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What Franchise is Milked to no End?
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Sports games are pretty milked, especially from EA. They practically just release the same game with roster updates every year. They could easily just update rosters for the existing games if they wanted. Even NFL2k1 had this ability on the Dreamcast. And then there is the crazy DLC gambling loot box stuff in FIFA that people spend thousands of dollars on. For the amount of effort they put into development I think sports games are the most milked.
COD is similar to sports games with it's yearly releases, but at least they put a little more effort into it.
Pokemon has a ton of games, many which are nearly the same game, but also has the cartoons, cartoon movies, live action movies, and tons and tons of merchandise.
If it weren't for Fallout 76, Id say that series easily. Diablo doesnt belong, that real money auction house will forever live in anger with many of its followers.What are the least milked game franchise in term of sequels opportunity/effort put in them, etc...
Flight Simulator ?
Starcraft/Diablo ?
Half life ?
Fallout is one release to be easily the least milked video game franchise ?If it weren't for Fallout 76, Id say that series easily
I'm a big Skyrim fan so take the following with a grain of salt. Skyrim was re-released in 2016 and last year's update was a ton of add-on content. Is it still the same game? Yes. But the extra content is cool, and with such a well-established modding community, there are so many new ways to play and I'd find it very difficult to extinguish all the in-game choices, scenarios, etc. it has to offer. I would argue ESO is more milked.GTA V imho with Skyrim in 2nd place.
At leas the mentioned series they release new games iso milking the same one over and over again.
Fallout is one release to be easily the list milked video game franchise ?
Without 76 we would still have
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Fallout 4
Tactics
Brotherhood
New Vegas
Shelter
Pinball
Fallout Online experiments
A TV series on Amazon coming up.
I can see an argument, but easily less milked than StarCraft, Duck hunt or Half life ?
That a reverse conversation about the least milked game franchise of all time, someone suggested that it was easily Fallout without Fallout 76.No way Fallout is. I am going with sports games. Call of Duty is probably one of the best examples for a non-sports game.
Star Trek.Star Wars.
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What are the least milked game franchise in term of sequels opportunity/effort put in them, etc...
Flight Simulator ?
Starcraft/Diablo ?
Half life ?
Fallout is one release to be easily the list milked video game franchise ?
Without 76 we would still have
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Fallout 4
Tactics
Brotherhood
New Vegas
Shelter
Pinball
Fallout Online experiments
A TV series on Amazon coming up.
I can see an argument, but easily less milked than StarCraft, Duck hunt or Half life ?
This. Sports games are king of this. However, for non-sports games, I thought Call of Duty is probably the undisputed king of milked IP's with 19 installments in the franchise not counting books, tie in materials and mobile games.Sports games are king of milking. They are game that have the least effort put into every year. They are the worst offenders of MT too. Basically nothing carries over game to game and the money you spent on last year's edition is gone.
You're missing Pokemon on this list. Think about all the non-actual pokemon games out there. All the toys. The cards. The movies. Etc.
This. Sports games are king of this. However, for non-sports games, I thought Call of Duty is probably the undisputed king of milked IP's with 19 installments in the franchise not counting books, tie in materials and mobile games.
Call of Duty (2003)
Call of Duty 2 (2005)
Call of Duty 3 (2006)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012)
Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016)
Call of Duty: WWII (2017)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
However, while Final Fantasy has 15 main installments there are over 50 bearing the Final Fantasy name which are connected with the universe in some way such as prequels, sequels, or spin offs. Call of Duty doesn't even come close to that.
Skyrim is even more milked than the rx480 and 7970 lolGTA V imho with Skyrim in 2nd place.
At leas the mentioned series they release new games iso milking the same one over and over again.
I guess I'm looking at this debate the wrong way. Starcraft, Half Life are series that died by choice of the developer for no known reason. So the term milked or not doesn't really apply. If a true HL3 came out the gaming internet would collectively break like when FO4 was announced.Fallout is one release to be easily the least milked video game franchise ?
Without 76 we would still have
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Fallout 4
Tactics
Brotherhood
New Vegas
Shelter
Pinball
Fallout Online experiments
A TV series on Amazon coming up.
I can see an argument, but easily less milked than StarCraft, Duck hunt or Half life ?
Pokemon is a different animal. Its just todays version of collecting baseball cards. If you go down this road then Super Mario would be included. Those two are basically Nintendo's entire existence besides Zelda.You're missing Pokemon on this list. Think about all the non-actual pokemon games out there. All the toys. The cards. The movies. Etc.
I vote Pokemon. Shit, even the actual Pokemon games they've been milking out since Pokemon Yellow. They release a new generation of games, but like a year later release the 'better' version with marginal improvements over that generations base games.
Not even bringing up the fact that Pokemon was basically milking the Megami Tensei series with a more 'accessible' game to begin with.
Not sure of that logic, a little milked game franchise will be exactly that, game franchise that could have easily made a new instalment that would have made money from pre-sales alone but decided not too (to keep the franchise value and not risk the half effort they could have put into it, not compete their own other projects, etc...).I guess I'm looking at this debate the wrong way. Starcraft, Half Life are series that died by choice of the developer for no known reason. So the term milked or not doesn't really apply. If a true HL3 came out the gaming internet would collectively break like when FO4 was announced.
I'm not sure of my own logic these days.Not sure of that logic, a little milked game franchise will be exactly that, game franchise that could have easily made a new instalment that would have made money from pre-sales alone but decided not too (to keep the franchise value and not risk the half effort they could have put into it, not compete their own other projects, etc...).
We will not find a non milked franchise that made new instalments until the next one was not certain to be a giant success, so taking a break made obvious sense.
Fallout, like Elder Scroll is an obvious candidate for more releases and I think we can bet there will one and the wait will not be necessarily longer than what the elder scroll wait will have been (probably shorter).
I guess I'm looking at this debate the wrong way. Starcraft, Half Life are series that died by choice of the developer for no known reason. So the term milked or not doesn't really apply. If a true HL3 came out the gaming internet would collectively break like when FO4 was announced.
Fallout is a series that players really wanted to be released more often if they recreated the success of FO3 and New Vegas. FO4 wasnt bad just a rather large change from the previous success. FO76 was a drastic change that split the player base. So Fallout is a series that should be a candidate for more releases. Their history also goes back to 1997. COD is 2003 but the recent decade being where the title has become washed out with its near yearly releases.
Series that are beaten to death are as mentioned above - COD, Battlefield (Just release a new BF4 already), Sports games and so on. All the various simulators, racing games and such would follow next. Far Cry, Assassins Creed and their genre's after that.
Pokemon is a different animal. Its just todays version of collecting baseball cards. If you go down this road then Super Mario would be included. Those two are basically Nintendo's entire existence besides Zelda.
Agreed, Half Life 1 & 2 were lightning in a bottle. They came out at the perfect time when video cards & game graphics where really starting to give us new features that were "futuristic". I think Half Life 3 missed the train.I don't think HL3 would be nearly as big as people here think it would. Half-Life 2 came out almost 18 years ago. HL1 and 2 were a huge deal to us because most of us are old here and played them while they were new. Half-Life 1 and 2 is older than a lot of gamers are now days, and a lot of them have probably havne't even played a Half-Life game.
Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and only sold an estimated 2 million copies. Yeah it's VR only and it did sell some VR headsets, but that's still not very good considering it's a new Half-Life game. Where is the hype?
If Valve did make a Half-Life 3 as a normal (non-VR) PC game it could not live up the 18 years of expectations.
HL1 revolutionionized the FPS genre with it's puzzles, story telling, etc. Half-Life 2 did it again with the gravity gun and all it's other cool never before done tech. There isn't really anything revolutionary a flat PC game could do to live up to the Half-Life name.
That's why the next Half-Life game was VR, and most likely Half-Life 3 (or whatever they decide to make) will also be VR. And I think Valve will wait until they release their next VR headset.
I don't think there is anything they can do to significantly milk it anymore. It's too late for flat PC Half-Life games, and VR isn't big enough yet.
The flat PC cow is too old to milk, and the baby VR cow is too young to milk.
I think Half-Life will be very milkable in the future, but I think Valve is going to continue to guard it and only release new revolutionary 10/10 games with the Half-Life name.