If you were stuck with one game series...

[Viewtiful Dan]

Mario. He has a game for pretty much everything

 

[Number-14]

YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE !!!

I'll go with Ratchet and Clank, just because it has a special place in my heart

That goes to slyraccoonkingdomheartsassassin'screedinfamoustekken(wellnotsomuch)portalprototype as well.

 

[black_knight1337]

definitely the elder scrolls. spent a good part of a year just on oblivion.

 

[Caisu]

MegaTen.

Everything inside the franchise counts. Why? Because in the English localizations, they slap Shin Megami Tensei on all of it. Digital Devil Saga, Persona, Devil Summoner, everything.

[sub]Plus the main-series titles aren't half bad either, from what I've seen.[/sub]

This, sorta. SMT or Final Fantasy... I prefer FF as a whole, and it's not like it's short on entries or content, and it covers a range of genres too... but I think I get more playtime and more challenge out of the SMT games... playing Persona 1, Digital Devil Saga and Lucifer's Call atm, been at them so many hours and still no where near done! FF I stick to the main plot, SMT I go for all the side quests and optional bosses too, which is a *lot* of extra hours, not to mention the New Game+ options most SMT games have... hmm~ tough choice! Can I have both? XD

 

[ezeroast]

battlefield i'm thinking.
400+ hours so far and bf3 on the way. Hopefully heaps more to come

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Elder Scrolls

I would pick "or Fallout" but I was mildly lost playing 1+2 so that would leave me destroying most of 3+NV...

 

[ArmyHelmetDog]

My favorite game at the moment is a tie between Persona, and The World Ends With You, but if I had to choose one series and one alone, I'd pick Fallout. Huge open worlds and the Karma system would mean I'd never get bored.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

CALL OF FUCKING DU... erm

I'd probably go with Zelda. They're both on handhelds as well as home consoles.

 

[Grufflenark]

Command and Conquer.
Or Warcraft.
Does this mean I can play WoW with no monthly subscription btw?

 

[Strain42]

MegaTen.

Everything inside the franchise counts. Why? Because in the English localizations, they slap Shin Megami Tensei on all of it. Digital Devil Saga, Persona, Devil Summoner, everything.

[sub]Plus the main-series titles aren't half bad either, from what I've seen.[/sub]

That's actually what I was going to ask about. If we could count the entire MegaTen metaseries as opposed to one individual series from it.

 

[DustyDrB]

Zelda, easily.

When I was a kid with only five games for my N64, I learned how to have fun in Zelda long after I finished everything. I started making up my own stories in Ocarina of Time, and started doing time trials with a stop-watch. I pretended that Link was a delivery boy and carried around a crate or a clay pot. I probably put as many hours into one playthrough of Ocarina of Time as many people do in Morrowind or Oblivion. And I had fun the entire time.

 

[Blunderboy]

Total War
Plenty of games, a decent amount of variety and challenge. I do enjoy the mix of RTS and turn-based. It's successful enough to keep the installments coming.

You stole the words from my mouth.