SSB Melee vs Guitar Hero II

Tonight marks the start of Melee's march to the Game of the Decade title, and I'm thinking it kicks off that title run in a big way. Trouble is, I fear expecations of a blowout may have risen a little TOO high in the wake of the way RB2 stumbled out of the gate. As in, some people are honestly expecting SSB to gun for an unheard of 90% in this one... yikes! Now, if we were looking at anything from GH3 and onwards in this #16 spot instead I could see that being a possibility, but Guitar Hero II is the only game in the genre that all music fans can agree on. (Because it was the last game that Harmonix made before splitting off to start the Rock Band franchise, fracturing support for guitar games into two rival camps.) GH2 was also the last entrant before the genre "sold out" (or whatever) in the minds of many by putting out all these band-specific games and generally releasing a new music game every other month.

In other words, I don't see anti-voting being as big of a problem as some are making it out to be. If Melee's going to turn this into a laughter, I'll have to do so on the strength of its own popularity combined with how hardly anyone outside of North America "gets" music games. And honestly, I think that alone will be more than enough to push past Fallout 3's mark for "blowout of the season". Anything much past that, like say 85% and beyond, would be hugely impressive IMO.

(PS - Rock Band 3 is great.)

Super Smash Bros. Melee - 83.13%

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