LeonhartFour posted...
Personally, I'm kinda surprised MGS1 actually ended up ahead of Mario 3! I figured Mario 3 would stay ahead of it.
The RPI respects MGS1 though, at least!
Yeah, well, I suspect the two are at least somewhat related. I, for one, moved MGS up a bit not so much because I was impressed with its most recent result but because I realized that its previous wins were more impressive than I'd previously given it credit for. Although it does still have this nasty tendency to let a lot of games get close to it.
I was more surprised at SM64 moving ahead of SMW right at the end. It really looked as though SMW was going to jump it, and then SM64 made the late move. Then again, ALttP spent most of the voting topic stuck behind both Galaxy games and ended up ahead of them in the end, so I guess early results don't really mean much.
Also: the three ranked Zelda games are now in the order that the direct results dictate! Sure, it's kind of meaningless because Majora's Mask also lost to the very much unranked Wind Waker, but it's good to see Majora's Mask starting to get some respect! It did, after all, beat both Metal Gear Solid and Ocarina of Time and got 48% on A Link to the Past. (As I mentioned before, I'm still amazed that after barely making the preseason top 25, Metal Gear Solid managed to remain in the top 25 after losing in Week 3. Final Fantasy IX didn't lose until Week 6, and it...
...wait, Final Fantasy IX should have been in bold, after all. I could've sworn that it had gotten thrown out of the Top 25 at some point, but upon further review, it just narrowly managed to hang on. Need until it was 9-1 to even get back into the top 20, but yeah, never actually unranked. Even though there are still people leaving it off their ballots, with it at 15-2 and once again in the RPI top 10.
Oh, darn it, I started a parenthetical and then ended up on another paragraph. ), just to close that off.
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