Biggest series to collect?

[thekosmickollector]

Sorry if this has been asked before but does anybody know what the biggest game series to collect is, and, by extension, is there anyone who has the collection complete? I'd guess it's something like Final Fantasy or Mario but I could be wrong.

[fazerco]

Well, in the recently bought thread i saw a nice collection of Star Wars games.

[burningdoom]

Yeah, I think Star Wars is probably the winner. Sooooo many PC games, and a ton of console games.

The Musou games (Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors) is a pretty hefty series to collect for, too. 8 Dynasty Warriors games. And then each of those have both an "Xtreme Legends" series and an "Empires" series. Xtreme Legends started with DW 3, and Empires started with DW 4. Then you have the 4 Samurai Warriors games, and one of those had Xtreme Legends spin-off, too, as well as a "State of War" spin-off. There's also the Orochi Warriors series, which there are 3 of, which combine the characters of the two game series into one. And finally there's Hyrule Warriors.

So by my count that's 29 Musou games.

[burningdoom]

How do we count Mario? Just the platforming games? Or every game he's been in? Because that would come to a big number, too, if we counted them all.

[gf78]

I think Mario would be the largest collection if you counted all the spinoff titles such as Golf, Strikers, Paint, etc.  There are a lot of Final Fantasy games out there, over 50 easily.

There are a ton of Star Wars games across PC and consoles.  I would say Star Wars probably is the largest with individual titles and not counting multiplatform versions separately. 

[gf78]

Well, in the recently bought thread i saw a nice collection of Star Wars games.

 

[pacpix]

I think a lot depends on what you consider a "game" in the series.  If you include all of the ports as individual games in a series than there are a lot to collect.  For example a year or so ago I went through and added a lot of the Wizardry ports to VGCollect, http://vgcollect.com/search/wizardry/.  There are now 134 entries in the database, and I know of some that I missed already.  There is a similar trend with Pac-Man that got released on nearly every system possible back in the day.
If you don't include all of the different ports, remakes, etc. then there are only 35 distinct releases of Wizardry.

[aliensstudios]

If you were going for every variation on every console Madden might be up there:
John Madden Football (MS DOS) - 1
John Madden Football (SNES/Genesis/Amiiga) - 3
John Madden Football II (MS DOS) -1
John Madden Football '92 (Genesis) -1
John Madden Football '93 (Genesis/SNES) -1
John Madden Duo CD Football (Turbo Duo) -1
Madden NFL '94 (Genesis/SNES) -2
John Madden Football (3DO) -1
Madden NFL '95 (Genesis/SNES/GB/Game Gear) -4
Madden NFL '96 (Genesis/SNES/GB/Game Gear/PC) -5
Madden NFL 97 (Genesis/SNES/GB/PC/Saturn/PS1) -6
Madden Football 64 (N64) -1
Madden NFL 98 (Genesis/SNES/PC/Saturn/PS1) -5
Madden NFL 99 (PS/N64/PC) -3
Madden NFL 2000 (PS/N64/PC/Mac/GBC) -5
Madden NFL 2001 (PS/PS2/N64/GBC) -4
Madden NFL 2002 (PS/PS2/N64/GameCube/XBOX/PC/GBC/GBA) -8
Madden NFL 2003 (PS/PS2/GameCube/XBOX/PC/GBA) -6
Madden NFL 2004 (PS/PS2/GameCube/XBOX/PC/GBA) -6
Madden NFL 2005 (PS/PS2/GameCube/XBOX/PC/GBA/NDS) -7
Madden NFL 06 (PS2/GameCube/XBOX/XBOX 360/PC/GBA/NDS/PSP) -8
Madden NFL 07 (PS2/PS3/GameCube/Wii/XBOX/XBOX 360/PC/GBA/NDS/PSP) -10
Madden NFL 08 (PS2/PS3/GameCube/Wii/XBOX/XBOX 360/PC/Mac/GBA/NDS/PSP) -11
Madden NFL 09 (PS2/PS3/Wii/XBOX/XBOX 360/NDS/PSP) -7
Madden NFL 10 (PS2/PS3/Wii/XBOX 360/PSP) -5
Madden NFL 11 (PS2/PS3/Wii/XBOX 360/PSP) - 5
Madden NFL Football (3DS) -1
Madden NFL 12 (PS2/PS3/Wii/XBOX 360/PSP) - 5
Madden NFL 13 (PS3/Wii/Wii U/XBOX 360/PS Vita) - 5
Madden NFL 25 (PS3/PS4/XBOX 360/XBOX One) -4
Madden NFL 15 (PS3/PS4/XBOX 360/XBOX One) -4
Madden NFL 16 (PS3/PS4/XBOX 360/XBOX One) -4

You'd have to have all 140 versions to have a complete collection...

[rayne315]

im going with mega-man

There are currently over 100 titles in the Mega Man series, according to Capcom's official sales data (as of December 31, 2014 there are 131).

pulled that off of wiki so take it as you want but I recommend that you go and take a look at the list of games.. its pretty impressive.

but yeah if you going with serieses with the same main character not just same/similar gameplay then it definitely has to be Mario. he has been whored off to just about every genera I can think of... (not that im complaining about it though as they are all really fun games.. except the educational ones..)

[burningdoom]

I think aliensstudios wins this thread. I wasn't even thinking about sports titles.

[koemo1]

every console has tetris :p

[turf]

every console has tetris :p

My calculator even has tetris.

[scarface88fg]

Need For Speed has to be up there, there are 22 or so games, not including spin offs like Need For Speed V-Rally and Motor City Online.

[aliensstudios]

The LEGO series of video games would also be tough to collect all of the game for
Lego Island
Bionicle Heroes
Bionicle: Matoran Adventures
Bionicle: Maze of Shadows
Bionicle: Tales of the Tohunga
Bionicle: The Game
Drome Racers
Island Xtreme Stunts
Lego Alpha Team
Lego Battles
Lego Battles: Ninjago   
Lego Chess
Lego City Undercover   
Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
Lego Creator
Lego Creator: Harry Potter   
Lego Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom
Lego Friends
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
Lego Knights' Kingdom
Lego Legends of Chima Online
Lego Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
Lego Legends of Chima: Speedorz
Lego Loco
Lego Minifigures Online
Lego Ninjago: The Final Battle
Lego Ninjago: Nindroids
Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin
Lego Racers
Lego Racers 2
Lego Rock Raiders
Lego Stunt Rally
Lego Universe
Lego Worlds
Legoland
Soccer Mania
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Lego Batman: The Videogame
Lego Rock Band
Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues   
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Lego The Lord of the Rings   
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
The Lego Movie Videogame
Lego The Hobbit
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Lego Jurassic World
Lego Dimensions
Lego Marvel's Avengers

There's almost 60 games (Almost 200 if you count the ports for different consoles)

[sworddude]

I would say sims or Final fantasy

So many special editions for final fanatasy to many for my taste.

Sims has to many extensions etc guess that's the number one.