Lasereth

It still doesn't hold a candle to one of the best games of all time? Halo is easily one of the best games of all time. They're both two of the best games ever. They're simply too incredibly different games. Starcraft was constructed for its multiplayer experience. Blizzard knew players would play it long after it was released. That's why the game is crafted around being a multi-player game. Halo is amazing for its single-player experience, even though the multi-player turned out to be way better than expected.

One game is a FPS and one game is a RTS. One game has most of the work put into a single player game, and the other has most of the work done on the multiplayer aspect. Comparing the two isn't possible, especially on "which game is better." If you look at it professionally, Halo got far better reviews than StarCraft. On a gamers' level, they're about equal, with most fans saying that they can't be compared.

That's why I hate these voting games. Earlier on, Soul Calibur was pitted against Kingdom Hearts and lost. Jesus, Soul Calibur is the best fighting game ever crafted. Kingdom Hearts is a decent RPG with a great story, great characters, and a horrid combat system. Which game won? Kingdom Hearts of course, even though Soul Calibur is the best in its league. Bullshit like this is why I don't even visit GameFaqs during the contest. Taking a look at their contest brackets makes me wanna puke. They're pitting sleeper games versus games that people grew up with that weren't that great. Of course the game that people grew up with will win, simply because they remember it in their childhood. RPGs versus action games...fighting games versus RPGs, and fighting games versus Metal Gear Solid. It's impossible to make a good decision on this level, because some of those games are better in some aspects than the game they're against, yet they still lose. Making multiple contests within their own categories would do better, but it wouldn't solve the initial problems.

The bottom line is that the GameFaqs contest isn't a contest of the best game ever, it's a contest of which game more people played and enjoyed. It wouldn't piss me off as much if they renamed the contest to "Which game did you play and enjoy more than the other." That way, gamers could choose the games they've played instead of automatically making assumptions that one game is better than another.

-Lasereth

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