What was your favourite game this year/ what do YOU think should deserve GotY

**Solarflare** · 12-12-2011 03:10 AM

Favourite game this year: Dark Souls
What I think deserves GotY: I havent played Skyrim at all and I don't know much about it, but I think Portal 2 deserves it. Its so..... awesome!

**Maeni** · 12-13-2011 07:47 AM

I'm not sure... Somehow, giving it to Skyrim just seems too easy. It has a shit load of flaws, and it came out so late that it seems to overshadow anything else that came out before it.
But it is good, it is a Bethesda game, so I'm happy that it got GotY.

But otherwise, Bastion was really amazing.

**LikesToTrip** · 12-13-2011 08:53 AM

Dark Souls. Hands down.

Skyrim was extremely buggy to begin with, and then after it was patched was even MORE buggy. Definitely doesn't deserve any awards for that reason alone.

**ShadowOfSelf** · 12-19-2011 02:38 PM

Agreed, Skyrim was amazing at first glance, let down terribly by being rushed and infected with all sorts of stupid bugs. They even rushed the patch - backward flying dragons wtf?!

Havnt played dark souls, will check it out..

I'd vote battlefield 3, for practically spawn killing call of duty (though all the cod fanboys are still gona get a hard on over it)

**Marvo** · 12-19-2011 04:10 PM

I haven't played too many new games this year, though I'd probably have to give it to Portal 2 or Limbo (PC release). While BF3 was decent, it just didn't really catch me.

In all fairness though, I think games have become so different and impressive by now, that it can hard to really point out just one that is the game of the year.

**AURON** · 12-19-2011 05:34 PM

I'd say Mass effect 2, but it only came out this year for the PS3 =/ Soooooo I'd have to give it up to Skyrim because that's the second best 2011 game I played. Special shout out to Bullet Storm though. I enjoyed the campaign in that game.

**Xei** · 12-19-2011 05:42 PM

Portal 2 seemed cool but the design philosophy was pretty flawed. The only thing that Valve were focused on was players of any level of ability or persistence seeing all of the set pieces and hearing all of the script. So they took all of the hard puzzles out because people said the trailer looked mind-bending, and whenever a playtester couldn't work out how to complete a puzzle they would sabotage it until it was straightforward, which is pretty retarded considering they were making a puzzle game, not a movie. Just a very brief contemplation would have shown that what they needed to do was have different chambers for different skill levels, yet apparently this didn't occur to them.

**Marvo** · 12-19-2011 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Auron

I'd say Mass effect 2, but it only came out this year for the PS3 =/ Soooooo I'd have to give it up to Skyrim because that's the second best 2011 game I played. Special shout out to Bullet Storm though. I enjoyed the campaign in that game.

Bullet Storm was fun, I definitely enjoyed it, but it's a shame that Epic didn't build a proper Unreal-like multiplayer. It was an incredibly beautiful game at any rate, but with a lot of flaws.

**LikesToTrip** · 12-19-2011 08:14 PM

Lol. Bulletstorm. I got bored of that game so quickly. The gameplay was stupid easy because you could lasso enemies behind cover, wait for them to slomo 2 feet from you and get the worlds easiest headshots. I felt that was especially lame. And the part where you have to control a dinosaur was absolutely retarded, it's incredibly frustrating when you are forced to use something with retarded AI. Maybe it would have picked up later on in the game, but I didn't want to see it out that far.

**Finlander** · 12-19-2011 08:32 PM

Skyrim, nuff said.

**Marvo** · 12-21-2011 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by LikesToTrip

Lol. Bulletstorm. I got bored of that game so quickly. The gameplay was stupid easy because you could lasso enemies behind cover, wait for them to slomo 2 feet from you and get the worlds easiest headshots. I felt that was especially lame. And the part where you have to control a dinosaur was absolutely retarded, it's incredibly frustrating when you are forced to use something with retarded AI. Maybe it would have picked up later on in the game, but I didn't want to see it out that far.

Absolutely, the game was incredibly flawed, and their intension was not really to make a particularly hard game, just a game where you want to do the most insane kills. If you can't have fun with that, it's understandable you didn't like Bulletstorm.

**tommo** · 12-21-2011 12:14 PM

Well, Minecraft full version was released this year. Not sure if that counts though.

Honestly didn't play many new games this year.

**Meeps** · 12-21-2011 12:14 PM

Rummikub!

**Marvo** · 12-21-2011 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by tommo

Well, Minecraft full version was released this year. Not sure if that counts though.

Honestly didn't play many new games this year.

**tommo** · 12-21-2011 01:16 PM

Opinions are fun.

**lifeinsteps** · 12-23-2011 05:56 AM

Skyrim was easily probably the best game released this year.

That being said, it was very flawed. As were almost all other games this year.

This year delivered a lot of promises and didn't quite pull everything off as well as it could.

Titles worth mentioning would definitely be Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Portal 2. All of those were interesting game design and very awesome.

Gears of War 3 gets the award for the best amount of sequel improvement.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gets the award for worst amount of sequel improvement.

I don't want to be mean, but Modern Warfare 3 honestly didn't really improve over Modern Warfare 2 at all. It was very disappointing...

**Carôusoul** · 12-23-2011 05:59 AM

Dark Souls is the best game of the year. Anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.

**Solarflare** · 12-24-2011 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Dark Souls is the best game of the year. Anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.

**Carôusoul** · 12-25-2011 12:52 AM

Yes, my child.

**IndieAnthias** · 12-26-2011 12:14 AM

I didn't play many games this year either... Portal was a blast though. I agree with Xei's criticism but co-op with my old mate was a blast. He kept coming up with solutions that involved me sacrificing myself. Lots of fun.

**LbV** · 01-02-2012 11:07 PM

Skyrim was obviously going to win. It's the next Elder Scrolls game, 5 years of anticipation and hype, along with the dedicated fan base pretty much guaranteed that it'd win. Personally I wanted Deus Ex Human Revolution to win and it didn't even get nominated.

MW3 didn't win and that's enough to keep me happy.

**Solarflare** · 01-02-2012 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by LbV

Skyrim was obviously going to win. It's the next Elder Scrolls game, 5 years of anticipation and hype, along with the dedicated fan base pretty much guaranteed that it'd win. Personally I wanted Deus Ex Human Revolution to win and it didn't even get nominated.

MW3 didn't win and that's enough to keep me happy.

oh I love Deus Ex

**LbV** · 01-02-2012 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Solarflare

oh I love Deus Ex

Me too, I need to play it again. But I lent it to someone, that's always how it goes isn't it? You lend a game or movie to someone and that's all you want to play/watch.

I got the first two on steam on one of their many deals but haven't finished them yet. First one is pretty difficult. I think I'm close to the end.