The Peaks of the Genres for this Generation

[Bacon McShig]

The fighting genre sucks. I don't think their is one huge fighting game coming out untilk next year.

Um, what game would that be, that is bigger than VF4, both Soul Caliburs, Tekken Tag, SF3, and GGXX?

[epmode]

The DC was great and had the greatest RPG( can you call it a RPG) of all time, Shenmue

The fighting genre sucks. I don't think their is one huge fighting game coming out untilk next year.

korian?

[gamevet]

The DC was great and had the greatest RPG( can you call it a RPG) of all time, Shenmue

The fighting genre sucks. I don't think their is one huge fighting game coming out untilk next year.

You could pick Shenmue 2?

[Drewbacca]

Opaque style (including jacking all of his formatting because I'm lazy):

Action/Adventure
1: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
3: Halo

Platforming
1: Super Mario Sunshine
2: Prince of Persia Sands of Time
3: Star Fox Adventures

Racing
1: Burnout 3
2: I don't play racing games very often.

Role Playing
1: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
2: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
3: Dark Cloud 2

Sports
1: WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw
2: Madden, (pick a year)
3: Soul Caliber 2. Fighting could be sport

[Tragic]

Action/Adventure
1: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
2: Viewtiful Joe
3: ICO

Platforming
1: Sly Cooper (Haven't played 2 yet though)
2: Super Mario Sunshine
3: Jak and Daxter

Racing
1: F-Zero GX
2: Burnout 3
3: Don't play much racing

Fighting
1: Soul Calibur 2
2: Guilty Gear XX # Reload
3: Dead or Alive Ultimate

Sports
1: NBA Street Vol. 2
2: SSX3
3: Don't play much sports

[MarkRyan]

"Action/Adventure" is wayyyyyyyyyy too broad. You're comparing Ninja Gaiden and Zone of the Enders to ICO and Zelda.

Best action game: Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (easy)

Best adventure game: ICO (easy)

Best platforming: Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal

Best Racing: Colin McRae Rally 2005 (easy)

Best Fighting: If Dreamcast counts, MvC2. If not, Guilty Gear XX

Best RPG: I don't pick tallest midgets.

Best Sports: I don't pick tallest midgets.

[EightBit]

Best action game: Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (easy)

Maybe I should change my answer... I love that game a great deal. I am just having a tough time trying to recollect all the action games Ive played in the past... what four years? But yeah, ZOE 2 was just so damn good.

Edit: Oh yeah, and then there is Metroid Prime. I always have such a terrible time with lists like this. Too many damn good games to leave out.

[Tracer]

RPG: Morrowind
Racing: Burnout 3
Platform: Ratchet & Clank 3
A/A : Halo 2 if that counts as A/A
Sports: ESPN NFL 2K5

[Roufuss]

Whatever genre Beyond Good and Evil goes into, I nominate it for that.

That game surely kicks the shit out of Wind Waker.

[Anthony]

Yes, as opposed to "old" fighting games.

Thats really interesting. I consider the current fighting game releases to be stronger, even given the time gap. The market is dying, and therefore the community is in bad shape, but the games themselves have all really broken some great bounds. Back in the day, you had first wave, which was the two big ones, SF and MK, which were all well in good, but thats not a terribly great state for the fighting game market. Now, we have 2 well defined genres, and within them, multiple different game styles. 3S covers new ground of yomi with parrying, we have a game (MvC2) which is a good deal of spacial zone control, CvS2 if you like games sucking, and #R as a combination of all of them minus CvS2, with a bit of ST thrown in. The 3d sides have seen great strides as well, with only tekken 4 being dissapointing. I really sometimes don't understand where the idea that the current state of fighting games is worse spawned from. Is it that they have not progressed as much as you would have like given the time frame they have been allotted? I'm actually quite curious.

Edit: Mark, didn't MvC2 come out for every system known to man? I swear I could load that up on my toaster.