The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Wins Game of The Year +

Bethesda wins big at the 2011 VGA’s.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Wins Game of the Year

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home Game of the Year at last night's Video Game Awards Show, and deservedly so. The popular role playing game beat out all others this year for Game of the Year, RPG of the Year, and Bethesda Game Studios took home Studio of the Year as well.

The award comes with some controversy however as some gamers asked how award givers could overlook some of the issues that still plague the game post-launch. The game is undoubtedly one of the best this year, and hopefully these kinks that have affected some players will get ironed out over the course of the lifespan of this massive open-world experience, and ultimately silence the critics.

The RPG beat out Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception for the win as Game of the Year. Was this your game of the year? Let us know in the comments section, and vote for your favorite games in our Reader's Choice Poll.

By Al McCarthy on December 11, 2011

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AIRFREAK

There goes my 30$
Silenthawx

Definitively think Uncharted 3 shouldn’t won if you consider the playablity of the game. Skyrim won since they decided not to factor in textures, loading, and looked at the package as a whole. Provided, I wanted skyrim to win as well so its all good. Only problem was the best shooter awards. Really? MW3? -_-
- That Guy
  
  pretty sure skyrim had better textures. and it has a ton more content than almost any game out there. all uncharted had was a good campaign and a mediocre(in my opinion) multiplayer.
- Silenthawx
  
  It had good art but decent textures, mostly on the console iterations. Facial animations were poor at best but overshadowed by the massive map and environment. Uncharted was good all around but the defining feature that skyrim had over uncharted was probably the replayability given its massive quest log and objectives.
- Cool dude
  
  Uncharted 3 was amazing…. well its campaign but its multiplayer is pretty dull… not dull but average.
  
  Skyrim has an unlimited amount of replay-ability though. UC3 has a solid campaign but its a linear one.
- Allen
  
  Nah, I love Uncharted and it’s online play. But as long as one of the big 3 won GOTY – Uncharted 3, Batman Arkaham City and Skyrim.
  
  Also disapointed about the FPS award, the least innovative and unchanged game won.
Zentrix

I won my bet if you thought anything else was going to win consider yourself silly lol
SpazticAssassin

Well deserved. They still gotta fix the game tho.
Ed

I knew, ever since this was announced at E3, that this would be be GOTY. Glad’ to hear, an amazing game, that probably raised-the bar for RPG’s.
Dovahkiin

Called it.
Bacon

I want more rpg or stealth type games than shooters
Br@D

Meh, Game became really repetitive.
Batman: Arkham City should have won.
reality

Not surprising a game that has infinite side missions, dragons to kill, and a shit load of content would win. I’m loving Skyrim. Uncharted 3 is good but not great, 4 of the 11 mp maps are from 2, hell the mp is Uncharted 2! I mean you can create a character, but its very limited and overpriced, cmon $15,000 for some gloves?!? Not to mention the graphics are truly barely better than 2, 2 set the bar high and 3 just couldn’t top it.
- taz
  
  Are you insane? Uncharted 3 easily had the best graphics of any game this generation. The sheer texture work and detail on that ship level for a start . Then it flipped over. Skyrim has none of these amazing moments and is absolutely full of bugs at least on consoles.
  
  If this category was PC game of the year then fair enough but seeing the PS3 version is all but broken and gets worse the longer it is played it is unfair to dub a developer of the year award to Bethesda.
  
  Knowing the PS3 version was broken they shouldn’t have released the game on this platform so it is very poor form what they have put players through with this platform.
  
  Now it just looks like thanks to ignorant fools they can just continue to do this as who cares right they are easily the best Developer of the year as they can make open world games despite them being broken and rushed.
  
  Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves and not accept this award. It should go to someone line Valve for Portal 2 which was such an amazingly funny game and way more entertaining than Skyrim ever will be.
- That Guy
  
  battlefield and crysis 2 easily had best all around graphics than UC3. skyrim beast every game in terms of content(seeing as its unlimited) and immersion.you cant play the campaign of UC3 in any other way, its much too linear. so where does that leave it beating the competition?
- That Guy
  
  my grammar failed lol.
SKIN503

Skyrim had my vote all the way! Good to see, awesome experience!
Bryant

Man, what a great year for gaming. This year we had duke Nukem, donkey kong country 2, Mario kart 64, medal of honor allied assault, Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve, the Playstation 1 demo disc, and Super Scope 6…….what a year
IHATETROLLS

that and the fact that skyrim is a whole lot easier than oblivion or fallout makes it an interesting rpg for a lot of other gamers and that is not referring to the hundreds of exploits in the game.
bozmanbeyond

I really feel bad for PS3 owners who have Skyrim and can’t truly enjoy the game. What really sets this game apart from the other contenders was the fact of endless hours you could get in this game, there is no set path, you can do as you please. Ya, you could finish the main story but guess what? The game just doesn’t end no rolling credits you just adventure on word. The combat system is terrific, so many ways to fight and styles of playing. Also huge replay value.

Don’t get me wrong the other games were great also, but once your done, your done. You’ve beating it, you got your ending, and you felt done. Bag, tag,shelve it or trade it. Even the multilayer for Uncharted was fun, for a bit. And you can only beat up the same Joker goons for so long and then you feel like your in a repeating cycle. Then Zelda wore me out, I don’t see a repeat in that either. The one thing about Portal 2, we forgot about it until VGAs came along. It came out a bit too soon. In the back of our brains we knew it was there but we all played it beat it then shelved it, some of us did dusted it off and played a bit and shelved it again.

In the end I loved every one of them, but Skyrim still has me locked in. If it wasn’t for Skyrim Uncharted and Batman would have been a tough one to decide from.
- Allen
  
  Dude you’re a dumb ass. This game is great on PS3, I’ve spent countless hours playing it. After about 8 straight hours I do get some lag but all you gotta do is save it, quit and restart. Then you are good for another 8 hours.
  
  All versions are full of bugs and isn’t it Skyrim that 360 had such poor textures on? Hum…
- bozmanbeyond
  
  Allen you’re THE dumb ass here. Have you not seen the major complaints from people about how bad it can be on the PS3, do I have to give you all the links just to refresh you memory?
  
  Another thing, Poor texture? Who F’ing cares I play purely for its game play. We all know HOW GODLY THE PS3 is and I don’t care! I play to enjoy and it works just fine.
  
  PS. I have not had a single problem yet I’m LV 45 and 151 hrs in so suck you and you bugs! Its sad you have to stop playing and restart after 8 hrs. :( I don’t.
- Allen
  
  Whatever dude, you are just full of it. You are the one that came in like PS3 is unplayable.
  
  And I can throw a million links back at ya. Ya PS3 has been picked on, but no it’s really not a problem and no this isn’t a “broken” game
  
  Why don’t ya just STFU because Xbox, PC and PS3 all have bugs. And those textures were a huge deal on the comparison video I looked at, not any minor issues, there huge, like entire details missing.
  
  i don’t care, enjoy that piece of $hit you got. Fine, but don’t go saying PS3 is unplayable because I have hundreads of hours on it.
  
  And yeah – it might be a good idea to take a break every 8 hours or so – I love this game despite the minor problems it suffers.
- bozmanbeyond
  
  Ok were did I say “PS3 is unplayable.” NEVER!! Now who’s the FOOL!
  
  I simply feel bad for PS3 players, the bugs are more prominent then its counter parts. Do us a favor and read carefully next time and maybe you won’t look like an ass next time you lie.
  
  Please try and keep you panties unruffled next time.
- Allen
  
  Well I feel sorry for the dumb ass Xbot’s who not only have Skyrim with a bunch of bugs bug with a bunch of bad textures as well.
  
  Then of course your pay to play piece of overheating $hit, on top of the fact that all your best exclusives are on PC or have gone mutli plat with FREE fking content on PS3 versions because M$ is a cheap fking money whore who won’t ever give you fking anything.
  
  I’VE BEEN FUCKING PLAYING SKYRIM PROBABLY WELL OVER 100 FKING HOURS WELL OVER LEVEL 52 AND REALLY NO FUCIKING PROBLEMS.
  
  So Bozman, fuck off.
- bozmanbeyond
  
  Awww.. did someone take your sweat roll?
  
  Allen we all have heard your song and dance why do you waste your time when no one cares? Even those of us who own all of the system don’t care about you hate for the 360.
- Allen
  
  Well so far everything you are trying to say about PS3 Skyrim is totally wrong. That’s why I went off the deep end on you.
  
  I have NO respect for out right lies. I don’t fking care if you don’t care that I hate Xbox. The fact of the matter is that I am right about them and their scams and that I don’t suffer at all because I can play just about every game ever made including xbox 360 supposed exclusives without the support of their ass raping hardware and stupid pay to play service.
  
  Just don’t say stupid $hit that isn’t true. Every platform has bugs and like I said, I barely even notice any on PS3. It’s such not an issue at all.
- bozmanbeyond
  
  Not lying at all. Please tell me what they were? This all I said “I really feel bad for PS3 owners who have Skyrim and can’t truly enjoy the game” and thats the only thing I said so where are the lies?
  
  Oh wait here’s those lies your looking for per google search of: ps3 skyrim issues
  
  Games review website IGN said a poll of its readers suggested about a third of PS3 owners who had the title were experiencing issues with lag.
  
  According to Bethesda, the problem is not one giant bug, but a combination of problems arising from background autosaving, SPU AI updates, and the way the game is saved in the PS3′s ‘dynamic system memory allocation’.
  
  Even with the current update there are still issues that have not been resolved and we hope to have this corrected by patch 1.3.
Hoppsy

without the bugs, game of the century. with the bugs, some one else should have got GOTY.

every game i have ever played by betheasda blows me away then leaves me with a bitter taste because of bugs.

skyrim hasn’t done that yet but i know for lots of people they have hit game breakers.
njb

but skyrim is nowhere near as polished or as good looking as uc3.

Fair enough content wise skyrim wins but UC3 is just mindblowing, put it this way, it restored my faith in the gaming industry. COD should be the only game to recycle the same generic formula
njb

uc3.multiplayer is quality, much better than uc2, wven if u lose its still fun. its so smooth, guns, melee, acrobatics and sweet map events like a sandstorm or a plane that sprays the map up.

plus 4 player co-op and survival are just great.

u cant compare crysis 2.to kz3 or UC3, sorry but as a whole package it looks bad compared to these 2 behemoths and considering the 1st crysis on pc.
Eric

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Eric

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Eric

that is terrible but hillarious