Mega Man 5 was actually my favorite as it had all the comforts of later games plus Gravity Man's awesome stage (which did all the Gravity Super Mario Galaxy like stuff).  Megaman 4 was my 2nd favorite because it was the first game to introduce the charge shot and it had Pharaoh Man and Drill Man and Skull Man who were all awesome.

Megaman 6 was kind of disappointing though the RUSH Armor was very cool. 

Erm... considering it's been almost half a year since the last Mega Man game, I'd say that's a pretty small hair to split but okay.

Kasz216, while I enjoyed both soccer games, I prefer Mario Strikers. I prefer crazy arcade sports games with turbo, power-ups, and items and whatnot. I see Mario Strikers as the spiritual successor to NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, in that it's fast-paced 4 player mayhem, and is 50% about turbo fouling and 50% about amazing razzle dazzle monster jams.

kingofwale, you seriously think Game & Watch Collection is a Mario game? And Super Princess Peach? And if you're going to count Itadaki Street as a Mario game, do you count Soulcalibur 2 as a Zelda game and Soulcalibur 4 as a Star Wars game?

the defition of "milking" implies using the character over and over again. I simply listed all the games on DS with Mario in it. Not a game staring Mario

Here's a list of game that has mario in it in certain extend. List is over 200 games.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_games_by_year

Well you can define milking how you'd like, but to a certain extent, using the same character again and again is how you draw in the fans. Do you think James Bond or Sherlock Holmes got milked? Fans weren't demanding innovation in Bond books or films or in Holmes books.

If a game sells well, it will get a sequel. If a franchise continues to sell well, it will get many sequels and spin-offs. It' the same with every franchise and every developer. Mario games will stop being made when they stop being the best.

The Mario franchise is unique in that not only does it always bring the same flavor of fun, it always innovates, so we can have the same old fun in new different ways.

Mario is synonymous with fun video games. When a new major Mario game comes out, people pay attention. When a new Sonic or Mega Man game comes out, nobody even notices.

Mario cameos are all over the place because he is the single most recognizable face in gaming.



And what do you think about the cameos in Soulcalibur?

 You're under the impression I read more than 5% of anything kingofwale writes.

Mario and Mega Man are both milked heavily, just in very different ways. Mega Man is milked by continuing to pump out platformer after platformer with very little to tell apart from eachother. Mario is milked by the vast amount of spinoffs Nintendo places him in. With that being said, Mega Man platformers and Mario spinoffs ae still oftentimes really awesome, so I have no reason to complain about it.

What did you totally miss the crapfest that was Battle Network?  The freaky entry into 3D that almost kinda but didn't work known as Legends?  The spinoff Mega Man Zero games that completely ditched the entire robot master formula as well as all the others?

Do you actually know anything about the Mega Man franchise?

Seriously, your complaint may have been valid in the 90s but not today.  You fail.

Hey i liked Legends......I guess I'm in the minority *cries*