The genre's epitome.

[crimson5pheonix]

I was thinking about the best game I've played. The list went for a while until I had realized I had split the best game title among the different genres. So I ask you, what game in a particular genre best represents that genre. What game would you pick to represent that particular type?

For JRPG's, I'd pick Tales of Symphonia.

 

[xitel]

FRPG: Oblivion

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

FRPG: Oblivion

Forgive me and my thickness, but what does the F stand for?

EDIT: Fantasy?

 

[Limos]

Hm......

RythmGame/RPG/RTS: Patapon (lulz, it gets it's own category)

I was going to say just rythm game, but it's also a real time strategy. And there are RPG elements in the item collection and army building. So it's a rythmgame/RPG/RTS.

 

[Earthbound]

Large-team FPS: Team Fortress 2.
Small-team FPS: Left 4 Dead.
...
What? I think Valve makes good games.

 

[Limos]

FRPG: Oblivion

Forgive me and my thickness, but what does the F stand for?

EDIT: Fantasy?

I was thinking First Person maybe?

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Best Beat 'em up of all time: God Hand.

Spoiler

 

[hellthins]

For RTSes, all signs point to Starcraft. One hell of a long lasting game.

For 4X, you're dancing somewhere between Civilization, Galactic Civilizations, or Masters of Orion.

 

[vede]

Yes! I had just been thinking about this concept a few moments ago, but decided not to threadify it.

Racing game: Need for Speed
Fighting game: Street Fighter
FPS: Halo (It epitomizes it in the general public eye, the real epitome would be Half-Life)
RPG: Final Fantasy OR Oblivion (Also the general public's epitome, the real one would probably be Baldur's Gate or KOTOR or something.)
RTS: Age of Empires (The real one would probably be StarCraft)
Hack 'n' Slash: Diablo
MMORPG: WoW
Puzzle game: Tetris OR Breakout (Again, the real one would probably be Portal)
Art game: No.

Well, that's my list. If anyone knows a game that would probably fit better, name it and I'll probably not fix it, because I'll certainly forget about this thread by tomorrow and never see it...

 

[stompy]

Large-team FPS: Team Fortress 2.
Small-team FPS: Left 4 Dead.
...
What? I think Valve makes good games.

Story-centric FPS games: Half Life 2.

(I too like VALVE)

 

[Alex_P]

Game that best represents what RPGs are: Oblivion.
Game that best represents what RPGs could be: Torment.

-- Alex

 

[sneakypenguin]

Some series manage to stake a claim as the epitome of their genre. For instance, God Of War for Hack and Slash games, and Gran Turismo for Realistic Racers

Ninja Gaiden black, and forza motorsport have some claim to those titles to.
NGB crazy fast combat balanced to perfection. Forza insane car dynamics and damage modeling (something GT lacked)

 

[black lincon]

For JRPG's, I'd pick Tales of Symphonia.

I second that emotion! however I lean slightly towards the second ToS for the ending was like it was written by M. night Shamalan on crack.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

For rogue-likes, I'd say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
For Sidescrolling Platformers: Super Mario Bros 3.
For Shmups: R-Type.
Story FPS: Bioshock. As much as I love Half-Life 2, I thought rapture was a better setting. I didn't play system shock 2.

 

[Dommyboy]

Sandbox: GTA or Garry's Mod.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Multiplayer RTS: Starcraft/Warcraft III
Singleplayer RTS: Company of Heroes (This game is so good, Relic really knows how to make their RTS games)

Team Multiplayer FPS: Battlefield 1942, Team Fortress 2
DM Multiplayer FPS: Unreal series
Singleplayer FPS: Half-Life 2 (Really, any other choice?)

Action RPG: Diablo series
Traditional RPG: Baldur's Gate II
FPS-RPG: Deus Ex (Fallout 3 could be up there, it needs to demonstrate staying power)

 

[vede]

For rogue-likes, I'd say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
For Sidescrolling Platformers: Super Mario Bros 3.
For Shmups: R-Type.
Story FPS: Bioshock. As much as I love Half-Life 2, I thought rapture was a better setting. I didn't play system shock 2.

Dude, you seriously said that the epitome of roguelikes would be "Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup"?

For shame. The epitome of roguelikes would be... ROGUE. Seriously, it has its freaking name in the genre!

Also, a type in this post led me to a cool word-thing: frEAks. I like it.

 

[crimsondynamics]

Some series manage to stake a claim as the epitome of their genre. For instance, God Of War for Hack and Slash games, and Gran Turismo for Realistic Racers

simracing: Gran Turismo

I'm sorry, but going flat-out at 320km/h and hitting a wall head-on only for the car to bounce back and having you merrily driving away without so much as a scratch on the bumper is not realistic.

 

[Break]

Best Beat 'em up of all time: God Hand.

Spoiler

I love you.

Some series manage to stake a claim as the epitome of their genre. For instance, God Of War for Hack and Slash games, and Gran Turismo for Realistic Racers

God of War? Aha, no. Any game that deems it necessary to institute insta-deaths to create the illusion of difficulty is not the head of its genre.

 

[hellthins]

For rogue-likes, I'd say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
For Sidescrolling Platformers: Super Mario Bros 3.
For Shmups: R-Type.
Story FPS: Bioshock. As much as I love Half-Life 2, I thought rapture was a better setting. I didn't play system shock 2.

Dude, you seriously said that the epitome of roguelikes would be "Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup"?

For shame. The epitome of roguelikes would be... ROGUE. Seriously, it has its freaking name in the genre!

Also, a type in this post led me to a cool word-thing: frEAks. I like it.

Actually, Dungeon Crawl/Stone Soup and Nethack are more the epitomes of the genre today than the original game.