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Playguuu
Profile Joined April 2010
United States926 Posts
November 30 2011 19:42 GMT
#81
Skyrim easily. The most awe inspiring goty; Large scale, beautiful world with dragons. How could it lose?
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Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
November 30 2011 19:42 GMT
#82
I think Skyrim should get it easily. I'm offended to see Dungeon Siege III on a poll option, biggest disappointment ever.
Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
November 30 2011 19:45 GMT
#83
On December 01 2011 04:35 Grettin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2011 04:29 synapse wrote:
I'm thinking Skyrim is going to take it. Still, the amount of competition this year is insane.


I think next year will be even more insane.

Dota 2, Diablo 3, HoTS, Guild Wars 2, CS:GO(?).. what else i'm missing?

mass effect 3
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8148 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-30 19:47:39
November 30 2011 19:46 GMT
#84
most of hte good games i played this year were too similar to past games to really captivate me.

uncharted 3 and portal 2 were great, but I will probably not remember them that well in the future, and they each disappointed me in some ways (both played it way too safe, and then had their own slight problems (uncharted 3 felt too rushed in the 2nd half, portal 2 had some really lame puzzles)).

gears 3 and crysis 2 were OK. gears 3 was probably the best gears, but there are just other better cover-based 3rd person shooters out there now (namely vanquish, which mops the floor with ANY 3rd person shooter lol). crysis 2 was probably the best FPS in a while (single-player at least), although not nearly as good as the original crysis.

i havent played arkham city, but i've had it for like a week from gamefly and just ZERO motivation to open the game lol.i have absolutely no interest in any of the elder scrolls games so I wont be playing skyrim either.

bastion is probably the only game i've played this year that I was completely satisfied with to the end. it's strange how much of a good impression that game has left on me. it's just a fantastic game. so that is my vote for now lol

although I still want to play dark souls after this semester ends.
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DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
November 30 2011 19:49 GMT
#85
Dark Souls for me.
Eogris
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States148 Posts
November 30 2011 19:51 GMT
#86
Hmm I feel like it will come down to skyrim and skyward sword.
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Enox
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany1667 Posts
November 30 2011 20:10 GMT
#87
Batman for sure! i guess it didnt get many votes yet because the release was only 5 days ago for PC and here arent that many console players on TL
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NEOtheONE
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2233 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-30 20:23:40
November 30 2011 20:22 GMT
#88
On December 01 2011 03:52 On_Slaught wrote:
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On December 01 2011 03:44 N4ppy wrote:
Diablo 3....oh, wait....


They might as well hand out next years GOTY award to Blizzard now. Diablo is a little lucky to be avoiding all these powerhouse games this year. I don't expectthe pool next year to be nearly as deep.


Mass Effect 3 comes out next year though. On the other hand Blizzard has like 3 shots at GotY. HotS, Diablo 3, and WoW expansion.
Abstracts, the too long didn't read of the educated world.
Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
November 30 2011 20:29 GMT
#89
On December 01 2011 05:22 NEOtheONE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2011 03:52 On_Slaught wrote:
On December 01 2011 03:44 N4ppy wrote:
Diablo 3....oh, wait....


They might as well hand out next years GOTY award to Blizzard now. Diablo is a little lucky to be avoiding all these powerhouse games this year. I don't expectthe pool next year to be nearly as deep.


Mass Effect 3 comes out next year though. On the other hand Blizzard has like 3 shots at GotY. HotS, Diablo 3, and WoW expansion.

in terms of popularity every game is a joke compared to d3, even HoTS
Workforce
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden70 Posts
November 30 2011 20:29 GMT
#90
I expected skyrim to get a ridiculous amount of votes and was not dissapointed. The game has many many flaws (as previous posters have pointed out) but the thing is that people are willing to completly overlook them because it's still a very fun game to play despite all it's flaws.

Deus Ex: human revolution gets my vote. Its a really great game that has pretty much everything; good soundtrack, good story and NPC interaction, good gameplay etc.
Zocat
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2229 Posts
November 30 2011 20:33 GMT
#91
On December 01 2011 02:05 SheaR619 wrote:
You argue that it is boring because of repetition? I can argue that this game is FAR from repetitive because it allows you to be basically any class you want. So you can kill them with magic, weapons, stealth mode, tanks mode, bare fist, archery anything....I dont see how that repetitive. I dont see what more you would want...

lvl system is mainly the player opinion. It make the player want to try new thing and explores the game. Sure, it can be broken but that why it is a one player game. Although I personally like it.

I find the voice acting to be amazingly good and the freedom to basically do what ever you want. It makes you want to explore and travel and discover all of skyrim. That is what it means to be a good RPG.

Better AI? It incredibly hard to make AMAZING AI, I think the AI in this game are already good. You must not play alot of these game so you dont understand how hard it is to make a good AI.

Anyways, your main concern is bugs and bugs can be fix with patches. There we go, GOTY right there.

You list alot of flaws but you dont list what can be improved. I dont really see what more you can ask for....


I have to say I didnt play it for very long (~15hours)
The AI is incredible bad. And no it's not incredible hard to build an AI which will not stop acting as soon as their target moves to a hard to reach position.
And the game is repetitive. If we use your points "you can be every class you want" we have the replay value problem
A good RPG has restrictions - so having every possible option available is imho not that good.
This is something I completely miss from Skyrim - are there any big decisions? My actions dont really seem have consequences (as I mentioned only played ~15hours). Apart from which side to pick in the war of course.
And from some memes ("Become Archmage - if you have the aptitude you should join the mages college at winterhold") it seems NPCs dont really react to past events (which they should).

Also there's basically no balance. Stealth Archer with Blacksmithing & Enchanting. Everything dies in 2-3 hits even on master vs S&B.
They also didnt solve the enemy-scaling problem. While it's definitely better compared to Oblivion - do I really want to run into a random cave and one-shot everything there, since it's 0 challenge? Though I dont really know how to fix that problem ("too easy" vs "those random bandits are wearing more expensive gear than me!"). Maybe a difficulty meter for each Q, so I dont waste my time 1shotting bandits when I'm looking for a challenge, but have the option to when I want.

Not saying it's a mediocre game or a 7. But I dont know if it's GOTY.
But imho GOTY is stupid anyway - since everyone has a personal opinion. And just because more people like something doesnt mean its better
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2101 Posts
November 30 2011 20:38 GMT
#92
Skyrim hands down. i'm loving it everything, 60 hours through now and still haven't scratched the surface lol.
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Serelitz
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands2895 Posts
November 30 2011 20:41 GMT
#93
Wow, this year really had so many good games come to think about it - skyrim, deus ex, portal 2, skyward sword etc. I really think Skyrim will take it (and rightfully so) but the other games this year are pretty sick as well.

It's been a good year.
daemir
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland8662 Posts
November 30 2011 20:42 GMT
#94
Skyrim, 3 patches after the mod tools have been released. That's when most of the bugs have been ironed out and mods have supplied content like story, better combat, items that actually matter, nerfed the crafting and hope to god maybe even add in more voice actors so you don't talk to the same male or female voice all game long.
The vanilla game is a good platform, but the content shipped is nearly exclusively the game world and locations. Rest of it is really pretty bad.
NEOtheONE
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2233 Posts
November 30 2011 20:43 GMT
#95
On December 01 2011 05:29 Assault_1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2011 05:22 NEOtheONE wrote:
On December 01 2011 03:52 On_Slaught wrote:
On December 01 2011 03:44 N4ppy wrote:
Diablo 3....oh, wait....


They might as well hand out next years GOTY award to Blizzard now. Diablo is a little lucky to be avoiding all these powerhouse games this year. I don't expectthe pool next year to be nearly as deep.


Mass Effect 3 comes out next year though. On the other hand Blizzard has like 3 shots at GotY. HotS, Diablo 3, and WoW expansion.

in terms of popularity every game is a joke compared to d3, even HoTS


The entire Diablo series including all expansions has only sold 20 million copies. Feel free to have a look at the best selling video game series and you'll see many things are far more popular.
Abstracts, the too long didn't read of the educated world.
sekalf
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden522 Posts
November 30 2011 20:46 GMT
#96
On December 01 2011 05:33 Zocat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2011 02:05 SheaR619 wrote:
You argue that it is boring because of repetition? I can argue that this game is FAR from repetitive because it allows you to be basically any class you want. So you can kill them with magic, weapons, stealth mode, tanks mode, bare fist, archery anything....I dont see how that repetitive. I dont see what more you would want...

lvl system is mainly the player opinion. It make the player want to try new thing and explores the game. Sure, it can be broken but that why it is a one player game. Although I personally like it.

I find the voice acting to be amazingly good and the freedom to basically do what ever you want. It makes you want to explore and travel and discover all of skyrim. That is what it means to be a good RPG.

Better AI? It incredibly hard to make AMAZING AI, I think the AI in this game are already good. You must not play alot of these game so you dont understand how hard it is to make a good AI.

Anyways, your main concern is bugs and bugs can be fix with patches. There we go, GOTY right there.

You list alot of flaws but you dont list what can be improved. I dont really see what more you can ask for....


Also there's basically no balance. Stealth Archer with Blacksmithing & Enchanting. Everything dies in 2-3 hits even on master vs S&B.


Then dont play it that way?
If you want it to be harder, you dont use the overpowered stuff.
Blacksmithing and enchanting is pretty much broken, but its pretty easy to just ignore those skills. Its a single player game, you make your own rules.
RoyalCheese
Profile Joined May 2010
Czech Republic745 Posts
November 30 2011 20:46 GMT
#97
For me it's easily portal 2...skyrim and deus ex were nice games, but portal 2 i enjoyed literally 100% of and the humor/gameplay are right up my alley...
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sung_moon
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10110 Posts
November 30 2011 20:48 GMT
#98
went with dark souls but i bet its either gonna come down to skyrim (playing it not and enjoying but not nearly as much as dark souls) or new zelda (haven't touched it but every has hyped it up so its gotta be good)

prolly skyrim in the end tho
Forever Young
Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
November 30 2011 20:50 GMT
#99
On December 01 2011 05:43 NEOtheONE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2011 05:29 Assault_1 wrote:
On December 01 2011 05:22 NEOtheONE wrote:
On December 01 2011 03:52 On_Slaught wrote:
On December 01 2011 03:44 N4ppy wrote:
Diablo 3....oh, wait....


They might as well hand out next years GOTY award to Blizzard now. Diablo is a little lucky to be avoiding all these powerhouse games this year. I don't expectthe pool next year to be nearly as deep.


Mass Effect 3 comes out next year though. On the other hand Blizzard has like 3 shots at GotY. HotS, Diablo 3, and WoW expansion.

in terms of popularity every game is a joke compared to d3, even HoTS


The entire Diablo series including all expansions has only sold 20 million copies. Feel free to have a look at the best selling video game series and you'll see many things are far more popular.

yes but diablo is PC-only, a lot of games get most of their sales from console. Considering within just the PC domain I think it's pretty high up.
Dudemeister
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden314 Posts
November 30 2011 20:50 GMT
#100
Skyrim will take it. It's quite possibly one of the best single player games of all time
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