IGN's Top 25 Videogame Franchises

[GameBanshee News]

IGN has published a list of their editorial staff's top 25 videogame franchises, with Dungeons & Dragons (#14), Warcraft (#6), and Final Fantasy (#3) all making the list. Apparently none of the editors are aware of the Ultima series and have even graded newer franchises like Resident Evil higher than D&D.

Dungeons & Dragons is perhaps the most extensive franchise on PC. It began to boom with a series of well-regarded and highly-successful games based on Forgotten Realms. It has since grown to include some of the best games of the past ten years, including Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Planescape: Torment. Aside from dozens of great games, D&D has heavily influenced North American RPGs. BioWare and many other developers continue to create games with combat systems based off Dungeons & Dragons. We can even see the influence of choosing your alignment on RPGs today. Games such as Fable and Knights of the Old Republic asking you to choose between good and evil is no different than when players first decide if they want to be Lawful Good or Chaotic Evil.