Best Games of All Time

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Ok lets give this a shot also Ill also add driving games to the list and then a couple for fun.

FPS: Perfect Dark
RPG: FFVII
MMORPG: er Guild Wars maybe if that counts
Strategy: Valkyria Chronicles
Horror: Project Zero
Music: K-On HouKago live
Sports: Tiny Toon Wacky Sports
Puzzle: Portal
Simulation: N/A
Action: Okami (but this is a massively broad area here)
Fighter: Holy crap so many er probably still SFII Turbo though
Adventure: The Longest Journey
Driving: Crash Team Racing
Platformer: Super Mario Bros 3
Visual Novel: Katawa Shoujo (only one ive played)
SHMUP: Ikaruga

Best Story: The Longest Journey although Im gonna try out some visual novels so they may beat it soon.

Best Franchise: er Mario? if that counts

Other (Can't define genre): Journey

Its interesting to see what genres people put some of their games in particularly broad ones such as RPG, and Action also what people see as adventure games seems to have changed quite a bit.

 

[MercurySteam]

Third person shooter: Honestly? Spacemarine. And I'm not even a fan of Warhammer 30K.

Clearly, cause its actually Warhammer 40K. Wow, I'm really nitpicky today.

 

[DanielBrown]

FPS: Half-Life 2

TPS: Ratchet & Clank

RPG: Final Fantasy X. Don't hate me, but I fucking love the combat in that game. Nostalgia weighs in a lot as well.

MMORPG: LOTRO

Strategy: Age of Empires II? Not a RTS fan.

Horror: Haven't really played any "true" horror games, so I'll go with Doom 3. Made me shit my pants the most.

Music: Rock Band

Sports: Don't play that type of game.

Puzzle: Same as above.

Simulation: Same as above. Is Sims a simulation game?

Action: God of War II

Fighter: Not a huge fan here either, so I'll go with Soul Calibur IV. Only one I've really played a lot.

Adventure: Uncharted 2

Best Story: Batman: Arkham Asylum, perhaps. Tough one.

Best Franchise: God of War

Other (Can't define genre): Borderlands!

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

FPS: Half-Life 2.

RPG: Toss-up between Persona 3 and 4.

Horror: Silent Hill 2.

Music: Music Catch 2.

Sports: Tony Hawk's Underground/ Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.

Puzzle: Portal.

Simulation: Fortress Craft: The Boredom Simulator.

Action: Fallout 3.

Fighter: Soul Calibur II/ Tekken 3.

Adventure: Mass Effect/ Minecraft.

Best Story: I am yet to play all the way through a game that has "wowed" me with its story.

Best Franchise: The Elder Scrolls.

Other (Can't define genre): From the standpoint of sheer foolish fun: Facade, but from the standpoint of fun, challenge and story: Trilby: The Art of Theft or any game in the Thief series.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I feel like alot of these categories are a bit to broad but genres are hard to define so I'll pitch in.

FPS: Deus Ex

RPG: FFIX

MMORPG: WOW (resentingly)

Strategyisgaea 2

Horror: Silent Hill 2

Music: Audio Surf

Sports: Wii sports

Puzzle: Portal or Tetris

Simulation: Harvest Moon

Action: Prototype

Fighter: Tekken 3

Adventure: Fallout 3

Best Story: Bastion

Best Franchise: Tales Series

Other (Can't define genre): Pokemon

 

[superdelux]

FPS: Half-Life

RPG: Fallout 3 and New Vegas

MMORPG: Dont play them

Strategy: Dont play them

Horror: Arma 2 Day Z mod

Music: Dont play them

Sports: Dont play them

Puzzle: Portal 1 and 2

Simulation: Farming simulation 2012

Action: Grand Theft Auto

Fighter: Super Smash Brothers

Adventure: Fallout

Best Story: Assassins Creed(any part not featuring desmond) and Half Life

Best Franchise: Half life, Assassins creed

 

[Guffe]

I'll answer your puny list but I'll gove you a small warning here.
I haven't played too much and I'll base this on how much fun I've had with said game since I know nothing about code or how I should otherwise define "best"
So here goes nothing

FPS: Counter Strike 1.6

RPG: Pokemon Red

MMORPG: Lord of the Rings Online

Strategy: Warcraft III (both Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne)

Horror: Alien vs Predator (The human section was scary enough for me to be horror)

Music: Rock Band

Sports: Fifa 11

Puzzle: Tetris

Simulation: PokemonLeafGreen

Action: Solitaire

Fighter: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Adventure: Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

Best Story: Tales of Symphonia (First Game)

Best Franchise: Legend of Zelda

Other (Can't define genre): ChessOnline

 

[Yokillernick]

GENRES NOT LISTED FOR SOME ODD REASON:

Racing: Wipeout series or Mario Kart - I meant as part of Sports

Shmup: Ikaruga - Shmup didn't cross my mind

Third person shooter: Honestly? Spacemarine. And I'm not even a fan of Warhammer 30K.- Again forgot about it could put it in action I guess

Stealth: Either Thief (series) or Splinter Cell (series)

Action RTS: Dota 2 - maybe a tad too "new", but I'm loving the hell out of it.- I dropped RTS under all Strategy

Sandbox: Kinda hard to pick between Garry's Mod and Terraria, but I think I'll have to go with Gmod. Game's a thousand ways amazing.

- Again didn't seem like a genre too me

 

[Shiftygiant]

FPS: Half Life 2

RPG: Fallout

MMORPG: Not a fan. D:

Strategy: Starcraft

Horror: Silent Hill 2.

Music: Guitar Hero... oh what the hell, there all the same.

Sports: Wii sports?

Puzzle: Portal

Simulation: Grand Theft Auto 4/Sim city

Action: Grand Theft Auto 4

Fighter: Street fighter

Adventure: Metal Gear solid Snake Eater

Best Story: Grand Theft Auto 4

Best Franchise: Grand Theft Auto

Best Hero: Niko Bellic! Or... Gordon Freeman.

Other (Can't define genre): Er... LA Noire?

 

[Incignito]

FPSoes Portal count?

RPG:Gothic

MMORPG:Shadowbane was aweseome

Strategy:Civilization IV with expansion packs

Horror:Amnesia

Music:Guitar Hero World Tour

Sportson`t play `em

Racing:Live for speed

Puzzle:Braid

Simulation:Mount and blade warband( You can say it`s a knight simulator)

Action:Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Fighter:Tekken 2

Adventure:Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

TPS:Star Wars Battlefront 2

Best Story:Monkey Island series

Best Franchise:Gothic( up until Arcania)

Other (Can't define genre):I don`t know, Minebomber?

 

[alfawx]

FPS: Condemned: Criminal Origins. It's in first person and there's shooting involved so it counts.

RPG: Mass Effect.

MMORPG: Dungeons and Dragons Online...?

Strategy: Starcraft I guess.

Horror: I have to decide on one? I...
Music: Gurl no.

Sports: FIFA, I guess. They're really the only ones I've ever played.

Racing: The Pod Racer racing game for the N64.

Puzzle: Penumbra, if it counts.

Simulation: What even is that.

Action: Resident Evil 5.

Fighter: Um... Soul Calibur 2 I guess.

Adventure: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Best Story:

Best Franchise: Legend of Zelda, since it's pretty much the only one I know and like that hasn't managed to be desecrated yet. Well, besides Skyward Sword anyway.

Best Hero: Heather Mason.

Spoiler: Was there really the option of choosing anyone else?

 

[TerribleAssassin]

FPS: Half-Life 2

RPG: Mass Effect 2/Skyrim.

MMORPG: Not one for muhmorpugahs so I'll pass.

Strategy: Not sure if it properly counts but Football Manager 2012

Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Music: Audiosurf

Sports: torn between FIFA 04, WWF No Mercy and WWE '06

Racing: Pure.

Puzzle: Portal, both.

Simulation: Again, not sure if it properly counts but Football Manager.

Action: Batman: Arkham City

Fighter: Don't really play fighting games.

Adventure: LoZ: Ocarina of Time

TPS: Mass Effect 2

Best Story: Mass Effect series

Best Franchise: Legend of Zelda, Mass Effect, Football Manager, WWE (Smackdown, SvR and WWE), Portal, Half-Life, Batman: Arkham and Counter-Strike.

Other (Can't define genre): Minecraft, Deus Ex

 

[Davidm4]

RPG: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (PS2)

Strategy: Sacrifice / Populous: The Beginning (Simplistic Strategy)

Horror: Resident Evil 4

Sports: Pitball (PS1)

Racing: Diddy Kong Racing (N64) / San Francisco Rush 2049

Puzzle: Braid

Action: Darksiders

Fighter: Power Stone 2 / Guardian Heroes / Bloody Roar 3

Adventure: Shadow of the Colossus

Best Story: Final Fantasy IX

Best Franchise: Portal

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

This list is subject to change from second to second throughout the days, weeks and months.

FPS: Multiplayer: CounterStrike 1.6 (CZ was good too; Source didn't feel quite right), Call of Duty 2.
FPS: Singleplayer: Borderlands, Crysis Warhead (haven't actually played the original xD)

RPG: Star Ocean: The Second Story, Anachronox

ARPG: Titan Quest: Immortal Throne (+ Fan patch)

MMORPG: World of Warcraft

Strategy: Final Fantasy Tactics/Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together (If they combined these games, I could die happy. They both have large flaws the other addresses well, but they each have their own unique problems)

Horror: Don't really like this genre. Love horror movies... not games. Didn't like Amnesia, Dead Space or Resident Evil 4. If RE4 had ended just before the game continues on into the castle, I would have been happy.

Music: Rock Band (because I don't want to work, I just want to bang on me drum all day)

Sports: Skate 3, NBA Street

Racing: Mario Kart 64, Blur, Smugglers' Run

Puzzle: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, Portal

Arcade: Metal Slug, Cruisin' USA

Simulation: Rollercoaster Tycoon

Stealth: Hitman: Blood Money

Action: GTA: San Andreas

Fighter: Super Smash Brothers (N64), S. Street Fighter 4 AE

Adventure: Phoenix Wright games, L.A. Noire

TPS: Red Faction: Guerrilla, Jet Force Gemini

Best Story: Most videogame stories are lousy. I can't think of anything.

Best Franchise: No idea.

2D Platformer: Lode Runner: The Legend Returns, Super Mario World

3D Platformer: Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Generations

Other (Can't define genre): League of Legends (MOBA/DotA-like)

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

What the hell, I'll fill one of these out.

[sub]Bored at work, anyway.[/sub]

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FPS: Timesplitters: Future Perfect

RPG: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

MMORPG: World of Warcraft

Strategy: Command and Conquer series

Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Music: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Sports: NFL Blitz series

Racing: Mario Kart series

Puzzle: Portal (as well as its sequel)

Simulation: The Sims

Action: Terraria (think about it)

Fighter: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Adventure: Banjo Kazooie (as well as Tooie)

TPS: Mass Effect trilogy

Best Story: Halo trilogy (yes, I said trilogy)

Best Franchise: Spyro the Dragon (purely due to how long it has lasted; I'm impressed)

Other (Can't define genre): The Binding of Isaac (I have no idea what genre this game falls under, but I'll be damned if it isn't awesome)
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[Vigormortis]

Third person shooter: Honestly? Spacemarine. And I'm not even a fan of Warhammer 30K.

Clearly, cause its actually Warhammer 40K. Wow, I'm really nitpicky today.

Huh. I thought something looked off with my original post. Probably didn't help I was half asleep while typing it.

But whatevs. Consider the post "fixed".

 

[Vigormortis]

GENRES NOT LISTED FOR SOME ODD REASON:

Racing: Wipeout series or Mario Kart - I meant as part of Sports

Shmup: Ikaruga - Shmup didn't cross my mind

Third person shooter: Honestly? Spacemarine. And I'm not even a fan of Warhammer 40K.- Again forgot about it could put it in action I guess

Stealth: Either Thief (series) or Splinter Cell (series)

Action RTS: Dota 2 - maybe a tad too "new", but I'm loving the hell out of it.- I dropped RTS under all Strategy

Sandbox: Kinda hard to pick between Garry's Mod and Terraria, but I think I'll have to go with Gmod. Game's a thousand ways amazing.

- Again didn't seem like a genre too me

Well, it may not be the most popular or well-known of genres, but there are a hell of a lot of shoot-em-ups out there. The genre is practically as old as gaming itself. Though they are more commonly called "bullet hell" games now-a-days.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

FPS: Half-Life 2

RPG: Mother 3

MMORPG: no preference

Strategy: Starcraft

Horror: System Shock 2

Music: Audiosurf (yes, seriously)

Sports: no preference

Racing: Burnout Paradise

Puzzle: Tetris DS

Simulation: Does Trauma Center: Under the Knife count?

Action: Psychonauts (I think it counts anyway)

Fighter: Soul Calibur II

Adventure: Minecraft (again, I say it counts)

TPS: Resident Evil 4

Best Story: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

Best Franchise: Half-Life series

Other (Can't define genre): Katawa Shoujo

 

[Luca72]

FPS: Half Life 2

Multiplayer FPS: Team Fortress 2

RPG: Pokemon Silver, Morrowind's up there too

RTS: Command and Conquer 3

MMORPG: World of warcraft (my first and pray-to-God last)

Strategy: Final Fantasy Tactics

Horror: Silent Hill 1

Music: Audiosurf

Sports: Tony Hawks Pro Skater

Racing: Mirror's Edge (time trials)

Puzzle: Lumines

Simulation: Freespace 2

Action: Devil May Cry 3

Fighter: Guilty Gear X2

Adventure: Shadow of the Colossus

TPS: (third person shooter?) Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Jet Force Gemini

Best Story: Deus Ex, Final Fantasy X (inconsistent logic and all)

Best Franchise: Half Life

Other (Can't define genre): Katamari Damacy

2D Platform: Contra 3

3D Platform: Mario 64

 

[Exiton Baraxis]

FPS: Half Life 2
RPG: Neverwinter Nights (because of user generated content)
MMORPG: World of Warcraft
Strategy: Starcraft: Brood Wars
Horror: Left 4 Dead
Music: DDR
Sports: NHL 98
Racing: Stunts
Puzzle: Portal
Simulation: Mechwarrior 2: Mercinaries (vehicle simulation game kinda)
Action: Super Metroid
Fighter: Mortal Kombat 2
Adventure: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
TPS: Dark forces 2: Jedi Knight (3rd person when using lightsaber which was 99% of the time)
Best Story: Mass Effect Trilogy
Best Franchise: Warcraft
Other (Can't define genre): League of Legends (genera is MOBA)