Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?

B-Cell

Hello friends,

Recently i made top 25 games ever list. but in this thread we list our best games by categorizing in a genre. so friends, what are your top 3 games in each genre?

heres mines

Best FPS

STALKER SoC
Half life (series)
Doom (series)

Best TPS

Max Payne 1
Mafia 1
Max Payne 3

Best Stealth

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Hitman Blood Money

Best Hybrids/Immersive sims

Deus Ex 1
System Shock 2
Deus Ex Human Revolution

Best Survival Horror

FEAR
System shock 2
Alan wake

Best Open world

Far cry 2
Just cause 2
Red Dead Redemption 1 (didnot played 2 yet)

Best Action Adventure

Batman Arkham Asylum
Shenmue 1/2
Assassins creed 4 black flag (the only truly great AC game by accident)

Best RPG

None (although 2 RPG i ever liked are games i added in hybrids)

Best Fighting

Street Fighter II

Best Strategy

Company of Heroes
Commandos 1
CnC Generals

So my friends, what are the top 3 games you played in each genre? lets discuss

Sheria

First Person Shooter

Quake II
Half-Life 2
Blood

Third Person Shooter

Vanquish
Max Payne
Resident Evil 5

Stealth

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Hitman: Blood Money
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Survival Horror

Silent Hill 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Silent Hill

JRPG

Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy IX

Wrpg

Baldurs Gate II
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Planescape: Torment

Sandbox

GTA: Vice City
Mafia II
Just Cause II

Adventure

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
The Dig
Star Trek: A Final Unity

** Action Adventure**

Shenmue
Little Big Adventure
Deadly Premonition

Strategy

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Dune II

Rhythm

Space Channel 5
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA
Gitaroo Man

Racing

Diddy Kong Racing
Wipeout 2097
Mario Kart 64

Platformer

Mario 64
Banjo Kazooie
Super Mario Sunshine

Puzzle

Tetris
Archer Macleans Mercury
The Witness

Fighting

Soul Calibur
Soul Blade
Tekken 2

Shoot'em Up

Akai Katana
Ikuruga
Deathsmiles

Beat'em Up

Streets of Rage 2
Turtles in Time
Golden Axe

Light Gun

House of the Dead 2
Time Crisis
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles

Sports

Speed Ball 2
Kick Off 2
Sensible Soccer

B-Cell

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

Sandbox
Mafia II

You really prefer this over a Masterpiece that was original game? i mean i liked Mafia 2. certainly better than any GTA. but im surprised you put it over original game.

Shoulderguy

Most of my favorite games could fall into multiple genres so I tried my best to separate them.

First Person Shooter

Quake (1996)
Doom (2016)
GoldenEye 007

Third Person Shooter

Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption
Uncharted 4: Thief's End

RPG

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Fallout 3
Mass Effect 2

Action Adventure

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Adventure

The Walking Dead (2012)
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
What Remains of Edith Finch

Strategy

Fire Emblem: Awakening
Rome: Total War
XCOM 2

Sports

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
NFL Blitz 2000
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Platformer

Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 2

Puzzle

Portal
Portal 2
Tetris

Sheria

@b-cell said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

Sandbox
Mafia II

You really prefer this over a Masterpiece that was original game? i mean i liked Mafia 2. certainly better than any GTA. but im surprised you put it over original game.

The original is definitely the better game but, I don't know, I guess I just felt the second fit the genre I listed it under more than the first did.

B-Cell

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@b-cell said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

Sandbox
Mafia II

You really prefer this over a Masterpiece that was original game? i mean i liked Mafia 2. certainly better than any GTA. but im surprised you put it over original game.

The original is definitely the better game but, I don't know, I guess I just felt the second fit the genre I listed it under more than the first did.

they made it more open. and thats the reason series get worse and worse by each installment. atleast it was better than mafia 3. which is another open world GTA clone.

Sheria

@b-cell said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@b-cell said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

Sandbox
Mafia II

You really prefer this over a Masterpiece that was original game? i mean i liked Mafia 2. certainly better than any GTA. but im surprised you put it over original game.

The original is definitely the better game but, I don't know, I guess I just felt the second fit the genre I listed it under more than the first did.

they made it more open. and thats the reason series get worse and worse by each installment. atleast it was better than mafia 3. which is another open world GTA clone.

I agree. Point was, I was choosing a Sandbox game, something i don't consider Mafia 1 to be. Even Mafia II I question.

Chocobop

This is a much easier thread for me, since I won't have to combine my separate personal rankings list into a unified list.

FPS / Shooters in general

Perfect Dark
Resident Evil 4
Mirror's Edge

[If I'm just ranking pure FPSes, then Turok 2: Seeds of Evil + Dark Forces would 2 & 3.]

RPGs (regular)

Final Fantasy 6
Etrian Odyssey 2
Legend of Grimrock

Action RPGs

Soul Blazer
Dark Souls
Final Fantasy Adventure

Shmups

Imperishable Night
Emodiment of Scarlet Devil
Perfect Cherry Blossom

2D Sidescrollers (classic/stage based)

Ninja Five-O
Actraiser
Super Castlevania IV

2D Sidescrollers (metroidvania/continuous)

Super Metroid
Metroid: Zero Mission
AM2R

Strategy

Shining Force
Gemfire
Warcraft III

Puzzle & Point and Click Adventure

Shadowgate (2014)
Adventures of Lolo (Lolo 3 if I had to pick one entry)
The Witness

Some other categories smooshed together

F-Zero GX
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

DIPSET

I don't even know how to break these up into genres because of the overlap. Is Hitman a stealth game or a puzzle game or a sandbox? Is Metal Gear Solid a stealth game or action adventure? Is Uncharted 4 a third person shooter or action adventure?

TPS

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The Last of Us

FPS

Half Life 2
Titanfall 2
Resistance: Fall of Man

STEALTH

Hitman: Bloodmoney
Metal Gear Solid
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

MULTIPLAYER

SOCOM II
Halo 3
Battlefield: Bad Company II

HM: Team Fortress 2, The Last of Us, Rocket League, Broforce

CRPG

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines
The Witcher 1

HM: The Witcher 2 & 3, Mass Effect 1, Divinity Original Sin II

JRPG

Final Fantasy VII
Persona 5
Persona 4: Golden

ACTION

Bloodborne/Souls series
God of War series
Nier Automata

HM: Vanquish, Devil May Cry

BRAWLER

Yakuza 0
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Dead Rising 2

HM: Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain, Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Smackdown vs Raw 2006, WWF No Mercy, Legends of Wrestling II

PUZZLE

Portal
Portal 2
Tetris

ARCADE SPORTS

Tony Hawk series (cannot pick one)
Wipeout Omega Collection
Need for Speed Underground 2

HM: SSX Tricky, NBA Street V3, NBA Jam, NHL 94

SPORT SIM

Skate 2 (loosely a sim but it tries)
Fight Night Champion
GT Sport

HM: NHL 09, Madden 2005, NBA Live 2005, FIFA 2002, F1 2001

HORROR

Resident Evil 2
INSIDE
Alien Isolation

HM: Resident Evil remake, 4, 5, 7, Silent Hill 1 & 2, Doki Doki Literature Club

I give up... I feel like I can't continue breaking my favourite games into genres. They are all basically hybrids between a few. I basically love a million and one different sports games but its impossible to categorize them because some are realistic and some are half realistic and some are super unrealistic but they are all sports.

What even is a racing game? Is SSX a racing game, a sports game? Should I list Wipeout and Gran Turismo in the same breath?

Regardless, making a list helped me collect my thoughts cause I can never even remember what my favourites are anyways.

B-Cell

@dipset said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:

I feel like I can't continue breaking my favourite games into genres. They are all basically hybrids between a few.

That was what i was also thinking because i dont know if i can put Deus Ex and System shock in FPS or RPG because they are both. so i put them in hybrid section.

bam541

I also had trouble dividing games to genres. I categorized them based on what I think to be their most dominant and essential aspects. I also included my definitions of each genres. With that in mind, here's my list...

RPGs (all subgenres in one)
Persona 5
Dragon Age Origins
Mass Effect

Action Adventure (the most genre ambiguous are found here)
Uncharted 4
The Last of Us
Gravity Rush 2

Third Person Shooters (heavy on shooting, with minimal mechanics from other genres)
Max Payne 3
Vanquish
Binary Domain

First Person Shooters (Same as above but first person)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Titanfall 2

Fighting (Street Fighter II clones)
Tekken 6
Injustice 2
Samurai Shodown (2019)

Racing (anything involving mainly race tracks, offshoot of sports)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012)
Shift 2: Unleashed
Gran Turismo Sport

Visual Novels (a bunch of text and still pictures with interactive parts, like dialogue options)
G-senjou no Maou
Sharin no Kuni: The Girl Among the Sunflowers
Katawa Shoujo

Stealth (hard to differentiate with action adventure but I want to keep this separate anyway)
Dishonored 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Splinter Cell

Action (I'm thinking of hack-and-slash games here)
God of War (2018)
Devil May Cry V
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Adventure (action-adventure games without a clear combat system)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Life is Strange
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Flight action (basically just Ace Combat games lol)
Ace Combat 7
Ace Combat 5
Ace Combat X

Strategy (games where you only can command things to do your bidding)
Rise of Nations
World in Conflict
Tom Clancy's Endwar

Puzzle (need to solve things to progress)
The Witness
Portal
Echochrome

Sports (look up definition for "sports")
Skate 3
Free Running
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix

bard91

Well it seems I erased most of my answer before posting so RIP me I guess, I'll look into it later

Visual Novels

Virtue's Last Reward
9 Hours 9 Persona 9 Doors
Danganronpa V3

Action/Adventure/Others

Catherine
GTA San Andreas
Dishonored 2

Does are the main ones I can think of for now, so I'll leave it at that.