A lot of games are fun. That doesn't mean all those games deserve GOTY.

Am I missing something? When did Skyrim get GotY?

i think skyrim is the greatest game ever made

According to Wikipedia it won a ton of GOTY awards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyrim#Reception

According to my rough calculations, if you've played for an hour each day you'd be at 132 hours. That's in my timezone, where it's the 20th of April. As I've said, it's a rough calculation

29th of April!? Where in the world is 10 days ahead of UK?

Sorry, the 20th! I'm lying in bed on my iPad, so there's bound to be some spelling errors!

That explains it, lol. I also commented on someone ridiculously saying an hour a day since release could've brought them up to 1,000 hours. An hour a day for almost 3 years, maybe, lol.

I just like the game a lot and don't see most of the thing's people tend to complain about on here as negative. I don't know the exact number of hours I have played because I have re-made a few characters but it is in the mid hundreds. Probably.

Interesting. If I don't like a game, I don't care what ratings it got... but I'll purchase it if it does get fabulous ratings. Take for example Mass Effect 2. Everywhere one looked there was nothing but glowing reviews of it. I played it and returned it without finishing it because I hated it. Did I buy Skyrim because it got great reviews? Actually, no. I bought it because I loved Morrowind, liked Oblivion a lot, and I couldn't wait to play the next game in the series. So, I guess you could call it a self-reference. I was going to buy the game whether it got good reviews or not... and I love it. Not because thousands of other people around the globe love it... because I love it. It matches my tastes and meets my requirements for a good game. Doesn't do the same for others? No big deal. I like black coffee. Not everybody does... but normal people don't write long dissertations about why they don't like black coffee on black coffee drinker forums then make statements that they only like black coffee because they are either uneducated children with ADHD or are sheep following the propaganda trailer down the road. Seriously, cat.

http://xkcd.com/610/

And black coffee isn't a video game that takes dozens of hours of gameplay to get the full experience out of, either. Poor anology is poor.

I wasn't talking about you, specifically, I was just saying that Skyrim was obviously designed for mass appeal, and I can guarantee you that there a lot of "newbies" out there who bought it only because of the hype and good reviews.

Ah, I love these kinds of threads, with the subtle and not so subtle insults and flames woven through out. Oh. Wait. I don't love them.

Have a few reports, there are some problem posts in this thread, I'll review it.