I have sucessfully completed the main quest yesterday as a level 49 (one handed, archery, sneak, light armor) toon. I played on a Sony VAIO laptop. /sigh. This game was definately not ready for release. At the end, most of the Dragon Shouts were unavailable for my use. The only Dragon shouts which worked were given to my toon by NPC's. None of the shouts discovered at the Walls ever worked.

critics give awards reviews and scores, fans give personal tastes.
there are differences between those two types of opinions, big differences, and the game that wins GOTY gets it because critics balanced and measured the game to be exeptional among the best games.

its a seal of quality in gaming industry, just like emmys for series and oscars for cinema etc.
"lesser" quality games dont win GOTY, only the best do.

GOTY for me, no problems with it so far and it really has hooked me. :tes:

Except PONG. Maaaaaybe the presence of bugs has something to do with increasing complexity, but that's just a wiiiiiild guess. Gimme a bugs/line of code and we might get a measure more sensible than "ahh [censored] it, I had a bad day and this bug does it for me", or "Ahhh! I had a wonderful day, and no amount of bugs is sinking this day for me".

It's going to win GOTY. It deserves it. Even in its broken state.

Pssst! *whisper* You need to unlock those with dragon souls you gather from slayed dragons... wink, wink! :tes:

If pong were released today, player controlled paddles would disappear randomly during play and the ball wouldn't actually be in the game until it became available as some sort of DLC.

But seriously, just because something is more complex doesn't mean it's incapable of being mastered. Bethesda has fixed a good number of bugs in the month since release. What does that mean? If they had waited another month to release, there would have been that many fewer bugs in the game and critics/gamers impressions of the game would have been that much better.

Instead they pushed it out on some arbitrary date, probably one decided on by the marketing group who has nothing to do with the games development, and this is what we got.

People who say "oh well, big games gonna have bugs yo" do nothing but reinforce Bethesdas decision to release a buggy product.

Like I said previously, if you only demand mediocrity, you're never going to get anything more.

No game with such an atrocious UI deserves to be declared best game of the year. It's as if twenty years of advancements in software and game development just haven't happened.

I dont get it - how can Skyrim be in the Game of the Year Section, and yet doesn't get listed in the Best PC, Xbox or PS3 game? :unsure:

I absolutely agree. The game awards should value consistency and functionality in a game. Do not get me wrong, Skyrim is simply beautiful and fantastic, but I have not been impressed by many of the glitches and bugs in the game. Perhaps in the future, Bethesda should dedicate more time to the beta testing stages of development. I am more than certain that their dedicated fans, us, would rather wait an extra month for a 100% finished game rather than have our gaming experience ruined by bugs.

This ^

As some one else said...Sweet Link.

Voted Skyrim.

Yes, I just deleted my level 39 Orc (My first character, no specific type, I was just trying to get a feel for things)
Level 28 Imperial Sword and Board/Sneak/Bow and Arrow/Theives Guild Master.
Level 12 Argonian Dark Brotherhood Mage/Bow and Arrow.

Just made my Dark Elf Necromancer...not going any weapons this time, only Bound weapons/Magic for me.

Out of all the new games: Never have I wanted to stay up till 3-4 am every day of each week to play a game since Oblivion, and before that Morrowind, and before that, Final Fantasy Tactics for PSone.

Skyrim is my GOTY by a long shot. Playing on the 360 because my PC is pretty bad now. Not that I really care too much because it looks and plays fantastic on the 360. I'm am constantly blown away by how amazing this game is. That's being totally honest too. No fan boy love. If it svcked I'd be the first to say so. Skyrim has gone beyond all my expectations and has quickly become one of my favorite games of all time.

I Voted on skyrim,no way batman could win.
-Playng on pc(ultra quality,is amazing)
-Lvl 52,Breton
-Just got obvilion walker achiviment.
Im loving the game soo far,I just need to find more quests!

Hehe.


I didn't say it couldn't theoretically be mastered. But resources are limited; even gov funded NASA wrecked calculator-size computerized space ships! But I do think ratio of error / line of code remains somewhat linear, add on top faster growing interdependency bugs though, and the code base for Skyrim is orders of orders of magnitude bigger than pong. Also, no, the release to 8.000.000 people playing it 200h a day (haha) got them the feedback, they couldn't do that in-house! Swtor tries in a series of huge closed/half-open/open betas, but that cannot be a model for every dev team, certainly it's overkill for a SP imho.


At some point you have to go public, and in an instant your feedback base explodes from 800 to 8.000.000 people. The numbers of returned buys are a real measure for customer satisfaction, not 500 people complaining on a forum. I'd wish they'd release the numbers, but why should they. My guess the game is a huge success, better than expected maybe. And that was by no means guaranteed. And in turn this will give us a next installment of the series, that I'm happy about and looking forward to in 3 years or so, and ensure the continued existence of Bethesda who happen to make games I enjoy tremendously.

Also, I played three different play-style chars on PC for hours upon hours upon hours. And the worst thing I encountered was Whiterun Stable Louis, and 3 dudes in Talos' Shrine in Markarth still wanting me dead after I did the Mine quest. That's it. You most certainly can release a game like this. I'm happy they did, when they did.

I don't put much stalk in an award that favors games that haven't been played much yet. The whole vote is based more on the hype than it is the actual game. Seems kind of a joke that a broken game can win GOTY. Additionally, the game "may" be fixed in January - possibly longer. Not even this year.

If you look at time vs. money paid, as a single player game, which is what it is, it wins by default. I have 138hours at the moment, saw a lot less bugs in oblivion, the game crashed 4 times in those 138 hours, and overall i had a great experience.

To each his own, i enjoyed the game, and will continue enjoying it long after it's release. I will most likely clock around a 500 hours, which is about my combined play with Oblivion. Again, to each his own, and I will disagree that some of the games there should at all be there, but hey.

Skyrim is the only game I want to play, so for me it is Game of the Decade. But I can see very clearly that it is not GotY material. Too many launch bugs and too much cross platform performance issues. Maybe it can be GotY for Xbox? For PC and PS3... I think not.

svcks to be you, truly sorry.

I have had a grand total of one CTD since release. Running about 20+ mods, every detail on ultra. Have done Skyrim marathon gaming sessions where I don't sleep on a weekend and have Skyrim running 7 or 8 hours straight without a single hitch, /yay me

As always Skyrim works fine, no bugs here, my GOTY.

Can't believe it! I tried to vote skyrim but accidentally clicked zelda. Arrrrgh! I mean zelda is one of the very few games I really dislike :banghead: One beer too much it seems

What's the problem with the PC version now? It works perfect for me, and my computer is 3 years old. We get mods on PC, any problem you have will be corrected!

Anyways, voted for Skyrim.

This game is the king of the bugs on pc.

I vote your post as OdpotY

Over dramatic post of the year

Howard: "What a fool you are... I'm a Todd! How can you kill a Todd? What a grand and intoxicating innocence! How could you be so naive?!""

"Come, lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy."

Edit: On the PS3 version: "Hehehe, did you get the false copy of Skyrim? Shame on you! Hehehe!"