anyways... Franchise-Milkingô is the process in which a main character of a popular series is taken, and stamped across various, TOTALLY unrelated gaming types... Examples:
Super Mario USA
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Party 6
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 8
Mario Party DS
Mario Party Gamma
Mario Party LIEK OMGZZ IS ANOTHER ONE OF DEEZ!
Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64 (Though not entirely a bad game, still an example)
Mario Kart Double Dash
Mario Tennis
Mario Tennis Sequel
Mario Tennis SEQUEL WITHOUT MARIO EVEN IN IT!!!
Mario Super Strikers
Mario Super Strikers Sequel
Mario Golf
Mario Golf Sequel
Mario 3-on-3 somethingorother basketball omgwtf
That other basketball game that had Mario in it...
Mario Paint (Though I enjoyed it, doesn't make it not a prime example)
Mario Picross
Dr. Mario
Yoshi
Yoshi Cookie
Mario is Missing
to some extent Mario Teaches Typing
Donkey Kong Jr. Math
Pac Man Fever
That Soul Calibur Game with Link in it... though less so, as he fit in well I guess... and it made a bit more sense...
Diddy Kong Racing (Though I once again, enjoyed the game, still an unnecessary stamping)
PokÈmon Puzzle Matching game thingy
Kirby Pinball Land
That Kirby Breakout game
Robotnick's Bean thingy...
PokÈmon Snap... somewhat
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games DS
In all honesty...
Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros.: Melee
Super Smash Bros.: Brawl
I'm certain there's beyond a plethora of others...
Even technically the Mario RPGs are not quite along the same lines, though they at least keep with the pattern that gets us to buy a Mario game... Save the Princess or whatnot...
Here's the question.....
IS IT RIGHT to stick a name on a game, that could be just as fine without it, when the name doesn't really affect the game in any way other than juxtaposing a specific character in a place that doesn't need to be set up so? If a game is quality, does one really need to stick a character in it as the franchising that didn't need to be?
Before you say it makes the game good: How many of you would go out and buy just a Tennis game with cartoon characters of no name doing roughly the same stuff? Racing game? Basketball? Soccer? Typing? Tetris-style puzzle game? Pinball? How many of you bought the game that just so happened to have some character in it? Would you have bought the game, with ALL the same settings, but just none of those characters in it?
It is one of those things that just makes me so mad