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About the soundtrack and the festival feel of FH1 and also FH2 and FH3 was so good is because the developers called the dj Rob da Bank to curate de songs and how a festival should look and feel. DJ Rob is known for creating award winning festivals. Also with the horizon games he helped indie bands to gain international recognition! He was the perfect choice to be the “creator” of the horizon festival. Unfortunately he wasnt invited for the next games because guys in suits thought that it was to expensive to pay this DJ to pick songs, and they thought that anyone can do it…
Dude, hearing Peter Robinson's Language for the first time in 10 years hit me like a freight train. The music in this game was amazing and so were the car sounds, the roads- everything was done right here. Can't blame nostalgia when you know for a fact better graphics, dirt and car list will make this game better than everything that came after it (assuming my opinion is unpopular)
@@BlooTeg Imma have to do a raw cruise video by the lake this summer. Literally looks like an FH1 lobby, playing Punching in a Dream or No Love as I do it.
When you compare the earlier Horizon games to the rest of the series you can tell it slowly drifted away from the festival vibe and its own unique aesthetic to its main attraction being solely based around driving cars
I remember when i first got my Xbox 360 back in 2016 as a birthday gift, i also got Forza Horizon 1 with it aswell. And i can guarantee that even if it was an already 4 year old game at the time, it was one of the most awesome experiences of my life, just by the fact of it being fully translated to portuguese with a Brazilian dub already conquered my heart. I still miss that X360 and the online adventures i had with FH1 nowadays, will never forget that
I wish we could go back to the old Horizon days of working your way up the ladder instead of immediately being the superstar. The newer Horizon games are great but it makes me feel like a 10 year old at my own birthday party and I hate that.
I literally installed forza horizon 1 yesterday lmaoo Its a great game and one thing i love about it is how the map isnt 100% open, idk it just makes the map feel more alive since its not a barren wasteland that allows you to travel on a straight line for yours objective
8:01 no hate or anything but Fh1 did not have travel signs. It had outpost challenges that would give you a 100% discount if you completed them all for that specific outpost.
I remember getting my copy as a gift when it came out in 2012. After school, my high school buddies and I would hop online and drift around the canyons. Pulled up in our Rx-7s and would do touge runs on our civic hatchbacks. Even met randoms too and would just do events together and made some awesome builds. Mannnn what a time
I've played this game during earlier days of Xbox 360 emulation, and even tho most of the the terrain (except for the roads) was missing, garage didn't work and the game regularly crashed I still liked it way more than later Horizons. Nowadays, with proper emulation? Boy, there is no comparison for me that's for sure.
horizon serie is like motorsport : greatest episodes where on 360 :3 bought Horizon 1 at launch, finished it, redone it recently (because didn't do the cloud save back then), and had more fun than with horizon 4/5
It’s feels like the only advancements playground game made were graphics and base gameplay actually interesting features like car meets, actual street racing, music and atmosphere snuffed for monetisation
I really do wish that they would bring back to simple story to Forza Horizon instead of just you being a ginormous celebrity are superstar just go back to where you were literally nothing and then you make your way up in the festival. That’s what we miss about it.
If you played this game during its time, it is a wonderful experience (with the DLC's). Vanilla-game nowadays is good but the endgame is just waiting for the last Barn Find to appear and that's it. The 1000 Club DLC was an amazing way to expand the game and to use every single car but nowadays (with the servers gone and without the DLCs available) it hinders any chance to play it again, in my opinion.
I've never played the first FH, but I'd like to say that it's the total underdog feeling that makes the game a little better than the modern FHs. Think I remenber getting a "Forza Edition" car (basically an overpowered version of one car) at the near start of my FH5 playthrough... *When I was about level 10-*
Forza Horizon 1 with the XE mod, which imports the new cars added on the 360 version of Horizon 2 is pretty neat. The one that puts the cars that didn't make it back into Horizon 2 is nice too, but it's still Horizon 2 on the 360. Unfortunately it's going to be the main way people are going to remember Horizon 2 for some time, since there's not much reason to buy an old One, but maybe get a One S, and many might get a Series S rather than an One X, and both of those don't have a disk drive, which is the "apocarlypse" for racing game fans, while most xbox games now are released to PC aswell, so not many are bothering with an Series X.
Forza horizon 1 actually still has active servers on Xbox (I've tested it with some friends) and it all works as it used to, the only downside is that pretty much no one is ever online on Forza horizon 1, although you can play online if you have a physical copy and an Xbox that has a disc drive and supports playing 360 discs
Flashback! - It’s mid 2012 Forza Motorsport 4 is in its prime! E3 Showcase for Forza Horizon drops and immediately I’m worried.. but curious.. Little did I know this game would also rank as one of my all time favourites. Even though the story was a little NFS:MW Corny it gave you more purpose than the ‘Championship’ mess they have in the later games.
I wish I'd gotten a chance to play this game. The first Horizon game I was able to play was Forza Horizon 2, and I am currently Forza Horizon 5. I previously played the demo of Forza Horizon 3, but these were the only games I played.
i have played every single FH besides this one, and honestly it looks amazing for a 360 game, and Forza Motorsport 4 (which came out in 2011) managed to show off how capable the 360 was in terms of graphics, and this game showed how an open world could push the limits of the 360, Turn 10 and Playground Games must've studied the 360 because it was as impressive as halo 4
Love FH1 and always will! The intro sequence racing to the festival, to the overall presentation of a festival was just on point for me. The radio music selection was great, the story was great, the racing was fun. Just an overall incredible game I wish I could experience all over again :) My only gripe I have that leaves a bitter taste for me was that I was banned from using online services just because I managed to get a hold onto a black listed car into my garage. For some reason, instead for Turn10 to just *remove* these vehicles from being allowed in your garage, they just permanently ban you for having these modded harmless vehicles. Ever since, I could never level up online, use a club, download player created wraps/tune setups, or do he club 1000 challenges :( Really blows. Only able to experience half of the game online before getting locked away forever...
I played Forza Horizon when it came out. It was fun, but it really left a sour taste in my mouth because they were advertising an open world with different surfaces to drive on, but aside from a select few open areas, you were bound to the road. The entire time I was playing I was just wanted to drive straight from point A to B without roads like you can do in Test Drive Unlimited, and was mad that a game that came out 5-6 years before Horizon was truly open world and Horizon wasn't. And because of that I didn't play another Horizon title until FH3 with the Hot Wheels DLC and by then it was truly open world, not sure if FH2 was open world or not though?
I didn't play much of the original, I use to play in my friends house, and I remember when it came out, it seems that it was the future of racing games. Fast forward few years I bought a Xbox One and the first game I got was the Horizon 4 and immediately I was WAIT THIS IS NOT RIGHT, for me 4 and 5 feels like they are over simplified, I don't have nostalgia for original but I really wish I could had played it more.
Really nice trip down the memory lane. (I need to really check out my Xbox 360 games again... and find Forza Horizon, cuz' i can only find my copy of Forza Horizon 2 for 360)
I played FH1 this year for the first time and I can tell you - it's not nostalgia, the game is just that fucking good. I'm still impressed how good the graphics are - if they made the background models with more polygons you could convince me it's an early PS4 title. On the same console that brought us TES: Oblivion! The driving model is easy enough for beginners, but can give you a good and fair workout without traction control. I could swear cars with TC off are just faster, even if they are harder to control. The atmosphere is spot on, like an actual music festival combined with car racing, rather than just a splattering of barely related race events. While it doesn't have a plot, at least the "star rivals" thing keeps you racing just to shut up these smug bastards. It has actual progression where you go from slow cars and easy races to faster cars and difficult races, while something like FH5 just shotguns you with everything the game has right away. FH2 on X360 kinda sucks in comparison. Maybe it's better on XOne but I haven't played it. FH5 for better or worse is a car MMO with no progression to speak of and endless treadmill of seasonal events and user content.
Forza Horizon 1 is my favorite even though it’s the only one in the series I played. I loved the soundtrack and personality of it and I’m glad the map is not that big.
I still play this game on the 360. I like it more than the rest, biggest plus is the corporate overlords arent spying on that console looking to ban people for any tiny reason. i can just chill and play the game and not have to worry about some snowflake getting "offended."
First time played it when it came out. And still playing on my xbox 360. The best Horizon game ever made. Still. The only game among Horizon games where you really FEEL that you participate in actually FESTIVAL. Isn't that the main point of the game, summer festival. Like you are young and free and whole summer is yours. Damn wheels of fortune. It's all about the money nowdays. Good video.
I personally believe this game has the best soundtrack in Racing game and maybe even video game history. Every song it has fits the vibe perfectly, and all the songs have become timeless classics. (Except bom bom, we dont talk about that....)
Hi :) I'm not usually the "commenting type" on UA-cam, I like to "lurk" and follow from the shadows. But after watching a few of your videos, I thought I'd say that I really appreciate your work and I certainly hope you won't stop making content!
An emulator you say? Why didn't i think of that before? 😂 Might finally be time to experience this gem. Been wanting to do that for a long time. I always felt like this could be of those games that could land in a special place in my heart. Where games like NFS Underground 1, Burnout 3 and Dirt 2 live - where you can feel they've been made with love.
So back in the day I had an early 360 that had a red ring of death and I basically switched to PS3 soon after (as the slim had come out). But when Horizon came out, I actually went out to get a slim model and this game really got me back to the 360. Sadly it has also proven to be one of the last Xbox games I've been really hyped for and actually enjoyed playing since. All the FH games after never quite hooked me the same way. Also the soundtrack of FH1 is without a doubt one of the best 3rd-party game soundtracks of all time. I still listen to those songs to this day, some still being favorites that I play during house parties. If I recall correctly a DJ made the selection of songs, but after FH2 or FH3 they got rid of him and it really shows.
I wonder if they already fixed the cockpit view on several cars and the texture glitches in car selection, the rest of the game is fully playable from start to finish even the customization work perfectly now, just those 2 glitch that still a major but not so major problem in the game on emulator
@@BlooTeg In my opinion about soundtracks of Horizon series: 1 is Goated now and forever. 2 is Great but not as good as the first one. 3 is Good, some good tunes and some of them are hit and miss. 4 is Okay, I don't remember more than 3 or 4 songs (NRG, Never say die, Midnight city and Kids) But it was okay to listen. No sweat. And 5... Total disaster. No way to sugarcoat this, Yes yes there are some okay and even good tracks but overall It's look like a white teenage girl playlist suggested by spotify type of shit + Mainstream af (And no CHVRCHES) Anyway, I follow your videos for quite a while now and I'm a massive racing fan and of course I like music. I Really like that you make a video about soundtracks in racing games (I know there is a lot of shits going on in the genre and soundtrack is not the biggest problem right now.) and talks about it in general. Also I made a Spotify Playlist recently and collected the best songs from Golden ERA of racing games. If do you want to help me to make it better or share or even collab together on Spotify, Let me know. Good luck!
I wholeheartedly agree on that simplicity take of yours, especially at 4:33. And man, just looking back at the title screens, and comparing them all it really shows the difference, and how the games were built around different themes. I never owned an Xbox One, so I never played FH2 (and no, I haven't tried the X360 version either because let's be honest it was made too inferior), but seeing its title screen gives me the same chill vibes the original Horizon delivered. Just in a different (AFAIR, european) setting. Then things shifted away from that, and despite loving FH3 almost as much as OG Horizon, and having a blast each time launching FH4 during winter season (because I'm a winter person IRL, I just hate other seasons really), they deviated quite much, and personally I'm not a fan of it. And yes, I absolutely adore the Australian biomes and gorgeous landscapes, UK-inspired rural views and roads, I even love me some mexican mountains (and that's all for FH5, I can't stand everything else there from music to dialogue, besides upgraded visuals of course, haha), but the map & the world in FH1 will be forever The best in every way for me. Even if it's not as open due to solid unbreakable barriers (especially because of those barries, because eff modern open-world racers where you drive a bloody tank that obliterates barriers just by angrily staring at them!). The story and progression (and the way the Festival is organized, too) are also well done, it just feels like you earn & accomplish something by playing the game, and by getting better at it. You're not being bombarded by gifts for every fart you make, you're not being treated like the most valuable person in the game world like modern FH games do, and that' excellent. Ah man... and the music, oh it feels so good.
What you said about progression in a racing game...yeah...thats what makes most racers today boring for me. When you get your dream car after 2 hours of racing...it loses all worth. Gran Turismo 2 back then was perfect. Do licenses, do easy races, and work you way up. Not start at the top.
@@BlooTeg playing all 5 over the years, Horizon 2 for some reason hold the most memories for me. The vibe, music (the mother we share), the light hearted road trip story, more incentive to change and mod cars cause the playlist, the map (especially the mountain side) and of course the free Mazda and fast and furious dlc was the cherry on top. There are more but these are things that I can think of right away.
Having played all Horizons, Horizon 1 is my favourite, the festival ambiance, the location, the cars, the progression, the story, it all works so well together. My least favourite is FH5, they really babied their game too much, and the story is just not there at all. Also, please elaborate what Xbox emulator you used and if it was difficult to set up?
it's called Xenia! It's not difficult to set up, you can find a video on UA-cam specifically for Horizon 1 by HokiHoshi, it's a bit overexplained (probably for people who don't use PCs a lot) but you can just skip some stuff if you know what you're doing!
Played this for the first time in 2023 as well as FH2 when the servers were shutting down. Didn’t play any online or anything. My first Horizon game was FH3, and I Loved FH1. Addictive as hell. FH2 was actually kinda a disappointment. For some reason I enjoy the odd numbered Horizon games way more. My only complaint is that the AI will just forget how to drive when they hit a traffic car. It’s hilarious, I took out the snobby guy in the Diablo because I hit a Prius with my Ford GT and he just dumbly ran into it. Wish the Rally DLC was still available because I would buy it in a heartbeat. Also the showcases feel insane, like I genuinely think only Forza Horizon 5 has recaptured the insanity of those events.
I honestly believe that the original Horizon was better than the modern forza games here. There's such a Vibe here whenever i look at the original Horizon game here that I sadly cannot get from the modern forza games. Like what you said here. I feel like the modern horizon games have lost their innovation and charm here. Hope a future sequel can retain what made horizon so good here ♥ 🐀
I am to this day surprised how they managed to make fh1 so great for the 360 but dropped the ball so hard when porting fh2 to it Maybe it was as a way to make people want to get the newer console, but damn it is bad
racing games need to stop making us "superstars" i'm tired of being liked by every single character and being the big deal hotshot, i want to be an underdog that everyone either dislikes or underestimates
Forza Horizon 1 back when they knew what a music festival with cars looks like.
hell yeah
Same with ProStreet 🥲😭
@@edothebad Pro street is really what a track day is like minus the floaties.
Bro every comment is literally always “the good old days”
@@Rajin011480% of them didnt play fh1 back in its days lol
About the soundtrack and the festival feel of FH1 and also FH2 and FH3 was so good is because the developers called the dj Rob da Bank to curate de songs and how a festival should look and feel. DJ Rob is known for creating award winning festivals. Also with the horizon games he helped indie bands to gain international recognition! He was the perfect choice to be the “creator” of the horizon festival. Unfortunately he wasnt invited for the next games because guys in suits thought that it was to expensive to pay this DJ to pick songs, and they thought that anyone can do it…
well, that really sucks.
He didn't do the soundtrack for FH3, which is surprising cause FH3's soundtrack is full of bangers
@@BlooTegbtw, Rob Da Bank didn't curate the soundtrack for FH3, he only curated the soundtrack for FH1 and FH2
@@yellowdude9425 so that's why FH1 and FH2 have the same vibes ~~
@@snramadhan Exactly. And in my opinion, they REALLY should bring back Rob Da Bank to the Forza Horizon franchise
Dude, hearing Peter Robinson's Language for the first time in 10 years hit me like a freight train.
The music in this game was amazing and so were the car sounds, the roads- everything was done right here.
Can't blame nostalgia when you know for a fact better graphics, dirt and car list will make this game better than everything that came after it (assuming my opinion is unpopular)
might be unpopular but I'm with you in that one!
@@BlooTeg Imma have to do a raw cruise video by the lake this summer.
Literally looks like an FH1 lobby, playing Punching in a Dream or No Love as I do it.
When you compare the earlier Horizon games to the rest of the series you can tell it slowly drifted away from the festival vibe and its own unique aesthetic to its main attraction being solely based around driving cars
3:32 how dare you calling a VW Corrado a Scirocco, i will never forget this
hehe
Me too. 😡😂
6:01 - up right corner...😁
I literally installed FH1 on my xbox a week ago and replayed it again. It’s really amazing! And now my favorite blue beaver made a video about it too!
man, I wish I had a favorite blue beaver
@@BlooTeg at least you are one :D
"We have PS3 and Xbox 360 emulators"
Me with my 4 core i5: No we fukin' don't
My i3 2100: "Don't you even fucking dare think about it."
yeah im really sad about it.
I remember when i first got my Xbox 360 back in 2016 as a birthday gift, i also got Forza Horizon 1 with it aswell. And i can guarantee that even if it was an already 4 year old game at the time, it was one of the most awesome experiences of my life, just by the fact of it being fully translated to portuguese with a Brazilian dub already conquered my heart. I still miss that X360 and the online adventures i had with FH1 nowadays, will never forget that
Dude the drift lobby's at I think eagle ridge??
AND the Brazilian dub was actually SO good!
@@BlooTeg Without a doubt! Made me feel like i was actually in the festival at the time! Excellent work by them
I wish we could go back to the old Horizon days of working your way up the ladder instead of immediately being the superstar. The newer Horizon games are great but it makes me feel like a 10 year old at my own birthday party and I hate that.
yeah, fun once or twice but it's getting overwhelming
babe wake up new BlueTag video just dropped
I'M AWAKE
Forza Horizon 1 was a masterpiece. Actual soul.
REAL
I recall reading something about new rating guidelines prohibiting how much of a festival Horizon can be.
no fun, no excitement, you will own nothing and be happy.
Your intros and editing are so underrated Blue! Another BANGER video!
thanks brother! always trying to get better at it!
@@BlooTegsorry I wanted to ask what was the song playing in the background ground of 1:50
Walking on a Dream@@SarutobiTheFirst06
Im still listening soundtrack from this game. 10/10
Actually there is no tp boards but only if you bought an DLC you could teleport to anywhere in the map
I could swear I got those, but maybe I got it wrong
Back when forza was at its peak
I literally installed forza horizon 1 yesterday lmaoo
Its a great game and one thing i love about it is how the map isnt 100% open, idk it just makes the map feel more alive since its not a barren wasteland that allows you to travel on a straight line for yours objective
hell yeah
8:01 no hate or anything but Fh1 did not have travel signs. It had outpost challenges that would give you a 100% discount if you completed them all for that specific outpost.
Did I get it mixed then? That's weird... I'd have to get back into the game to check but I could swear I got some of those, my bad then!
@@BlooTeg it was upgrade discounts you were smashing
@@BlooTeg No problem at all, it is easy to get confused though, as every other Horizon game had Discount signs.
I remember getting my copy as a gift when it came out in 2012. After school, my high school buddies and I would hop online and drift around the canyons. Pulled up in our Rx-7s and would do touge runs on our civic hatchbacks. Even met randoms too and would just do events together and made some awesome builds. Mannnn what a time
The beginning was like this: hey boysss hey girlsss ....etc(its the real festival music)
I've played this game during earlier days of Xbox 360 emulation, and even tho most of the the terrain (except for the roads) was missing, garage didn't work and the game regularly crashed I still liked it way more than later Horizons. Nowadays, with proper emulation? Boy, there is no comparison for me that's for sure.
Essa Reckless tocando de fundo, é a musica que eu mais curti no primeiro horizon!
Dude you will never be biased for saying you love the soundtrack, it's fricking amazing.
Horizon 1 will always be the best. Best vibe, best characters, best sense of progression, bet final race, and definitely the best soundtrack.
It's a simple answer: Yes!
I agree.
horizon serie is like motorsport : greatest episodes where on 360 :3
bought Horizon 1 at launch, finished it, redone it recently (because didn't do the cloud save back then), and had more fun than with horizon 4/5
It’s feels like the only advancements playground game made were graphics and base gameplay actually interesting features like car meets, actual street racing, music and atmosphere snuffed for monetisation
I really do wish that they would bring back to simple story to Forza Horizon instead of just you being a ginormous celebrity are superstar just go back to where you were literally nothing and then you make your way up in the festival. That’s what we miss about it.
If you played this game during its time, it is a wonderful experience (with the DLC's). Vanilla-game nowadays is good but the endgame is just waiting for the last Barn Find to appear and that's it. The 1000 Club DLC was an amazing way to expand the game and to use every single car but nowadays (with the servers gone and without the DLCs available) it hinders any chance to play it again, in my opinion.
pretty sure you can get the DLC working on the emulator now!
@@BlooTeg Rally is working fine, the 1000 Club needs connecting to the server :( Tried on Xenia.
I've never played the first FH, but I'd like to say that it's the total underdog feeling that makes the game a little better than the modern FHs. Think I remenber getting a "Forza Edition" car (basically an overpowered version of one car) at the near start of my FH5 playthrough... *When I was about level 10-*
Also forgot to mention that the game *litterally* gives you the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray at *CLASS S1* + 2 bonus cars.
Forza Horizon 1 with the XE mod, which imports the new cars added on the 360 version of Horizon 2 is pretty neat. The one that puts the cars that didn't make it back into Horizon 2 is nice too, but it's still Horizon 2 on the 360.
Unfortunately it's going to be the main way people are going to remember Horizon 2 for some time, since there's not much reason to buy an old One, but maybe get a One S, and many might get a Series S rather than an One X, and both of those don't have a disk drive, which is the "apocarlypse" for racing game fans, while most xbox games now are released to PC aswell, so not many are bothering with an Series X.
Forza horizon 1 actually still has active servers on Xbox (I've tested it with some friends) and it all works as it used to, the only downside is that pretty much no one is ever online on Forza horizon 1, although you can play online if you have a physical copy and an Xbox that has a disc drive and supports playing 360 discs
I hope they figure out how to make online work on the emulator, that'd be amazing
Flashback! - It’s mid 2012 Forza Motorsport 4 is in its prime! E3 Showcase for Forza Horizon drops and immediately I’m worried.. but curious..
Little did I know this game would also rank as one of my all time favourites. Even though the story was a little NFS:MW Corny it gave you more purpose than the ‘Championship’ mess they have in the later games.
I wish I'd gotten a chance to play this game. The first Horizon game I was able to play was Forza Horizon 2, and I am currently Forza Horizon 5. I previously played the demo of Forza Horizon 3, but these were the only games I played.
Yes, the only one i had, and still it was the best, soundtracks, cars, the whole map and the best were the barn finds.
3:30 Its a Corrado
the worst part is that it says on the screen right as I say it
this is my first Forza Horizon game I've played on my modded Xbox 360 and got introduced to Forza Horizon series and Forza franchise.
perfect way to get into Forza
funny how playground studios took notes from EA NFS games for Star Showdown Boss races when you unlocked the new wristband
i have played every single FH besides this one, and honestly it looks amazing for a 360 game, and Forza Motorsport 4 (which came out in 2011) managed to show off how capable the 360 was in terms of graphics, and this game showed how an open world could push the limits of the 360, Turn 10 and Playground Games must've studied the 360 because it was as impressive as halo 4
REAL
Love FH1 and always will! The intro sequence racing to the festival, to the overall presentation of a festival was just on point for me. The radio music selection was great, the story was great, the racing was fun. Just an overall incredible game I wish I could experience all over again :)
My only gripe I have that leaves a bitter taste for me was that I was banned from using online services just because I managed to get a hold onto a black listed car into my garage. For some reason, instead for Turn10 to just *remove* these vehicles from being allowed in your garage, they just permanently ban you for having these modded harmless vehicles. Ever since, I could never level up online, use a club, download player created wraps/tune setups, or do he club 1000 challenges :( Really blows. Only able to experience half of the game online before getting locked away forever...
I played Forza Horizon when it came out. It was fun, but it really left a sour taste in my mouth because they were advertising an open world with different surfaces to drive on, but aside from a select few open areas, you were bound to the road. The entire time I was playing I was just wanted to drive straight from point A to B without roads like you can do in Test Drive Unlimited, and was mad that a game that came out 5-6 years before Horizon was truly open world and Horizon wasn't. And because of that I didn't play another Horizon title until FH3 with the Hot Wheels DLC and by then it was truly open world, not sure if FH2 was open world or not though?
I really like Cross country events, but i agree with the fact, that really broke the franchise map, especially the Eliminator, that thing sucks >:3
I didn't play much of the original, I use to play in my friends house, and I remember when it came out, it seems that it was the future of racing games. Fast forward few years I bought a Xbox One and the first game I got was the Horizon 4 and immediately I was WAIT THIS IS NOT RIGHT, for me 4 and 5 feels like they are over simplified, I don't have nostalgia for original but I really wish I could had played it more.
Played it for the 1st time this Christmas, it was really good
0:37 technically, you are correct...
TELL EM
if you havent played forza horizon 2, you gotta great sounds of the cars massive and beautiful map and the cars are really good too
Really nice trip down the memory lane.
(I need to really check out my Xbox 360 games again... and find Forza Horizon, cuz' i can only find my copy of Forza Horizon 2 for 360)
ah yes, my first experience with Horizon 2, I'll never forget that
I played FH1 this year for the first time and I can tell you - it's not nostalgia, the game is just that fucking good.
I'm still impressed how good the graphics are - if they made the background models with more polygons you could convince me it's an early PS4 title. On the same console that brought us TES: Oblivion!
The driving model is easy enough for beginners, but can give you a good and fair workout without traction control. I could swear cars with TC off are just faster, even if they are harder to control.
The atmosphere is spot on, like an actual music festival combined with car racing, rather than just a splattering of barely related race events.
While it doesn't have a plot, at least the "star rivals" thing keeps you racing just to shut up these smug bastards.
It has actual progression where you go from slow cars and easy races to faster cars and difficult races, while something like FH5 just shotguns you with everything the game has right away.
FH2 on X360 kinda sucks in comparison. Maybe it's better on XOne but I haven't played it. FH5 for better or worse is a car MMO with no progression to speak of and endless treadmill of seasonal events and user content.
Forza Horizon 1 is my favorite even though it’s the only one in the series I played. I loved the soundtrack and personality of it and I’m glad the map is not that big.
I still play this game on the 360. I like it more than the rest, biggest plus is the corporate overlords arent spying on that console looking to ban people for any tiny reason. i can just chill and play the game and not have to worry about some snowflake getting "offended."
First time played it when it came out. And still playing on my xbox 360. The best Horizon game ever made. Still. The only game among Horizon games where you really FEEL that you participate in actually FESTIVAL. Isn't that the main point of the game, summer festival. Like you are young and free and whole summer is yours. Damn wheels of fortune. It's all about the money nowdays. Good video.
I personally believe this game has the best soundtrack in Racing game and maybe even video game history. Every song it has fits the vibe perfectly, and all the songs have become timeless classics. (Except bom bom, we dont talk about that....)
actually real.
Oh and we don't talk about a certain band on Horizon Rocks because their lead singer, well, y'know... 🤢
@@Sam36192 (Child Diddler moment 🤮) (but like you said.... we dont talk about that....)
Hi :) I'm not usually the "commenting type" on UA-cam, I like to "lurk" and follow from the shadows. But after watching a few of your videos, I thought I'd say that I really appreciate your work and I certainly hope you won't stop making content!
thank you so much! I'll definitely keep them coming! I really appreciate that!
Played for the first time holiday 2021 it blew me away ! Wish I didn’t sleep on this game
Good video! You’ve obviously got some good memories with this game, and you've made it easy to understand why
thank you! I'm glad I could share that!
Horizon 1 has definitely the best soundtrack out of any racing game!
Now that you mention it I miss the "your mom" jokes you used to make.
I miss them almost as much as I miss your mom.
okay, that was good
Might boot this game up again
great video but after reading the title i dont know why but felt like an Act Man title on "Why FORZA HORIZON is such A MASTERPIECE?!"
I'll invite him to a video
An emulator you say? Why didn't i think of that before? 😂
Might finally be time to experience this gem. Been wanting to do that for a long time.
I always felt like this could be of those games that could land in a special place in my heart. Where games like NFS Underground 1, Burnout 3 and Dirt 2 live - where you can feel they've been made with love.
"take a walk"
terrible song wish i could delete it from the disc.
@@BowsettesFury good for you
Love this game and I still play it often. Miss the hay days 😢
So back in the day I had an early 360 that had a red ring of death and I basically switched to PS3 soon after (as the slim had come out). But when Horizon came out, I actually went out to get a slim model and this game really got me back to the 360. Sadly it has also proven to be one of the last Xbox games I've been really hyped for and actually enjoyed playing since. All the FH games after never quite hooked me the same way.
Also the soundtrack of FH1 is without a doubt one of the best 3rd-party game soundtracks of all time. I still listen to those songs to this day, some still being favorites that I play during house parties. If I recall correctly a DJ made the selection of songs, but after FH2 or FH3 they got rid of him and it really shows.
Good times man, such a banger soundtrack
I wonder if they already fixed the cockpit view on several cars and the texture glitches in car selection, the rest of the game is fully playable from start to finish even the customization work perfectly now, just those 2 glitch that still a major but not so major problem in the game on emulator
texture glitches with wraps, no haha
it's those live service games or free to play games that harm the industry the sooner it crash the better then we can recover.
I just bought NASCAR 06: total Team control and Street Racing Syndicate for the Og Xbox even though it's for my Xbox 360 via Backwards Compatibility
hell yeah
Man the soundtrack of this game was something else, 2 was so good too.
I really gotta give that one another shot
@@BlooTeg
In my opinion about soundtracks of Horizon series:
1 is Goated now and forever.
2 is Great but not as good as the first one.
3 is Good, some good tunes and some of them are hit and miss.
4 is Okay, I don't remember more than 3 or 4 songs (NRG, Never say die, Midnight city and Kids) But it was okay to listen. No sweat.
And 5... Total disaster. No way to sugarcoat this, Yes yes there are some okay and even good tracks but overall It's look like a white teenage girl playlist suggested by spotify type of shit + Mainstream af (And no CHVRCHES)
Anyway, I follow your videos for quite a while now and I'm a massive racing fan and of course I like music. I Really like that you make a video about soundtracks in racing games (I know there is a lot of shits going on in the genre and soundtrack is not the biggest problem right now.) and talks about it in general.
Also I made a Spotify Playlist recently and collected the best songs from Golden ERA of racing games. If do you want to help me to make it better or share or even collab together on Spotify, Let me know.
Good luck!
thank you; I appreciate that!
THE PAIN of not having an adequate pc or an xbox 360, maaaaaaaaaaaaan fuck
...well, at least i have gran turismo
can't go wrong with GT!
I wholeheartedly agree on that simplicity take of yours, especially at 4:33. And man, just looking back at the title screens, and comparing them all it really shows the difference, and how the games were built around different themes. I never owned an Xbox One, so I never played FH2 (and no, I haven't tried the X360 version either because let's be honest it was made too inferior), but seeing its title screen gives me the same chill vibes the original Horizon delivered. Just in a different (AFAIR, european) setting.
Then things shifted away from that, and despite loving FH3 almost as much as OG Horizon, and having a blast each time launching FH4 during winter season (because I'm a winter person IRL, I just hate other seasons really), they deviated quite much, and personally I'm not a fan of it.
And yes, I absolutely adore the Australian biomes and gorgeous landscapes, UK-inspired rural views and roads, I even love me some mexican mountains (and that's all for FH5, I can't stand everything else there from music to dialogue, besides upgraded visuals of course, haha), but the map & the world in FH1 will be forever The best in every way for me. Even if it's not as open due to solid unbreakable barriers (especially because of those barries, because eff modern open-world racers where you drive a bloody tank that obliterates barriers just by angrily staring at them!). The story and progression (and the way the Festival is organized, too) are also well done, it just feels like you earn & accomplish something by playing the game, and by getting better at it. You're not being bombarded by gifts for every fart you make, you're not being treated like the most valuable person in the game world like modern FH games do, and that' excellent.
Ah man... and the music, oh it feels so good.
hell yeah, I really hope they at least try going back to this someday
love the top gear intro song
yeah all cool and everything but did you try the night runners prologue ?
What you said about progression in a racing game...yeah...thats what makes most racers today boring for me. When you get your dream car after 2 hours of racing...it loses all worth. Gran Turismo 2 back then was perfect. Do licenses, do easy races, and work you way up. Not start at the top.
My first forza horizon and my favorite one in the series
They need to make the 360 era motorsports backwards compatible
Motorsport 4 ❤️
once again another awesome video! i hope i'll be able to play this game sometime in the a near future
PLEASE do!
4:09 💀
Só o Primeiro tem Phoenix Fox, na Horizon Rocks
Quality content as always, meu nobre!
Até hj o primeiro horizon continua sendo meu favorito
For me Horizon 2 was my favorite. cant wait for that video!
hell yeah.
@@BlooTeg playing all 5 over the years, Horizon 2 for some reason hold the most memories for me. The vibe, music (the mother we share), the light hearted road trip story, more incentive to change and mod cars cause the playlist, the map (especially the mountain side) and of course the free Mazda and fast and furious dlc was the cherry on top. There are more but these are things that I can think of right away.
How your you are just getting couple of thousands, you deserve at least 500k per video
LOL thank you!
I played it 7 months after it came out i loved it i had goosebumps
Having played all Horizons, Horizon 1 is my favourite, the festival ambiance, the location, the cars, the progression, the story, it all works so well together. My least favourite is FH5, they really babied their game too much, and the story is just not there at all.
Also, please elaborate what Xbox emulator you used and if it was difficult to set up?
it's called Xenia! It's not difficult to set up, you can find a video on UA-cam specifically for Horizon 1 by HokiHoshi, it's a bit overexplained (probably for people who don't use PCs a lot) but you can just skip some stuff if you know what you're doing!
@@BlooTeg Thank you and have a good week!
Played this for the first time in 2023 as well as FH2 when the servers were shutting down. Didn’t play any online or anything. My first Horizon game was FH3, and I Loved FH1. Addictive as hell. FH2 was actually kinda a disappointment. For some reason I enjoy the odd numbered Horizon games way more.
My only complaint is that the AI will just forget how to drive when they hit a traffic car. It’s hilarious, I took out the snobby guy in the Diablo because I hit a Prius with my Ford GT and he just dumbly ran into it. Wish the Rally DLC was still available because I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Also the showcases feel insane, like I genuinely think only Forza Horizon 5 has recaptured the insanity of those events.
So cool you picked my favorite sonic game to make the video 😊
wait no
100% the GOAT, never gonna be the same
rest in pepperoni
I love the old you slapping the new you😂😂😂
he bullies me
@@BlooTeg you gotta stand up for yourself
FH1 felt like Blackbox NFS with new Skin.
I'm assuming that's a good thing hahah
@@BlooTeg it's good, considring how nfs went after undercover.
9:55 Austic squirrel moment...
I honestly believe that the original Horizon was better than the modern forza games here. There's such a Vibe here whenever i look at the original Horizon game here that I sadly cannot get from the modern forza games. Like what you said here.
I feel like the modern horizon games have lost their innovation and charm here. Hope a future sequel can retain what made horizon so good here ♥ 🐀
let's hope they deliver!
You always deliver! Awesome video!
thank you! glad you enjoyed!
That Green Mouse😂
he's always there
@@BlooTeg awesome
how is the rat man going to beat the piracy claims 😭
he'll ignore them until them go away
Well, you convinced me, I need to play this forza.
YES!
@@BlooTeg thank for your content blootag, i need more!!!!!!!!
there's a lot on the channel! check it out!
Horizon 1 was the only horizon to actually have a soul. Every other entry has been hot garbage
I am to this day surprised how they managed to make fh1 so great for the 360 but dropped the ball so hard when porting fh2 to it
Maybe it was as a way to make people want to get the newer console, but damn it is bad
The only horizon game to actually have progression
I missed it so much
BLUETAG DROPPED YEAH
YAY
3:30 It's a Corrado not a Scirocco ;)
racing games need to stop making us "superstars" i'm tired of being liked by every single character and being the big deal hotshot, i want to be an underdog that everyone either dislikes or underestimates
perfectly said
Gotta love the TV stock footage
they can't hurt us