Board 8 > What's your gaming genre hierarchy?

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Top:

Platformer
Fighting
Action / Adventure

High:

Action / RPG
Racing

Middle:

Turn-based RPG
Strategy / RPG

Low:

Shooter

Bottom:

Sandbox*
RTS
MMORPG
Simulation

*Assassin's Creed is a huge exception. I may just class it as Action / Adventure.

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RPGs/Platformers/Fighters at the top in some order

Everything else falls into place in some order below those.

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Top:
Action / Adventure
Sandbox

High:
Shooter
Action / RPG

Middle:
MMORPG
Simulation

Low:
Turn-based RPG
Strategy / RPG
Platformer

Bottom:
Racing
RTS
Fighting
Sports

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Top:

Strategy / RPG
Turn-based RPG
Action / RPG

High:

RTS
MMORPG
Simulation

Middle:

Platformer
Action / Adventure
Shooter

Low:

Puzzle

Bottom:

Sandbox
Racing
Fighting
Sports

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Basically your exact list except flipped backwards.

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Racing is in a league of its own at the top

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Top:
Action / RPG
Turn-based RPG
Strategy / RPG
Life Sim

High:
Platformer
Sandbox

Middle:
Action / Adventure
Racing

Low:
Shooter

Bottom:
Fighting
RTS
MMORPG
Simulation

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sRPG
2D Fighter
RTS

turn based jRPG
2D Platformer
Puzzle
turn based strategy

kart racing
Action Adventure
artsy fartsy stuff
3D Platformer (non-collect-a-thon)
action RPG
FPS

Metroidvania
Sports
Collect-a-thon
non-kart racing
wRPG
MMORPG
3D Fighter
Sandbox

S: Fighters
A: Platformers, RPGs
B: Action/Adventure
C: Everything else

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Best
Strategy (TBS, RTS, RPG)
Shmup
Gust games

Second Best
Action and/or Adventure
Platformer

Okay
Sandbox
Shooter
Fightan
RPG

Not Okay
Racing
Simulation
MMORPG

Worst
Hallway full of crates games
Sports

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High:
Action/Adventure/RPG
RTS
Strategy/Turn-Based

Mid:
Fighting
Shooters

Low:
MMORPG (Only I play is LoL, which still is a part of RTS in my heart)

Crap:
Racing
EDIT: Missed Sports in here

What are Sandbox counting as? I forget.

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Top
WRPGs
2D Fighters

High
SRPGs
2D Platformers
3D Fighters
FPS
Action/Adventure

Mid
JRPGs
ARPGs
Beat 'Em Ups
3rd Person Shooter
Sandbox
Puzzle
Survival Horror
Adventure
Visual Novels (Unless you don't consider these games. In that case, this isn't here. Try to resist starting this argument for the 833rd time.)

Low
3D Platformer
SHUMP
Sports
Turn Based Strategy

Bottom
RTS
Simulation
Racing
MMORPG

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Top:
2D Platformer
Turn based RPG
Metroidvania

High:
3D Platformer
Action RPG
Tactical RPG
Sandbox

Middle:
Action Adventure
2D Fighting
First Person Shooter
Wacky Racing
MMORPG

Low:
Simulation
Puzzle
Third Person Shooter
3D Fighting
Real Time Strategy
Shmup

Bottom:
Realistic Racing
Sports
Visual Novel

Pile of S*** in the Toilet:
Music/Rhythm
Casual
Educational

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Single player:

Adventure
Platform
Action
Shooter
RPG

Multiplayer

Fighting
Racing
Shooter
Sports
RPG

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I just play whatever genre if it's good, dude.

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shooter > strategy > fighting > puzzle > whatever > fps > sandbox

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Good games > bad games

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I just play whatever genre if it's good, dude.

Yeah, that.

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Don't really have one, other than that MMORPGs are almost universally awful.

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i enjoy all genres but i'd say Strategy generally is my favorite (Real time strategy, grand strategy, turn based strategy all included)

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Top:
JRPG
WRPG
SRPG
Strategy

High:
MMORPG
Fighting
Platformer
Side-Scroller
Adventure

Mid:
Racing
Sandbox
Survival-Horror (Third- and First-person views)

Low:
FPS

Lower than the Low:
Sports (with some exceptions)

Misc.
Third-person shooters
EA BIG games

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Top:

Turn-based Strategy
Shooter
Space games

High:

Sandbox
Simulation
First Person Shooters
Sports
Indie (insofar this is a genre)

Middle:

Platformer
Action / Adventure
RTS
Turn-based RPG
Puzzle

Low:

Racing
Action / RPG
Third Person Shooters

Bottom:

Fighting
MMORPG
Horror
Point&Click adventure games


Of course, there are always exceptions.

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Top
Survival Horror

High
Fighting
FPS
Platformer
Action-Adventure
RPG
Stealth

Middle
Sandbox
Sports
Third-Person Shooter
Vehicular-Based Games (Racing, Vehicular Combat, Flight)

Low
Adventure
Puzzle
MMO

Bottom
RTS
Simulation

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Top :

MMORPG

Very High :

WRPG
JRPG
(And everything that has RPG elements, like Action-RPGs)

High :

Adventure
Action
Platformer
Tower-Defence

Middle :

Racing
RTS
Party / Casual
Puzzle

Low :

FPS
TPS
Fighting
Simulation

Very Low :

Point and Click
Horror (I love horror games but I can't play them cause I'm too much of a *****)

Bottom :

Games with babies.

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Top:
2D Platformers
2D shooters
Rhythm

Middle:
Everything else

Bottom:
Turn Based RPGs
Sports


Basically I love the stuff that takes skill, and hate the stuff that doesn't.


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Turn based RPGs take skill to play when it comes to the Megaten games

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