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I agree with ya to a point, but I want to state something from a personal standpoint. Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing are probably my two favorite racing games, ever. The only competition they would have in a bracket of just racing games would be themselves, if I had to decide the winner. Now, with that said, I'd rank Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7, Super Mario World, Starcraft, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Perfect Dark, Megaman 2, and many other games higher...notice that none of those other games I mentioned are racing games. It's not so much that I dislike racing games as the fact that there are games that are very noticably better to me IN MY OPINION. Different genre or not, Diddy Kong Racing, a game I used to love, wouldn't ever get my vote against Halo.

I think GameFAQs tried to be more fair in the match-ups by putting the games in their proper era (except I'd argue Starcraft should be in the 32-64 Division and not the 128...but it's made for alot of excitement there, so hell, I'm glad it's there), because many of the older games wouldn't stand a shot against the newer games; it's the same arguement of when sleeper games that fewer people have played go up against the more popular games that generally got the hype most games didn't. At GameFAQs, well, it's obviously a FAQ-site for games, and many more people need the help and answers to newer games like Super Smash Brother Melee than the older classics like Contra, thus likely having much more of a fanbase. This isn't always the case, but it often-times is.

Yeah, it'd be nice if games could be put in their proper genre, say, in next year's contest...but that'd allow for only four genres (unless you split the 16-seeded brackets into 8-seeded ones, or add more games and brackets but make the contest last forever), so which four would you allow? I think GameFAQs did the best it could, so I support its decision to split it by era and mash all the genres into all the brackets.

Still is, too, but it's slowly losing its lead...and Starcraft has been the fuckin' Comeback King, so don't count it out yet. I've learned something from this contest...never underestimate B.net, heh.

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