Would've voted Board if the examples were not the most boring board games ever (oh I forgot Reversi and Go). We have enough of those already. So NO for traditional board games, definite YES for modern themed ones (go see the top/hot lists of www.boardgamegeek.com for a few examples). And most of those games are turn-based multiplayer strategy. Just what the audience wants
As far as I'm concerned yes, FF Tactics would be a strategy game. To me it doesn't seem to be that hard to distinguish between action and adventure. A true adventure game should be one that is heavy on story and simply requires thought and problem solving to finish (Infocom and the old Sierra are the best examples of producers of this type of game). An action game requires reflexes. Now you can certainly marry the two, but I prefer to keep my milk and cookies separate .
Sorry to double post, but you guys slipped in a bunch of responses while I was typing. The way I look at it, platformers are definitely not adventure (I'd lump them under action), and while RPGs could be construed as adventure games, the focus there is building up your character, whereas the focus in an adventure game is simply solving the puzzles. This is why questions like this are so tough, because there's always varying opinions on what defines a particular genre of game.
Adventure all the way I love all those shooting/hacking/cutting/sniping games. Sadly, there's not enough of them in the App Store just yet.
First time posting, though I've been reading TA for around two months. I would have to vote for strategy, followed by puzzle, but I like platformers and RPG too.
Funny how the thread is asking for public opinion, yet it's the most incomplete poll I've ever seen, missing several major genres and placing some games in the wrong category (not to mention mentioning only a really narrow range of games the thread starter likes). I guess "RPG", "FPS", "Platformer" and "Classic" doesn't ring a bell in this thread.
