Greatest Video Games Ever (By Genre)
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What is your list?
Platformer: Megaman 2 (NES) or Super Mario World (SNES)
Racing: Uniracers (SNES)
Strategy: Civilization 4 (PC)
Role-Playing: Baldur's Gate 2 (PC) or Fallout (PC)
Sports: NBA Jam (SNES) or Tecmo Bowl (NES)
Shooter: Half-Life (PC)
Fighting: Super Smash Brothers Melee (GameCube)
Action/Adventure: Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)There's a pretty large number of other genre and sub-genre, but some of them are so damned specific and non-mainstream I find it pointless to list them, like business simulators (Rollercoaster Tycoon) and music games (Dance Dance Revolution). But anyway!
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Platformer: Super Mario World (SNES)
Racing: Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Strategy: Galactic Civilizations 2 (PC)
Role-playing: NWN, Morrowind, Oblivion, or any Fallout game
Sports: meh.
Shooter: Team Fortress 2
Fighting: SSBM/SSBB (GC/Wii)
Action/Adventure: LoZ: Ocarina of Time -
Platformer: Megaman 4 (playstation)
Racing: Toy story racer (playstation)
Strategy: command and conquer generals (PC)
Role-Playing: Oblivion (PC)
Sports: Fifa 05 (playstation 2)
Shooter: Doom 3 (PC)
Fighting: super smash brothers (Nintendo 64)
Action/Adventure: mystical ninja starring goemon (Nintendo 64) -
Platformer: Sonic the Hedgehog
Racing: Mario Kart(N64)
Turn-Based Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Real-Time Strategy: Starcraft.
Role-Playing: Arcanum. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Sports: umm.. WCW vs NWO World Tour, does that count lolz.
Shooter: Duke Nukem 3D(co-op)
Fighting: Umm.. Some fighting robot game which I forgot the name of, you earned money and could upgrade your robot.
Action/Adventure: Pokemon Blue lolz. Come on I was like 11, no hate. <_<UFO: Enemy Unknown wins whatever catergory its under.
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Platformer: New Super Mario Brothers WII
Racing: Mario Kart Wii
Turn-Based Strategy: Disciples II PC
Real-Time Strategy: Kohan: Ahrimane's Gift PC
Role-Playing: Final Fantasy III
Sports: Ice Hokey NES
Shooter: Counter-Strike PC
Fighting: Bloody Roar Playstation
Action/Adventure: Legend of Zelda III Super Nintento -
Platformer: Duke Nukem (the original 3 part shareware one). Not a genre I get into a lot, but thats the one I played most.
Racing: F-zero X (N64)
Turn Based Strategy: Heroes Might And Magic 3
Real Time Strategy - Age of Empires 2
Role-Playing: Morrowind and Torment kind of top it. IWD as a close third.
RPG combat simutlaor games = Final Fantasy 6(sometimes known as 3 for Super Nintendo)
Sports: Tony Hawks 2
Shooter: Unreal Tournament
Fighting: Not a huge delver in them, but SSB or Soulcalibur
Action/Adventure: Quest For Glory or Link To The Past -
Platformer: Super Mario 3
Racing: Mariokart SNES
Strategy: Romance of the Three Kingdoms 7 - Playstation
Role-Playing: Darklands
Sports: EA Active - Wii
Shooter: Doom
Fighting: Mortal Kombat 2
Action/Adventure: Overlord 2 -
I'm adding a category 'cuz screw y'all.
Platformer: Prince of Persia (SNES)
Racing: Gran Turismo (PSX)
Strategy: Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX)
Role-Playing: Ultima V (C64) or Ultima V: Lazarus (PC)
Sports: Pigskin 621 AD (arcade)
Shooter: Bioshock (XBox 360)
Fighting: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (arcade)
Action/Adventure: GTA Vice City
Horror: Silent Hill 2 (PS2) -
Platformer: Braid
Racing: Mario Kart 64
Strategy: Age of Empires
Role-Playing: Mass Effect 2 (Slightly over KOTOR)
Sports: No interest
Shooter: Bioshock
Fighting: Street Fighter
Action/Adventure: Ocarina of Time -
Platformer: Super Mario Bros. 3
Racing: N/A
Strategy: Civ 4
Role-Playing: Baldur's Gate (followed closely by NES's Dragon Warrior)
Sports: NHL Live '95 (Sega)/Bases Loaded II (NES)
Shooter: Doom II
Fighting: Mortal Kombat
Action/Adventure: Airborne Ranger (C64/128)/Metroid (NES) -
Platformer: Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)
Racing: Grand Turismo (PSOne)
Strategy: Civilization 4 (PC)
Role-Playing: Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Sports: NFL 2k4 (X-Box)
Shooter: Goldeneye 64 (N64)
Fighting: Mortal Kombat 2 (SNES)
Action/Adventure: Mario 64 (N64) -
Platformer: Mario Galaxy
Racing: NFS 2
Strategy: Civilization 2
Role-Playing: BG 2, Morrowind
Sports: Sports games are lame, one plays real sports
Shooter: Portal
Fighting: Tekken 3
Action/Adventure: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Beyond Good and Evil -
Platformer: Final Fantasy 7
Racing: Need for Speed Underground 2
Strategy: Starcraft
Role-Playing: Neverwinter Nights
Sports: none
Shooter: Modern Warfare 2
Fighting: Street Fighter 4
Action/Adventure: GTA -
Platformer: Super Mario World (First game I played, ever.)
Racing: Burnout (I like the explosions and mayhem.)
Strategy: Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri (Fun strategy game with sooo many ways to win it's almost mind bending. Amazing considering how old it is. No other strategy game lets you do this stuff, at least as far as I know.)
Role-Playing: Knights of the Old Republic (First RPG. I like jedi, and I like sith even better.)
Sports: I don't believe in fucking sports genre games. (Why play sports indoors if you can do it outdoors? <_<)
Shooter: BIOSHOCK (Shoot people after catching them on fire and swarming them with arm-hornets? Yes please.)
Fighting: Soulcalibur 3, Gamecube (Scantily Clad Anime Chicks.)
Action/Adventure: Zelda, Ocarina of Time (First game I ever owned, and have never played it's equal.) -
My choices, and why in paranetheses
Platformer: Asteroids (its the best dedicated arcade ever)
Racing: Asteroids (You have to be fast at end of screen)
Strategy: Asteroid (You have to strategize at mid-screen)
Role-Playing: Asteroids (if you RP your madskillz, ppl buy u beer while u play)
Sports: play real sports
Shooter: Asteroids ( uhm, duh)
Fighting: Asteroids (Take that, litle rock)
Action/Adventure: Asteroids (all action, all the time)
Horror: Asteroids (OMG, I died) -
New category - Asteroids.
Asteroids: Asteroids.
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Platfomer: Meh, Crash Bandicoot
Racing: Grand Turismo
Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic III
Role-Playing: Baldur's Gate II/KOTOR2/Mass Effect- Bah, I say Bioware on this one!
Sports: … Tony Hawk?
Shooter: Modern Warfare 2
Fighting: Soul Calibur 4
Action/adventure: Assassin's Creed 2/GTA 4/Overlord 2 -
Anyone elese find it funny, that despite playing it for uh, 5-8 years on average, no one here's said NWN for RPG?
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Platformer: Super Mario World (SNES)
Racing: Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Strategy: Civilization 4 (PC)
Role-Playing: Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Sports: NFL Blitz 2000 (ARC)
Shooter: Deus Ex (PC)
Fighting: Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii)
Action/Adventure: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time -
@Black:
Anyone elese find it funny, that despite playing it for uh, 5-8 years on average, no one here's said NWN for RPG?
Dond did.
But I think most people think NWN sucks for a RPG 'cause the campaign sucks balls.
If there was a Multiplayer/Online/PW category people might consider it =P
