The Best Game Ever- nominations.

[Sirrus]

So, if you follow Hulu regularly they recently did a thing where they had most of their popular shows divvied up into categories and then they voted them down tournament style until there was just one show left (Lost. I'm kind of disappointed that something better didn't win) so I decided to do something similar and I need nominations for each slot. 8 categories with 8 games in each category should make it come out pretty good. Tell me what you think of the following categories:

Retro (pre 1990)
-Pacman
-Galaga
-Mario
-River City Ransom
-Tetris

Adventure
-Just Cause 2
-Penumbra Overture
-Ocriana of Time
-Uncharted 2
-Deus Ex

FPS
-Half Life 2
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Halo
-Modern Warfare 2
-Goldeneye

Racing
-F-Zero
-Burnout Paradise
-San Francisco Rush 2049

RPG/MMORPG
-Morrowind
-Baldur's Gate
-Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
-Fallout 3
-FF7

Strategy/RTS
-Age of Empires 2
-Darwinia
-Worms Armageddon for PC

Handheld (PSP, DS, GBA)
-Scribblenauts
-Advance Wars Dual Strike
-Golden Sun

Indie
-Beat Hazard
-Cave Story
-DEFCON
-Audiosurf
-Cortex Command

Mods do not count. No Gmod, no sandbox mod for any game, none of that.

So, first of all, do those categories look good? Suggestions? If everyone thinks those are good then we can start doing nominations. 8 games per category.

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[Sarge]

I've never understood what "indie" is. :o

[Anybody]

I've never understood what "indie" is. :o

Independent game designers.

[Warguy357]

I've never understood what "indie" is. :o

Game made by one person.

[Sarge]

Independent game designers.

Game made by one person.

Oh, I see.

I can't decide between Adventure, FPS, or RPG.

[Warguy357]

Oh, I see.

I can't decide between Adventure, FPS, or RPG.

FPS

[Radial543]

I think that they look great, but retro should be moved to be under 2000 and not 1990.

Indie: Polychromatic Funk Monkey

[Madmitten]

Retro: Contra, Battle Toads, Pilotwings 64, Legend of zelda, Doom 64, Hexen, Duke Nukem, and NFL Blitz 2000
Adventure: Legend of Zelda, Half life 2, Grand theft auto san andreas, grand theft auto iv, Simpsons hit and run, Left 4 dead(?), Resident evil 4, Resident evil 5.
FPS: Cod4, Cod5, Cod6, Left 4 dead 2, Halo 2, Duke nukem, FEAR, Fallout 3.
Racing: NFS:Shift, NFS:Underground 2, NFS2, Forza 3, ExciteBots, Excitetrucks, Mario kart, Crash bandicoot tag team racing.
RPG/MMORPG: WoW, Oblivion, Fallout 3, BOTS, chaosmud, Haven and Hearth

[Flying Ace]

Legend of zelda OOT



inb4 half life 2

Game made by one person.

wrong

[Ryuu]

Indie games are neat.

[Flying Ace]

FPS: Cod4, Cod5, Cod6, Left 4 dead 2, Halo 2,  FEAR, Fallout 3.

No.

[Osak]

Retro (pre 1990) Goldeneye
Adventure Uncharted 2
FPS Outtrigger
Racing Daytona USA
RPG/MMORPG MW2
Handheld (PSP, DS, GBA) Syphon Filter 2
Indie Audiosurf

Arcade: After Burner Climax

[Wedge]

No simulation category for flight simulators, roller coaster tycoon or sim city? What about Dinkey Kong 64, Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie?

FPS:
Deus Ex

RPG:
Morrowind
Baldur's Gate
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Strategy:
Civilization IV
Alpha Centauri
Rome: Total War
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Red Alert 2

Retro:
Pre 1990 is pretty early isn't it? I probably wasn't playing games until 94 or 95. Centipede, Galaga, Marble Madness, Gauntlet, Rampage, Super Mario Bros, Rogue... Smash TV kicked ass but it came out right in 1990 so put it in whatever category it belongs.

Game made by one person.

Darwinia is definately indie and it's also definately made by a game studio.
Indie refers to games not made by a big name studio, games that aren't AAA titles.

[Radial543]

Cavestory was also made solo.

[DracoSoul]

FPS: WaW, Half-Life 2,

Only 2 I can think of. WaW was the last good CoD game, IMO.