History VideoGame / Forza

** ''Horizon 5'' will, as per tradition now, get two map expansions later on.

** ''Horizon 2'' is the only ''Horizon'' game to feature road trips between festival sites. They are replaced by convoys in ''Horizon 3'', which players can start and stop at any time. It's also the only ''Horizon'' with a male Horizon Festival director (Ben Miller), the only one so far that is held in two countries (France and Italy), the only ''Forza'' title to be released for two home consoles at its launch (Xbox One and Xbox 360),[[note]]''Forza Horizon 4'' received an enhanced version for Xbox Series X|S upon that console's 2020 launch.[[/note]] the only entry to automatically save game clips for doing certain stunts such as lots of drifts, and the only ''Horizon'' entry to have ''not'' received Xbox One X enhancements.[[note]]''Horizon 3'' received 4K enhancements in an update (it already had HDR support as it was released with the Xbox One S, and it was released for Windows 10 [=PCs=] anyway). ''Horizon'' 1 was made backward-compatible on Xbox One and also received Xbox One X enhancements for 4K resolution support. ''Horizon 4'' was made for the Xbox One X, rendering at 1080p/60 in Performance mode, and rendering at 4K/30 with graphical enhancements in Quality mode, along with HDR support on both S and X regardless. And two years later, the game got ported to Series S and X.[[/note]]

** Another ''Horizon 3'' achievement is titled "Tonight We Ride", which is the tagline of the 2015 ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' reboot.

** Subverted with the Timeless Radio, as the music can, in the right mood, fits with the action (or craziness) in ''Forza Horizon 3'' and ''Forza Horizon 4''. Especially when driving around or racing with classic cars.

** The first ''Horizon'' has various real models that can be customized as famous alleged cars, like 1969 Dodge Charger R/T ("[[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard General Lee]]"[[note]]Lampshaded in [[https://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/games/fh/cars/dodge Charger's description]][[/note]]) and 1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT Apex ("[[Manga/InitialD Hachi-Roku]].")

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** ''Horizon 3'' assumes that the 2014 Nissan GT-R [=GT500=] car has a V6 engine like the [=GT3=] car, even though the car actually has an inline-4, due to Super GT changing its regulations prior to the 2014 season mandating the use of such an engine for all entries for the [=GT500=] class[[note]]This is to bring it in line with the German [=DTM=] series, which ALSO had a rule change in 2014 mandating the use of turbocharged inline-4 engines. There's plans for a merger between the GT500 class and DTM, which is predicted to go through starting with the 2021 season for both series.[[/note]]. The initial demos and E3 builds for ''Motorsport 7'' make the same mistake, but the later demos and the final release product rectify this mistake.

** Mitsubishi was notincluded in the vanilla car roster for ''Horizon 4'' due to licensing issue, but later returned in Series 5 as a free DLC car pack. Toyota and Lexus production cars were also absent, but they are slowly returning since Update 17.

** Mitsubishi gets the axe in ''Horizon 4'' as the license could not be renewed. Averted now, as the Series 5 update for ''Horizon 4'' adds back Mitsubishi for free. Toyota and Lexus production cars were also absent, but they are slowly returning since Update 17.

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*** Starting from Series 47, completing the Series' monthly Rivals event does NOT award the player with the 6% progress for the Festival Playlist, making it impossible to 100% a Series from that Series on, which in turns prevents the "Encore!" achievement [[note]]Get 100% completion on a Series[[/note]] from being obtained by any player that either hadn't obtained it in prior Series, or any players that started playing in Series 47. Worse yet, this issue has been placed under the "Won't Fix / By Design" of the [[https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/360001991068-FH4-Known-Issues Forza Horizon 4 known issues page]] on the Forza support website.

** To co-incide with Porsche coming to an Xbox One Forza title (''Horizon 2''), albeit as DLC, two Porsche models that were last featured as part of the Porsche DLC for ''Motorsport 4'', the 2012 911 [=GT2=] RS and Cayenne Turbo, were gifted to all players who logged in during the first week of the DLC's release. Due to the game not having an Auction House, these two Porsche models are unobtainable to anyone who didn't log in during that specified time period.
** For reasons unknown, however, one pack for ''Horizon 2'', the [[https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/playground-select-car-pack/bph1wgzjv8gp?ranMID=46134&ranEAID=t2R1djRI9u4&ranSiteID=t2R1djRI9u4-XmtpsCxi9f54IaHYCty9ZA&epi=t2R1djRI9u4-XmtpsCxi9f54IaHYCty9ZA&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2200057_aff_7809_1243925&tduid=%28ir__p3x3cxrr2gkftg3qkk0sohzz0v2xtkm903bnpiwl00%29%287809%29%281243925%29%28t2R1djRI9u4-XmtpsCxi9f54IaHYCty9ZA%29%28%29&irclickid=_p3x3cxrr2gkftg3qkk0sohzz0v2xtkm903bnpiwl00 Playground Select Car Pack]] was either re-listed in late February 2022, or was never delisted in the first place.

%%*** Both the Quartz Regalia and the Regalia Type-D have been made absolutely unobtainable as of late 2022 due to licensing issues. Both cars have been blacklisted from the auction house, and the spot on the Regalia's skill tree that previously unlocked the Type-D now instead unlocks the Toyota Supra RZ.

*** Both the Quartz Regalia and the Regalia Type-D have been made absolutely unobtainable as of late 2022 due to licensing issues. Both cars have been blacklisted from the auction house, and the spot on the Regalia's skill tree that previously unlocked the Type-D now instead unlocks the Toyota Supra RZ.

** The Regalia from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' appears in ''Forza Horizon 3'' and is available to players who have played either of those games on Xbox One or PC by [[TemporaryOnlineContent August 1st, 2017]]. It returns in ''Forza Horizon 4'' from the game's Series 6 update onward, but it's only available via Forzathon, either via Seasonal playlists, or occasionally through the Forzathon shop. The off-roading Type-D variant was also introduced in the same update, either as an unlockable reward from the regular Regalia's Mastery tree, or the occasional Forzathon reward.

** ''Horizon 4'' currently has with with their Hard-To-Find cars: many weekly challenges, ranked adventure rewards or Forzathon Shop rotations allow you to get some cars (with one of them usually debuting) that can't be obtained in the autoshow, wheelspin, the Backstage or by leveling up in Horizon Life; after that week or seasonal rotation, you can't obtain it [[note]]Except with the time travel glitch, at the risk of a temporary ban[[/note]]. If you miss on a car, you only two hopes are that Playground let you win the car again soon, or the Auction House, [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts where the rarer the car, the more expensive it is to get]]. Oh, and the list of [=HtF=] keeps growing each month since the game's launch, so it means that ''[[SerialEscalation more than 100 cars]]'' are on rotation!

*** Playing the PC version with an installed Nvidia Game Ready driver later than 522.25 can result in crashes occuring after 20 minutes of playtime. This only happens after playing for several hours beforehand.

** ''Forza Motorsport 5''[='=]s in-game soundtrack is an orchestral soundtrack that varies to fit with different situations, that is, it becomes louder and more pompous as the player performs better during races or is in close combat with other racers.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: The 1946 Ford Super Deluxe Wagon which debuted in Horizon 3 and had appeared in every Horizon game since. While very pretty to look at, sporting elegant postwar styling and wood paneling made from ''actual'' wood, going off it's appearance it would seem to be a heavy, sluggish behemoth that would more suited as a family car than one for competitive racing but it is capable of doing burnouts and has a surprisingly rspectable top speed of 142 kmh while fully stock! It's large size and heavy weight also make it very easy to drift in and give it an advantage during racing which are primarily downhill.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: In ''Horizon 3''[='s=] ''Blizzard Mountain'' expansion, running into snowmen ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential which adds 1000 skill points to your current combo in addition to the points from Wreckage]]) will have Warren rip into you for doing that, and to let it sink in, the smiley face on the snowman's "head" instantly turns into a frown when struck. These snowmen return for during the Winter season in ''Horizon 4'', and they too have heads that go from a smile to frown when hit.
* WronskiFeint: If an AI car is riding on your ass and they only start to overtake you right before a turn, they'll go flying through the turn from breaking too late, often slamming into a wall. Happens frequently in multiplayer when dealing with [[CarFu rammers]] - if you see someone aiming to smash into you, just go wide at a turn and smash on the brakes, and the rammer will go flying through the turn and smash into the walls of the track.

* ZipMode: The ''Horizon'' games have a fast travel system. In the first game, you can travel to certain points, with the option to travel anywhere only unlockable with a [[{{Microtransactions}} real-money purchase]] (which is no longer available after the first game and its DLC's delisting in 2016). ''Horizon 2'' and ''3'' let you travel anywhere by paying in-game credits, and the cost can be reduced by smashing billboards around the map. ''4'' and ''5'' further restrict this by binding fast travel to player bought houses and festival sites unless the player purchases one specific house that allows them to fast travel anywhere.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The Twin Mill added in ''Horizon 3''[='s=] Hot Wheels pack isn't just a Hot Wheels car scaled up to full size. [[{{Defictionalization}} There are real, drivable Twin Mills that have been made and sanctioned by Mattel]]. The Hot Wheels Ford Mustang is also real (produced for the 2014 SEMA Show), although that is a fair bit more believable.
** The Reliant three-wheeler and Peels can seem like silly joke characters but they were legitimate vehicles in their time. Bubble cars and three wheel cars date from an era when cars were relatively more expensive, when many only had motorbike licenses (the UK let three wheel cars count as motor-trikes) and safety restrictions were far less prescriptive on designs.

* DifficultButAwesome: Powerbuilds in ''Horizon'' games, that is, making a competitive car where power goes first, and then everything else. While the idea of a ''1600 HP, RWD Mk4 Supra that fits in S1-class'' in ''Horizon 4'' sounds like a deathtrap, it can be a monster if you learn how to tame it.

*** ''Horizon 4'''s Super7 update added the Blueprint Builder, which combines with the route editor and adds the ability to place custom props and scenery and which way you like, allowing for much crazier custom games. It's only limited for the time-trial esque Super7 games and not for racing, though.

* RareVehicles: The ''Forza'' series has two types of rare car:
** There are numerous examples of actual rare cars. For instance, you could be in a race with sixteen Ferrari [=F50=] [=GTs=] - Ferrari only made three!
** ''Forza Motorsport 2'' through ''4'' also had "unicorn cars". These cars were only available from official competitions, by being a VIP, or via auctions set up by Turn 10.
** What gets really weird is that some actual rare cars (eg. the aforementioned Ferrari [=F50=] [=GT=]) aren't considered unicorns, while at least one of the unicorns aren't actually rare (the 1969 Chevy Camaro SS in ''Motorsport 3'' and ''4'').
** In ''Motorsport 4'', the auction house used to be a good place to get them, although gamers charging 999,999,999 credits for them made Turn 10 realize that the only good that would come out of selling them online would be discovering hackers. An update now prevents players from gifting or selling unicorn cars on the auction house. Hackers are also allegedly the reason why unicorn status has been abolished in ''Motorsport 5'' and ''Horizon 2''.
** ''Horizon 3'' introduces Horizon Edition cars, specially tuned cars which are only obtainable through wheelspins. These cars are all upgraded to the top of a certain class and also have bonuses like XP or credit multipliers. If you can't manage to win them through wheelspins, expect to shell out lots of money for one of them in the Auction House: their starting price is no less than 200k and their buyout price is around 5 and a half million credits. These cars also return in ''Motorsport 7'', now dubbed as Forza Edition cars.

* MarathonLevel: Endurance races in ''Motorsport 3'' lasted around an hour to two hours. The events were removed from the career in ''Motorsport 4'', though it's possible to create a custom online race lobby for an endurance race, up to fifty laps (be it on the one-mile long Ladera test track or on the ten-mile long Nürburgring). A special event to win a [[RareVehicles Unicorn car]] in ''Motorsport 4'' had players join a multiplayer lobby on the Le Mans track in Le Mans Prototype cars, and then required them to do [[ShoutOut 360]] laps. [[BladderOfSteel In an online race.]] [[note]]Considering the track's current (real life) lap record of 3:17:475, the race would take 19 hours, 44 minutes and 51 seconds to be finished. But since most players aren't professional racers, let alone ''recordist'' professional racers, the race could easily become a literal UsefulNotes/TwentyFourHoursOfLeMans.[[/note]]