Most milked franchise
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personally, I think the star wars cow is dead. but that doesn't stop lucas from milking it for what it's worth somehow.
Even though I love almost all of them, Megaman is another license that just has been taken too far. I'm just waiting for "special-needs man" or something as equally ridiculous to come out as a robot master.
Even though I love almost all of them, Megaman is another license that just has been taken too far. I'm just waiting for "special-needs man" or something as equally ridiculous to come out as a robot master.
every god damn original Nintendo game thats right im looking at you sonic, mario, zelda, and metrioid
Mario has been going far too long. (as well as most Nintendo games)
Star Wars has had one too many spin offs.
CoD has made enough money from the same formula.
Halo should have ended at 3.
Star Wars has had one too many spin offs.
CoD has made enough money from the same formula.
Halo should have ended at 3.
Well yah, 1 main game a year though, in fact I wouldn't say it's milked just that it's a franchise. Star Wars on the other hand, well I'd say there were more Star Wars games per 4 years even before the Prequels were announced.Skopintsev said:
Well recently, but there were ALOT of flight simulators though, did you play Star Wars Jedi Starfighter? Yah it had a stupid name and the promotion on the cover was "Play as the starfighter from the movie!" which was pretty sad, but the gameplay was so well executed it's forgivable.warthoggunner said:
And yah Force Unleased just showed how far off the deep end Star Wars has gone, during the original trilogy force powers meant something, they were more symbolic of the character then just "Hurr I reached level 12 sith powers". Sure the action is cool but the Jedi has been completely thrown out as a way of life, just determines what force powers you get and what color lightsaber you have, when in the original trilogy it was all about testing your character to face their biggest fears and overcome their biggest challenges. In Force Unleased it isn't even about that stuff anymore, it's about being the most powerful you can be for no reason at all, just to kick ass. Of course to be fair originally Star Wars was entirely different like for example Darth Vader wasn't going to be a very important character just some imperial general, hell he wasn't even going to be Luke's father (not the final movie of course), on top of this Episode 5 was originally going to be called "Star Wars 2" but then they stated adding on the numbers.
Sonic Colors (released Nov 2010 on the Wii & DS) is apparently a really good game. The last good Sonic game I actually have played was Sonic Rush on the DS (it is from...2005 I think)kouriichi said:
Sonic isn't a Nintendo franchise, it's Sega's.strangemoose said:
Transformers. There's been about ten-thousand series, thousands more toys, hundreds of films, and oodles of comics/books. For every Beast Wars or War for Cybertron, there's ten Revenge of the Fallens.
A long-running franchise isn't necessarily being milked, by I think poor Mario gets abused by Nintendo, as does his old rival by Sega.
Also, as soon as they broke the "final" film into two parts, I gained the license to ***** about Harry Potter being milked. But I'd use my last breath to find something to ***** about, in regards to shitty teen angst tripe at least.
A long-running franchise isn't necessarily being milked, by I think poor Mario gets abused by Nintendo, as does his old rival by Sega.
Also, as soon as they broke the "final" film into two parts, I gained the license to ***** about Harry Potter being milked. But I'd use my last breath to find something to ***** about, in regards to shitty teen angst tripe at least.
tycho0042 said:
No, the Megaman series are never milked, i want more, More. Why cant Capcom be nice and release a new NES style classic episode this year? I would shower them with money and even buy the stupid DLCs.
(Also i want my SNES style X9 already...)
Come on Capcom, take it already.
FIFA, fo sho. Instead of bringing out a new game every 2-3 years and perhaps making team updates DLC, they bring out a 'new' game EVERY YEAR, which mostly involves them changing the controls a bit, updating the teams, and making the grass look shinier.
At least with games like Mario they mix it up a bit with things like Mario Party.
I'm not suggesting we have a 'FIFA Party' or a 'FIFA at the Olympic Games' (lol) as that would makes no sense and would probably be crap, albeit hilarious.
I AM suggesting, however, that, at 40 quid a pop EVERY YEAR, they could put more effort in than making Messi's face look a bit more like a photo.
FIFA is the definition of milking as it doesn't even try hard to sell itself as something different.
Other games that 'milk it':
The Sims (No, EA, I'm not paying my hard earned cash on a new skin for a virtual toaster..)
Civilisation (although it's kind of stuck in what it can do without moving into an RTS).
Tomb Raider
At least with games like Mario they mix it up a bit with things like Mario Party.
I'm not suggesting we have a 'FIFA Party' or a 'FIFA at the Olympic Games' (lol) as that would makes no sense and would probably be crap, albeit hilarious.
I AM suggesting, however, that, at 40 quid a pop EVERY YEAR, they could put more effort in than making Messi's face look a bit more like a photo.
FIFA is the definition of milking as it doesn't even try hard to sell itself as something different.
Other games that 'milk it':
The Sims (No, EA, I'm not paying my hard earned cash on a new skin for a virtual toaster..)
Civilisation (although it's kind of stuck in what it can do without moving into an RTS).
Tomb Raider
7th book was at least 200 pages shorter than the 5th book, if I remember correctly. Ironically, the 5th movie is the shortest of all of them.Warforger said:
Edit: Actually scratch that, it was only about 100 pages shorter, my bad. Remember it being way longer than that though.
I did say slowly, but you can call all the ports, expansions, episodes, etc as an attempt to milk it yes. The fact that in my opinion some of the the quality was lost after the first doesn't help either. And, don't be such a fanboy if someone holds a different opinion than you it's not automatically hate, you don't see me pitching a fit so many people love to call two of my favorite series milked: Final Fantasy and Halo.Dr.Cereal1 said:
Instead I'll list the culprits:
Activision with their nonstop Call of Duty/Guitar Hero bullshit
Nintendo with every franchise ever
Microsoft with Halo
Lucasarts and everything Lucasarts has put out in the last few years.
The Final Fantasy brand has been less than final since it started.
Activision with their nonstop Call of Duty/Guitar Hero bullshit
Nintendo with every franchise ever
Microsoft with Halo
Lucasarts and everything Lucasarts has put out in the last few years.
The Final Fantasy brand has been less than final since it started.
No they haven't? They've been using the same engine, that's it. Half-Life has four games, over what, 12-14 years (tired, damn it)? That's not milking a franchise.Sgt. Sykes said:
I'd say Call of Duty, but that's obvious. So is Halo. So is Final Fantasy.
Eh, Grand Theft Auto? They never seem to change to me, ever.
