Dark Souls isn't an RPG. Damn good game, I've played it (never beat it, damn hard), but it's not an RPG. It's hack-and-slash, and anyone claiming otherwise is deluding themselves. What can you do in Dark Souls besides fighting? That's right, absolutely nothing, so it doesn't qualify as an RPG.

From Software are a Japanese developer so chances of a PC release are almost zero.

If it came out on PC I'd buy it again!

I prefer skyrim. The only thing that is a better is the combat. Dark souls feels a bit more "meatier" when you slicing
The rest of dark souls was poor I thought and cheap to play.

I'd love to play the Souls series, everything about it sounds and looks great.

Too bad it's console-exclusive.

Wait a couple of years for an emulator to come out. There's already rudimentary Xbox (original) emulators, so I'd give it like 10 - 15 years and Xbox 360/PS3 will have a full emulator out.

That's not exaggeration is it.

Sadly, no. Only recent console generation with fully-fledged emulators that run most, if not all, games so far is the PSX generation (PSX, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64). PS2 and Xbox generation have rudimentary emulators, but they don't run many games and the frame-rate is horrible, even on high-end PCs. Keeping in mind that the PSX generation ran from 1993 - 2006 (Fifth generation), and the Sixth Generation console emulators aren't even fully completed yet, it's safe to say the Seventh Generation emulators won't be out for quite a while.

Gametrailers is the same website that gave 2011 FPS of the year to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. After years of decisions like that, I don't really care about their opinion, regardless of whether it's something I agree or disagree with.

God this thread is [censored] pathetic, yes just because Gametrailers diddnt pick your GOTY means they are selling out to the consoles, the fact that Skyrim wasnt made as a console only game MUST be why it diddnt get game of the year dispite the fact that it was obviously developed for the Xbox 360 and ported to the PC without so much as an afterthought on how to make the consolized features of the game more workable for the PC. Grow the [censored] up.

Dark Souls is a perfectly valid choice for game of the year, you dont have to agree with it but just because it isnt your pick for GOTY doesnt mean that GameTrailers is selling out, hell if they were selling out they probably would have just given it to Skyrim if only to avoid the whinging of snotty little brats who think the worth of a game is measured in the amount of content rather than the quality of the content, and lets face it that is Skyrim's only claim to fame, the sheer amount of content, none of it is of particularly high quality but that doesnt matter because there is a lot of it, is this really how we judge the worth of a game nowdays? Seriously?

Personally my GOTY probably would have gone to Portal 2, not because it has a huge amount of content but because what content it does have is of an extremely high quality, the writing, the characters, the puzzles, the atmosphere, it is clear that the developers really put the time in to create something special which is why it would get my GOTY, that being said however you dont see me [censored]ing because various gaming sites had the gall to disagree with my opinion.

I think the main reason why people are protesting is that Dark Souls doesn't qualify as an RPG. It has no roleplaying elements other than combat, making it more akin to a hack-and-slash adventure game than an RPG.

What surprises me is the fact that these folks who rated Dark Souls Game of the Year smart enough and good enough to even play it. That's one thing I must admit though, Dark Souls requires LOTS of SKILL...
That should be an award
The winner of the "We Couldn't Barely Play it" award goes to DARK SOULS!
The Crowd: Yyyaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!
Me: Now that's a good award for Dark Souls not GotY.
But I'll be content, It ain't the end of the world... yet.

What surprises me is the fact that these folks who rated Dark Souls Game of the Year smart enough and good enough to even play it. That's one thing I must admit though, Dark Souls requires LOTS of SKILL...
That should be an award
The winner of the "We Couldn't Barely Play it" award goes to DARK SOULS!
The Crowd: Yyyaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!
Me: Now that's a good award for Dark Souls not GotY.
But I'll be content, It ain't the end of the world... yet.

I wasn't aware that game need to be judged by you, before they can declare their genere.

RPG is a broad category and I could give you dozens of examples why Skyrim isn't an RPG, when I went by some narrow definition of RPG.

Better game? Yes
Better RPG? Maybe

RPG means Role Playing Game. To play a role you need a playground, and Skyrim offers, by far, the best playground.

Personally, I feel games like Portal 2 and the Witcher 2 were amazing games, but somehow I still think a game where I can put in over 300 hours and still find fun things to do, to be much more rewarding. I know which game of 2011 I will remember the clearest five years from now.

Since when did we take http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnJqJ9hO4w?

Dark Souls .... RPG .... huh? What came in second place? Tiger Woods Golf?

I never said Skyrim was an RPG. Skyrim is more akin to an adventure with RPG elements. Dark Souls is not an RPG, either. Having stats and items does not make a game an RPG. If so, then Zelda must be an RPG (it's not, by the way, it's an adventure, hack-and-slash game). RPGs are defined by roleplaying through use of stats and character choices. Dark Souls does not allow you to roleplay as a character, only dungeon-crawl. Roleplaying involves dialogue, deep story build-up, etc. Roleplaying does not involve hitting every enemy you see.

Binding of Isaac is my RPG of the year. Skyrim and Dark Souls were good, but that game is in a league of it's own.

I guess then you need to ask yourself what exactly is an RPG? The RPG genre is pretty broad and the title can be applied to any number of games, but tell me what exactly do you consider an RPG to be? If it is about character interaction and choice then I would agree with you that Skyrim probably is more of an RPG than Dark Souls (even though the choices you do make in Dark Souls have more effect on the world than the ones in Skyrim), but in this same regard I would still consider Skyrim to be more of a sandbox game than a respectable RPG in its own right, any freedom you have in Skyrim is an illusion as each questline follows a very linear path and is completely seperate from the others, you have little choice when it comes to the direction of the questline and when you actually do get to make a choice the outcome matters so little that there need not be a choice at all, sure you get to decide in which order you want to tackle each questline but in the end Skyrim is little more than a sandbox, I would consider Skyrim little more of an RPG than I would Saints Row.

However if you consider an RPG to be about stats and equipment (which like it or not some people do) then Dark Souls is far more of an RPG than Skyrim could ever hope to be, if you compare the equipment and character build options available in Dark Souls and Skyrim you will see that there is simply no contest in this regard, each equipment option and each stat variation has a big effect on how your character handles and requires you to change your combat tactics accordingly. Each approach to each situation has its pros and cons, for some situations it may be best to go in as a heavy armoured knight where others are more suited to nimble mages, to say that Dark Souls is less of an RPG than Skyrim is just wrong, it all depends on how you view the genre.

Not sure about RPG of the year but Binding of Isaac gets my vote for most disturbing game of the year.

dark souls got boring so fast, i like the idea of a challange but was very disapointed with dark souls, its not a bad game, but compared to skyrim its a piece of crap, very different games, but skyrim definitly should have won, to compare the games in like comparing apples and dirt.(dirt being dark souls)

I would agree with that, Dark Souls has no replay value at all in comparasion to Skyrim which has thousands of different ways you can play the game.

Meh. It's cool to hate Skyrim, that's all. They're just trying to show how independent they are, and how they're not like every other website.

So I guess game breaking lag doesn't come into the equation?

It doesn't have to be for all platforms but it is certainly enough to prevent a GOTY award.
Besides, from the comments on here, I doubt many have played Dark Souls. It deserved GOTY more than this

People seemed absolutely baffled that Skyrim isn't getting every single GOTY award.

or maybe they...you know EARNED IT?