All I know is that they made a point to put in a soft-core six scene in Witcher 2, which has to be the height of pointlessness. How is that gonna help sell the game? I haven't yet seen any love scenes in ME2, but the scene in Mass Effect was subtly done and could have been in a PG-13 or R movie. The scene in the Witcher (1) got them a higher age-rating on the game, and (2) for no good reason. If you wanna see the scene, it's gonna be all over the internet without having to spend the money to buy the game. And who really is gonna play a game because their buddy told them that there were animated boobs in it? Like I say, it's available on the internet, and people don't buy games to watch animated characters do what they can watch flesh-and-blood people do for free on the internet.

Really a waste.

"Skyrim lore?" Skyrim didn't introduce much lore, and broke quite a bit in the process. If you're interested in TES Lore, play Morrowind, or even Oblivion.

As for TW, if you've played it, fair enough. Obviously you're entitled to your opinion.

What TES backstory did Skyrim "break"?

I love that the forums haven't changed a bit since pre-release.

I also love that people think that the committee that decided on who got this award considered whether or not Skyrim was in line with Elder Scrolls lore up to this point (or rather that it was in line with lore in the minds of people with way too much time on their hands). The main quest line is very well written, as are most of the side quests. As someone mentioned, there's a chance that Batman could have been a contender, but it's not a weird decision to choose Skyrim for writing.

Edit: Also, I'm not in the least surprised that the same people attacking Skyrim's story are "above" films like Braveheart.

I was not aware the game was solely about six scenes and what is the problem with advlt themed six scenes??I take it you make love fully clothed each to their own i guess.I applaud CDProjekt for making an advlt themed RPG when every company is bending over backwards to make RPG's for 11 year olds.

This is why we'll never get another decent TES RPG. They keep winning awards from completely *lovely* people who wouldn't know what RPG stands for, much less what an RPG is.

A game where you take on a fantastical role? Sounds like Skyrim.

Oh wait... did you confuse EPG with RPG? (EPG of course standing for Excel-Playing Game.)

I don't need a video game for six in entertainment. I can watch movies, or I can turn to the internet. In both places there is entertainment involving actual naked people. The six scene in question wasn't "for advlts", it was "for nineteen year olds". At least with Mass Effect (again, I haven't seen the relevant scenes in ME2) people will let their thirteen year old kid play the game. I'm not saying that the games need to be catering to thirteen year olds, but neither do they need to be catering to nineteen year olds' desire to have six shoehorned in just because. Again, the scene in Mass Effect was a six scene without being explicit. I'm all for attractive naked people doing attractive naked people things to each other, but not everything is a Skinemax movie.

Skyrim is an excellent role-playing game. Not sure how you can claim that it isn't one at all, much less a good one.

Quick, someone bury the fishystick and get this guy some Scotch.

+1

LOL

I just figured that post out. Get him some Scotch and a ceegar.

An Islay malt, please. And I'd like everyone to speak like William Wallace as it's served.

Witcher 2,man i was excited about that game but stopped playing when there was too much cutscenes and other things,i should resell it.

Why did'nt that game with the lil black n white kid running around in his dreams get best game,now that's original.

I personally think the love scenes were well crafted it seems this sort of carry on offends you in a game i am not sure why.I think the scenes added to the game especially the scene with Geralt and Triss i would rather see a more realistic scene myself rather than some PG fully clothed hogwash each to their own.

They don't offend me. I see more explicit stuff in movies all the time, and good Lord, the internet! The point is that I never go "You know what this game needs? Nudity." I don't have a problem with it, it just seems like they make a point of doing this just for the nineteen year olds in the market. It doesn't make a lot of sense when that impedes a lot of younger players from playing the game, and it seems a bit pointless to the grownups among us. I'm not really knocking it per se, I'm just saying that if six is what you want, go for the real thing. Or if you're looking for entertainment involving six, a game with animated characters isn't really what I'd be looking for. If I need to see nvde women on a monitor, well, at last count there are roughly eighteen bazillion real, live naked women available in movies and on the internet.

Obviously, Skyrim lore is TES lore. I was just using Skyrim as an example, hence Skyrim Lore.

Skyrim - modern day Planescape Torment? No, no it really isn't. I guess it shows how awful the competition must have been. They probably got it because it gives the impression it has some kind of story even when it hasn't. Modern day videogames don't do 'story' they just give the dweebs the button they're looking to press to get right back into the action.

Skyrim has no story? Seriously? People say the strangest things...

We must have played two separate games.

I got quite a bit of story from the main quest alone. And the civil war was an excellent plotline (though, admittedly, I'd like to have seen it continue past the taking of Winterhold/Solitude). And that doesn't even include the guild, daedric or side questlines. The story for "A Night to Remember" was better than a number of storylines for full games.

This is exactly why I can't take half of the people on this forum seriously.

People wouldn't be happy with Skyrim if it was an extended series of scrolling texts, a visual book if you will.

Hate on the new thing, generalize everything... straight out of the playbook of a 90 year old.

Get off my lawn I say...

I don't mind Skyrim getting the award. Especially considering how much of a story and how many storylines there actually are within the game. I'm guessing they took the full game into consideration instead of just the main quest's storyline. And honestly I can't picture a game that came out in 2011 more deserving of the award.

Sometimes I think the people that say "Skyrim has no story" haven't read a single book in the game.

I don't see anything wrong with someone changing their opinion. It's quite natural in life, really.

Well it's not Morrowind so of course it's an insignificant and inappreciable game undeserving of such awards.

If people consider this game to be lacking a story, I wonder what non "modern day" games they actually acknowledge that do have decent stories.

Well, sir, I don't know what to tell you. I'd be curious to know what movies you find good if Braveheart isn't among them.