I definitely think it deserves GOTY. No other game can match the excitement and awe that an open-world game like this makes you feel. Also I have seen almost no bugs so far and any that I have seen don't take away from the overall experience at all

From I was looking at on their site, the Spike VGAs are [censored]. Skyrim was up for Overall Game of the Year but not PC Game of the Year. I hate when awards do that because, in this case, whichever ends up winning PC Game of the Year isn't the actual PC Game of the Year. Skyrim is.

Is Skyrim the bestest best game of all time? Nope, far from it (though it'll be quite a bit closer with mods).

Is Skyrim the best game this year? Most definitely! Sure, there are some things that are lacking, and some bugs, but I have so far, after some 120 hours of play, had less than 5 crashes, and only one bug, which was solved with a restart of the game. I haven't even seen a backwardsflying dragon or a mammoth spontaneously spawning 10000 ft in the air :sadvaultboy:

Here, a guide to decide if Skyrim is your GOTY:

Is your Skyrim buggy and kind of broken? If it is, it isn't your GOTY.
Is your Skyrim ok and kind of flawless? If it is, it is your GOTY.

Really people, I think it's GOTY because it runs very well FOR ME. If it runs bad FOR YOU it's okay to not think that it's GOTY. Why is everyone trying to change other peoples opinions about their personal experiences with the game?

It definitely deserves the title! We haven't seen the full potential of it yet. Bethesda promised to release the same construction set they used to create this game which means it could turn out something like Neverwinter Nights, a game with a long life with new adventures.

Jesus, you act as though this game is the only game in existence that has problems. Any game, program, os can cause a PC, console to crash at any moment. Skyrim is not the only game to ever have issues and it won't be the last. Big deal you and a bunch of other people had issues. I've experienced some bugs myself but the overall experience has been amazing and I don't think any of the issues I've experienced have been game breaking. So, do I think it deserves GOTY? [Censored] yes it does! Now, quite focusing on the bad and go play the game.

Easily game of the year for me, even with the bugs.

Agree. I voted Arkham City. Under no corcumstances is it okay to release a game, patch day one for stability issues, and continue to have issues. Companies like Naughty Dog, Blizzard, iD, all have a when it's done mentality. I know $$ factors, but I would rather something be late and perfect Red Dead, then flawed and on time.

And how many of them make games of the same scope as Bethesda? Totally different beast! Your talking Einstein vs Elmer Fudd, technically speaking.

If it won it then it deserved it.

Just want to give my .02 cents on this topic. My first play through, 165 hours, I only encountered two bugs. Backwards flying dragon note the singular version and the resistance bug. Now that was all fixed recently for PC so my game is now running without any problems. Now my second play through has been a bit different. I have about 3 bugged quests and only like 10th hours of gameplay.

So it is very plausible that on their first play through for judging could have been 100% bug free much like my first play through.

They changed so many things with the game and worked hard on it, so yes they do deserve it.

"Oh but it has glitches!"

Can you name one game that didn't have any glitches at all on release? Or even several years after realease? And what about a game as huge and complicated as skyrim?

"But hundreds of people on the forums have glitches"

But how many millions of people bought they game and havent found bugs that are so bad that they need to rush to the forums to complaign?

No, it doesn't because there are not actually 7,000 individual steps to High Hrothgar. Clearly it's the worst game ever made in the history of games and everyone associated with it should be tortured and put to death.

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1. OP had the longest sentence I've seen in quite a while. Don't be afraid of punctuations and capital letters!

2. Yes, I do think Skyrim definitly desvers to win GoTY! It's a great game, and most of the faults with the game are bugs (that can be fixed), not the game itself.

Nope, not at all. The primary reason being it was rushed and the patches that came broke more than it fixed. But a very close secondary reason is its lack of identity resulting in Oblivion 2 with dragons and the various missed opportunities for character growth. Skyrim looks pretty but severely lacks depth - examples of this are civil war (mindless raids *5 + 1 theft + 2 city sieges = war over) and the various guild quest. I could go on and on to back up my argument - some dude in Whiterun gives you one liner about a family sword, Mjoll lost her sword in a dwaven ruin so please be her errand boy, another Black Briar wants you to track down his fiance, one of the thanes in Whiterun wants you to commit forgery and jailbreak and their entire stories are told in 3 sentences. Want to kill bandits? Ask for bounties across the 9 holds, but every bandit be they Forsworn or Marauders are just there for you to look good in combat. All the actors in the drama of Skyrim tell the PC 150 times in 10 different ways, "go to dungeon x, help me retrieve an item and I'll give you gold/be your follower/betray you for loot so kill me. kthxbye."

Skyrim is a repetitive dungeon crawler wrapped around the pretensions of empowering the player with freedom. Could I have played politics without letting blood flow in the civil war? Did I have any choice in the outcome of the Forsworn Conspiracy by resolving a deep racial crisis in Makarath? Can I outsmart the Black Briars, engage in a power struggle against them by using their lust and greed against them and truly make a positive impact on Riften? No, not at all. Just follow the quest markers and make superficial decisions in the veins of keep the loot for yourself or turn it in for leveled loot.

For me, the only 3 things that earn praise in Skyrim are the music, the dragon fights and exploring. I'll give Jeremy Soule best composer of the year. But dragons get old after fighting your 10th. They are just artifacts of destruction with zero interaction for the player - an even more shallow form of the Deadric gods. At least those have personalities. I have to make dragon fights an adrenaline pumping affair for myself by playing on patch 1.2, and even in 1.3 I'll gladly take off my resistance gear just to experience epic fights to the death. Civil war's highlight is the battle for Whiterun, and unfortunately that's one small portion of Skyrim's major strife.

I'm probably going to trade in my 360 copy by next week after I'm done with Champions and MQ. Sorry, but Skyrim is probably my least positive experience with TES and one I'm glad to be over and done with. Next year I've allocated time slots for Bioshock: Infinite, Metal Gear Solid: Rising and GTA V. Not going to wait for quests to be patched.

Nope, Skyrim is shallow and boring. So many other games this year were much more interesting/polished/fun/less bugs etc etc etc... Doesn't deserve it at all IMO.

Edit: The post above mine pretty much is how I feel... Thanks for going into detail.

it totally deserved GOTY!

To be able to say No, I'd have to figure out a game that would deserve GotY more than Skyrim, which I can't. So, Yes it deserves it.

Absolutely not. The game is a watered down rehash of Oblivion, and Morrowind before it. The RPG elements svck. The combat svcks. The magic svcks. The dialogue svcks. The story is okay. The quest-lines svck. Talk about your recency-effect. The game barely has enough depth to warrant spending 20 hours on it.

GOTY should have gone to DXHR; even though there was so much wrong with that game too.

Skyrim won, not because it was any sort of great game, but because this year svcked for video games.

Because apparently the opinion of those who have played for a few hundred enjoyable hours with negligible issues is null/void.

I have nothing but compassion for those who have had issues and major bugs, but I don't get their aggression towards the players that have not.

It's like you should feel guilty for enjoying the game. How dare you.

Yet you find the time to moan on the forums about it?

Gee your life is fun.

They jelly.

I know. A terrible thing these forums. Everything biased in favor of the game. My life is quite fun, actually. Every once in a while I like to express my discontent for a product I paid good money for and was terribly disappointed by.

It didn't deserve to win any awards. The game is bugged and lacking in quests.