Best Games of All Time

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

FPS: Deus Ex(Don't know whether to put this in RPG...Cause it is a Hybrid)

RPG: Neverwinter Nights(I still play this game)

MMORPG: N/A I don't play any

Strategy: Civilization Series

Horror: Silent Hill Series

Music: Really..?

Sports: Really? go outside..

Puzzle: Portal 1 and 2

Simulation: The Sims

Action: The Uncharted Series

Fighter: Street Fighter

Adventure: Monkey Island

Best Story: The Twilight Series*Joke* The Witcher 2

Best Franchise: Fallout Series...cause they are pretty dam good..

 

[charge52]

FPS: System Shock 2

RPG: Baldurs Gate 2

MMORPG: Everquest 2

Strategy: Have played none

Horror: Amnesia Dark Descent

Music: Rock Band

Sports: NBA Jam, Original

Puzzle: Portal

Simulation: Sims 2

Action: Devil May Cry 3

Fighter: Blaz Blue Continuum Shift 2

Adventure: Loom

Best Story: Fallout 2

Best Franchise: Ys

Other (Stealth): Thief 2

 

[Arina Love]

FPS: I don't play FPS but from what i played i would say Battlefield 3

RPG: Disgaea 4

MMORPG: Lineage 2 (before Goddess of Destruction)

Strategy: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

Horror: don't pay them.

Music: don't pay them.

Sports: don't pay them.

Puzzle: Catherine

Simulation: Gran Turismo 5

Action: Bayonetta

Fighter: don't play them.

Adventure: Uncharted 2

Best Story: Persona 4

Best Franchise: Atelier games (GUST).

Other (Can't define genre): Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in NA)

 

[Squilookle]

FPS: Goldeneye, though Perfect Dark's Multiplayer gives it a good run.
RPG: Mount and Blade: Warband
MMORPG: There are no good MMORPGS
Strategy: Company of Heroes
Sandbox: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Music: I dunno- Rez?
Sports: Sega Soccer Slam... I guess.
Puzzle: Myst
Simulation: TIE Fighter
Action: Crimson Skies
Driving: Driver
Adventure: Prince of Persia
Best Story: Mafia: City of Lost Heaven
Best Franchise: Can't think of any that have stayed consistent.

See what I did there?

 

[Mester Fuzzles]

This should be easy.

FPS: Halo 3

RPG: Jade Empire

MMORPG: Champions Online

Strategy: Shogun 2: Total war

Horror: Silent hill

Music: Well...I don't exactly play these.

Sports: Or these.

Puzzle: Myst

Simulation: Sims

Action: Devil May Cry 4

Fighter: Mortal Kombat 9

Adventure: Assassins Creed Revelations

Best Story: Again, Jade Empire

Best Franchise: Mass Effect

Other (Can't define genre): Dragons Dogma because I used up the other spots.

 

[Bobic]

FPS: Unreal Tournament: 2004

RPG: Dragon Age: Origins

MMORPG: Haven't really played any, so the reward goes to Evony, for being the biggest cock tease ever, hilarious.

Strategy:
RTS: Supreme Commander 1.
TBS: Heroes of Might and Magic 5:Tribes of the east.

Horror: Silent Hill 2

Music: I'm looking really fly and dancing tonight, I'm Solo, I'm Han Solo Solo (lyrics may not be correct). Or that dancing Han Solo game, as it's commonly known.

Sports: NFL Blitz (2000?)

Puzzle: Portal 2

Simulation: Forklift Simulator 2009

Action: God of War

Fighter: Powerstone 2

Adventure: Sonic Adventure 2

Best Story: Planescape Torment.

Best Franchise: I'm gonna give this to Saints row for giving me awesome escalating ridiculousness (and because I didn't put Saint's Row: The Third anywhere else on this list, and it deserves a place)

Other (Can't define genre): Well, you didn't include racing games (they may count as Sports in your list) so I'll tentatively put Blur, because it rules and is criminally underrated. If that doesn't count I'll say Heavy Rain, for being pretty ambitious and cool (despite a little stupidity)

 

[tabriaswolfe]

While I haven't played every game ever created in all of time, I'll just go with what I know.
FPS: Borderlands (All DLC included)
RPG: Chrono Trigger
MMORPG: The Secret World (because I dislike WoW)
Strategy: Civ V
Horror: Penumbra/Amnesia
Music: Don't play them (AudioSurf?)
Sports: No, just no.
Puzzle: Portal 2
Simulation: Sim City series
Action: InFamous
Fighter: Soul Calibur V
Adventure: Okami
Best Story: Final Fantasy VI
Best Franchise: Fallout (War, war never changes...)
Other (Can't define genre): Dragon's Dogma (I guess it's a sandbox rpg/action/thing)

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm not going to be able to decide. ;_;

FPS: Mirror's Edge, no question.

RPG: Daggerfall or Titan Quest Gold

MMORPG: I don't play MMORPGs, so I choose "Audtion", an MMOD(ancing)G.

Strategy: Alpha Centauri

Horror: Amnesia (can't finish it) or Silent Hill 3 (<3 Heather)

Music: Look, I really liked DJ Hero, OK? It's tied with classic Rock Band.

Sports: I dunno lol

Puzzle: Portal 2, or The Incredible Machine if we're talking straight puzzles with no genre mixing.

Simulation: Pharaoh is obscene amounts of fun.

Action: The Binding Of Issac, or Rayman 2. Or Tomb Raider 3.

Fighter: Street Fighter IV. Ask me again when I've played any other fighters.

Adventure: Day of the Tentacle, duuuuh! The only competition is Riven. Although there's a soft spot in my heart for Uru and Myst V.

Best Story: The whole Myst series, retcons and all. But then again, Uplink. Or DEFCON, if I'm feeling poetic and depressed. Civilization can make some of the best ones, if I feel like screwing with history. Or Alpha Centauri, which was amazing for what it is. Augh...

Best Franchise: ...Myst. Because Myst. They haven't put out a bad Myst game, they have a failed/successful/something online adventure game under their belts, and they even wrote supplementary books for it (which I'm waiting for in the mail right now).

Other (Can't define genre): I don't really know WHAT Dwarf Fortress is, all I know is that it's mind-blowing.

 

[Valkaris]

FPS: CoD 2

RPG: Mass Effect 2

MMORPG: Guild Wars 2

Strategy: Total War: Shogun 2

Horror: Silent Hill 2

Music: Assassins Creed 2

Sports: never played

Puzzle: Portal 2

Simulation: never played

Action: Uncharted 2

Fighter: never played

Adventure: Assassins Creed 2

Best Story: Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

Best Franchise: Total War

I guess I like sequels

 

[aksel]

FPS: Half-Life 2

RPG: TES - Morrowind

MMORPG: Haven't played any

Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic III

Horror: Amnesia: The Dark Decent

Music: Parappa The Rapper (fuck yeah)

Sports: Haven't played enough, my opinion is invalid.

Puzzle: Tetris, bitches.

Simulation: Black & White 2

Action: A bit broad of a genre, don't you think?

Fighter: Tekken 2

Adventure: LoZ: Majora's Mask

Best Story: Braid, just because of the stars.

Best Franchise: Half-Life

Other (Can't define genre): Pong?

 

[gideonkain]

FPS: Quake I

RPG: Final Fantasy IV

MMORPG: Wow, I guess...that's kinda sad.

Strategy: Starcraft 2

Horror: Amnesia

Music: Elite Beat Agents (DS)

Sports: Kirby's Dream COurse

Puzzle: Bust-a-move

Simulation: MechWarrior

Action: Max Payne 3? Too new, probably biased

Fighter: Super Smash Bros

Adventure: King's Quest 6

Best Story: Half-life 2

Best Franchise: Mario

Other (Can't define genre): The Path, Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit)

 

[GonzoGamer]

I'll play.

FPS: Unreal Tournament (but only if you throw in all the mods that change the voices to George Carlin and Pulp Fiction quotes)

RPG: Phantasy Star 2

Strategy: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Horror: Chiller

Music: Rock Band

Sports: Burnout Revenge

Puzzle: Portal

Simulation: Sims 2

Action: GTA San Andreas

Fighter: SSF2

Adventure: Fallout 3

Best Story: Soul Blazer

Best Franchise: GTA (even 4, which I didn't like as much as the others, was still pretty good)

Other (Can't define genre): Katamari

 

[MercurySteam]

FPS: Vanquish

Hate to be a buzzkill but Vanquish is a third person shooter.

 

[regalphantom]

Pure FPS: Halo Reach

Hybrid FPS: Deus Ex (Series - FPS/RPG)

RPG: Tales (Series)

MMORPG: Guild Wars

Strategy: Starcraft (Series)

Horror: Pass (Not a fan of the genre)

Music: Rocksmith (look it up)

Sports: Wii Sports (Series)

Puzzle: Tetris

Simulation: Sim City 4

Action: Too broad/poor category choice

Fighter: Super Smash Brothers (Melee, then original, then Brawl), followed by the Soul (Calibur) series.

Adventure: Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Your missing 2 key categories

2D Platform: Donkey Kong Country 3

3D Platform: Tie between Banjo-Tooie and Donkey Kong 64

Best Story: Portal 2

Best Franchise: Tie between Legend of Zelda, Portal, Deus Ex, and the Tales Series

Other (Can't define genre): Pass

 

[scorptatious]

FPS: Team Fortress 2

RPG: Final Fantasy IX

Strategy: Valkyria Chronicles

Horror: Never really played a horror game to be honest, so I can't choose

Music: Guitar Hero

Sports: Wii Sports. I never really played very many sports games...

Puzzle: It's either Tetris or Portal series for me.

Simulation: err...

Action: Hoo boy, this is a toughie. Bayonetta I guess.

Fighter: Super Smash Bros. Melee

Adventure: Shadow of the Colossus

Best Story: Again, this is a toughie. I guess it's sort of a three way tie between MGS3, Final Fantasy IX, and Shadow of the Colossus. I probably would list Mass Effect, but, well you know.

Best Franchise: Oh come on! You can't make me decide that!

 

[Freaky Lou]

I entered this thread, saw Mass Effect and Skyrim put down for "greatest RPG of all time", and violently convulsed.

Disclaimer: My bunch includes games I haven't played that I think deserve the title just because of their influence on their genre.

FPS: Half-Life. Doesn't really wow anyone today because everything it pioneered has been copied to the point where it's become cliche, but this is where all those things started and originally worked so well. Little things like having you get items from supply crates rather than having them lie around randomly on the floor (as seen in prior shooters), and telling its story completely without cutscenes. For multiplayer shooters, Team Fortress 2.

RPG: Planescape: Torment. There isn't a better exemplification of what an RPG should be. Fantastic story, layered characters, engrossing world, and REAL choice and consequences---not those little one-of-three-moods things, and not "Do you want to accept this quest now or do you want to accept it later?" Along with the original Fallout, this game represents the pinnacle of the undiluted genre.

MMORPG: Runescape, because it's the only one that doesn't feel designed to leech your life and money away.

Strategy: Fire Emblem, because it's the only one I've ever really gotten into.

Horror: Probably Silent Hill 2, for reasons people have explained countless times.

Music: Rock Band.

Sports: WWE Day Of Reckoning 2.

Puzzle: My favourite is Portal.

Simulation: Skyrim, world's greatest hiking sim.

Action: Viewtiful Joe by miles and miles.

Fighter: Mortal Kombat (2009).

Adventure: Beneath A Steel Sky.

Best Story: Planescape: Torment

Best Franchise: Fallout, because 1, 2, and New Vegas are phenomenal RPGs and some of the best games ever made; Tactics is great for what it is, FO3 at least has pockets of atmosphere and some cool landscapes to explore, and Brotherhood Of Steel doesn't exist.

Other (Can't define genre): System Shock 2. It's definitely an RPG, definitely survival horror, and definitely an FPS, to the point where it really is something else altogether.

Also, did you leave out Platformer on purpose, OP? In either case:

Platformer: Rayman Origins

 

[bluepotatosack]

FPS: Unreal Torunament

RPG: Planescape: Torment, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines... basically anything with a colon in the title

MMORPG: City of Heroes

Strategy: Civilization IV

Horror: Amenesia

Music:

Spoiler: Gitaroo Man

Sports: N/A

Puzzle: Portal

Simulation: Tie Fighter

Action: I'm thinking of too many titles that fit this category

Fighter: Soul Calibur 2

Adventure: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Best Story: Full Throttle

Best Franchise: Monkey Island

Other (Can't define genre): Psychonauts

 

[Kyrian007]

I'll join in, this looks fun.

FPS: Perfect Dark (N64)

RPG: Chrono Trigger

MMORPG: Neverwinter Nights (AOL early 90's)

Strategy: Masters of Orion 2

Horror: Silent Hill 2

Music: Chrono Cross (Best in game music, don't play rhythm games)

Sports: EA Sports NHL... whichever

Puzzle: Portal

Simulation: Tie Fighter

Action: GTA San Andreas

Fighter: Capcom vs Marvel

Adventure: Legend of Zelda, OoT

Best Story: Silent Hill 2

Best Franchise: Metal Gear

Other (Can't define genre): Shadows of the Colossus (the All Boss Fights Genre?)

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

FPS: Borderlands

RPG: Diablo 2

MMORPG: Guild Wars

Strategy: I don't play them, sooooo

Horror: Silent Hill 3

Music: Space Channel 5

Sports: Blitz 2000

Puzzle: Catherine

Simulation: Sim City 2000

Action: Bayonetta

Fighter: Mortal Kombat (The latest one)

Adventure: Assassin's Creed 2

Best Story: Silent Hill 2

Best Franchise: Pokemon