Favorite three "current" game series

[le geek]

What are your favorite three franchises that still have new games being released? You know, the games that you'll fork over full or near full price on even if the reviews are mixed and you're a cheap retrogaming bastard!

I know there is a similar topic, but this is a little different...
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/view...ite+franchises


Ground rules:
1) There must be at least THREE games released for it to be considered a series.
2) At least ONE game in the series must be current gen (console or portable).
3) Feel free to list honorable mentions, but please keep it down to your top THREE picks.

For me it goes like so:

1) Suikoden - while I've lost interest in Final Fastasy since FF7, Suikoden was there for the rebound. Even though III and IV had their warts, I still love these games.

2) Silent Hill - just when Resident Evil started to get stale, Silent Hill on PSOne showed up and blew it out of the water!
While the PS2 (and Xbox) sequels were not quite as good as the first game (3 being my favorite sequel) I still eagerly await the next one in the series.

3) Legend of Zelda - with a larger "portfolio" of games, I like some Zeldas better than others (my top three out of what I've played: The Legend of Zelda [NES], The Ocarina of Time [N64], Windwaker [CUBE]). However, I am really looking forward to Twilight Princess, it very well could be the best Zelda yet

Honorable mentions: Castlevania, Metroid and Wario Ware.

Cheers,
Ben

[Nez]

Resident Evil

Castlevania

The Zelda Series

[CYRiX]

Grand Theft Auto

Bomberman

SMB

[MegaDrive20XX]

DOOM

Street Fighter

Ghosts N Ghosts

Honorable mentions: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and KOF

[WanganRunner]

Xenogears/Xenosage (I consider this contiguous enough to be a series)

.hack (I am an absolute .hack NUT. I really hope they make an actual MMORPG around it, SO much potential)

Metal Gear - All hail Kojima, Kojima is life

[Joelius]

Final Fantasy
Resident Evil
Ninja Gaiden (not sure if that counts)

[njiska]

Metal Gear Solid
Contra
Dead or Alive

close 4th
Sonic

Honorable mention:
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Doom
Bomberman
Castlevania

[hezeuschrist]

Wow, what an impossible decision

Hrm, well there are only a couple franchises that I instantly pick up and play right when they come out...

1. Final Fantasy
2. Burnout
3. The Legend of Zelda

I'm really, really looking forward to the new zelda and I can't wait for FFXII. It looked fantastic in all its complete CG glory at E3 this year, so hopefully the rest of the cast can make up for the protagonist being another 16 year old douchebag.

[Lothars]

Well it's really hard to decide but I will go with

1.Final Fantasy
Looking forward to FFXII

2. Metal Gear Solid

Really excited about MGS 3 substance and MGS 4

3. Legend of Zelda

especially the super nintendo and gameboy versions
though the new one looks really good as well.

[sabre2922]

Hmmm bet nobody can guess what IM going to say

Yep its mister predictable again

k heres a hint: SILENT HILL BABY! oh wait was that too easy? damn just like my EX GF after a couple beers

#1. Silent Hill


#2.Devil May Cry


#3. Metal Gear Solid


Honerable Mentions:

Resident Evil (actually ties with MGS)
Shenmue
Tiger Woods PGA tour
Metroid (primes gc and zero mission GBA)
GTA

[davepesc]

1) Final Fantasy: Maybe XII will come out someday.

2) Xenosaga: Even though ep.2 was absolutely painful, I'll hold out hope that they can save this one.

3) This space for rent

I hear Disgaea 2 is shaping up to be pretty good. Hopefully I'll be able to add that franchise to the list one day.

[thegreatescape]

In order:

Ace Combat- Ever since playing the first one Ive found it hard to go near simulation type flight sims on PC. Its pure arcade flying bliss!

Ridge Racer- The speed, the style and the music. I love it all!

Gran Turismo- The best racing series ever.

They could pump out a million sequels to those 3 series' and I would still buy them. Looking forward to seeing them on next-gen hardware

[Retsudo]

Tekken- I just love it.
Ace Combat- Same
Doom

[Hokkus]

1. Sonic the Hedgehog
Obvious choice. I grew up playing Sonic. It's in my blood. Oh, yes, I'm blind and stupid fanboy.

2. Phantasy Star
I totally missed the series back in the day, but I bought PS Collection on GBA about half a year ago. And it rocked! Even if those games have dated a bit, they are still awesome (yes, even the third one). Now PS Universe is a must-have for me, regardless how good or bad it will be.

3. The Legend of Zelda
My favorite Nintendo series. No nostalgia bond either. I got into series with Wind Waker. Now I have four of them and I want more.


Oh, now I realised that how poor my childhood was, Sonic seems to be the only game series with which I have strong nostalgia bonds. Damn!

[downfall]

Give me the following:

Contra
Zelda
Metroid

and I'm set.

Honorable Mentions:

R-Type
Gradius
Dance Dance Revolution
Sonic
Advance Wars

[Matt-El]

Can I mention Viewtiful Joe? I mean though there are 2 games, there are releases coming soon. If not...


Sonic the Hedgehog


Legend of Zelda



Mega Man. Yeah, wanna start something?

[Biff_McFresh]

Resident Evil
Phantasy Star
Zelda

[sleepycal]

Resident Evil

Harvest Moon

Grand Theft Auto

[dbiersdorf]

1.) Pokemon (not necessarly the spin offs, although I do buy those anyway, it's just whether I like 'em or not)
2.) The Legend of Zelda (it's just a given at this point)
3.) Sonic Adventure titles (no spin offs, no heroes, where's #3 baby!?)

[mr_pollock]

Castlevania

Taiko No Tatsujin

Tactics Ogre / Ogre Battle (Does this count? There's a Tactics Ogre game on the GBA. HAHAH!!!!!)