Yes you clearly did. We can tell that much from your previous posts:
It did as we've already told you numerous times. There is no big "shebang", there are tons of GOTYs. The most important one is up to you.

Yea, Fallout 4 pretty much has it in the bag for being a large open-world game where you can do anything you want and that it was made/published by Bethesda.

Now for my personal preference?

Have more focus on story, a large array of weapons and armor, interesting characters and story, DEFINITELY weapon modifications. I mean, they already entranced me by putting out my favorite type of airships (OHMYGODZEPPELINS) they just need to back it up with writing and gameplay.

Don't release in the same year with Deus Ex 4.

There is one that I and likely the devs themselves consider to be the "big shebang" and that would be the Game Developers Choice Awards. For all of your peers to vote you as the best offering of the year is easily the highest honor in the industry and GotY was awarded to both FO3 and Skyrim at these awards. It doesn't get any bigger than that.

Calling it, threepeat.

"Bethesda takes third GDC GotY title in a row. Another moment that'll go down in history and anothor step closer to world dominatiuon for the unstoppable juggernaut that is Bethesda. This has been Howorm CoSell with your daily sensationalist news report. Remember if it's not worth blowing out of proportion it's not Neeews."

FO4 could win the prize from me, if it feels more "dynamic" than previous Beth games and if it gives me the feeling that Bethesda has improved a lot from when they made Skyrim. I want to see their NEW innovations in game design. I want to see that Bethesda is still ambitious as [censored].
That's why The Witcher 3 is my GOTY now, they pushed their game to their limits and it shows. P

Be better than the other games ive played that year.

Giant map. Deep characters. Deep plot. The game NOT being so focused on story so that they only have a few side missions. Exploration, side-quests / content on par with Skyrim's or more. (Of course just not so many "go find this in a cave" "this guy has a bounty" missions). More guns and armor than previous Fallouts. I expect Fallout 4 to have these things, or at least most of them. The game has been in the making for a while if I'm not mistaken.

Nothing, anything can win a GOTY nowadays. I mean, the Witcher 3 was bragging about 200 awards before the game had even launched. GOTY awards don't mean [censored] in this day and age.

As for my favourite, it has to be good.

Basically so far with what I've seen it won't win any GOTY award from me, not if it's released this year anyways.

For it to truly feel as alive and interesting, as much as Bethesda likes to think they're games are. I've played pretty much all of their open world games, and for how large and expansive the worlds claim to be, there is not enough nuance or depth. So very often, the plots and overall writing is presented in such a way that outright fails to hide the fact that the entire world and narrative revolve around the player, rather than attempting to appear as their own actual entity. Bethesda is seemingly deathly afraid of ever giving the player true consequences to deal with. For all the urgency some of their quests like to portray, they are never actually urgent, you have all the time in the world to do everything at your own pace. You will pretty much almost never run into a situation where if you wait too long, a quest fails or completes in the way you'd expect if the player never intervenes. You will just about never be forced to choose between multiple settlements or communities to save, resulting in the destruction or significant change in the ones you didn't choose. You will always be able to help/join nearly every faction without repercussion or suspicion from their enemies. My hope at this point is that I am proven wrong.

Simple, by not giving two s word about trying to be GotY and just try to do there best at what they do best, all while not giving a damn what other devs do. Thats what the devs behind Witcher 3, or the devs behind the Last of Us etc did.

That ia all that Bethesda has ever done.

Be better than Witcher 3.

Release

That wouldn't be to hard for Fallout 4 to accomplish. Just like The Witcher 3, fans have been waiting a long time for a new Fallout. All Bethesda has to do is live up to a fraction of expectations and correct some mistakes made in Skyrim.

Well...

....honestly I don't think this game wouldn't be a GOTY, since FO3 had a few buggy situations and it still got it.

Better writing. Limited android shenanigans. Definitely no stupid plot of the PC is an android or any other blade runner stuff. Better quests, and more attention to lore.

If we don't find out what happened from 3, who LW is, etc, that will hurt it as well, for a FO game.

Beat witcher 3 which Bethesda probably couldn't do.

...misread the title.

nothing. even if my char's just born in a vault, crawls out of the door and drops dead right away it's my goty already

He's wanting to know what it would take to be your own personal game of the year. Not enough room in the title for all that it seems.

1) Have at least 80 hours of gameplay. Usually a character on Fallout 3 I clock in about 40-50 hours, and New Vegas 80-90 hours. Minus a few hours spent faffing about in the wastes.

2) Have the same item (weapons, armor, ammo types, weapon mods, health stuff, etc) variety as New Vegas, or more. Fallout 3 felt a bit too close to bare essentials for me.

3) Have the same size map as Fallout 3 or New Vegas, or larger.

4) Include either the Jury Rigging perk or weapon repair kits. Though Fallout 3 is my favourite in the series, my biggest complaint about it was how I needed identical weapons to repair mine, or had to lug it back to town to use Harith to fix them once I ran out of Alien Epoxies.

5) If you're going to include moral choices again, Bethesda, make the majority of them more than Saintly Good and Cartoon Villain Evil. The Pit's final moral choice was an excellent example of what moral choices should be: grey, and up to the player to figure out which is best.

6) Leave the Enclave out, or make just a few remnants appear like in New Vegas. Their time is done, let them fade out.

7) No micro-transactions.

8) No day-one DLC (a la Mass Effect 3's Javik DLC).

That's about it for what I'd need to call it my game of the year.

So far 2015 is Year of the Backlog for me, so my personal GotY award is Fallout 4's to lose.

Personally Life is Strange is in pole position for GOTY, unless continued playing of TW3 changes that (or MKX and pillars of eternity which i've neglected due to exigent exams).

Fallout 4 could go either way for me at this moment, Bethesda has to demonstrate that they can make a FALLOUT game and not just a TES game 鈥?something FONV achieved.

In other words Fallout 4 has to add to what Fallout 3 did by ameliorating some of its biggest falterings, such as writing, C&C and plot etc.

It exists. It already wins in my book.

I'm an easy sell.

Meta Gear Solid 5?The MGS series has an obscenely high metacritic average.

I'd also say pillars of eternity and life is strange but honestly, even though they are great they just don't have the appeal to win GOTY.