ChichiriMuyo said:
twesterm said:
nofingershaha said:
twesterm said:
You do know there have been about 20 Guitar Hero games in the past 5 years right?
Final Fantasy (VII) is milked for every penny it can get and then some but FF has nothing on the Guitar Hero franchise.
As for honorable mention, I would say Naruto games. One of those is released like every 3-4 months.
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I think final fantasy might beat that if were are talking about five years.
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You're saying there has been more than 20 Final Fantasy games in any five year period?
I agree that Final Fantasy is pretty played out, but at least those games are decently spaced (by choice or management fail, whatever).
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According to GameFAQs:
PlayStation 2 Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special 12/22/04
Mobile Final Fantasy II 02/04/05
Mobile Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding 04/08/05
PC Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection 08/16/05
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy X 09/08/05
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy X/X-2 Ultimate Box 09/08/05
Game Boy Advance Final Fantasy IV Advance 12/15/05
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XII 03/16/06
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan 04/18/06
Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI 04/18/06
PC Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan 04/20/06
PSP Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 04/24/06
PSP Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable 05/25/06
PlayStation Final Fantasy VII 07/20/06
PlayStation Final Fantasy IX 07/20/06
PlayStation Final Fantasy VIII 07/20/06
PlayStation Final Fantasy Tactics 07/20/06
PlayStation 2 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII 08/15/06
DS Final Fantasy III 08/24/06
Game Boy Advance Final Fantasy V Advance 10/12/06
PC Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection 2007 11/07/06
Mobile Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode -Final Fantasy VII- Q4 2006
Game Boy Advance Final Fantasy VI Advance 11/30/06
DS Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales 12/14/06
DS Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings 04/26/07
PSP Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions 05/10/07
PSP Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition 06/07/07
PSP Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition 06/26/07
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System 08/07/07
PSP Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 09/13/07
DS Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift 10/25/07
Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection 2008 11/20/07
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection 2008 11/20/07
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess 11/20/07
PC Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess 11/22/07
Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess 11/22/07
DS Final Fantasy IV 12/20/07
Mobile Final Fantasy IV the After: Tsuki no Kikan 02/18/08
DS Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates 03/11/08
PlayStation 2 Odin Sphere 03/14/08
Wii Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King 03/25/08
PC Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection 2008 04/15/08
Wii Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon 07/08/08
PSP Dissidia: Final Fantasy 12/18/08
Wii Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time 01/29/09
DS Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time 01/29/09
Wii Final Fantasy II (NES) 06/16/09
Wii Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord 06/30/09
PC Final Fantasy XI: A Moogle Kupo d'Etat 07/20/09
Wii Final Fantasy III 07/21/09
Wii Final Fantasy IV: The After Years 07/21/09
Wii Final Fantasy IV 08/04/09
Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI: A Moogle Kupo d'Etat Q3 2009
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XI: A Moogle Kupo d'Etat Q3 2009
Wii Final Fantasy 10/05/09
DS Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden 10/29/09
Mobile Final Fantasy IV October 2009
PC Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection 2010 11/10/09
PlayStation 2 Final Fantasy XI: Vana'diel Collection 2010 11/10/09
Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection 11/12/09
That's 60 realeases with far more than 20 unique titles, and most of the Itadki Street games aren't listed and none of the many Crystal Defenders releases are listed either. Add in Kingdom Hearts and the Chocobo games and 80+ titles have seen release that are trying to work off of the Final Fantasy franchise in the last 5 years. In contrast, even when you count up all multiplaform releases, GH only adds up to 50 titles and a much smaller handful of spin-offs that don't share the main series name in comparison. The match goes to Final Fantasy, slightly more milked.
Also, Mario's name pops up 50 times in titles released by Nintendo in the last five years, but since it's been milked a lot longer than GH and going full-steam longer than FF he's probably the champ in lifetime marks, especially considering the number of games that have aped popularity from Mario ranging from Donkey Kong to Wii Fit and from Punch Out!! to Smash Bros.
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Granted that's a lot more than I thought there was, still, how varied are those uncrossed out games?
Just like how Mario has appeared in 50+ games, that's fine because it's not the same game over and over and over again being sold as a complete other game. That list you have there half of them are FFXI expansion packs (and MMO expansions don't really count) and everything else is a different game with a fairly different feel.
There's a difference between a long list of games and milked.
Again, Guitar Hero is milked to death, Final Fantasy just has a lot of titles (though I would call FFVII milked to death).
