Best video game franchise all-time

[Mr Khan]

happydolphin said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Gonna have to say Mario. The fact that the series manages to keep releasing such high quality titles and maintain sales for this long is phenomenal.

Mario is the face of gaming.

For people who don't know much about gaming or Mario fans, that is.

I would say every gamer has their own different array of characters they immediately associate with video games, for example, a PC-only gamer is more likely to think of Gordan Freeman before Mario.

Some people have seen alot of games yet still choose to say that Mario is the predominant IP of the industry. It's a fair statement worded that way.

I would say thought that as an IP it doesn't represent all genres and styles, but as much as 1 IP can serve as a face for the industry, Mario would be the best fit even if some of us don't see it that way it would be a majority concept.

Personally? :( Very hard to choose. I would have to say Final Fantasy.

Right, just like how people will think of Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse when people say "cartoons," despite the fact that Bugs and Mickey are far less relevant to their genre today than Mario is to his own.