Most milked franchise

[xchurchx]

Call of duty
Star wars
sonic the hedgehog

For me, I'd have to say Assassin's Creed. I recently looked up AC on wikipedia, and the franchise has thrown out 9 games in just 4 years!

all i can say to this is meh, the story of that game is amazing and i am looking forward to the next chapter in the series, bring it on Ubi!!

 

[Herbsk]

I'd have to say Resident Evil - haven't their been 10 or 12 of those games in total - after that it would be Final Fantasy or Mario

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Mario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_video_games_by_year


Just look at the size of that list. There were 4 Mario games released last year. I think that beats the OPs choice with AC.

 

[Furioso]

Sonic of course

 

[Talvar]

I don't know if Final fantasy counts. Sure, there have been a lot of games but almost none of them are connected and only a few even happen in the same world.

 

[icame]

Easily the EA sports titles. Yearly releases with barely any change between them, and yet they manage to sell millions every single year. It baffles the mind.

 

[Dexiro]

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

Nothing you just said has any bearing on reality.

 

[pspman45]

Mario
has too many shitty games that do not relate to the origonal point

 

[tobyornottoby]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

1. Mario
2. Pokemon
3. Tetris
4. The Sims
5. FIFA/Final Fantasy/Grand Theft Auto/Need for Speed

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Star Wars and Tomb Raider although GOL is a great game and I'm looking forward to Old Republic.

Sonic the hedgehog to some extent although I'm sure the dev's don't realise they have a male cow there... :<

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

If Activision owns it, that. But really, Guitar Hero.

Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Guitar Hero: Van Halen
Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80s
Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Guitar Hero On Tour
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
Band Hero

15 titles across 6 years.

Then you have Call of Duty.

Call of Duty
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Call of Duty: Big Red One
Call of Duty: Roads to Victory
Call of Duty: Final Fronts
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies 1 and 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

I would say Assassin's Creed, but their quality of games aren't bad enough for me to condemn them for releasing more of it. I've thoroughly enjoyed the games that have come out(although I haven't tried the portable ones, but whatever.)

 

[Chris Sandford]

Im gonna go with guitar hero.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Sonic/Mario (though less Mario which at least improves).

Call of Duty, bear with it:
Since CoD4 it's been rehashed versions of the same game with minimal improvement (and often some detractions as well). That is milking, in a nutshell. They abuse their name and prestige to make sales with no real work on their end. Not cool.

Final Fantasy, it's trying but it may well have peaked at FF7, everything since has felt a little off (except 9 which was bitching cool).

 

[NeoStar]

Halo. I can't believe pezople would ignore a franchise that does nothing different each game, yet rank on Mario, a series that at least mixes it up every time! And you can't just say "Thatz diffurent, n00b! Peepul want mor Halo, Mario iz 4 n00bz!" Because, last I checked, every core, RPG and sports mario game has been a fun, addictive hit using various formulas. Halo? It relies solely on online play with just adding a few new weapons to old gameplay. They should of had enough after 3, but 4, 5 and 6? I guess Microsoft just knows that if it has Halo in its name, it'll sell like hotcakes and no one will be allowed to criticize it on the internet without getting flamed.
I myself am readying myself for the flamestorm to come...

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Call of Duty of course.

 

[Vykrel]

Mario is probably the number 1 most-milked franchise. there are about 12 or 13 games that are from the core Super Mario series, but there are over a hundred more spinoff games, not to mention that Mario also appears in many other series.

and really the majority of Nintendo's franchises. Pokemon, Zelda, Donkey Kong, etc. they absolutely refuse to come up with anything new. i would prefer to see an interesting new character and series, rather than seeing Mario in 2D, then 3D, the 2.5D, then top-down, then pinball, then racing, and then repeat over and over and over again.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Mario

How Many Games will it take before fans say enough? I'm guessing "Never"

This is almost certainly the correct answer as Mario has appeared in over 200 games. None of the other Nintendo classic franchises come close and modern interpretations of "franchise milking" pale in comparison. On the NES alone you had Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers 2, Super Mario Brothers 3, Golf, Dr Mario, Mike Tyson's Punchout (He was the ref), Mario is Missing, Mario's Time Machine and even an appearance in Tetris. That's ignoring his presence in games that were never released in the US, or I'm sure plenty of games where he made a cameo.

By contrast, modern contenders for milking include Halo (3 main series games, a prequel and a side story along with an offshoot RTS title for a total of six games in a decade), Guitar Hero (5 main series games and a total of 20 games bearing "Guitar Hero" in the title), Call of Duty (Six main series games, nearly a dozen individual titles like Finest Hour or Big Red One), and Final Fantasy (50 total titles including 13 main series and many notable offshoots such as Tactics). That simply pales in comparison to Mario to the extent that the discussion more or less has no reason to happen.

To put it simply, Mario has been milked to the point where people no longer consider yet another Mario game to be milking at all. It has been milked to the point that one cannot discuss the history of video games in any way without spending a fair amount of time talking about Mario. He's been milked to the point that he has literally had brand new titles for me to play since I was but a tiny child and I'm pushing thirty.

 

[psicat]

The Half-Life series, it's being slowly and surely milked to death. And, the Guitar Hero games there have been well over a dozen of those things made in a relatively short time.

 

[Ocelano]

Guitar Hero
Call of Duty
Halo

The Mario RPGs...

Haven't there only been 4 Mario RPG's in 11 years?

I don't think he meant the rpgs as an individual entity bgut as an example of how the general mario name has been played out

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Guitar Hero/Rock Band and Tony Hawk have been milked to death. Pretty literally too.