I've never heard of this happening.

Even the bugs themselves are very rare.

Similar feelings.

I knew there'd be issues with Skyrim's combat, but there were a number of pretty big let downs despite my skepticism. Alchemy, for one, is a worse system than they had in Oblivion. The crafting skills in general are horribly balanced. The level scaling isn't as good as I'd hoped, but granted still better than Oblivion. Perks are an improvement overall but they clearly didn't take a lot of time balancing them. The magic system was definitely over-hyped, and there are quite a few lackluster spells among an already short list of spells. Combat overall is the same clunky TES style we had in Oblivion, with only a few real improvements. And so on and so on. Still probably a GOTY though.

lol I'm not hating but for these issues to appear weeks or even days or hours after it was release? yeah might want to think about it lol

for those who are saying yes just hope that Bethesda gets a patch before Christmas or before the New Year

I'm shocked we made it to page 2 before someone brought out GOTY being useless.

Not that it matters in the slightest bit if it's the choice of the gods, or rigged like a underground boxing match...

Yeah, but what about the time bomb? Exploding? Hello, McFly!

Honestly, I don't care. It's just a sticker on a box.

Is there a part in the VGA rules/voting explanation that says the voters have to cast their votes based on other peoples experiences on all the platforms?

lol what i mean is that all of these bugs,glitches and so on can cause a system crash hence the word "Exploding" on PC and on Video game consoles lol hence the word "time bomb"

VGA doesnt have the final say, so it doesnt matter. Theres going to be a ton of outlets giving out GotY's. VGA should not be put on top of that list. In fact theyre bottom feeder tier. Game Developers Choice is the closest thing we have to an oscars for games that keeps it respectful.

A sticker on a box to a game I already own.

The whole 11/11/11 thing probably gave it the edge.

But really, even Bethesda would probably believe Dead Island should've won.

Considering most people aren't experiencing these bugs I'd say yes. Sure they removed some fun features but it's still consuming a large majority of people's time.

the voting is based on what the fans think and the critics of the video game world

:P

My console got a red ring playing COD4.



COD4 broke my Xbox!!! Guys it's Infinity Wards fault!

Says who that matters?

So based on that apparently enough fans and critics of the video game world believe it is GOTY to make it GOTY.

yeah pretty much their opinions matter! because if they didn't have an opinion these series/saga/trilogy games will not exist without their opinions

Too many BioWare trolls on these forums hating the game.
I would even have proof for that, if the relevant postings wouldn't have been deleted in the Skyrim-thread on the BioWare forums.

from one site doesn't even say anything about the whole world, if one site/one group gave out GOTY nothing more it would mean something sadly it doesn't just depends on opinions on various sites that are mostly biased one way or another already, the rewards that are decided by public voting is worse and just depends how many fans come vote for it.

There was a thread like this that I posted in about Bethesda getting studio of the year. I feel I should repeat it.

Here's the thing. Most people don't have terrible bugs or some do and just ignore them/reload and have a great experience with the game. These people voted. There is your answer.

"There are things that are beyond my control. I must accept that as a fact of life."

Actually a lot of the trolls are Morrowind players who think that because a game changes over 10 years that the game svcks and that they should complain and make everything better. I have no problem with legitimate suggestions from older players, but the useless complaints of how people are bored are the annoying ones.

People don't seem to realize there is a "war" going on between BioWare fans and Bethesda games. Just like between fans of MW3 and BF3. It's just more subtle.

With the bugs its still GOTY imo. Without the bugs its Game of the last 5 years