Top 10 Best Video Game Franchises
7) Call of Duty
You just knew that Call of Duty would eventually make the list, didn't you? The series has set sales records time and time again and each game literally sells tens of millions of copies. According to numbers from VGChartz, Modern Warfare 3 sold the most on a single system with 14.17 million copies sold on Xbox 360 but the original Black Ops has the most overall sales with 29.41 million across all systems (MW3 had 29.25 million).
Sales numbers aside, many gamers probably still think of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare as the best game in the franchise. CoD4 revolutionized online multiplayer in terms of first-person shooters. It introduced things like killstreaks and perks. Other games have since imitated this system. Even Halo now has loadouts very similar to Call of Duty.
Call of Duty has been plagued by a litany of problems like poor hit detection, terrible lag, unbalanced weapons, and very camper friendly gameplay but people still buy and play the games year after year. Call of Duty has a very low learning curve and is much simpler than other shooters such as Battlefield. Anybody can pick up Call of Duty and have fun with it right out of the gate. Maps are small and games are fast-paced which is what makes it fun for some people. The fact a typical CoD game lasts around 10 minutes allows you to fire it up and play a few games whenever you have spare time.
Halo before ZELDA?
Mario
Pokemon
The Elder Scrolls
Wolfenstein
Half-Life
GTA
Fifa (Madden? C'mon..)
Diablo
and some long dead franchises:
Quest for Glory
Monkey Island
Quake
Good choices!
No Grand Theft Auto! That franchise is the second best video game franchise ever.
And Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is best video game of all times
not a fan of this list,mine would be:
1. Mario (has to be)
2. Sonic (without sonic mario may not be what he is today)
3. Zelda
4. GTA (i don't even like these games but cant be ignored)
5. Half Life (this can include team fortress, portal etc)
6. Wii Sports (this got non-gamers gaming)
7. Street Fighter
8. Fifa
9. Resident Evil
10. Metroid
The big ones Ive missed are COD (no major changes ever year) and Pokemon (too many remakes/masters)
Horrible list, you need to distinguish between "best" and "most successful". Call of duty maybe a hot selling game but it's far from being the best. Why are there also no racing games and fighting games?
No Dragon Age, Witcher, Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Or Elder Scrolls? A laughable list.
NO SONIC SONIC WAS AND IS A GREAT GAME FRANCHISE IT WAS THE CLOSEST TO BEATING MARIO BACK IN THE DAYS, I KNOW HE HAD HIS BAD GAMES LIKE SONIC 06 AND SONIC DRIFT AND MORE BUT STILL MARIO WAS THE BEST GAME AND SONIC WAS THE CLOSEST TO BEATING IT. I THINK SONIC DESERVES NO.2. AND TO BE HONEST I AM GLAD FIFA IS NOT ON THE LIST BECAUSE EVERY YEAR IT IS THE SAME THING EVERY TIME FOOTBALL MATCH AFTER FOOTBALL MATCH AFTER FOOTBALL MATCH EVEN WITH ULTIMATE TEAM I GET BORED OF FIFA EVERY 20 MINUTES. IF IT WASNT FOR SKILL GAMES SOMETHING DIFFERENT INSTEAD OF A MATCH I WOULD NOT PLAY FIFA AGAIN.
Madden NFL?!
FIFA and PES surely have better sales worldwide and these 2 franchises are a lot older and bigger.
Putting Halo over Zelda quickly removes most credibility this paltry list had to begin with, leaving out Metroid tossed out any remaining shred of credibility there was left.
Besides Mario and Zelda, other successful and also best selling franchises are GTA and The Sims. Where are they? :(
No Sonic? I agree with the rest though.
Assassins creed is terrible
glad,mario is 1st.No other franchise could beat mario
Im just happy metal gear is on this list
same
What the has this ever heard of Kingdom Hearts... And srysly no sonic, mario, or zelda
No assassins creed... No devil may cry... U gotta b kiddin me...
The list should have
2)Mario
1)SONIC FTW
COD and Madden are BS, there are a dozens of better titler, where is Metroid, GTA or Sonic, all better frachises and games
NO Castlevania
NOOOOO I hate this network
What are Madden and cod doing here ???
No Elder Scrolls? No GTA? Put in actual games not Madden or COD
No GTA?
No Tomb Raider?
No Street Fighter?
No Sonic?
No Need for Speed?
No FIFA?
No Asassain's Creed?
This list is totally bias. And Ground Zeros wasn't very good. It was too short.
No no no no legend of zelda is not 5 it is 1 and castlevania should not be on this list no has ever even heard of it
No Battlefield?
No GTA?
Screw this article!
Zela ALWAYS beats ALL of these for me, of course, I don't have qualms with you if you put Mario as the one exception. Anything else is unacceptable.
Silent Hill and Baldur's Gate!!!
Call of Duty shouldn't be on this list at all. And the Legend Of Zelda is the best game franchise ever created.
Madden but no FIFA, America isn't the world you know.
No Grand Theft Auto?