# Favorite Computer Games From Each of Your Favorite Genres **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433 "2005-09-06T23:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/1 "2005-09-06T23:09:55Z")
I know there has to have been a favorite games thread before but I hope my variation is a little less redundant. I’ll start: **Real-Time Strategy(RTS):]** WarCraft III -Like an upgraded StarCraft with an elements of RPGs with great multiplayer. **First-Person Shooter (FPS):** Half Life 2 (including Counter-Strike: Source that comes with) -HL2 has some really great cinematic elements to it that really help with immersion. Great focus to detail and variations in gameplay (I loved the hoverboat levels) -I can play Counter-Strike for days. I have had days where I would spend half my waking hours playing this game. My computer is acting up’s so I’m suffering from CS withdrawal. Realistic physics and gamesplay with an emphasis on good aim and ability to master real-life firearms. **Role-Playing Game (RPG):** Planescape: Torment -Based on the Baldur’s Gates engine and set in the planescape universe of AD&D, this game plays like a novel. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/2 "2005-09-07T12:58:34Z")
RTS - Toss-up between the Brilliant Command and Conquer : Red Alert, and Starcraft. Warcraft III just went far too cartoony. FPS - I don’t play a lot of these, and the genre isn’t a favorite. That said, Duke Nukem 3D. RPG - Torment’s a top contender for me, too. As is Diablo II. Turn-Based Strategy - Civilization, Master of Orion 2, Master of Magic, X-Com - pretty much Microprose’s entire catalogue. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/3 "2005-09-07T13:21:40Z")
RPG: Darklands Turn Based Strategy- X-Com Flight Sim: Tie Fighter RTS: Starcraft (though Battle for Middle earth is pretty good too) FPS: Doom 2 (Jedi Academy coming in second) Fighting: One Must Fall 2097 ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/4 "2005-09-07T13:34:26Z")
RTS: It’s a close call, but I’ll say _Rise of Nations_ TBS: _Alpha Centauri_ (But when _Civ IV_ comes out… Who can say?) FPS: _Quake II_ on account of it being the only one I’ve ever played much of RPG: _Quest for Glory I_ can’t beat the classics ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/5 "2005-09-07T13:41:03Z")
RPG - Torment (heh) – the only game I’ve played where it really felt like an RPG rather than a dungeon crawl – though Fallout and Fallout 2 came close. Really showcased Baldur’s Gate and BG2’s faults in story, too. RTS - Rome: Total War (even though I suck at it) There’s just something about charging a couple of thousand archers with hundreds of cavalry and seeing it all play out in fully animated 3D. FPS - The Thief Trilogy I’ve always found pure shooters get a bit boring. Even Half-life 2 has basically the same gameplay as the original Doom. I have much more fun sneaking up on the bad guys and generally feeling like a ninja than having straight up firefights. Hybrid - GTA: San Andreas Much more impressive to me than all the glitz of Doom 3 and Half life 2 put together is being able to fly over a city, bail out, parachute into the middle of a bustling metropolis, jump in a car, drive to the marina, jump in a boat, sail to the mission objective, have a firefight, jump on a motorbike, and drive away. All in real time 3D with no loading. If only more games took the GTA approach of content-is-king instead of leaving me with 15 hours of gameplay and no replayability! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/6 "2005-09-07T13:41:21Z")
**Real Time Strategy** : Either _Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2_, or _Age of Mythology_ **Turn Bases Strategy** : _Civ II_ (Never played _Civ III_) **RPG** : _Neverwinter Nights_ **First Person Shooter** : _Half-Life 2_ **Flight Sim** : _Tie FIghter_, though _Privateer_ is a clsoe second. I like the free form aspect of it. (adding a new catagory) **Adventure Game** A tie between _The Legend of Zelda_ (the original) and _Quest for Glory IV_ (I consider these Adventure games, not RPG, though it does mix elements of both.) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/7 "2005-09-07T13:49:38Z")
DAMN! How could I have forgotten Adventure Games? Monkey Island 2, Sam and Max Hit the Road, or Grim Fandango. Each of them just as good as the other so I could pick one at random and be happy. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-computer-games-from-each-of-your-favorite-genres/320433/8 "2005-09-07T14:00:10Z")
Real Time Strategy: Age of Empires II. I have a weakness for historical games, and I really enjoyed this one. Turn Based Strategy: Masters of Orion II. RPG: Morrowind. Though Planescape: Torment was fun, you just can’t beat a completely open-ended RPG in an immersive world, where the main plot was essentially optional, and you weren’t limited to “good” behavior. Playing an evil Telvanni wizard with a fortress of exotic treasures guarded by sphere centurions? Slaying gods after rising to the top of their temple’s hierachy? Priceless. First Person Shooter: Counter-Strike. I too am an addict of this one. Flight Sim: I haven’t played a lot of these so I’ll use the only one I’ve played, Hellcats over the Pacific. It was a lot of fun until you tried to land… Adventure Game: I’ll second the original Legend of Zelda.