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Microsoft Wouldn't Be Microsoft Without...

In the video game world, competition never ceases, and to remain a contender, each console manufacturer needs to maintain an identity among consumers and offer them something they can't get on any other platform. This weekend, TGR will take an in-depth look at the games -- one key franchise for each company -- that make Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony what they are today.

Which of Microsoft's franchises is the absolute biggest and most important?
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Published: 255 days 13 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360 | Xbox | Gaming
 
 

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cain141 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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I'm going to guess they picked Halo...
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Viewtiful - 255 days 13 hours ago
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I'm not so sure at this point. Some of their Japanese licenses have proved instrumental to breaking that market. Plus I think Gears is more of an icon these days than Halo.
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cain141 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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I love my xbox a ton, but God, I hate Gears...
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Cajun Chicken - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Gears sucks. Halo Rocks, only because of Bungie though.
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Domenikos - 255 days 12 hours ago
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Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Kart... o yep and GeoW...
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no-spin - 255 days 12 hours ago
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maybe halo kart and halo tennis will be announced at E3.
Cooking Halo?
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Fray32 - 255 days 12 hours ago
1.6 - Cooking Halo with Master Chef
so cash
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RememberThe357 - 255 days 12 hours ago
1.7 - I loved the first Halo
But the last two have been pretty big let downs as far as I'm concerned. Halo 3 was OK but still wasn't up to the standard of the times. And now that Gearbox is working on it, I'm not sure that I have much faith in it.
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MisterNiwa - 255 days 11 hours ago
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Microsoft wouldnt be Microsoft without a Big Bag Of Money!
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gaffyh - 255 days 11 hours ago
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Yeah it's Halo. MS wouldn't even exist in the console war right now if they didn't have Halo
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UltraNova - 255 days 9 hours ago
1.11 - @ domenikos and no-spin
Dont know about you guys but I will wait for Halo Fit...:p

Seriously now, if MS messes up the Halo franchise it would be the biggest and most stupid thing someone would have ever done in the gaming industry history!

Halo Wars...meh?...ok? enough leave it there!

Milking a franchise to hell and back is for Nintendo! If MS and Sony start ditching out karts and fits and tennis and God knows what else, then our days as hardcore gamers are numbered (mine at least)!
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ThanatosDMC - 255 days 9 hours ago
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Red Ring of Death, Blue Screen of Death, Vista's Unsigned Driver Problems... etc.
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EL MAESTRO - 255 days 9 hours ago
1.13 - Theres no comparison
Look many games came after halo and many had way better graphics, the reason why halo is where it is and everyone and their mothers love it, its because its pure fun. Those holy s*** moments and loud laughing cuz a warhog flipped over and the gunner got puched by someone while they were flippin, are nowhere to be found in any other shooter. Its fun the online was super fun and thats what bungie cared about. in h3 they added the item feature which added more holy s*** moments of fun. I have yet to play a shooter that focuses more on fun than halo series. even KZ2 its more about graphics than crazy fun gameplay, which is why people will stop playin it once CoD moder warfare 2 comes out. while there are still people playing land partys with halo1 and online in halo2 and you still have an average of 300k people halo3 daily. NO COMPARISON...
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Shepherd 214 - 255 days 5 hours ago
1.14 - @Domenikos(and everyone else who posted similar comments)
umm, well, Metal Gear Touch was just released, you know. What is that, like the 15th metal gear game released and re-released in the past 20 years? While Halo has only had 4 titles in the past 8 years? I mean, jesus christ, god forbid they make a Halo game when theres more Metal Gear titles released than i can count on two hands.
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ravinash - 255 days 2 hours ago
1.15 - @ EL MAESTRO
Have you even played KZ2?
yeah the graphics a good, but the game play is even better.
I love the fact that the mission keeps changing through out the online game. Its right up there with COD4.
There may be less focus of 'fun' as its a more intense battle, but I don't want it to be the same as Halo.
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Dmitry Orlov - 254 days 17 hours ago
1.16 - @ravinash (and alike)
Have you played Halo Wars?
The graphics are awesome for an RTS and missions are always different.
There are only 2 missions which are like "build your base, grow strong, kill the f#ckers!"
So much for milking Halo franchise.
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Heath134 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Had to be. Master chief is the ruler of microsoft.
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cain141 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Just no master chief karts or MC Golf please...
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SlamVanderhuge - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Honestly, go-karts with energy swords and rocket launchers kinda sounds awesome...
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elitewh0re - 255 days 11 hours ago
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im sure you can already do that in halo 3 anyways.. haha
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redfield85 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Halo is definitely the first series I think about when I think Microsoft. After that? Maybe Gears of War or Geometry Wars.
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cain141 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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I think Bioware and Bungie, but then again we don't know if those will still be in MS' camp much longer really...

ME 2 could go multiplatform.
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Cajun Chicken - 255 days 12 hours ago
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Not even Geometry Wars is safe, BTW, Galaxies on the Wii is a great experience. I can't wait for GW to hop onto PSN, I'm sure its going to happen, its been everywhere else.
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STK026 - 255 days 12 hours ago
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No Flight Simulator love?...well I guess MS themselves haven't shown it much love...
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Nick2728 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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Master Chief is secretly the CEO of Microsoft.
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KionicWarlord222 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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master chief owns Microsoft...secretly.
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happyface - 255 days 12 hours ago
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more like Master Chief pwns sony
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RememberThe357 - 255 days 12 hours ago
5.2 - happyface
Kratos says hi.
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xabmol - 255 days 9 hours ago
5.3 - I'd pay to see that!
Even if Master Chief some how kills Kratos, he'll just fight his way out of hell to drag MC back with him.
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Godmars290 - 255 days 8 hours ago
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I think MC would have to take on a few medusa, a couple of cyclops, before he could qualify for a match w/Kratos.
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Dmitry Orlov - 254 days 17 hours ago
5.5 - guys, you don't get it
it's very simple.

Master Chief takes down Kratos (oneshot with covenant snipe beam-rifle). Kratos tries to bring Microsoft to hell with himself. At that time all, pay your attention, ALL of the Covenant, UNSC, Gears (Marcus will tear those puny chains on Kratos hands like cloth with a mere Lancer), the Locust (yeah, they need a new game for their revenge on Marcus :D )...
In a few words, Kratos has his a$$ domed if he messes with Microsoft.
And don't "wait till God of War 3" - that stuff won't for on me ;)
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DeathroW22 - 255 days 13 hours ago
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I don't think anyone would disagree when i say this:

But halo pretty much created the xbox and kept it relevant.
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cain141 - 255 days 12 hours ago
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Whether you love it or hate it Halo has impacted gaming...
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DeathroW22 - 255 days 12 hours ago
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I agree, i don't like halo - i thought the last two have been very average, however i have listed many things in the past that halo brought to the console gaming industry.

I don't see how that was relevant though, what i said originally wasn't bagging on the xbox or halo at all.
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xaviertooth - 255 days 13 hours ago
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all the correct answers are in there ----->
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NoxiousD - 255 days 12 hours ago
8 - Halo
the answer is simple. Halo saved the xbox franchise, gears of war 2 is a generic version of Halo.
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Freakwave003 - 255 days 12 hours ago
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By game franchise, Halo. But Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft without Windows.
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mastiffchild - 255 days 12 hours ago
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There's no denying that Halo has been instrumental in the success of MS entering and gaining a solid presence in the console world. I love the series, while it's never been my favourite, but I also think that the time has come for the formula to be heavily tweaked.

I don't mean Halo Wars style either but the FPS heartbeat of the franchise. While H3 was hyped and marketed further than ANY game ever I don't think I'm alone in feeling slightly underwhelmed by it-it's still a really good game but somehow didn't have the same feel as the first two games. This isn't because it was radically different as it wasn't, it was more of the same by and large and only the Forge feature innovated at all while all round they just made everything a bit more shiny.

So maybe after ODST(or maybe with that swansong from Bungie)the series will get a pretty big reboot. The landscape for FPS games is wildly different from when Halo landed on the first Xbox and the competition is more refined than the vanilla flavoured run and gun of MC and chums.

Something needs to be done to prevent MS's star from fading and keep Halo relevant in todays Killzone2 and Gears(TPS but y'know)enlightened world. I'm not saying bang in a cover system or new kinds of co-op but something to make it feel as feresh as it did when you first played the original.

I'm in no way bashing Halo3(any game after so much hype is gonna be questioned heavily isn't it?)as esp it's MP is tremendously entertaining even now but the SP definitely needs to find new mechanics and features to keep it's place at the head of the top shooter table. Lets hope ODST(why not still Recon?)can start this and Gearbox(why not?)can take it further and keep a famous franchise up ro date and gaining rather than ,losing fans.

Sorry for the length people but U do wonder what they'll do to freshen up the series post Bungie(while they'll also want to go out with a bang)and as MS most important IP I'm sure we'll see something sooner rather than later.
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terrandragon - 255 days 12 hours ago
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Where would we be without Microsoft?
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Sabre_G - 255 days 12 hours ago
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Microsoft - Halo and Gears, Nintendo - Zelda and Mario, Sony - too many to list em all
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crazy25000 - 255 days 12 hours ago
14 - the red ring of death lol.....sorry everyone
i dont like fanboyism or whatever, but i thought of that and it just made me laugh....dont worry, i like you microsoft ;)
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KnaveX - 255 days 11 hours ago
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I really appreciate all that MS has done for the game industry, Ive never owned an xbox but their competition has made Sony advance pretty far, wish I could say the same for nintendo, but not advancing the industry further isnt really considered competition.
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Cajun Chicken - 255 days 11 hours ago
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Xbox was great, had far better assortment of quality IPs than on the 360.
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Bumpmapping - 255 days 11 hours ago
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Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft with out screwing there consumers over
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xabmol - 255 days 9 hours ago
16.1 - ...and over
(HDD price)

...and over

(WiFi price)

...and over

(XBL price)
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