Are SPORTS games the worst genre in video games?

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ALL the Mario Parties are awesome. Peopl bitched about 8 being 'more of the same', but considering that it'd be the only 'Party game on Wii, and not everyone can get hold of MP4-7 for the GC.

Even the mic games on 6/7 were awesome. There's a 1vs3 game where the single player is piloting a tank that has voice-activated weaponry, and the 3 have to dodge/shoot the tank. As the tank takes more damage, it becomes less responsive to commands.

Games swiftly turn to
"laser.
Laser!
LASER!!!
LAAAAAYYYYYYZAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"

I'll admit that I enjoyed every Mario Party game, although the first was my favourite.
All, except for number 8 that is. Number 8 wasn't "more of the same" or any such, it was just crappy. I kinda liked the train level a bit, but every single level was just one big circle. There was next to no choices of
direction on any maps. The maps were absolutely terrible and everything else was a dissapointment.