Halo named Greatest Game Franchise by Guinness

[MatParker116]

http://kotaku.com/5532674/the-top-50-video-game-franchises-of-all-time-voted-by-gamers

Full Top 50:
Halo (#1)
Call of Duty (#2)
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 (#50).

 

[MiracleOfSound]

5...4...3...2...1....

and along the come the rage posts...

[small]Seriously though... no Mass Effect???[/small]

 

[khaimera]

I disagree with this list, ROAR.

Next time they should post Khaimera's list of the top 50 games, then it will be the right list.

 

[The Zango]

Wow thats a rubbish list lol but i wont rage post...yet

WERE IS MASS EFFECT!

Ok i'm done

 

[SultanP]

As long as nobody takes it seriously, it should be fine. These things will always be subjective. But I have to say that this list is bad, in my opinion.

 

[Hazy]

And Mother isn't anywhere on there?

All in all, not too bad. I am in agreement with a lot of their picks.
Granted, I disagree with a fair share (Runescape) as well.

 

[Rainboq]

Why should I care?

[sub]Cue people getting the song reference and adding to it[/sub]

 

[Cody211282]

List isn't that bad, not the order I would have put some stuff in but not that bad.

 

[jelock]

These guys must have been drinking plenty of their own product to name Halo as #1, dont get me wrong I like Halo, its just its a only slightly above average shooter in my opinion.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

No team fortress 2 or portal? Oh the rage that is built up within me.

 

[tmujir955]

It's a bullshit list because it's a survey. Anyone who take time to research a bit would know there are much better franchises that are not as recent as the games on this list.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Wow, Gears of war is actually up there. I'm pretty pleased about that. Although I can foresee a lot of hate over some of the numbers.

 

[Denizen]

Hype media at its best. Throw Guinness' name in the mix and people detached from the gaming community won't know any better.

 

[The Root Beer Guy]

The biggest crime is that Mass Effect in no where to be seen.

 

[Plurralbles]

... ... ...

Meh. We seem to have a list here.
You'd think something older would have gotten it. Something that's been good since the beginning of the entire industry. Something respectable like Zelda.

How, er... why is Pong up there?

It was one game. It's a series? Meh, everythign else is just graphical and hardware upgrades, why not make it exclusively graphical improvements that sort of look similar to the original and call it a series...

Guieness... I'll chalk it up to, "No one knows what they're talking about but me". It might be ego centric, but meh.

No mario?

 

[gonzo20]

fallout in 13th place? GRAAAH RAGE BEAST! assuming control of this form!

 

[purplelion]

Sonic is on the list but not megaman ... what?

 

[Plurralbles]

No team fortress 2 or portal? Oh the rage that is built up within me.

*cough* EDIT: FRANCHISE

Oen game is nothing. And wouldn't it be simply, "Team Fortress"?

 

[Luke5515]

While you can see that the list was more tailored to the general non-gaming masses, it's still fairly reasonably. I wouldn't agree with all of it, and there are some important franchises that I feel are missing, but it's not that bad.