IGN's Top 25 Game Franchises

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Originally Posted by Schlep

Even if you don't like the Halo franchise, the complete lack of it on the list is idiotic. It is IGN, though.

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It's 2 games. That's barely a franchise.

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Originally Posted by RoleTroll

MarkRyan, yeah, hook up Neo at IGN.

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He tried. I was thankful for that. They weren't interested when I sent them emails though. That's probably my fault as I didn't have much to show them aside from message board topics.

As for the topic in this thread, I think the list is kind of a waste. I suppose it works for the most part as a list of popular, influential games but unless you're new to the hobby, that's not very interesting or informative. I would like to see the media expose more underdogs since they're in the position to reach the most gamers.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It's 2 games. That's barely a franchise.

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As opposed to Half Life, weighing in at a mighty 2 1/3 games?

Half-Life has been several magnitudes more influential than Halo.

Don't get me wrong, Halo's a great series, but there's no comparison as far as this list's putative criteria is concerned.

no ultima? say what you want, ultima was a big influence in both online and offline rpgs.

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Originally Posted by Andrew

Halflife and Warcraft should be 1 and 2.

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Not really, I don't give a shit about either franchise. IGN has and always will be slanted towards console games. Don't like it? Read GameSpot.

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Originally Posted by Schlep

As opposed to Half Life, weighing in at a mighty 2 1/3 games?

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Half-Life (series) is still the bench mark of the first person shooter game, though I think it's unfair to lable it just a shooter. Every FPS since uses HL(2) for it's model. If not, then they should be.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

He tried. I was thankful for that. They weren't interested when I sent them emails though. That's probably my fault as I didn't have much to show them aside from message board topics.

As for the topic in this thread, I think the list is kind of a waste. I suppose it works for the most part as a list of popular, influential games but unless you're new to the hobby, that's not very interesting or informative. I would like to see the media expose more underdogs since they're in the position to reach the most gamers.

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For the best, you are far and above working for IGN.

I agree with frostwolf about Ultima. And JeffmcC about Half Life. And I'd remove Command & Conquer, the Chrono "series" and Dungeons & Dragons (hello, Ultima slot right here).

And as big a fan of Star Wars as I am, what makes it a great game franchise? The Super Star Wars series was pretty awesome, but by no means groundbreaking. The original vector arcade game was great, but I don't know how groundbreaking it was either. KOTOR is supposedly alright. The Lego games are a nice diversion. I know there was a couple of PC games considered really good to great in years past... I guess this franchise makes the list by default for just being so huge it encompassed several games that were good along with the many that were really bad.

Are the Tom Clancy games on there because of the squad based stuff?

I think Pokemon should be number 1.

Well, I suppose HL is more than 2.3 games if you're including 3rd party mods.