Why do people say the Halo franchise is "milked?"

The Call Of Duty series is the most milked franchise out there (although one could argue that Guitar Hero is). Halo is not even close to milked.

"The Call Of Duty series is the most milked franchise out there (although one could argue that Guitar Hero is). Halo is not even close to milked. "

You forgot Halo Wars. 
 
Halo isn't nearly as milky as Mario or Final Fantasy, but if people think Zelda is milked, then it would apply to Halo, too. Personally, I don't see a problem yet.

There's still a ton to see.  I think because the Halo games all had a pretty similar basic feel and have always been a popular target on forums and the like (despite their actual popularity).  Halo: Reach looks like it's mixing things up and there really is a ton they could do with Halo games.

Halo Wars came out as well. However, that is not sufficient grounds to claim that Halo is being milked. Some people simply hate on the Halo franchise and recycle the same garbage as supposed reasons for hating it. As if MW2 is anything special. That is just as much of an expansion pack as ODST is.

It was supposed to be a trilogy of three games, but now it's 5-6 games (can't remember the exact number) along with several books. Nobody has spoken of actually ending the series or leaving the plot alone.

"You forgot Halo Wars.  Halo isn't nearly as milky as Mario or Final Fantasy, but if people think Zelda is milked, then it would apply to Halo, too. Personally, I don't see a problem yet. "

"It was supposed to be a trilogy of three games, but now it's 5-6 games (can't remember the exact number) along with several books. Nobody has spoken of actually ending the series or leaving the plot alone. "

" The Call Of Duty series is the most milked franchise out there (although one could argue that Guitar Hero is). Halo is not even close to milked. "

Halfway through Halo 2 I had enough of Halo gameplay. Must have been my lack of Xbox Live back then, that I didn't get into Halo multiplayer. My bad.
 
But I'm definitly done with singleplayer Halo gameplay. Didn't even bring up the will to play Halo 3 on anything but the easiest mode. Earned me 5 achievement points with my playthrough. More or less ran through the game meleeing everthing dead without being in any danger or having shown any use of skill.  I'm kinda ashamed, but Halo just doesn't do it for me. Clearly a bargain bin franchise for me. Couldn't care less about Halo.
 
They really have to impress me with Reach, technically and gameplay-wise, to regain my interest. The first Halo was mindblowing back in the day.

While not as bad as Square-Enix in terms of milking a brand, Microsoft just has a habit of making sure EVERYONE knows about every single Halo release that comes out.

Even if it ends up being milked, I'll still enjoy the hell out of any future Halo games (never played Halo Wars...don't like RTS games on consoles, would've totally got it on PC).

" @Video_Game_King said:

"It was supposed to be a trilogy of three games, but now it's 5-6 games (can't remember the exact number) along with several books. Nobody has spoken of actually ending the series or leaving the plot alone. "

3 games, 1 expansion pack, 1 not-real Halo game (if that makes sense.) and one to be realeased, which will be a prequel to the series.  I wouldn't say 5-6 games. "

" @ADTR_ZERO said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

"It was supposed to be a trilogy of three games, but now it's 5-6 games (can't remember the exact number) along with several books. Nobody has spoken of actually ending the series or leaving the plot alone. "

3 games, 1 expansion pack, 1 not-real Halo game (if that makes sense.) and one to be realeased, which will be a prequel to the series.  I wouldn't say 5-6 games. "

3 Halos, Halo Wars, ODST, and Reach. That's 6. Again, it was supposed to be a trilogy. "

There have been FIVE "full" call of duty games (2,3,4,WaW,MW2) on this current generation of consoles, all of which were FPS, and three of which run on the same engine with the exact same controls.  There has been ONE "full" Halo, it's expansion, and a RTS offshoot.  
 
HALO C.E. got FPS right on a console (a huge part of this was the controller), HALO 2 was all about multiplayer, and HALO 3 was about the refinement and expansion of what HALO 2 was (let me remind you that each of these games were THREE FUCKING YEARS APART.  People that say they are all the same game are completely arrogant. And what do you expect?  Every HALO game to be so different that they don't resemble each other in any way?  That kind of defeats the point of a "trilogy".  Each iteration brought more than enough innovation to warrant a new game.  
Go back and play 2 and see how glitchy and broken it feels when compared to 3.  Not to mention Forge, Theater, and Bungie.net.  It's like saying HL2 is a rehash of HL.    
 
Also, Marty.  Because of him, HALO wins.
 
EDIT:    "it was supposed to be a trilogy".  Are you telling me Kojima planned on making 10 fucking Metal Gear games back in the day?  Oh, and no...It wasn't supposed to be a trilogy, it just worked out that way.  HALO's success led to HALO 2, in which they ran out of time and had to make HALO 3 to "finish the fight".  That's why HALO 2's ending was such a let down. 

" We had Halo:CE on the Xbox (which had no online.) The there was Halo 2, for the Xbox. And now there's Halo 3, the first Halo on next gen consoles and people are saying that Halo is a milked franchise. Sure, there's ODST, but that's just an expensive expantion pack.   People are treating this game like it's Halo 47.    This may be old news, but I just got a 360 a few months ag. It's new to me. "

The Halo series is a potentially big milking franchise.
 
Its supposed to end at the trilogy, but there's more games out there coming out (Halo: ODST, Halo Wars and Halo: Reach).
 
Then again, its really just that the term "milking" has been thrown around a lot. We tend to use it whenever we feel that the game is being made only because its a cashcow. One could say that there needs to be a sequel because the franchise/series is a cashcow. Halo is that sort of example. And then we have the ones which have been milked to death because they're really huge cashcows or have been around for a long time, sometimes too long.
 
As long as the periods between each game is 2-3 years time frame then I'm alright with milking; none of this Guitar Hero or Call of Duty annual bullshit...

Because people are idiots who need some sort of argument to start bullshit on forums
Halo is not milked, it is a trilogy, an expansion, an offshoot RTS and soon a prequel

I don't think the Halo franchise is necessarily milked, but I just hate the fact that they stopped supporting the PC community. They realized that they were attracting many players on the console, but all they're faithful players were left to die playing Halo PC and/or Halo Custom Edition. :(

What people seem to be misunderstanding is that when bungie said they wanted it to be a trilogy, they were referring to the story involving master chief, cortana, etc.  (Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3)   The other two halo games take place in the halo universe, but they are not considered to be part of that trilogy. 
 
And no i don't think the halo franchise is milked...(YET)   Lets just hope that Microsoft doesn't go crazy with it.

The milking of Halo is at a very low level and at risk of going too far, but probably won't.  Halo Wars was the first milk (it really had nothing to do with Halo, it was an RTS with Halo's name to sell more - not a bad game mind, it is the only Halo I liked) and ODST, an expansion pack that was a rip-off retail game, was a milk.  A milk is only bad when the games get really bad though.  MySims became milked with Party and Kart Racer, because they were bad and clearly just a cash grab.  That is more a milk in my view.  Mario isn't because they are normally very high quality games, despite their numbers.

I like Halo and I don't like Call of Duty.  So anything I say can be taken with a little bias, but I generally don't say "OMG COD SUCKS LOL" or anything like that
 
The Halo franchise is starting to branch out, because of the immense popularity it gained over the years.  This is the exact same reason that Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, Mario games, etc. have all been releasing more and more titles.
People see "HALO " on the box or "CALL OF DUTY" on a commercial and their interest is immediately piqued.  I personally think Halo is doing a better job, because they are not (yet) just putting out a new game every christmas season with a new story and multiplayer component.  It has been 3 games over about 7 years, then a new take on the franchise with ODST and WARS,  and it looks like they are going more dark and mature with Halo Reach, which I personally am excited for.  With Call of duty it was the same way, CoD 1 was released in 2003, Cod 2 in 2005, CoD 3 in 2006, and so on and so forth.  This is not mentioning the multiplatform releases on DS, PSP, Playstation 2 and 3, PC, etc. 
 
 So in terms of complete releases, Call of Duty has way more, but Microsoft held on to Halo very tightly, so you could speculate that if bungie and halo were not tied to MS, that things could have gone differently.
 
EDIT: to the people that keep referring to ODST as an "expansion pack" Bungie commented on that in saying how stupid they were to even say the words EXPANSION PACK ever while they were marketing the game.  They also said that the changes they made to the engine made it impossible to actually function as a true expansion pack, if they had wanted to. In my opinion the game easily had enough content and new addons to be a full retail price, with the second disc that included $30 worth of Map Packs, and I think that people unfairly call it a glorified expansion pack.

While I greatly dislike Microsoft and in turn, the Xbox 360, you can hardly call Halo milked. It`s successful, it has the potential to branch into different genres, so it has flexibility. It has what, 6 games in total? Hardly enough to call a franchise milked. Final Fantasy is milked, but it's extremely tasty milk from the udders of a golden cow.

Actually I would say that Megaman or Street Fighter are milked franchises. It doesn't make them bad there is just a lot of sequels and revisions. People complain about Halo because there is ton of extra stuff. Like the Anime thing, Comics, all of the novels, Halo Waypoint, etc. So it feels oversaturated without there being that many sequels.

HALO C.E. brought fps to consoles

" @MAN_FLANNEL said:

HALO C.E. brought fps to consoles

Ummm.....*stammers and stutters about Rare on the N64* "

Would worked at retail be acceptable?

" @MAN_FLANNEL:   Whoa now, that's just blasphemy. Perfect Dark got 'em right, Halo just made it prettier. "

" @MAN_FLANNEL:   Whoa now, that's just blasphemy. Perfect Dark got 'em right, Halo just made it prettier. "

" @khadaj32 said:

" @MAN_FLANNEL:   Whoa now, that's just blasphemy. Perfect Dark got 'em right, Halo just made it prettier. "

I love Perfect Dark especially but you are not close to right.  Those games didn't even have decent y axis controls.  They were fun because they were well designed but it was Halo 1 that really brought the FPS to consoles. "

I see it slowly becoming a problem, same with the COD series. I just hope both don't become as bad as Guitar Hero.

" I see it slowly becoming a problem, same with the COD series. I just hope both don't become as bad as Guitar Hero. "

" @Stephen_Von_Cloud said:

" @khadaj32 said:

" @MAN_FLANNEL:   Whoa now, that's just blasphemy. Perfect Dark got 'em right, Halo just made it prettier. "

I love Perfect Dark especially but you are not close to right.  Those games didn't even have decent y axis controls.  They were fun because they were well designed but it was Halo 1 that really brought the FPS to consoles. "

I dunno. I mean, the N64 really got the ball rolling. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark were massive in sales, and got a lot of people into the FPS genre, that really introduced them to a new form of console gaming. Then you had the Turoks, which were pretty good too. Halo is certainly the modern leader for the genre (although COD is up there) but I'd have to say it was the classics on the N64 that kickstarted the genre for consoles. "

Hey look, another one of these threads.

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @MAN_FLANNEL said:

HALO C.E. brought fps to consoles

Ummm.....*stammers and stutters about Rare on the N64* "

You know what I meant.  Will "got fps right" make you happy? "

I don't think it's milked at all. As long as they release quality games and the fans are happy then I think it's fine. Sonic and Mario are milked franchises, but most of the games with Mario are fun, enjoyable experiences. Sonic... not so much.

I think people consider the Halo series to be "milked" because the main story arc concluded a while ago (and spanned three games just by itself), but new games keep coming out, and there's more down the pike. Personally, I'm interested to see what's done with Reach, but not much beyond that.
 
Then again, that's what I said before I saw Reach.

" I don't think it's milked at all. As long as they release quality games and the fans are happy then I think it's fine. Sonic and Mario are milked franchises, but most of the games with Mario are fun, enjoyable experiences. Sonic... not so much. "

I don't feel like Halo is milked. They did their trilogy, they've come out with one smaller game and there's going to be two spin-offs. Given Bungie's obvious incredible passion for the series they have created and there no doubt being a lot of pressure from Microsoft to keep the franchise going, I think Bungie are being very sensible about stopping things at Halo: Reach.

Probably because it's been more or less the same since the first one. So it doesn't seem like they are changing it.

" Probably because it's been more or less the same since the first one. So it doesn't seem like they are changing it. "

Saying that the Halo franchised is being milked is as crazy like saying the CoD franchise is being milked...wait a minute?!