Most milked franchise

[Ocelano]

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.

Why is no one including the wario franchise when the list the mario series wario spun off from it after all

 

[Dragonforce525]

*Looks through Nintendo's entire back catalogue of games*

 

[mb16]

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...

here is your order of flame sir
yes as there massive differences between this:

and this

apart from some art changes

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Mario, by far. But the Mario games haven't hit the low that Call of Duty and Halo have, so they must be doing something right...

 

[Dr.Cereal1]

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.

It's disturbing how stupid the points at attempt at hate that are practically only found on this website towards Valve and their game series.
Honestly, half life, milked? There hasn't even been a game for years now...

 

[DrStupid87]

Star wars, no doubt =________=

Nail on the head. Silly George Lucas.

Although Jedi Outcast was a great game.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

You know you're missing some, right?
United Offensive
Finest Hour
Big Red One
Roads to Victory
Final Fronts

 

[RJ Dalton]

Star wars, no doubt =________=

Ninjas. Damn.

 

[DrStupid87]

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

Really?
I could have sword that Valve did:

Portal
Left 4 Dead

Neither of those were mods as far as I know. And if Valve keeps delivering the quality they do, then they can milk Half Life until its udders catch fire.

 

[sean360h]

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)

id disagree with quite a few of them splinter cell dead space and gears of war to be exact its odd you call out a series with 2 games and you dont even think to mention all the sports games reboot (fifa like 96-11 the madden and basketball games)

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

You know you're missing some, right?
United Offensive
Finest Hour
Big Red One
Roads to Victory
Final Fronts

Yeah that dawned on my about five minutes after I posted and I was too busy to go back and edit, fixing that up now.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

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...

here is your order of flame sir
yes as there massive differences between this:

and this

apart from some art changes

To be honest that's not really a fair comparison. A more apt one would be this:

and this:

I mean yes, there are a lot of Mario games but a fair few of them are in a multitude of different genres. Better a franchised milked like that than the same game over and over.

Note, I am not saying that Mario isn't milked to death, but you chose a very unfair image to represent it.

 

[TheTim]

Halo... Micro$uck, let it die already.

why would they let the best selling series on xbox die? I certainly don't want to see it die and neither do other halo fans.

 

[The Breadcrab]

Star Wars (it wouldn't be so bad if they put some effort into it every once in a while)
Resident Evil (Do I need to explain?)
Transformers (there's a new TV series every year or so, and the franchise just feels like a cash-in right now)
Assassin's Creed (now we're having one or more each year with little to change in each)
Call of Duty (self-explanatory)

Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk used to be milked as f*** until they died. (no wonder!)

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Call of Duty. It's worn out.

Devil May Cry. It's done Capcom, move on.

Assassin's Creed. It was supposed to be a trilogy. At least Bioware is keeping their word with Mass Effect.

 

[Bebus]

Dragon Age.

Yes, it only has two games.

But the second was such a cash in.

Don't get me wrong. I loved DA2. But by god, I have never played such a blatant milking of a franchise. Next time Bioware, take more than 6 months to make an epic story of a hero.

 

[ruben6f]

Halo,CoD,Final Fantasy,Silent Hill,Resident Evil,Star Wars,Fifa,PES,Madden, Mario, Zelda.

I think I got alot of them

 

[PorkChopXpress]

COD is too easy.

Mario maintains some relevance with some fun games every once in a while, Sonic on the other hand is pretty irrelevant now in anything that isn't a direct throwback.

For me though, it's got to be Madden games, or any sports game really that's only a roster update.

 

[Giest4life]

I should amend this thread by requesting people to not point out the obvious cash-ins. You know the ones I'm talking about.

OT: I honestly feel that it was Portal 2. Valve should have come up with a different portal-puzzle based game--different characters and different setting. I know valve have capable people working for them, had they not taken the easy way out, "Portal 2" could have been so much better than it already is.

 

[Kermi]

Anyone who says Halo or Call of Duty before Super Mario Bros. is a biased or ignorant fucktard who only hates things that are popular because it's trendy to do so. Mario has the most games of any character ever and when you include Mario-related spinoffs (such as Warioland, Warioware, Luigi's Mansion, etc) Super Mario Bros. also the highest proportion of terrible shovelware to games that are actually any good. Then there was the awful feature film.

Star Wars is next in line. 6 films not to mention the constant butchering and re-editing of the original 3 until they fit George Lucas' "vision", which only proves he's a hack director and got lucky with the original trilogy in the first place. Countless games on almost every video game platform in the history of video games. We've been fighting the Battle of Hoth since the Atari 2600 and we'll probably do it again on the Playstation 4 and Xbox 3. I've played Star Wars on the NES, Super Star Wars on the Super NES, Shadows of the Empire on the N64, Republic Commando on the XBox, Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 on the PS2, Lego Star Wars (both prequel and original trilogies) on the PS2, Lego Star Wars The COMPLETE Saga on the Xbox 360 - not to mention my long history with Star Wars games on the PC: Dark forces, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight 2/Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Academy, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, Rogue Squadron and even fucking Yoda Stories which I'm not even sure was a real game. For all I know some fan made it in Klik 'n' Play.