Most milked franchise

[frizzlebyte]

Star Wars, Call of Duty, Halo, Final Fantasy.

Given for any sports game out there.

 

[kasperbbs]

Anything made by nintendo and every title that has a sequel each year.

 

[Shameless]

I am surprised nobody said Resident Evil, they have released 5 games in the last 6 years and 2 are in development.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Mario, Zelda, Rayman, Starwars, Assassin's Creed, Fallout, etc.

 

[Kargathia]

I'm afraid anything I could say would be said better by this:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/158631

 

[Linsenman]

Mario, Zelda, Kirby any nintendo game really. Also, there are FPS's which are generally the same every year. So in other words, Halo and CoD. There are quite a lot more, but milking something in today's gaming industry should not be a surprise. I mean really, they plan to do how many assassins creeds?

 

[omega_peaches]

Call of Duty, but I still enjoy it, so I still buy it.
Halo, 3 was supposed to "finish the fight," but there is a fucking fourth one.
STAR WARS.

 

[kickassfrog]

Half-Life. Valve has based all their reputation on one game and have been selling it (and it's mods) ever since.

What are you on about. They made PORTAL!!!!!!!!!
If anything is cashable, it's portal.

I would have to say pokemon, it's the same bloody game with a few different creatures in it.

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

My votes go to:

Call of Duty
Warcraft
Halo

 

[chronicfc]

Three words:

Call

of

Duty

 

[Wintermoot]

Half-Life. Valve has based all their reputation on one game and have been selling it (and it's mods) ever since.

they only released around 5 games and didn't make any official spin-offs (not counting DM/S/2)
starwars or a Nintendo Franchise

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

any game under the EA sports name

 

[Shadowfaze]

Mario, COD, Megaman, for games, CSI, every talent show in every country, and oh, the sparkle pixies/Not vampires for tv/movies. Lots of hate in just one post!

 

[Shadowfaze]

double post! Sorry mods, ps3 browser is messing about

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Sports franchises. Easy. But for a less obvious choice:

Now I would not have said Halo and would defend it... until E3 this year.

Remember how Halo 3 was advertised as "FINISH THE FIGHT."? I understood Wars, ODST and Reach, because they were just spin-offs. And I would have even understood 4. But they also announced 5. And 6. And Halo Anniversary Edition. In less than 2 hours, Microsoft announce FOUR Halo games.

And you can't even use the same defense you can use for Mario. For Mario, they are in different genres (This year we have Mario Kart, Paper Mario and Mario 3DS. A racing game, an RPG and a platformer. 3 very different types of games.), different systems (not the case this time, but usually true), use different mechanics and typically have a different selling point. Not the case with Halo. They are all FPS titles. They will all be on the 360 (Actually, I'm calling it now: Halo 6 will try to be the system-seller for the next XBox.). While there will be minor tweaks to the mechanics, it is unlikely there will be any significant gameplay differences in each game. The major selling point of each will be the franchise's multiplayer (not a bad thing, mind you...).

Also, the people picking Mario just makes me sigh at how predictable it's gotten on these kinds of threads... they ignore the obvious answers (see top of post) and go right for their favorite punching bag...

agreed, these threads turn into flame monsters for "what popular game you think is garbage?" instead of actually over milked things. and i would agree on the halo thing 100%, up until e3 announcements halo was not over milked, especially compared to quite a few out there.

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.

your 3rd point i couldn't quote for truth any harder unless i smashed my face into my computer screen right now, the only thing 99% of the games share is the publisher/developer, and the name "final fantasy", otherwise in their own respects they are completely different games every time unless completely pointed out from the start they are a spin off.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Call of Duty, and Halo.

Oh, and Final Fantasy. At this point, they should just call it 'Fantasy.'

 

[killcannon71]

Mario,Zelda,Metroid. How many times can you do the same game and the mouth breathers still act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Oh I am SO naming the culprits.

Warcraft
Splinter Cell
Call of Duty
Command & Conquer
Final Fantasy
Ratchet & Clank (they're damn close)
Heroes of Might and Magic
Battlefield
Star Wars
Every Nintendo and Sega franchise ever
Halo
Gears of War
Dead Space
Sly Cooper (the trilogy bundle was a buggy waste)

 

[s0p0g]

star wars?

 

[Orbot_Vectorman]

My biggest vote goes to Warcraft.

Why Warcraft: I'll sum it up for you. "World of Warcraft", not only since the release of that game have so many products been released, T-shirts, Halloween Costumes, Trading Card Game, Soda tie ins, "Action Figures" both of Blizzard made characters, but of the ones you play, also Printcraft... the list goes on.