Which Game Category is Best? A, AA, AAA? Japanese? Western?

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Wright, Shad, and I were chatting just now about gaming categories. If you had to divide games based on a set of criteria -- without getting too deep in the weeds -- what would it be? We decided on the not-perfect-but-good-enough buckets:

• Western A (Super Meat Boy, Undertale)
• Western AA (Darksiders, The Surge)
• Western AAA (Grand Theft Auto, The Elder Scrolls)
• Japanese A (Downwell, Cave Story)
• Japanese AA (Persona, Bayonetta)
• Japanese AAA (Final Fantasy, Resident Evil)

This is all based on budget/sales expectations. We intentionally removed "independent" from the buckets. Of course, the lines between these categories are sometimes permeable, so feel free to disagree with the examples.

 

So, the question: if forced to choose only three of these six buckets, which would you choose? And in what order?

 

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