Turn based whatever with things levelling up.

Adventure, RPG (preferably turn-based) and Strategy games.

I love games with a focus on storytelling, exploration and playing the role of individual characters, so my first choice would be RPGs and Adventure games (both P&C and Action). I also like Platformers and Puzzles though.

On the other hand I'm rather bad at and usually less motivated to play Strategy - be it RTS or TBS (although I like a few Tower Defense games), Business Sims, Sports games, Flight Sims and Racing (with the exception of games like Mario Cart and Wacky Wheels, love 'em!). Stealth games are not my forte either, as I'm a bit too impatient for sneaking around all the time. ;)

Shooters and Beat-em-ups are the middleground. They can be great fun, but most of them don't interest me due to their themes and/or looks. I generally don't like military, ultraviolent, 'tough man cliché' action games with more or less realistic graphic style, I often prefer more abstract, cartoony and funny stuff.

I would say 3rd person action / adventure games, things like Batman AA & AC, Alan Wake, Sleeping Dogs, Gears of War, Giants Citizen Kabuto and the likes. This includes stealth type titles like Splinter Cell and Dishonored even though its first person.

Then it is things like the above but with RPG elements like Demons / Dark Souls, Vampire etc Also love the true 2d isometric RPG's like Silverfall, Baldurs Gate, IWD & Diablo

Then I would go for the tactical type games which covers Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell (again) and also games like Thief.

The above are always the ones I go for first regardless.

I do tend to play a mixture of all sorts, I occasionally play strategy games like C&C and DoW, however with those I tend to build a huge army and just stomp all over the map obliterating everything, not much strategy involved really!

I do like FPS, but I tend not to play them as much as I used to. Things like Borderlands get plenty time but I don't buy into the whole CoD and Battlefield craze. Can't be chewed with the multiplayer side of things and those games are now based around that side of things. Give me the original CoD and MoH over the newer iterations any day!

1, RPG
2, TBS
3, Roguelikes
4, Quick 30 min timewasters
5, whatever grabs my fancy right now!

1. Turn based strategy games

2. CRPGs with a sword and sorcery backdrop and preferrably turn based combat

3. Managerial sims with historic backdrops (i.e. Port Royale, Patrician, etc.)

I try to play a variety of game genres, I have no one favorite.

If you twisted my arm I'd probably says one of these:

* arcade FPS (single player)
* dungeon crawling focused RPGs/ jRPGs
* turn based strategy
* good DMC-like games
* twitch platformers

Point and click adventure for me.

Visual novels are among my favorites, though I enjoy RPGS and Platformers as well.

It's a toss up between First/Third Person RPGs, Action-Adventures, P&C-Adventures and F/TPSs...

Can't say that I have a favourite genre. Most games I've played were probably shooters followed by RTS and RPG - can't be sure though. Only thing I know for sure is that point & click adventures and sports games would be on the bottom of the list. Doesn't change the fact though that Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe is one of my all-time favourites. :P

For me it's always about the game itself. A game of any genre will appeal to me at almost any time if it simply is a good game.

Cinematic/2D platformer. And I fucking love how the genre seems to be resurgent right now (Braid, Limbo, the Trine series, La Mulana etc. etc.).

RPG
Shooter
Strategy

Fantasy. Computer role-playing games offer more 'bang for the buck' than other genre's.

RPG, FPS, Platform