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Guinness’ Best Game Franchises – As Voted by Readers

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If you’ll recall, last year Guinness put together a list of the best videogames using a panel of “experts”. You may also recall that it was filled to the brim with fail.

This year they decided to do it a little differently- allowing readers to choose the best game franchises. “We decided to take a different approach with this list than we did in the previous edition,” said Guinness gaming editor Gaz Deaves.

“Instead of asking developers, industry insiders and journalists to rank their favorite titles, we approached a different kind of expert: the players themselves. “We are confident that this ‘top 50′ more accurately reflects the tastes of the average gamer and not just the critics.”

While it’s obviously difficult to appease every game with a list, it looks like this one’s still filled with fail. Halo and Call of Duty? Best gaming franchise? Bah! Some of the games in the list aren’t even series! Smackdown above Starcraft, Diablo and Mario Kart? The excessive stupid is quite frankly making my head hurt.

Anyway, here’s the list – take a gander – and let us know which you think belong there…and which quite obviously don’t.

Halo

  1. Call of Duty
  2. The Legend of Zelda
  3. Guitar Hero
  4. Metal Gear
  5. Super Mario Bros.
  6. World of Warcraft
  7. Gears of War
  8. Super Smash Bros.
  9. Grand Theft Auto
  10. Pokémon
  11. Resident Evil
  12. Fallout
  13. Half-Life
  14. Sonic the Hedgehog
  15. Counter-Strike
  16. Runescape
  17. FIFA
  18. Kingdom Hearts
  19. Final Fantasy
  20. Pac-Man
  21. Madden NFL
  22. The Sims
  23. Tomb Raider
  24. WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW
  25. Rock Band
  26. LittleBigPlanet
  27. Saints Row
  28. The Elder Scrolls
  29. God of War
  30. GoldenEye 007
  31. Bioshock
  32. KillZone
  33. Skate
  34. Left 4 Dead
  35. Need for Speed
  36. Chrono Trigger
  37. Gran Turismo
  38. StarCraft
  39. Ratchet & Clank
  40. Pong
  41. Tom Clancy’s
  42. Star Wars: Battlefront
  43. Battlefield
  44. Diablo
  45. Lego Batman
  46. Mario Kart
  47. Burnout
  48. Crash Bandicoot
  49. Pro Evolution Soccer

Source : VG247

Last Updated: May 7, 2010

6 Comments

  1. Bobby Kotick and his man beans

    May 7, 2010 at 11:45

    This list merely shows that yet again democracy = fail. It would be the same with music, if we asked internet users to compile a list of the best music of the last 50 years, Lady Gaga would be number 1.

    Democracy, my friends… facepalm!

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  2. Tose

    May 7, 2010 at 13:36

    Legend of Zelda and Mario definitely belong on the list, and maybe Sonic. That’s about it, most of the rest are just single games. While Goldeneye is a great game, it’s not a franchise. And Runescape? This is why you let critics pick, the general population is retarded.

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    • Bobby Kotick and the unplayed disk of Halo 3

      May 7, 2010 at 13:54

      I think we can agree that lists like these are uber-retarded. It’s funny that the stunning Legacy of Kain games (PSOne and PS2) aren’t featured and what about Eidos’s Hitman games? But to exclude Legend of Zelda or Mario…? Sweet goddess of broken controllers…
      :sick:

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  3. Bobby Kotick can't read

    May 7, 2010 at 13:57

    Wow… shocking reading fail on my part! Zelda is number 2. I rest my radish-red face and luscious curly ginger locks in my palm.

    :facepalm:

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  4. uberutang

    May 7, 2010 at 14:03

    Halo belongs on the top. Why?

    Everbody wants to make a ‘halo killer’… coz it sells and people love playing it.

    If there was no halo, there would be no fps worth a damn on consoles.

    halo and live perfected online mp console gaming.

    Love it / Hate it. You cannot deny it.

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    • Geoff

      May 7, 2010 at 14:15

      Goldeneye and perfect dark were certainly worth a damn..and they came way, way before Halo. The dreamcast also had online with Quake 3.

      Yes, Halo catapulted console FPS to mainstream – but it would have gotten there *eventually* regardless.

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