Games that Make You Want to Type "</genre>"

Knights of Old Republic - Western RPG

NHL94 - sports game

I have come to appreciate Vanquish more over time, with the only drawback being that it's perhaps too long. Animation cancelling, a variety of truly different weapons, a difficulty mode that goes above and beyond to demand perfection, randomized weapon drops ensuring that the player has mastery over everything for every situation, precise controls, crazy fast speed, a balance/choice mechanic for melee mixed with bullet time that changes based on weapon held, and so on just place it in a league of its own. I used to wish for unlimited ammo and locked weapon loadouts but I've come to realize why the decision against that was made, and the parallel to classic arcade games of disposable weapons just solidify its unflinching approach to the action genre even in the face of modern sensibilities.

It might just be the perfect game.

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

Panzer Dragoon Zwei. Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong.

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It's a solid choice for best rail shooter so I can't prove you wrong but if you said Space Harrier or Sin & Punishment, I wouldn't complain either. ;)

Unless we're heading into really specific categories, like say Planescape: Torment for story-focused RPGs, I find it hard to say something absolutely wins a genre.

Even Yoshi's first category of 2d action/adventure, I think SotN, Super Metroid, and Wonder Boy III are all in the same league of awesomeness but different enough to make the choice hard.

Flappy bird.

What genre is Blast Corps?

Arcade Racing Puzzler

Twinkle Star Sprites - Competitive Shump

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Star Wars Galaxies (MMORPG) - Those who care about this genre have heard all of this ad nauseam from me, so I'll keep it short. Prior to being sabotaged by the "Combat Revamp" and, more devastatingly, the "New Game Enhancements," the freedom and responsibility cast upon the player community in this one is unmatched by any other game in the genre that I have played. It's worth noting that I missed Ultima Online, which is the game most often mentioned with similar reverence.

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I agree with this one. Galaxies was a great MMORPG that got kicked to the curb by the popularity of World of Warcraft. I pretty much quit playing this game after the total revamp. The economy system and need to interact with other players through the pubs and healing clinics was pretty cool. The game went downhill after they gutted it.

I played Galaxies and while I loved the freedom the game's combat system was boring, questing needed a redo, the galactic civil war stuff didn't work well in practice, etc.

Of course, the combat revamp and NGE were a disaster that killed the game for good, but I really do believe the awfulness of those 2 things made people forget about the original game's very real issues. Of course the same thing is true of UO.

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Originally Posted by kingoffighters

Twinkle Star Sprites - Competitive Shump

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These are the words of a man unacquainted with Senko no Ronde.