historically-rich Edinburgh. While I got bored of 5 relatively quickly, 4 kept me engaged for ages. I'm not sure why, as 5 seems to be superior in most ways.

22:55 Microsoft delisted it from everything, even the xbox. License rights don't last forever.

Don't take this the wrong way but I download and listen to your videos when I'm trying to sleep and it works great. Like falling asleep to a video game documentary. I'm looking forward to this tonight.

As far as online play goes, you have to try the party mode: infected. A spin off of Halo's infected but with fast cars. 👌 Also horizon 3 hot wheels dlc was pretty cool for what it is.

I normally am not a fan of racing games at all, but it's another Salt video so I'll have to watch it now.

I got a thrustmaster setup a couple years ago to play Horizon 4/Motorsport 7 and it was quite the humbling moment 😬 going from winning every race on the harder difficulties on controller to barely winning even the easiest races with a wheel. BUT it also got me to play American/Euro Truck Simulators and those are amazing games to just drive around and kill time in

Well, this was not what I expected. Anyway, glad there's a new video :)

damn this was uploaded a lot earlier in the month than I expected

36:03 You forgot to mention that many radio stations are INSANELY CENSORED. Some songs have 90% of sentences censored.

This video was a nice shift. I hadn't thought about racing games in a while and now I simply must

this is not a video I expected. looking forward to watching it through though

32:22 The most appropriate response

I’m pretty sure Todd’s a big fan of horizon, because they did add one of those goofy looking cars from fallout into the game but I could be wrong but if it is true then no man can escape from lord Todd.😺

FH3 wasn't removed from PC for the tech issues, for the record. You can't buy it digitally anymore on Xbox either, and the same applies to FH1 and 2. And the reason? Microsoft didn't feel like renewing the copyright licenses for the cars. They also had to delist the DLC. I missed out of Blizzard Mountain because of this, despite owning 3 physically.

Glad you made this video, have been playing since horizon 2.

13:53 shit bro you got me with that numbers reference xD I'm personally not a big fan of racing games. But seeing you release another video prompted me to immediately stop what I was doing, and enjoy your comedic yet informative conversation. Love your videos salt. I think I can speak for all of us when I say. Keep up the good work

DUDE I love FORZA, thanks for covering it! Been playing a ton of fh5 a lot lately.

If you aren't interested in the game before Salt covers it, you probably will be after he makes a video on it

Oh shit, salts a motorsports fan?! I can dig it.

Wow horizon 2 looks rough on 360 played it on the one so i never knew about the different version on 360. I have played all of the horizon games and love them all. 3 is probably my favorite, 4 is a good second. This really was a memory lane thing for me because i was excited everytime a new horizon came out and played the hell out or them all.

Being someone who isn’t a racing fan I’ve still always been interested in this type of video.

It's always interesting to see a newcomer's perspective on the Horizon games, a really enjoyable video

I really miss the feature in Horzon 3 that allowed you to make your own playlist. I never knew I needed something like that in a racing game up until then.

Tbh I never had a chance to play the horizon series. I was so wrapped up with the need for speed hot pursuit series I was blind to all other racing games. Thanks Salt, I honestly just might go through the hassle needed to give 3 a shot cause I love Australia and would totally be down to race all over that country! Great content as per usual.

That was a really enjoyable curveball, what are the odds of a Tony Hawk's revisit next time something different is on the cards?

28:00 Matte paint is still in FH3, 4 and 5. It's under special colors, right next to the Iridescents. You just have to manually adjust the color using the Color Fine Tune.

FH3 is and always will be the peak of Forza Series. Eventhrough FH4 was my first Horizon game and I spent like 500 hours on it and have completed it fully, FH3 is a game that I like sometimes to return to and appreciate Australia and other cool stuff.

Really enjoyed this video, I’ve never really given a lot of racing games much thought except for the 5th game but I don’t have a console to run it so either way it is cool to watch you play it.

Forza horizon 4 may also be one of the best examples of a PC port. It's a great looking game, is very well optimized, and is quite stable.

If you're going to use a wheel in any Horizon game, you should also go into the settings and change the steering to "simulation". The standard setting is specific to controller and can make the driving frustrating...

I definitely wouldn’t mind if Playground studios released remasters of Horizon 1+2

Genuinely can't believe I was so invested in Forza analysis, great job.

You know what, Salt? I like the way you review things. The right amount of sarcasm. Your uploads are always enjoyable.

forza 5 being on gamepass makes it so easy to jump into and have a few hours of fun driving around

Very pleasantly surprised to see you cover this series. Loved the Horizon games since the first one and pretty much agree with your take on them

I never really liked racing games until I tried Horizon and I've played all of them, since. My friends and I always joked that the story of the next game would be "former horizon bosses trying to race and raise money to pay off damages from previous festivals"

I've been casually looking for a racing wheel, it's so hard to determine what you're looking at without actually seeing an action. Thank you for including that gameplay footage of you and your wife playing. It definitely puts actual use and feedback into perspective.

This is history now

great overall video and I love that u inserted ridge racer type 4 menu music in there

Man I've been subbed since like your 13th video, keep up the work, your gonna hit a million before video 100!

Just beat FH 1 today! Finished the very last Festival race a moment ago, at time of writing. Only 6 more street races and a few showcases left on the whole map. Tuned the '71 Skyline to the brink, max speed 195 mph. That sucker won races at EVERY wristband level, including Gold. From a D to an R3. It won soooo many races it had ZERO business being in to begin with. Seeing how far I can push a vehicle like that *is* Forza to me.

I appreciate what you said about how much using a wheel adds to the Horizon 5 experience. It really is unrivaled when you include that

What an excited day to let awesome KZfaq videos drift me to sleep 😴 This is definitely my favorite KZfaq channel, and your content is amazing! Entertaining and interesting content as always!

I welcome this change of content in you channel. Congrats for the inovation

Was hoping you'd check out the hot wheels dlc in fh3. I think its one of their best dlc expansions of all the games. I love forza horizon series always super fun.

Love forza, love the video, thanks for covering one of my favorite games! Also love the content!

I never had any problems with 3 on PC. Runs like butter and looks better than 5 at times with the MSAA cranked.

I got horizon 2 with my xbox one on 2014 and even though im not a racing fan holy shit that game blew me away! Sadly didn't keep up with each release so I'm super glad to see you cover these! If this developer is the studio handling the next entry in the fable series I'm actually pretty excited Hope you get round to fallout 2 soon! Take it easy salt boy

I'm just glad you weren't really around for the launch of any of these. Without getting into a littany of buggy details in the first month, sometimes 2, of release, In order of the FH's: 1) Stable with one infamous 'fall out of world glitch', 2) Possibly the messiest launch until 5, 3) Launched on PC or XB1 with servers down half the time and included serious graphical issues on PC at launch, 4) Was probably about as glitchy as 1 overall, I recall some greater issues with driveatar syncing, 5) was an abysmal mess at launch, especially on PC- they borked the driveatar system into something closer to replays with excessive and egregious rubber banding that killed the singleplayer experience and it was a miracle to find lobbies that weren't being exploited... or at all. That being said, don't conflate that with me not loving these games, I only barely liked 2 and I loved what they did with 5 but hated where it was mechanically. I put the lowest amount of time into 2 and 5 (the most insufferable on launch by a mile) with ~30 and 86 hours respectively, but every other Forza Horizon game saw at least 150-300 hours of play from me, peaking at 3. Surest use of my $90 three games running, and I hope they go out of their way to fix the issues with FH5, if they have not already.

I dunno why you did not mention the fact you can tweak the difficulty not only by chnaging AI skill level, but also turning drive assists on/off, sim steering etc. Quite an important part of the game.

i dont even like racing games but i love these videos

I still remember playing forza horizon 4 on Xbox 360 and loving doing multiplayer matches it was so immersive in cockpit view. There were too many rammers though lol

Horizon one is the best. After that they just started getting ridiclious. I could really immerse myself in Horizon one almost as if I was really living that event. I really had an amazing time with that game thinking about it in retrospect. Such an awesome game.

This is amazing, usually I watch your stuff having never played any of the games! FH I've played tons of!

Don’t think I missed you using Gran Turismo 4 menu music in there for Horizon 3 😂😂

So glad to see another video from you.

Dayum, the best Salt Bae blessed us with another upload so soon? Hells yeah.

As an Aussie it breaks my heart that you didgerididn't pick a ute in a game set in Australia.

People need to understand that FH1 and FH2 on Xbox 360 were made by a different team than FH2 on Xbox One, FH3 etc. The team at Playground Games also changed a bit after FH2, which is why the games became a bit cringy and more targeted towards the annoying social media and tiktok type of community.

That salt in “learning to drift.” After he got his wheel set up. Lol, same, still learning.

"gambling makes my monkey brain clap" legendary quote

I never realised I wanted you to talk about racing games.. Yet here we are anyway. I love the first Forza Horizon!

7:00 This is the most bizarre way I've seen a game advertise their microtransactions. It's beyond parody 😂

I just finished a Salt Factory video in one sitting. This is a strange experience.

Awesome video man. It's been ages since I've touched a racing game but this gives me an itch I need to scratch now lol XD Have an awesome day and looking forward to what comes next :D

I'm glad you enjoyed your first experience with a wheel! Who knows, maybe you'll get into more racing sims like rfactor 2, assetto Corsa, ams2, acc, and the like!

DIRT RACING LETS GOOOOOOOO

Really doesnt matter what you do man its great stuff every time

Froza Horizon 4 is probably my favourite out of the 4 I played, the sound track is amazing!! And Froza Horizon 2 got me back into the Xbox, I bought Xbox One just to play that, the graphics was just sick when I first played it 😁😁

"Fictional state of Colorado" Oh no he's gotten us confused with Wyoming.

Yay! New video!

Horizon 1-3 are no longer available for purchase at all. Microsoft removed FH3 from Xbox and all PC Store fronts in 2020, and the DLC is also no longer available for purchase.

@1:34 Im so glad that I am not the only one who knows Colorado is a fictional state.

23:40 couldn't disagree enough there are games like automobilista 2, rfactor 2, Richard burns rally which are full on simulators which don't have the best of graphics yet they are some of the best racing titles on the market

You’re the best, Salt. You have the voice of a discerning angel and falling asleep to you is a joy

Honestly FH3 disappearing from the storefront was due to licensing, not the shit performance. Like, I know you played FH2 on the 360 and had no DLC to get, but if you played on the Xbone you'd realize all the DLC for the game is gone from XBL for the same reason. Forza Motorsport 7 is also delisted due to licensing FH4 eventually will be as well, probably little after the last forzathon in the game is completed. Any game using licensed music, cars or brands is doomed to either being delisted or neutered down the line, no company will pay for a perpetual license when a 10 year license is way more affordable to them. Look on the bright side, this forces these games into becoming abandonware, which is why abandonware sites these days have NFSU 1 and 2 and Most Wanted (2004) up without fear of EA's potential DMCA'ing, cause EA has nothing to gain in enforcing copyright on games that are not worth reacquiring the licenses to and reselling.

I’m not even a huge racing game fan but I love this series to death

Salt man pumping them videos out like no tomorrow!

I think you're the first person I see that likes the clothes in the wheelspin lol

Not a fan of racing games but loved the change in video genre - a nice mix up and it came out clean

Clicked faster than a person that clicks fast on things

comparing every forza motorsport game next? you did an amazing job on this retrospective!

Your name is Brian? I’ve known you as salt for so long that that’s just what your name has become

This was a great overview of the series as a whole. I have really enjoyed all of them, but having you point out some of the flaws made me think about WHY and if I was being too generous. Overall I still think the games are great to just drop into and spend time - whether simply driving along a road seeing what's there, or trying an event, or messing around with the camera modes. I'm glad your wife had so much fun - her 'let's fucking GO!' really made me chuckle.