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I wonder if a perpetual milk-conceiving machine is possible... because the franchise is still *somehow* raking it in after all these years. Maybe the machine drains the life-force of the milk-consumers to spawn from the ether, yet more content they can use and actually get money for. DIABOLICAL!spectrenihlus said:
Final Fantasy. My personal feelings about the series aside, there are just too many freaking games.
1) The well-known sports games that bring out a new edition every year with a set of 'new' features the size of a DLC add-on.
2) The big Nintendo franchises.
The way they keep whoring out their characters to all sorts of spin-offs, abusing the fandom's nostalgia, never cutting the prices of their lead games... It's quite disturbing, really. Especially since most of those people think Nintendo is this nice, colorful, innocent company compared to the power-hungry Sony and Microsoft.
It always reminds me of "Mom Corp." from Futurama.
3) Not Final Fantasy.
Why? Because contrary to most Nintendo franchises, each Final Fantasy game is unique in almost every way (with exception of a few bad seeds like FF X-2, FF IV: The After Years and the soon-to-disappoint FF XIII-2). Except for the names of some spells and species, everything is different: characters, story, environments, style, setting, battle system, music, menus, etc.
Sure, Square-Enix might be a nasty corporation these days: publishing some bad games, overpricing remakes, putting out C&D's on fan-created games, releasing FF XIV all buggy, making FF XIII an interactive movie... But you still can't blame them for not trying something new. If Nintendo were making Final Fantasy, we'd still be stuck with FF I mechanics.
The only and obvious exception to all this being the Final Fantasy VII Compendium, that's genuine 'milking out' right there. They really should have just kept it at one game. And, possibly in the future, the Final Fantasy XIII games.
2) The big Nintendo franchises.
The way they keep whoring out their characters to all sorts of spin-offs, abusing the fandom's nostalgia, never cutting the prices of their lead games... It's quite disturbing, really. Especially since most of those people think Nintendo is this nice, colorful, innocent company compared to the power-hungry Sony and Microsoft.
It always reminds me of "Mom Corp." from Futurama.
3) Not Final Fantasy.
Why? Because contrary to most Nintendo franchises, each Final Fantasy game is unique in almost every way (with exception of a few bad seeds like FF X-2, FF IV: The After Years and the soon-to-disappoint FF XIII-2). Except for the names of some spells and species, everything is different: characters, story, environments, style, setting, battle system, music, menus, etc.
Sure, Square-Enix might be a nasty corporation these days: publishing some bad games, overpricing remakes, putting out C&D's on fan-created games, releasing FF XIV all buggy, making FF XIII an interactive movie... But you still can't blame them for not trying something new. If Nintendo were making Final Fantasy, we'd still be stuck with FF I mechanics.
The only and obvious exception to all this being the Final Fantasy VII Compendium, that's genuine 'milking out' right there. They really should have just kept it at one game. And, possibly in the future, the Final Fantasy XIII games.
Anything made by nintendo? Sonic, Mario, Zelda are all milked dry.
The Hero games were also milked to death.
I think any "this is the last one ... except for the next 3" are all milkings, although I think MGS falls under that and I am total MGS fanboy.
The Hero games were also milked to death.
I think any "this is the last one ... except for the next 3" are all milkings, although I think MGS falls under that and I am total MGS fanboy.
I think this explains that quite nicelyspectrenihlus said:
And the first video for continuity sake:
Now we must fight George, but please not near any lava or massive open chasms that the franchise loves, he can script defeats around those too easily
The Nintendo Trinity:
Mario, Pokemon, Zelda
(Metroid hasn't been milked to NEARLY the same degree as any of those. There is, what? ONE spinoff?)
It's a hard call between Pokemon and Mario.
Megaman used to be up there with Mario, but I never saw Megaman get its own cardgame here in the states. Megaman also doesn't even come close to Mario in terms of types of games he's been in.
Mario, Pokemon, Zelda
(Metroid hasn't been milked to NEARLY the same degree as any of those. There is, what? ONE spinoff?)
It's a hard call between Pokemon and Mario.
Megaman used to be up there with Mario, but I never saw Megaman get its own cardgame here in the states. Megaman also doesn't even come close to Mario in terms of types of games he's been in.
That's not really "milking" but more of idolising. All the mods for Half-life 2 most if not all are free and done by second-parties.Sgt. Sykes said:
If they were really milking it,HL2E3 would've been...somewhere in sight but alas, no, vaporware now.
On-T:Starwars, it's oldest product still being churned out the back-doors of game studios, shops and film studios alike.