What is your favorite franchises

• Super Mario (including Mario Kart/Tennis)
• The Legend of Zelda
• Metroid (2d and 3D)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (before the Dreamcast died)
• Final Fantasy (mainly FFIV to IX and excluding VIII)
• Prince of Persia (mainly the Sands of Time trilogy although the recent one is great too)
• Half-Life
• Street Fighter (to some extent, the Vs, series)
• Super Smash Bros.
• Age of Empires (including Mythology)

Shin Megami Tensei, Ratchet and Clank, Final Fantasy, Tales of..., Pikmin, Mario.

The list goes on really. SMT is my favorite because of the dark stories, awesome gameplay, and cool characters. I've loved every SMT I have played.

My favorite franschise period is without a doubt Metal Gear Solid. The story behind it is so deep and immersive.

Everything in my sig and Mortal Kombat, Klonoa, and Earthworm Jim

Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot (only the original ps games though). Those are the only 2 I can think of...

Hoo boy, good topic here:

Bubble Bobble series - addictive as can be, can't stop playing this

Gradius series - good old Vic Viper saves the day

R-Type series - what else can be said about this one except mankind caused it's own downfall with the Bydo

Darius series - fighting giant fish ships, multiple endings depending on path chosen through the game, plenty of replay value

Ninja-kun series - oddball UPL series that revolves around a little ninja, I have no idea if any games in this series had a story or not, but it's so peculiar that I like it

old school Ninja Gaiden series - the NES gave us a trilogy of Ryu Hayabusa games, one baaaaad ninja

Strider series - not counting Strider Returns on the Genesis, there's only 2 real games in this series, plus one on the NES, based on a manga, this guy has incredible leaping ability, and is a badass ninja

Star Wars:Jedi Knight

The Legend of Zelda

Metroid

James Bond game series

Star Wars Battlefront

Ace Combat and SW:Jedi Knight series.

Metal Gear Series.

-Mario
-Metroid
-Star Ocean
-Final Fantasy
-Crash Bandicoot (Naughty Dog, NOT Sierra)
-Spyro (Insomniac, NOT Sierra (again))
-Pokémon
-MGS

...and many more. Take your pick.

I have lots of favorites...

• Xenogears/Saga
• Castlevania (old and new, but no 3D)
• Final Fantasy (I - X ,Tactics and Dissidia)
• Gran Turismo
• Ratchet & Clank
• Dragon Quest
• Donkey Kong Country
• Mario

zelda, mega man, final fantasy, metal gear solid, mario

Star Ocean

- Parodius
- Mario
- Donkey Kong Country
- Streets of Rage
- Tekken
- Super Smash Bros
- Wario Ware

In no particular order:

Dead or Alive
God of War
Grand Theft Auto
Gran Turismo
Half-Life
Halo
Ninja Gaiden
Project Gotham Racing
Quake
Sonic the Hedgehog
Soul Edge/Soul Blade/Soul Calibur
Super Mario Bros./Mario Kart games
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tekken
Twisted Metal (some of my favorite games)
Unreal / Unreal Tournament

Mario

Zelda

Final Fantasy

Castlevania

Metroid

F-Zero

Mario Kart

Street Fighter

Mario RPG's (SMRPG, Paper, M&L)

Gran Turismo

Fire Emblem

suikoden

metroid

zelda

dragonquest

dragon warrior

final fantasy

metal gear Solid

killzone

grand theft auto

mega man

pokemon

soul reaver

silent hill

wild arms

monster rancher

Ninja Gaiden

KOTOR

Mario

Final Fantasy

Tales

Fight Night

Zelda

Metal Gear

Xeno games

Tecmo Bowls

Street Fighter

Tekken

Castlevania

The Mana games

Samurai Showdown

God of War

2K Football

2k Basketball

Track & Field

Star Ocean

194X games

In no particular order:

Dead or Alive
God of War
Grand Theft Auto
Gran Turismo
Half-Life
Halo
Ninja Gaiden
Project Gotham Racing
Quake
Sonic the Hedgehog
Soul Edge/Soul Blade/Soul Calibur
Super Mario Bros./Mario Kart games
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tekken
Twisted Metal (some of my favorite games)
Unreal / Unreal Tournament

Stinger78

Except alphabetical order.

I really like the Resident Evil series since the first time I played RE2 and then a couple of years later RE3 Nemesis. :)

Kaido Battle (Tokyo Xtreme Racer)
Silent Hill
The Legend of Zelda

Except alphabetical order.Michael622

That's usually how I tend to post lists of things. It helps me see what I typed and what I might have missed.

I actually order my games and movies the same way :)

Right now, the games I like are really spread out and I don't really have any favorite franchises. A decade ago, I would have said Final Fantasy, but it's strayed from the former style that I enjoyed. During the last gen, I would have said Zelda, but the latest games (Twilight Princess, Phantom Hourglass) have disappointed me. The games I've liked most recently are Uncharted, Arkham Asylum and Valkyria Chronicles -- though none of them are in the same franchise.

Age Of Empires

The list is long, but my top favorites are Mario, Zelda and Metroid.

DoA, Tekken, and RE. . :D

1. Earthbound/Mother

-Definately my favorite series of all time. Great story, great gameplay, tons of humor, overall awesome. It was "underappreciated" in America, but luckily some guys made translations of the two games that weren't released in America.

2. Mario

-There has never been a Mario game I didn't like (the unlicensed educational games don't count.) I like the M&L games the best, with the platformers in second.

3. Pokemon

-This is basically the series I grew up with. The games always manage to make you play until you finish it (catching all the pokemon doesn't count, that always is a pain in the ass.) This series is great, but to make it even better, Nintendo needs to make deeper storylines, and MORE HUMOR. Humor makes every game great.

Other series' to mention:

F-zero: My favorite racing series. Extremely fast races with boost power >>>> realistic racing simulators.

Zelda: Great games. Period.

Sonic: Everything up to Sonic Adventure 2 was great. The Genesis ones were the best.

THPS: Believe it or not, these were really the games that were my favorite. I loved Mario and the likes, but I loved THPS even more. This is also one of the games that I am best at. In fact, I have beaten every game (except for 1 and 2) on sick/hardest difficulty.

Metroid
Doom
Command and Conquer
Legend of Zelda
Mario
Metal Gear Solid
Star Fox

Valkyrie Profile (not including the DS side story)
Silent Hill (not including Homecoming)
Castlevania
Star Fox
Sonic The Hedgehog (mostly just the older games)
and a bunch of doujin series most people probly haven't heard of.

Those are in no real order of course.

Favorite franchises: Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario(Super Mario, Mario Kart, etc), Digimon, Monster Rancher

To name one would be difficult but the one franchise that I have loved for many years and still do is Metal Gear Solid, consistently good and not one game in the series has disappointed me whilst many others franchises have had ups and downs for me. For example I also like Silent Hill series, well up until Silent Hill 3.

Other franchises I like include:

1. Sonic the Hedgehog (only 90's Sonic games)
2. Jak abd Daxter (Not the spin-off)
3. Tekken