What are your favorite game genres?

Because of a dumb oversight on my part, this is not a multiple choice poll like I wanted it to be. Just pick your overall favorite, and list any and all other favorites in the comments. Let's start a (civil) discussion, cuz why not.

RPG is my favorite

Just take it down

Action Adventure for the console
FPS for the PC

I'm not sure if I can cofidently pick one overall favourite. I can list, in no specific order, my top 5 game genres. They are:

• Action/Adventure
• First Person Shooter
• Third Person Shooter
• Fighting games
• Japanese RPG

Racing

Action/Action Adventure

Fallout New Vegas

Sandbox

Platformer

FPS

Action/Adventure, MMO's, RPG's Racing, Sports, Hack and Slash, Stealth and Open world games

I love RPGs and am quite fond of action/adventure games.

FPS or TPS with RPG elements like Mass Effect and Fallout.

I put down Open World Sandbox because that's also one of my favorites, love GTA series

I picked western rpg but there are so many good genre's. Here are rest of my favorites,

Hack And slash

Horror

FPS

Action/Adventure

Point and Click Adventure

Open world

Stealth

RTS

Puzzle.

Sidescrolling platformers and western RPGs

if i can only pick one genre and have a game be deemed the greatest ever created i'd want it to be a wRPG.

however, i like horror, stealth, shooters, rts, puzzle, combos thereof, whatever.

just keep the multiplayer away.

I'd have to go with

• MMO's
• WRPG's
• JRPG'S
• FPS
• TPS
• Action/Adventure
• Open World/sand box

WRPGS is my favourite. I also love Action adventure, stealth, Horror, Interactive Drama, Adventure, Hack n slash. My least loved genres are definitely FPS and Openworld.

• Platformers
• Beat 'em ups
• Run 'n gun
• Shmups
• Action/Adventure
• FPS/TPS
• Arcade racing
• Star fighter sims

Favorite genre: Racing, sadly there is not much (good) racing game nowadays.. atleast in PC :(

Can't just choose one sorry :-

• Beat'em'up/hack'n'slash(Devil may cry&all the capcom beat'em'ups)
• Action adventure/platformers(Castlevania,POP Sands trilogy,GTA,Syberia)
• Shoot'em'ups (contra,metal slug)
• Horror games (Resi evil,Silent hill,Fatal frame,clock tower)
• Classic ARPG's(Ys series,LOZ series) sorry i just don't like WRPG's :P
• Stealth (Hitman Blood money,Thief)

@torenojohn7: It was meant to be multiple choice, but I forgot to click the option before the post saved. Oversight on my part.

come on man, why did you have to make the chocies so hard? action/adventure games are fun but then get boring after a while, open worlds are fun but i don't know what most of them are fun ( because i only played GTA and assassin's creed) but first person shooter won me because i've never EVER found a boring fps.

It's hard for me to pick a favorite genre since I play just about everything, but since I had to choose one for the poll I picked platfomers. I never play sports or racing games, and rarely play RTS and point and click games but other than that I'm down for anything.

Always choose action/adventure,Stealth and MMO ...

in no order:

• Platformers
• Racing
• Beat em ups
• Stealth
• Survival Horror
• Sandbox
• Car Combat

I'm most fond of platformers because I still feel they are the closest conversation a player can have with the developer through gameplay. It's just your input directly against what they designed in such a pure way.

I'm also very fond of Action Adventure games ala Zelda and Darksiders as well as open world games akin to Red Dead and Assassin's Creed (I much prefer historical settings to modern ones).

most of this list

"Japanese RPG" and "Western RPG" are not genres.

@Jag85: They're distinctive enough to warrant their own options. Not every RPG is made the same way, believe it or not.

Action Adventure, followed by WRPG

RPGS of all kinds are pretty great

In no order

FPS

TPS

Action Adventure

Open World Games

hard choice there . I like Action adventure , shooter , RPG and stealth and Racing

but the style of game , Sci Fi is may favorite . every game should be sci fi :3 its just amazing .

Western RPGs , but I play games from all genres as long as the game itself is fun . You should've included RTS in the list as well because there a lot of Warcraft and Starcraft fans out there . (I myself is a huge Starcraft fan but favorite genre is wRPG)

I like all kinds of RPGs (mainly JRPGs), adventure, and platformers the best. Most of my game collection is RPGs I'd be though.

Well, there are enough stylistic differences between the two, though just not enough for me to consider them separate genres.

I can't decide a favorite, but I real like WRPGs.

If I had to pick second favorites from that list, it would be: FPS,Open World,Platformers,Action-Adventure, and interactive dramas

In order:

• Adventure
• RPG
• Everything else except fighting games and JRPGs, I hate those.

WRPG/action rpgs/open world games , they usually have bad stories sadly

Racing/driving, sports(just wreslting, soccer and extreme sports games), fighters, shooters and action-adventure

Did you just bump a topic from six months ago?

Oh well.

• Adventure
• Simulator

Uhm.... Open World is not a genre.... much in the same a cover system is not a genre...... its just a feature you can slap onto almost any game.

Western+JRPGs and Strategy (both turn-based and RTS)

RPG's, Action adventure / 3D platformers, action games, Sandbox, kart racers, 3rd person shooters and most recently i've found a love for smhups.

Some of my favorite ones are Action adventure, JRPG, platformers, horror and certain first person games.

1. FPS/TPS
2. Action/Adventure
3. Platformers
4. Open Worlds
5. Stealth
6. Shmups

6 month old dude.

lol, good catch - I was on mobile.

Sorry folks, I'm locking this - please don't bump threads of such profound age