Tbh, the first game in the series I ever seriously played was fr3, and was pretty much addicted to it. Played it from mid-2012 to about mid-2014 before I stopped. I had no idea of any cr or bhr back then, didn't know there was a community behind the game (seriously, go to fr3 and look around for a forums page. See any? Nope), and upon searching free rider 2, was presented with the demo or the trackmill version, neither of which I had much interest in for some reason best known to my younger self : / So yeah, I'm a fr3 guy.