List the greatest game ever created: by genre

[Nostromo]

Stealth: Splinter Cell

Adventure: Grim Fandango and Riddle of Master Lu (a tie)

RPG: Planescape torment and Baldur's gate 2 (tie)

FPS: Half-life series and Halo series

TBS: SMAC (never played Civ 4)

Action adventure: Grand Theft Auto

RTS: Starcraft, Europa Universalis 2

Arcade: Spy hunter

[dannubis]

I really liked freespace 2.

[Adagio]

TBS: Civ4
Adventure: The Longest Adventure
Action: Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
Tactical RTS: Desperados

[Unspeakable Horror]

TBS: Civ2.

RTS: Total Annihilation.

RPG: Baldur´s Gate II.

Space sim: Freespace II.

FPS: F.E.A.R.

[Lazerus]

TBS - SMAC

RTS - Age of conquerors + AoK

RPG - Final Fantasy 7

Tactical - Final Fantasy Tactics (or maybe Disgaea ... its too close to call)

Racing - Mariokart SNES

Beat em up - Super Street Fighter 2

[Harovan]

4X - Civ 4

Strategy & diplomacy - EU2 (general strategy), HOI2 (war focused strategy)

RPG - Neverwinter Nights (modern vote), Ultima 7.5 (nostalgic vote)

MMOG - Everquest I (pre-Luclin)

RTS, FPS - abstain, don't play

[duke o' york]

Sports action/sim: Sensible World of Soccer

[El_Cid]

space sim: Elite(8bit)/Elite FFE(pc)
Platform game: Joust(8bit)/Jetpack(8bit)/SabreWulf(8bit)
traditional rpg: darklands(pc)/Baldurs Gate(pc)/AR(8bit)/Pirates!(8bit)
Sci-fi rpg: Fallout 1+2(pc)/Traveller series(amiga)
Historic tbs: Civ1+2(multi-platform)
Other tbs: Xcom(amiga/pc)
Text adventure: Zork series(8bit/pc)
Point+click adventure: Monkey Island series(amiga/pc)
sports: SWOS(amiga)/Speedball II(amiga)/FM2005(pc)
Oddball: Cosmology of Kyoto(pc)

[lord of the mark]

Re: List the greatest game ever created: by genre

Originally posted by Dis
you know the drill. I don't think it's fair to compare games such as Civiliaztion 2 to Halflife. So divide them up.

I don't enjoy many genres of computer games so my list will be fairly short. In fact, I mainly only play 2. TBS games and RPG's.

TBS: Civilization 4
RPG: Baldur's Gate 2

Action: don't play these much. Maybe Crusader: No Remorse. Would Fallout: Tactics be an action game? If so, then put that one in.

That reminds me, I should go buy BG2.

[DrSpike]

You should be able to get a pack with both games and the x-packs for mere pennies.

[Dis]

I'll revise my votes. I think it's acceptable to divide mp and sp. As There can be vast differences in quality. And some games really are only designed for mp or sp.

SP TBS: Civ4
MP TBS: never did mup mp (other than demo games)- I'll go with Civ4
Classic TBS: X-com (I just feel it deserves mentioning, so I created a genre )
SP RPG: Baldur's Gate 2
MP RPG: Diablo 2
action: Fallout: Tactics
SP shooter:
MP shooter: battlefield: Vietnam (though I only played a few hours at my brother's house- never bought it)
Sports: one of the Madden games, but sadly I get bored of these too quick, so I don't buy them anymore

Sim: sims 2 (if only to piss off you know who)

[John-SJ]

Originally posted by Dis
I'll revise my votes. I think it's acceptable to divide mp and sp. As There can be vast differences in quality. And some games really are only designed for mp or sp.

SP TBS: Civ4
MP TBS: never did mup mp (other than demo games)- I'll go with Civ4
Classic TBS: X-com (I just feel it deserves mentioning, so I created a genre )
SP RPG: Baldur's Gate 2
MP RPG: Diablo 2
action: Fallout: Tactics
SP shooter:
MP shooter: battlefield: Vietnam (though I only played a few hours at my brother's house- never bought it)
Sports: one of the Madden games, but sadly I get bored of these too quick, so I don't buy them anymore

Sim: sims 2 (if only to piss off you know who)

That reminds me, I should go buy The Sims, Complete.

[Odin]

TBS: Civ4
RTS: EU2
Mixed TBS/RTS: Rome Total War
RPG: Final Fantasy 6
Adventure: LOZ: Ocarina of Time
Platform: Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. 3 (tie)

[RGBVideo]

I predict a zillion different genres eventually. Paradox' Games have even their very own "Grand strategy" genre now according to some.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
FPS: Halo 2

Kicks more ass than the other FPS games listed.

RPG: Final Fantasy VI (US3)
MRPG: Diablo 2
TBS: Civ4/Civ2
Platform: Super Mario World
Shooter?: GRAW (Ghost Recon)
RTS: STAR WARS REBELLION!!
Racing: So far, the Need for Speed: Most Wanted gane out on the 360 has been the best yet. Test Drive 4 (or 5) for Playstation was fun too, lots of nostalgia. Mario Kart is also a classic (SNES version)