So the reviews that didn't give it over 90% were just written by a global conspiracy of dishonest reviewers?

Also, if you can't make it through a sentence critiquing Skyrim without using the ever-popular, ever-irrelevant phrase "dumbed down", please don't bother.

Edit: Also, repeated use of the word "verily" does not qualify as an RPG element.

I stopped at GoW 3.

If any game deserved GOTY more then Skyrim it was Batman Akrham City.

Game of the year? Apparently Trollbait was very popular.

I stil prefer Skyrim.

So you said some reviewers didn't give it a shinning review, so what? 6/10,7/10 is still considered a good game. As for "dumbing down" it's not a irrelevant because it's a proper phrase and like a lot of games now days, they are dumbed down to meet the casual gamers needs, Skyrim and KoAR are prime examples of just follow the marker to get things done because they the games are just totally broken without them.

Excuse us for having a different opinion and being called a troll in a Elder Scrolls forum. I guess the rules are you must like every aspect of the game and agree with the overlord reviewers because they are always right and not biased at all.

6/10 and 7/10 are not scores that a game can have and still be in the running for game of the year.

And guess what? Casual gamers outnumber "uB3r l33t h4rDc0R3 pWnZ0rZ LULZ" gamers. By a lot. So if you're complaining about games being made for their actual audience, then you're really beyond help.

Yeah GOTY for me, though I still think Dark Souls closley followed behind

I made a general response. I'm not sure I even saw anything you posted. I'm pretty sure I wasn't refering to you, though.

I never said that Two Worlds 2 was a contender for GOTY, I just said it had a lot better RPG elements so learn to read.

Yes, they probably are made for the casual gamers more, hence the "dumbing down" but moving away from your core gamers just for some cash is shallow at the least. You make a game to be good not for the [censored] people who cannot read and just follow quest arrows.

It supposed to be a muliplatorm game, not a game designed for people who cannot play RPG's and just want to hack & slash.

It's all opinion bro, personally my vote went in Skyrims favor.

I see it as the next gen of gaming a 10/10 well deserved.

it's a response, you don't have to take it personally and nether was I.

Clearly I misconstrued your post about how Skyrim didn't deserve any awards and Two Worlds was much better as being something that said Two Worlds deserved awards more than Skyrim.

When your market is, say, 10% "core gamers" and 90% "dumb" casuals, though that term only applies to the imaginary casual gamers that people like you enjoy fantasizing about, why would you ever focus on making your game for the 10%?

So what is their incentive to not make it more casual friendly? If making a game like Skyrim gives them millions in sales, huge media attention, and tons of GOTY awards then WHY should they give that up to make a game more in tune to their much smaller, old school, hard core fanbase?

What they are doing is smart, not shallow.

Who's taking anything personally. I'm starting to think you're reading into this a bit too much.

Well, if companies such as Bethesda think people cannot do quests with practically doing it for them then what does that say about their view of the gamers? Personally I think the whole gaming industry has a problem and it's usually the big gaming companies that just think of money rather than the game they are making.

I think Bethesda abused their position with Elder Scrolls and they it easy to do when you market such a game to a bigger audience. Technically, Skyrim is poor for a modern PC but I guess when you have a shallow excuse and love the XBox360 then all the other platforms suffer, which has what happened with Skyrim.

Skyrim has its lacks but its strong points made GOTY well deserved IMO.

Just leave it at that then if you cannot read.

I think Skyrim deserved it, it is my favourite game EVER! GoW as a series is good but I don't like the multi-player, only the story. I played the multi-player beta and did not enjoy it.
Friends of mine even said that the multi-player was a let down and was boring and they were major fans.
The only other game would have been BF3 for me because the multi-player on that is AMAZING!!!!

I feel that Skyrim is well worth the GOTY award.

Not only is the gameplay amazing, but it's gorgeous to look at, the soundtrack is epic, and the depth of quests and the uninhibited freedom of the game, all shoved into a large unhindered gameworld makes Skyrim the shoo-in for the title.

GoW was good, but a rather short story, poorly written story (IMO), and shoddy multiplayer are what killed GoW's chances of being GOTY.

I would have also voted for Battlefield 3, the multiplayer on that looks amazing, and I have read nothing but good reviews on the multiplayer. However, I heard that the Campaign svcked pretty bad, and that the graphics and the flow of the game just didn't seem quite... polished.

But yeah, I think GOTY was well deserved for Skyrim. And with Skyrim winning GOTY, Bethesda gets the Hat Trick. That makes three titles, in a row, from the same series that has won GOTY (Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim).

That's very, very impressive no matter which game company/series you are talking about.

Skyrim was my personal GOTY, and I'm not surprised that so many magazines, gaming sites, and award shows gave it top honors.

Any awards that don't split categories up by platform (assuming they aren't exclusive to a single platform) will likely lean heavily on multi-platform titles. If exclusives get a lot of awards those who don't have access will likely move on to other sources, as they're apparently not represented by this particular venue. However I think Skyrim would have still gotten a tremendous number of GOTY awards even without the multiplatform boost.

Crap on the PS3, and requires console intervention by the user on the PC to work properly and has undergone 4 patches in as many months to try and remedy glaring code errors.... .. ..
Hmmm much lubrication of judges, for game of the year, methinks.

It's absolutely amazing how a bug that affected a small percentage of PS3 users has been blown so out of proportion that most people speak about it as if it was a universal experience for every player on that platform.

And I've never needed, nor have I used, console intervention on the PC for any reason.

As an Adventure game? Definitely yes.

RPG? No, just no.

Is the game not built around creating and playing a unique character in a persistent fantasy world?

No.

It was incomplete upon release, buggy as all hell, and it was shallow. All of its polish was in the beginning of the main quest and the rest of the game kind of fell apart after that.