Best game per genre

[Deleted]

MMO: Guild Wars 1

Racing: Crash Team Racing! (I've barely played any Racing games)

RPG: Skyrim or Dark Souls (Either for entirely different reasons)

Shooter: Doom, mothafucka!

Strategy: Crusader Kings 2 (My best game of any category!)

Stealth: Deus Ex (Ye olde originale)

[gutnbrg]

RPG: BioShock Infinite
MMO: WoW
Shooter: CS 1.6
Strategy: Command and Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
Action: MegaMan
stealth: N/A
Racing: Mario Kart 64 and GT2
Sports: NHL 99

[Cyclone Jack]

RPG: Planescape: Torment/Arcanum/Baldur's Gate Trilogy
MMO: City of Heroes
Shooter: Doom/Serious Sam/Painkiller
Turn-Based Strategy: Jagged Alliance 2/Galactic Civilizations 2
Real-Time Strategy: Command and Conquer/Total Annihilation
Action: Darksiders
Stealth: Thief
Racing: N/A
Sports: N/A
Adventure: Syberia/The Longest Journey

[Itakas]

RPG: Plainscape torment
MMO: WoW
Shooter: Q2/Half life
Strategy: Sc: BW/WC3: TFT
action: Assassins creed
stealth: Hitman
Racing: Colin Mcrea
Sports: Pes

[Deleted]

Here's a list from me.

MMO: Oh, as a mainly mmo player in past I've been slacking on it lately. But atm I only play Rift tbh, and it's good enough to me even if I play it very rarely. Most mmos today got it flaws, and market is kind of stale atm. However, atm Rift is the most fun mmo to me, I'm hoping for GW2 dev progress, recent spvp update blog I'm a bit sceptical to. So it's on shelf, might not come back for spvp but perhaps to try new wvwvw map when it hits. Game is beautiful and asuras are OP. But for now, Rift is best as in most fun to me.

Shooter: I don't play shooters that much, but Planetside 2 is extremely fun. Haven't played it since summertime, but it's free and will always be there waiting for me. Fun game.

Strategy: Dota2 is fun =)

Action: Warframe ofc, try it if you haven't. Tons of fun!

Racing: Brings me back to old Nintendo days. Spent many hours playing F-Zero. A nostalgy trips to you other old people out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5u9nD_I0I

Sports: Same as with racing, back to old nintendo days. I had a lot of fun playing Mike Tyson Punch out, another nostalgy trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zpM4PUoME

[Mcbenchpress]

RPG: Final Fantasy 7
MMO: WoW
Shooter: CoD:MW (the first one)
Strategy: Warcraft 3
Action: Red Dead Redemption
Stealth: Metal Gear Solid 3
Racing: Burnout 3: Takedown
Sports: NFL Gameday '98 or Madden 25

[Okacz]

RPG: Icewind Dale
MMO: WoW
Shooter: Far Cry 3
Strategy: Empire Earth 1 (Or Mount and Blade: Warband, if you can count it as one)
action: Batman: Arkham City
stealth: Dishonored
Racing: Flat Out 2
Sports: hmm... Wii Bowling?

[Deleted]

MMO: WoW
racing: Mario Kart Double Dash
Action: N/A
Sports N/A
RPG: Final Fantasy X
Shooter: Battlefield 2
Strategy: Warcraft 3
Stealth: Thief

[-aiko-]

Why just PC? I won't give in to your shenanigans.

RPG: Final Fantasy VI
MMO: World of Warcraft
Shooter: Counter-Strike 1.6
Strategy: Total War: Shogun II
Action: The Last of US
Stealth: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Racing: Carmageddon
Sports: .................................................?

[Frolk]

MMO: WoW
Racing: Need for speed: Hot pursuit for LAN and solo Underground 2
Sport: n/a
RPG: Mass Effect 3
Shooter:Battlefield 2
Strategy: Red Alert 2
Action: Saints Row 3
Stealth: Deus Ex/Dishonored

[Mormolyce]

I can't pick a favourite genre, I love them all.

RPG: Ultima VII was my pick for a long time... maybe Planescape: Torment... Fallout 3?
MMO: I guess WoW as it's the only one I've played
Shooter: Mmmm, hard to say, the only real standouts for me were mixes of shooter and other genres
Strategy: Civ 2 or Starcraft (1 or 2)
Action: Um, I guess Assassin's Creed or Batman Arkham series

I dunno if I'd call Mass Effect a straight RPG, it's like a RPG/FPS/Action mix. ME2 was the best. ME3 might've competed had it not been for the last 5 minutes.

How about puzzle? Where do I put Portal?

[Amnaught]

RPG: Oblivion
MMO: WoW
Shooter: CoD MW2
Strategy: Portal 2
Fighting: Soul Calibur 2, Tekken 5
Racing: Burnout 3, without a shadow of a doubt.
Sports: God no

[ironik]

MMO: WoW
RPG: Final Fantasy 6, 7 or 8
Action/Adventure: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or A Link to the Past
Shooter: Unreal Tournament 2K4
Strategy: Warcraft 1-3 or Command and Conquer series
Stealth: Crysis 3 or Last of Us
Racing: Super Mario Kart
Sports: NBA Jam(the ORIGINAL one)

[Deleted]

RPG: KotOR
MMO: WoW
Shooter: CS 1.6
Racing/simulator: LFS
Strategy: WC3
Stealth: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

[Sixteen18]

RPG: Witcher 2
MMO: WoW
Shooter: Battlefield 2
Strategy: Civ V
Action: Bioshock Infinite
Stealth: Deus Ex Human Revolution
Racing: NFSU
Sports: Fifa 12

[LaughingMan]

RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
MMO: Star Wars Galaxies
Shooter: Team Fortress 2 or Borderlands 2
Strategy: Empire Earth
Action/Adventure: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Stealth: Perfect Dark
Racing: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Sports: SSX Tricky

Some additional genres:

Fighting: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Rhythm: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

[Statix]

Putting ME3 as the best RPG as put you on my hate-list...
This will ofcourse be a highly subjective thing but, to but ME3 on RPG is just... mind-blowing.
And all of your games are very recent ones too.

Stuff easily explained by limited experience because of age. ME3, regardless of its ending, is still one of the best RPG games ever created. It's the ending that ruined the entire game.

Action: GTA V. Meh, don't really understand this genre; aren't most games action games?
MMO: I hate to say it, but WoW is still the best MMO out there. Though, it's nothing compared to how good it was during WotLK.
Racing: Need for Speed something (the one where you had this BMW M3 that had a 5 star rating wanted rating or something)
Real-Time Strategy: Command and Conquer Red Alert / Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
RPG: Mass Effect 2 (would be ME3 is it has a proper ending)
Shooter: Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Simulation: The Sims
Sports: FIFA 2002.
Stealth: Splinter Cell Blacklist (only stealth game I can play)
Turn-Based Strategy: Fallen Haven

Where would I put Portal 2 and The Last of Us?

Action Adventure: The Last of Us
Puzzle?: Portal 2

[Vintersol]

RPG: Deus Ex:HR
MMO: GW2
Shooter: Battlefield 3 / 4
Strategy: ---
action: ---
stealth: Dark Project
Racing: Mariokart64
Sports: ---

[Morbownz]

RPG: WoW
MMO: WoW/Counterstrike
FPS: CoD (The first one) / Goldeneye
Strat: Resident Evil 1/2
Action/Adventure: HL/HL 2
Stealth: Thief/Thief 2
Racing: Gran Tursimo 1
Sports: Tiger Woods 2004

[Vankrys]

RPG: Mass Effect 1/2/3
MMO: WoW
FPS: Bioshock
Strategy: Xcom Enemy Unknown
Action/Adventure: Assassin's creed 2 and brotherhood
Stealth: Deus Ex Human Revolution
Racing: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Sports: FIFA