Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?
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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 3Best Stealth
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Hitman Blood MoneyBest Hybrids/Immersive sims
Deus Ex 1
System Shock 2
Deus Ex Human RevolutionBest Survival Horror
FEAR
System shock 2
Alan wakeBest 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 GeneralsSo my friends, what are the top 3 games you played in each genre? lets discuss
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First Person Shooter
Quake II
Half-Life 2
BloodThird Person Shooter
Vanquish
Max Payne
Resident Evil 5Stealth
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Hitman: Blood Money
Tom Clancy's Splinter CellSurvival Horror
Silent Hill 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Silent HillJRPG
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy IXWrpg
Baldurs Gate II
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Planescape: TormentSandbox
GTA: Vice City
Mafia II
Just Cause IIAdventure
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
The Dig
Star Trek: A Final Unity** Action Adventure**
Shenmue
Little Big Adventure
Deadly PremonitionStrategy
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Dune IIRhythm
Space Channel 5
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA
Gitaroo ManRacing
Diddy Kong Racing
Wipeout 2097
Mario Kart 64Platformer
Mario 64
Banjo Kazooie
Super Mario SunshinePuzzle
Tetris
Archer Macleans Mercury
The WitnessFighting
Soul Calibur
Soul Blade
Tekken 2Shoot'em Up
Akai Katana
Ikuruga
DeathsmilesBeat'em Up
Streets of Rage 2
Turtles in Time
Golden AxeLight Gun
House of the Dead 2
Time Crisis
Resident Evil: Umbrella ChroniclesSports
Speed Ball 2
Kick Off 2
Sensible Soccer
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@sheria said in Whats your top 3 best/Fav game in each genre?:
Sandbox
Mafia IIYou 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.
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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 007Third Person Shooter
Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption
Uncharted 4: Thief's EndRPG
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Fallout 3
Mass Effect 2Action Adventure
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeAdventure
The Walking Dead (2012)
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
What Remains of Edith FinchStrategy
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Rome: Total War
XCOM 2Sports
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. 2Puzzle
Portal
Portal 2
Tetris
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@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 IIYou 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.
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@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 IIYou 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.
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@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 IIYou 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.
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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
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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.
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@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.
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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 EffectAction Adventure (the most genre ambiguous are found here)
Uncharted 4
The Last of Us
Gravity Rush 2Third Person Shooters (heavy on shooting, with minimal mechanics from other genres)
Max Payne 3
Vanquish
Binary DomainFirst Person Shooters (Same as above but first person)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Titanfall 2Fighting (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 SportVisual 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 ShoujoStealth (hard to differentiate with action adventure but I want to keep this separate anyway)
Dishonored 2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Splinter CellAction (I'm thinking of hack-and-slash games here)
God of War (2018)
Devil May Cry V
Star Wars: The Force UnleashedAdventure (action-adventure games without a clear combat system)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Life is Strange
Sam & Max: The Devil's PlayhouseFlight action (basically just Ace Combat games lol)
Ace Combat 7
Ace Combat 5
Ace Combat XStrategy (games where you only can command things to do your bidding)
Rise of Nations
World in Conflict
Tom Clancy's EndwarPuzzle (need to solve things to progress)
The Witness
Portal
EchochromeSports (look up definition for "sports")
Skate 3
Free Running
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
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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 V3Action/Adventure/Others
Catherine
GTA San Andreas
Dishonored 2Does are the main ones I can think of for now, so I'll leave it at that.