Most milked franchise

[Atmos Duality]

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.

 

[Farotsu]

While I agree with the others, the number of games bearing the Megaman title is also over 30. The original series, X series, Legends, Zero, ZX, Battle Network and it's spin-offs...

 

[mad825]

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

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.

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.

 

[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