Top 10 gaming "franchises" you hold most near and

[Steven]

Not exactly the best games in a franchise, but just which game enterprises whose soul, characters and stories and memories you most fondly enjoy.

Common candidates are:

-Mario
-Sonic
-Metroid
-Castlevania
-Contra
-MegaMan
-King of Fighters
-Samurai Shodown
-Fatal Fury
-Metal Slug
-Last Blade
-Ninja Gaiden
-Shinobi
-Strider
-ThunderForce
-Gradius
-Mario Kart
-Street Fighter
-Mortal Kombat
-NBA Jam
-Doom
-Madden
-Tetris
-Puyo Puyo
-Silent Hill
-Resident Evil
-Streets of Rage
-Final Fight

[MegaDrive20XX]

out of that list, this is my top ten

Sonic
Castlevania
Street Fighter
Silent Hill
Resident Evil
King of Fighters
Contra
Mega Man
Metal Slug
Mario

[GameNinja]

Definately Zelda...so many memories...mostly the N64 versions...just so good...I would also have to include Sonic and King of Fighters, but none really come too close...Kingdom Hearts is special as well....

[Griking]

Ultima
The Bard's Tale
Might & Magic
Wizardry
The Elder Scrolls
Civilization
Unreal Tournament
RBI Baseball

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Castlevania
Sonic
Suikoden
Gradius
Metal slug
Mario
Zelda
Ghouls and Ghosts
Grandia
Contra

[EnemyZero]

ehh wont find sports games on my list but lets see...

sonic
mario
castlevania
double dragon
megaman
streets of rage
Rival Schools
Grandia
Mr. Driller
Street Fighter

[blue lander]

Phantasy Star
Dragon Quest
Aleste
Gradius/Salamander
Strikers 19xx
Castlevania
Metal Slug
Contra
Thunderforce
King of Fighters

[crazyjackcsa]

I'll include some that aren't on the list:

Panzer Dragoon
2-d Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin.
2-D Sonic
Splinter Cell
Vectorman


Those are my favorites. I have lots of single games that deserve and never got sequels.

[GobopopRevisited]

Mario (Donkey Kong too...)
Zelda
Metroid
Sa•Ga
Ogre Battle Saga (Am I the only one?... Am I?... Series never gets mentioned here...)
Dragon Quest
Ninja Gaiden
Oddworld
Metal Slug
The Last Blade
DonPachi

Notables: Virtua Cop, Metal Gear, Fatal Fury, Darius, Panzer Dragoon, Quake, Castlevania.
Games that need to build a franchise: Fable, Perfect Dark, Golden Sun, and of course... Conker!

[imanerd0011]

My top 10

1. Legend of Zelda
2. Super Mario
3. Megaman
4. Contra
5. Castlevania
6. Ninja Gaiden
7. Metroid
8. Mortal Kombat
9. Sonic
10. Double Dragon

[Mr Mort]

In no particular order:

-Ninja Gaiden
-Street Fighter
-Contra
-Castlevania
-Virtua Fighter
-F-Zero
-RalliSport
-Panzer Dragoon
-Mega Man
-Metal Slug

[Richter Belmount]

Castlevania
metal gear
mega man x
final fantasy
super mario
shenmue(yeah short franchise but damn it needs another sequel)
contra
dragon warrior
street fighter
resident evil

[retroman]

golden axe series
mario
sonic
tmnt
tecmo bowl football
kotor
need for speed
metal gear
dragonwarrior
allstar baseball

[jslithy]

Ys
Ultima
Castlevania
Phantasy Star
Zelda
Final Fantasy
Shenmue
Half-Life
Fallout
Dragon Warrior

[DigitalSpace]

In no particular order:

The Legend Of Zelda
Need For Speed
Burnout
Grand Theft Auto
Midnight Club
Gran Turismo
Mario
Metroid
R-Type
Sonic

[sabre2922]

#1 SILENT HILL = Brilliant! each and every one so far :D
2.Resident Evil
3. Samarai Shodown series X_x
4.Metroid
5.Zelda
6.Streetfighter series (specifically 2 and 3:third strike)
7. Splinter cell series
8.Tenchu series
9.King of fighters
10.Metal Gear

[Damaramu]

In no order of importance:

Street Fighter

King of Fighters

Shining series (Shining Force, Shining In The Darkness, Shining The Holy Ark, etc.)

Streets of Rage

Metal Slug

Parodious

Rival Schools

Front Misson

Armored Core

Gungriffon

[SoulBlazer]

Mine are in no order either:

Final Fantasy
Zelda
System Shock
Madden
Suikoden
Metal Gear
Ninja Gaiden
Castlevania
Contra
Civilization

Hmmm......4 out of those are from Konami. Interesting. ;)

[Tatsu]

Castlevania by far.

Runner ups are Contra (I don't like the new Contra games), Gradius, Mario (also only the old games) and Sonic.

[jdc]

In no order, my top 10.

Final Fantasy (particularly 7,8,9,X,X-2, and 11)
Gran Turismo
Colin McRae Rally
Zelda (from Ocarina on...)
Turok (yep....I said Turok)
Crash Bandicoot
TOCA (Codemasters racers)
Lunar
Grandia (my fave battle system)
Need For Speed

[xaer0knight]

In no particular order

- Star Soldier/Gunhed (Final Soldier, Super Star Soldier)
- Mega Man
- Castlevania
- Quake
- Metal Gear Solid
- Zelda
- Ninja Gaiden
- R-Type
- Resident Evil
- Actraiser

[GrayFox]

Top 10 eh?

Sonic
Metal Gear
Resident Evil
Mega Man
Metriod
Street Fighter
Shenmue
Double Dragon
Zelda
Half-Life

Hard decisions. Maybe not, or maybe my finalized list.

[esquire]

Not in any particular order:

- Megaman
- Castlevania
- Metal Slug
- Super Mario Bros/Super Mario World
- Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
- Heroes of Might and Magic
- Command & Conquer
- Half-Life
- Worms
- Golden Axe

[Oobgarm]

No order:

Gran Turismo
Contra
Mega Man
Castlevania
Need for Speed
F-Zero
Harvest Moon
Metal Gear Solid
TimeSplitters
Ratchet & Clank

I know some of them are racing titles with no characters or story, but I don't care.

[blue lander]

- Star Soldier/Gunhed (Final Soldier, Super Star Soldier)

Gunhed isn't part of the Star Soldier series, although it's often mistaken to be. Gunhed's a Compile game (that just happened to be published by NEC), usually considered a spinoff of the Aleste series. It's closest relative is probably Super Aleste (aka Space Megaforce) on the SNES. NEC pretty much ripped off Gunhed when they made Super Star Soldier, but it's by a completely different developer.

[Ed Oscuro]

Top ten list for me, in no particular order except the second group is the top five, the others are in the top ten:

System Shock
DOOM
Tie: Res Evil and Metal Slug
Phantasy Star (I really liked PSO single player, played it for over 90
hours on ONE player, OFFLINE :O, I have no life though)

Metal Slug
Contra
Castlevania
Shinobi (including Alex Kidd in Shinobi World of course!)
Half-Life :D

Also want to throw out the Makaimura games (Ghouls 'n Stuff). I've yet to get Tenchu on the XBox, so I've yet to see if that's quite good enough to call a series yet. Same with Unreal Tournament - 2K4 made a great impression, though. I'm not huge on fighters or shooters, but I'm working on those.

I find that most of the games I really like tend to come at random, stuff out of the past and in foreign arcades.

[Crush Crawfish]

In no particular order:

Megaman
Breath of fire
Kirby
Mario
Sonic
Suikoden
Shadow Hearts
Chrono Series
Earthbound/mother series
Mystical Ninja/Goemon

Man was that harder than I thought it would be.

[shai hulud]

-Mario
-Phantasy Star
-King of Fighters
-Samurai Shodown
-Metal Slug
-Bubble Bobble
-Madden
-Top Gear (still waiting for a SNES stye comeback)
-Baseball Stars
-Tecmo Bowl

[FooFighter]

Mario
Metal Slug
Bomberman
Sonic
Resident Evil
Zelda
Civilization (and all things Sid Meier)
Baldur's Gate
X-Com (We need a new one)
Syphon Filter

No particular order here; just games that have good fun memories.

[le geek]

Zelda and Suikoden would be my favorites by a wide margin. :)

After that I really like Silent Hill, Metroid, SNES Final Fantasies, Space Quest and Treasure Games (if it can be considered a franchise).

I'm guessing that Warioware and Katamari Damacy could be future favorites...

Cheers,
Ben

[FooFighter]

Zelda and Suikoden would be my favorites by a wide margin. :)

After that I really like Silent Hill, Metroid, SNES Final Fantasies, Space Quest and Treasure Games (if it can be considered a franchise).

I'm guessing that Warioware and Katamari Damacy could be future favorites...

Cheers,
Ben

Sheesh........Final Fantasy........Now how did I forget that????? :embarrassed:

[drewbrim]

of the biggies:

Mario
Zelda
Final Fantasy

not as big:

phantasy star
kings quest
harvest moon

[calthaer]

Thief / Deus Ex / System Shock (Looking Glass Studios, essentially)
Ultima
WarCraft
Mario (Bros., World, 64, Sunshine, etc.)
Zelda
Heroes of Might & Magic
Castlevania
Pokemon
and maybe this is cheating, but: any game by Bioware / Black Isle (Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Star Wars: KOTOR, etc.)

[squidblatt]

X-com
Wizardry
Infocom games
Ultima
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Baldur's Gate (PC)
Starflight
Harvest Moon
Doom
Elder Scrolls
SSI Gold Box series

[sabre2922]

I should replace Splinter Cell with the Front Mission series dont know what the Hell I was thinkin :roll:

[Dimitri]

The big ones here are Sonic and Metroid. I've loved the Sonic games since I first played Sonic 1, and in the last week alone have played through S3K three times...once as each character. Hell, I even liked Sonic R and Sonic Adventure (though I have to say I see no value in the Sonic Advance titles...disgraceful).

And Metroid -- about two years or so ago, I picked up a copy of Super Metroid and sat down with it for a solid week. Six months later, I have every Metroid game, and now I've beaten all of them but the original game (I need to try making maps for it or something...) and MP2 -- curse you Dark Samus!

Other than that, uh, Streets of Rage were some good games, great two-player. Metal Gear, even though I've never seriously played the pre-Solid titles (really must do that sometime...). ToeJam & Earl, even though #3 blew chunks, the first two were total masterpieces...

Five...well, I guess I can claim Mario since I played them so much (and SSBM is still an absoulte blast) but past that, most of my favorite games (Socket, Granada, Crusader of Centy...) never really developed into franchises. Shame, really. :/

[sabre2922]

I must add the .Hack// PS2 series to my list I just started playing the first one and have really enjoyed it much to my suprise.

Now the search for parts 2-4 ;)

[stevec1636]

only 10? ok

10. Sonic
9. Twisted Metal
8. Streets of Rage ( please make a new one )
7. NHL series ( EA )
6. Burnout
5. Ace Combat / Air Combat
4. Legend of Zelda
3. Metroid
2. Castlevania
1. Resident Evil

sorry but i had to put one sports game on there, played NHL every year, all year until the new one came out.

[Retsudo]

Street Fighter
Tekken
Ace Combat
Resident Evil (But lost interest after 3)
Doom
Delta Force- Df1, Df EX, and Blackhawk Down only
Socom US Navy Seals
Age of Empires

[RedHerring]

Megaman and all of it's iterations

Castlevania

Breath of fire

Resident Evil before RE4 because they were the last fragment of Adventure games to exist

I guess the Lucasart Adventure game could be put together to form a series so i"ll say SCUMM.

Metroid

Grandia

Zelda, of course

Adventure Island, believe it or not

And I'm REALLY starting to like the Shin Megami Tensei/Persona Series

[shvnsth]

in no order

1.final fantasy
2.metal gear solid
3.mario
4.zelda
5.ratchet and clank
6.half-life
7.castlevania
8.metal slug
9.panzer dragoon
10.gran turismo

[EricRyan34]

Resident Evil
Silent Hill
GTA
Zelda
Final Fantasy
Metal Gear Solid
Mortal Kombat
Twisted Metal
Devil May Cry
Racin Games

[CatchFiveBats]

I can't think of 10 that I really hold dear, but here's the ones I know I love in no particular order:

- Mario
- Metal Slug
- Final Fantasy
- Pokemon
- Yoshi (Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story, Yoshi's Touch & Go, etc.)
- Grandia
- Elder Scrolls (I've only played Morrowind, but I know I would love the previous installments and can't wait for the 4th one.)

[Kroogah]

How'd I miss this?

Bemani
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Super Mario
Puyo Puyo
Tekken
Grand Theft Auto
Sonic
Street Fighter
SNK vs. Capcom
Punch-Out!!

[legov8]

I would have to say Mario.

[Biff_McFresh]

Phantasy Star
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Final Fantasy
Tony Hawk
Streets Of Rage
Mario
Sonic
Zelda
Grandia