Best <insert genre> EVER. -- Contest idea

Hello, folks! It's Mo0, your friendly neighborhood doofus, here with a contest idea! How's about this...

Each genre will get its day in the sun. First nominations will be held (in a format yet to be determined), then the games go against each other in a BSC-like single-elimination tournament. In this case, people would be voting not on a song or whatever, but simply on which game is better.

Now, especially in the RPG field, this would provide some very possible opportunities for biases to come in. So this would be my idea to prevent that... instead of, say, allowing each Final Fantasy game in the RPG category, how about a little mini-contest where ONE representative for FF is put into the category? This could be extended to basically any series that potentially could flood any field.

My original idea behind this contest was to do a whole bunch of little genre tournaments, then pit the winners of those tournaments against each other to find not only the BEST GAME EVER, but the BEST GENRE EVER. When I ran that idea by a couple of people, they said that most likely the RPG would win no matter what, so I'm not sure if that's the best idea anymore. Just putting the idea out there in case anyone wants to comment on it.

Any holes in my logic, questions you have, feel free to ask. Also, this does not have any sort of staff approval or whatever, but hopefully they'll be accomodating to my whims.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That was actually one of my original ideas, also. I was thinking that instead of voting, there should be a discussion of each game and then a panel of judges would go and look through, neutrally, and see which game had the better argument presented.

That would be a lot more work-intensive, though, and finding neutral people on the Internet is like finding straight people on the Style network.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Here's the genres that I've got so far.

Role-playing Game
First-person Shooter
Shoot-em-up (Vertical)
Shoot-em-up (Sidescrolling)
Action
Platforming
Adventure
Action-Adventure
Puzzle (Reactionary) (a la Tetris or Lumines)
Puzzle (Cerebral) (a la Hexic or Alchemy)
Party (???)
Beat-em-up
Vs. Fighter
Rhythm/Music
Turn-Based Strategy
Real-Time Strategy
Creative (??? I was thinking things like Mario Paint and MTV Music Generator, which are essentially sold as games but require mostly creativity.)
Fantasy Sports (NBA Jam, Super Mario Strikers)
Realistic Sports (MADDEN)
Fantasy Racing (Mario Kart, etc.)
Realistic Racing (Gran Turismo 4, etc.)

Any ideas? Suggestions? Removal ideas?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh, well, sports I just never think about as games. >_>

Rhythm I was worried about solely because it'll almost certainly be DDR.:/

Forgot about best Real-Time Strategy and best Turn-Based Strategy.

And... regarding the difference between Action, Adventure, and Action-Adventure... Adventure is things like Sam and Max, King's Quest, and Myst, Action adventure is games like Zelda, and... um... can someone help me out on what exactly an Action game is? Oh, shit, things like Ratchet and Clank, I guess. Max Payne.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

For the record, Skills' idea about what an Action game is is better than mine.

I was speaking idiomatically.

How about renaming the (Crap games like Diablo) into Action-RPG?

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Originally Posted by RABicle

To avoid sports becoming a popularity contest between the sports instead of the games. Divide those down further into sports. For most it will be a simple 2k vs EA setup but theres lots of room in the Soccer catagory, TIS, ProEvo, ISS, FIFA plus all historical sports games like All Star Basball, Tecmo Bowl etc should be eligable.
Don't forget one for extreme sports too eg. Tony Hawk, 1080°, Coolboarders etc.

Also, Light Gun Games. And second On Rails Shooters, Lylat Wars needs to be able to win something.

Wait wait wait... so divide it by sport? That's not a good idea, because then you'd get

Best Footbal Game

Madden 94
Madden 95
Madden 96
Madden 97
NFL 2K
NFL 2K1
NFL 2K2

and so on. Hell, I'd be content with making that best sports franchise, so we could see "Madden vs NFL 2K___" and such.

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