Perfect Game Examples of the Genre (Opinion)

[Bat Vader]

A summary of inFamous and Prototype: "blah, blah, parkour, blah, blah, sandbox which actually doesn't have that much freedom, blah, blah, some sort of badly-explained and inconsistent mystical powers." The genre is like the World War II shooter: It's a shambling corpse that needs to be destroyed immediately.

Its been two games, neither of which you've played I'd be willing to bet. What is your problem? Do you think this subgenre somehow became stale while these first games were still being made?

The whole third-person "sandbox" genre became stale around the point of the Spider-Man games. It's been boring for a long time.

GTA IV made it pretty fun I thought. Your views are your views and mine are mine.

 

[Bat Vader]

A summary of inFamous and Prototype: "blah, blah, parkour, blah, blah, sandbox which actually doesn't have that much freedom, blah, blah, some sort of badly-explained and inconsistent mystical powers." The genre is like the World War II shooter: It's a shambling corpse that needs to be destroyed immediately.

Its been two games, neither of which you've played I'd be willing to bet. What is your problem? Do you think this subgenre somehow became stale while these first games were still being made?

The whole third-person "sandbox" genre became stale around the point of the Spider-Man games. It's been boring for a long time.

You can hardly call something like sandbox gameplay as overdone, its a genre, versus the same game as in the case of world war II shooters. And I still doubt you've played both of them.

And what if he has played both of them? It is his opinion no need to be hostile about it.

 

[New Troll]

If these games were perfect, I'd still be playing them...

Near perfect RPG = Wizardry 7 Gold
Near perfect MMO = World of Warcraft
Near perfect Adventure = Bad Mojo
Near perfect Action-Adventure = Diablo 2
Near perfect Action = Dynasty Warriors 2
Near perfect Action-Horror = Silent Hill 2
Near perfect Strategy = Brigadine
Near perfect Civ-Strat = Master of Orion 2
Near perfect RTS = TA: Kingdoms
Near perfect God-Sim = Majesty
Near perfect Arcade = Daytona USA (8 or 16-player)
Near perfect Fighter = DarkStalkers (Arcade)
Near perfect Puzzle = Flowers vs. Zombies
Near perfect Sandbox = GTA: Vice City

 

[lleihsad]

Almost anything made by Blizzard. They don't invent genres, but they popularize them.

 

[Lukeje]

No game is perfect. If I find a perfect game, I wouldn't need to go to JB-HIFI again to buy a new game. then how will they make business?

Games which are perfect examples of each genre... not necessarily perfect games.

P&C game: Broken Sword.
FPSRPG: Deus Ex.
Puzzle: Tetris.

 

[gunbladejoe]

meh never really thought of a genre of a game before. but then again I'm one of those guys who just play the game to get away from reality for about an hour

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

RPG = Mass Effect

Open-World = Fallout 3

FPS = Halo 3

Horror = Silent Hill 2

Racing = Grid

 

[Circus Ascendant]

No game is perfect. If I find a perfect game, I wouldn't need to go to JB-HIFI again to buy a new game. then how will they make business?

You havent played legend of the dragoon then im guessing?

I think Legend of the Dragoon was a perfect RPG for the PS1, hell there wasnt even any voice acting until the end, but somehow it was able to stay interesting and original through all 4 disc, im surprised they havent made a sequel for it

Sony currently have 15 in house Ps3 games being worked on. GT 5, Uncharted 2, Eyepet, The Last Guardian, God of War III, MAG, DC Universe Online and The Agency are 8 of them. Another Legend of Dragoon is one of the likely candidates for one of the other seven.

I'd only played a demo of Legend of Dragoon, and just now I checked out a review for it. When I played the demo, I thought it was a Square game. Gamespot don't like it, but tbh thinking an RPG was made by Square when it wasn't is one of the highest praises it can receive.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Except Oblivion is miles better than Fallout 3

 

[Scobie]

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[Halfbreed13]

CoD4 - FPS
Fallout2 - RPG
DoW2 - RTS
Portal - Puzzle
ZenoClash - Fighting

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

RPG - I second (Or was it third?) Baldur's Gate 2.
J-RPG - Tales of Symphonia
Adventure Game - Tie between Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island

 

[The_Echo]

Infamous / Prototype - Sandbox / Parkour

You obviously don't know much about parkour. Cole's only parkour-esque ability is to climb, but he does it in such a clumsy way that it is in fact not parkour, which is supposed to be "the art of movement." Alex doesn't do anything near parkour. Sprinting is not a part of parkour, as anyone can do it without trying to free-run. Alex's version of wall-running is also far away from parkour. But I'm really just being nitpicky about it.

Mirror's Edge - Parkour (Probably the only game, or one of few.)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Western RPG

Tekken series - Fighting