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[LeadenStride]

Although Nier mixes various genres, it doesn't gain anything from it besides variety. The gameplay of the different segments is always very basic and not really that enjoyable.

Thinking a bit more, it does help with the uniqueness of the game, but it's still not the reason why it's glorious.

 

[Serrato]

Guys?

No Deus Ex post?

I am Dissapointed.

 

[-Setsuna-]

Sakura Taisen (SRPG, dating sim, drama), and Shenmue which is a potpourri of many genres.

 

[Shengar]

Space Rangers 2: The Rise of the Dominators
which include RTS segment (bad, but still work), arcade battle, turn-based combat, and various text-based quests where you play as ski resort tycoon, athlete managers, chess-alike player, pizza maker, hunters, and robot pilot. I don't know if any game can top that. Ever.

It actually had parts reminescent of horror games, top-down bullet hell shooters, and even a text adventure segment. It was great.

I'm actually shivered at that of the game. That OST combined with the writing really got the best of me. Truly a masterpiece.

 

[Finaika]

Drason's Dogma.

 

[GoodMorningPluto]

Red Dead Redemption.
Best poker game I played.

 

[Arthea]

Drason's Dogma.

I assume it's Dragon's Dogma. Which genres it mix?

 

[Scrabble]

Escape from Butcher Bay

 

[Arthea]

Guys?

No Deus Ex post?

I am Dissapointed.

It's hard not to be, while not reading, just sayin (><)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=98635682&postcount=12

 

[Uncle Rupee]

Panzer Dragoon Saga.

 

[Evilisk]

Nier

Hell no

I love Touhou and Drakengard yet found Nier's gameplay to be awful

Not saying it's a bad game but it's not a good game because of its pastiche of genres

 

[RaikuHebi]

Portal

Elaborate?

I feel that Half-Life might be a better example.

 

[Violence Jack]

Elaborate?

I feel that Half-Life might be a better example.

FPS and Puzzle game. Half-Life came first, but I thought Portal took it a step further.

 

[inm8num2]

Sacrifice mixes RTS and action elements quite well.

 

[Polioliolio]

I LOVE the genre mix in Brave Fencer Musashi. Platform/RPG/Action Adventure.

Bought it for the FFVIII demo, expecting nothing.

Got one of my favorite Playstation games of all time... Love love love this game.

 

[RooMHM]

FPS and Puzzle game. Half-Life came first, but I thought Portal took it a step further.

Portal isn t a FPS though. HL2 is the best implementation of puzzle sections and free experimentation in a FPS.

 

[nkarafo]

Symphony of the Night.

A Metroid game (which is a genre of its own) mixed with an RPG. The result was one of the best games ever made.

I will also agree with GTA games. So many genres mixed seamlessly into one "do whatever you want" game.

Oh and Portal. How they manage to turn a simple puzzle game into one engrossing adventure with superb story and characters is beyond me

 

[Fragamemnon]

Space Rangers 2, Puzzle and Dragons, and Divinity: Dragon Commander jump out to me as very solid recent efforts.

Battlezone 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Sacrifice and other PC contemporaries from the that golden age of PC gaming kind of define mixed-genre games when the topic is brought up.

 

[TekGryphon]

Long Live the Queen - Anime Novel RPG mixed with a Life (death) Simulator
SangFroid - OTS Combat mixed with Tower Defense

 

[delta25]

Rage, I mean don't get me wrong a lot of it was half-assed, but the final product was IMO an amazing game.

 

[Arthea]

Long Live the Queen - Anime Novel RPG mixed with a Life (death) Simulator
SangFroid - OTS Combat mixed with Tower Defense

I laughed! good call, but man, why would you invent genre like that (><)
It's visual novel based on choices with some sim elements. Very good choice of a game, very successful mixing and a game is loads of fun.

edited: on Portal: in my eyes, it's a pure puzzle game.

 

[ChronoX]

Call of Duty = FPS + RPG.

 

[Messofanego]

Quite a lot of action-adventure and sandbox games do this, and one of my favourites is Beyond Good and Evil. But this might be me misinterpreting whole genres into disparate mechanics.

To have all the systems working well in execution is tough. But BG&E was able to pull it off. The mini-games, photography even during battle, vehicles and races, stealth, and there might be a few more mechanics I'm missing out. There's a transcendent part when you

Spoiler

fly into space

. Yes, I even liked the stealth sections, they were really tense especially combined with not much combat allowed as Jade is mostly a photographer who can only sometimes kick the DomZ's tanks in the back to make them fly off. You definitely didn't want to take them head on.

 

[BadWolf]

Nier

Yup, best example I can think of as well.

 

[retroman]

Does anybody here remember an old Commodore 64/Spectrum/MSX game named Lazy Jones? It's a game about a hotel employee who sneaks into rooms to play video games, most of which are simplified versions of arcade games of that era like Frogger, Breakout and Space Invaders.

While it gets quite repetitive after a while, I was really impressed by it back then. In fact, a Game Maker game I'm creating at the moment is heavily inspired by Lazy Jones.

 

[Arthea]

Yup, best example I can think of as well.

I really don't want to start this argument in this topic, but you people can't be serious. I'm not saying you can't like this game, but no way it can be considered a good game, let alone the best example of genre mixing. It simply doesn't compute!

 

[Violence Jack]

Portal isn t a FPS though. HL2 is the best implementation of puzzle sections and free experimentation in a FPS.

You're right, it's not. However, I feel that the shooting and aiming of your gun was enough for me to make that connection. Also, I never played HL2 so that's also a reason I didn't recognize it.

 

[Earthpainting]

The Guardian Legend. The mix of Zelda-like overworld, rpg elements and shmup was greatly done

I want to shake your hand, kind Sir/Madam. The Guardian Legend is a really cool mix of adventure and sidescrolling shooter. It's so due for a reboot, but I don't know who could do it justice. Who owns the rights to the old Compile games?

 

[SquirrelSoup]

I thought Sleeping Dogs masterfully combined the sandbox city with great brawler melee combat with lots of environmental interactions and over the top slow-mo shooting. The racing elements were tons of fun, too.

I genuinely hope that an even more fleshed out next gen sequel happens. And pack it with more Hong Kong cinema action movie allusions.

This. The addition of arkham style fighting made the game so much more fun to me than any other GTA-style game.

 

[gabbo]

Space Rangers 2 - shmup, turn based space travel, RTS for ground battles, text adventure, light RPG elements, there's the entire resource collection/trading aspect

 

[rocketskates]

Care to elaborate? I see Nier as a monogenre game.

mainly as an action RPG, how it randomly transforms into moments of side view platforming and even top down shooting was unexpected and different yet it worked.

and as others said, the survival horror elements and definitely the text based segments. i especially had fun with those reading parts.

 

[Messofanego]

Oh wait, doesn't Saint's Row 4 qualify for this? I haven't played it, but I heard there's a Streets of Rage type 2D brawler segment in it. A spaceship level. Someone who's played it might give more examples.

 

[Uthred]

Valkyria Chronicles? You've got FPS, SRPG, and RPG elements all bundled into one glorious whole.

 

[Violence Jack]

Oh wait, doesn't Saint's Row 4 qualify for this? I haven't played it, but I heard there's a Streets of Rage type 2D brawler segment in it. A spaceship level. Someone who's played it might give more examples.

You're right.

 

[Village]

bunches of different types of games put together, came out great!

 

[Dark Octave]

Has there ever been a shooter (2D sidescrolling) with puzzle elements before?

 

[wmlk]

Nier's text adventures were pretty moving sometimes.

Hearing this crescendo as it approaches the climax with more instruments being added on was incredible.

 

[Malreyn]

Going old school here.

Adventures of Bayou Billy and V.I.C.E.

both games had action/driving/and Shooting stages

 

[LocalE]

Brutal legend : third person brawler and RTS

Spoiler

:lol

I guess you're joking, but I would say it fits unironically. Pretty great game.

Going old school here.

Adventures of Bayou Billy and V.I.C.E.

both games had action/driving/and Shooting stages

Yeah, but Bayou Billy just sucked. Not glorious. I don't remember V.I.C.E..

 

[Sir Garbageman]

Divinity: Dragon Commander is an RTS, a TBS, an RPG and an action game. And boy is it glorious.

My vote as well. Has its rough patches but I loved the game from start to finish. More people should give it a shot.

 

[SAB CA]

Blaster Master was known for this. And then you had the Wiiware Remake froma few years back.

The light Map-running segments in NES Bionic Commando really stuck out for me at the time. It was like just a small bit of strategy mixed with a sidescrolling shooter.... that suddenly had platforming. And then they threw in Commando, because... SURE, WHY NOT!!

Noone else will care, but I still think of Sega CD's Revengers of Vengence whenever I think of genre mashups. The Overhead RPG with a fighting game as it's main combat, effects by stats.... and then overhead shooting segments, because, once again, SURE, WHY NOT! I still want to see someone make a more informed, more workable balance of this concept (well, they can cut the shooter part.)

I also think Legend of the Mystical Ninja + The rest of the Ganbare Goemon game series count in unique ways. First we have the 3/4ths view town segments & then the sidescrolling action stages, and a LOT of mini-games such as painting, Gradius, 3D mazes, quiz games, etc. And then the later games started to add the Goemon Impact Mecha battles, or specific Mini-games per boss battle.

Sonic Adventure comes to mind outside of Big The Cat's fishing, but yeah I love how they gave the characters separate gameplay instead of them all being the same thing. Made it unique and fresh for me.

Also a game most people probably don't know about, Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter for SEGA Genesis.

The main game is a beat-em-up with very fluid animations that is brutally hard, but when you fight bosses it turns into a fighting game. Not a Capcom style fighting game, but one similar to but not quite to Smash Bros. It's pretty awesome. It's kind of like footsies in fighting games, though or fencing or even Punch Out with the way you fight. You have to learn the patterns and your moves and dodge or block accordingly similar to Punch Out.

Classic Game Room HD - MAZIN SAGA MUTANT FIGHTER review

Haha, that's a good one. I really don't think about this game much, even though I KNEW I had to have it, as I was a fan of "Tranzor Z" when it came out in the US in the 80s.

 

[LeadenStride]

Wait, no one mentioned Catherine yet? Great combination of arcadey puzzle platforming and adventure/dating sim.

 

[Captain Jack]

Fire Emblem Awakening.
It's half Strategy RPG, half dating sim/eugenics simulator.

 

[TekGryphon]

I laughed! good call, but man, why would you invent genre like that (><)
It's visual novel based on choices with some sim elements. Very good choice of a game, very successful mixing and a game is loads of fun.

edited: on Portal: in my eyes, it's a pure puzzle game.

I'm not really familiar with the genre. Sorry if I got it's name wrong

 

[D-e-f-]

Just remembered another one!

Henry Hatsworth! Action platformer and match-x puzzle game that both heavily affect each other!

 

[DavionStriker]

Total War series

Rome Total War blew me away. It was a perfect 4x game that transformed beautifully into a deep RTS. Very neat concept.

 

[Black Mantis]

GTA series.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

The Quest for Glory games were a great mix of RPGs and adventure games. The 4th game even introduced

Spoiler

terribly done

fighter game mechanics into the mix.

 

[Hipster Cthulhu]

Wonderful 101

 

[QuantumZebra]

System Shock 2.

RPG+FPS+Survival Horror.

One of my GOATs... still scary as hell to this day...


"Errrgghhh kill me!! .... I'm sorry!"

So creepy