All things money and corruption hands deus ex it's goty stating skyrims story was not as good and gameplay was repetitive

actually deus ex seems appropriate for forbes

There is just not enough money and espionage in skyrim

I kind of agree. Kind. Of.

Someone please link I'm on iPhone.

Nobody should care what the official GOTY is, since everybody will have their own preferences.

There's always one list that has to try and be hip and alternative, the difference is it used to be hip and alternative to put TES at the No.1 position.

And also, Forbes to video games? wtf?
Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/12/22/why-skyrim-is-not-my-game-of-the-year/

Portal 2? Wasn't that game like, 4 hours long?

I'm having issues figuring out what your trying to communicate.

Link what?

I do agree that some more espionage in Skyrim would have been welcome. What with how stealth is so OP some good situations to use it would be sweet.

Munee?

He's on the forums via mobile phone and couldn't provide a link to the article

Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/12/22/why-skyrim-is-not-my-game-of-the-year/

No no, that was Portal 1... Portal 2 was 6 hours long.

Seriously, it is kind of funny the Forbes rated Deus Ex, a game about a corporate creation built on a corporate security guard, as it's top game.

I don't know why people think Deus Ex isn't good. I hear lots of complaints about Skyrim. The only complaint I heard about Deus Ex is the boss fights were sub-par. But the boss fights are sub-par in Skyrim too, it is just that so many issues are so much bigger that concern isn't even voiced.

I think the reason Deus Ex hasn't been mentioned much is that many reviewers are still in the honeymoon phase with Skyrim which really isn't fair to Deus Ex which was a great game that just came out earlier in the year.

Forbes? Are they a jury of our Peers? Last time I checked, I don't have a million bucks in the bank. Those people don't want deep long epic games as they don't have time between getting their Ferrari serviced and selecting the proper caviar for the dinner party.

Portal 2 was a seriously fun game.

But...it lasted all of 3 sessions. I've spent longer than that organising books in whiterun
And I'm not a big online fan so replay value was a bit low. (a puzzle is only a puzzle the first time)

I tried deus ex...couldn't for the life of me get into it. Tried and tried.

Meh

To each their own

Have you been to the Edios - Deus Ex forums? There's complaining everywhere and you are on a Skyrim forum so you are going to hear complaints about Skyrim.

DE:HR is only $10 on gamersgate till monday. I'm seriously considering getting it. Not that I'll have the time to play it any time soon but it's just too cheap to ignore.

Horrible XP system that rewards one style of play much more than others, mostly.

This. Forbes has never and will probably never...really matter to any majority of gamers.

ALLLLLLLLLTHOUGTH....I will be fair. Portal 2 had a great story and such.

Fair point, but now we know which games to say we like when trying to persuade hot girls at bars that we are rich.

I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but never played Portal 2.

I haven't tried Deus Ex HR yet, but I loved the last game in the series. I think you can't really compare Deus Ex and Skyrim, totally different games, stories, worlds... I bet Deus Ex is a great game and I'll get it, once I come up for air (from playing Skyrim so much LOL)

Portal was a good game, but I think I pass on Portal 2... I'm seriously NOT a puzzle person -.- LOL

Give it a bash. Lots of fun

Unless you get simulation sickness. In which case you'll play it till you nearly throw up then have to lay in a dark room for a few hours in a crippling queasiness hell. Like me. :-/

Yeah, and that is why it could be pure awsome from start to finish

Skyrim however is stretched thin by it's opennes and scope. I wouldn't want it any other way, though.

2011 was a strong year for games in general.

Why do they need to be a jury of our peers? The fact that they aren't some fat sofa lounging geeks lets them look at the game from a more critical perspective.

I don't think anyone I know complains about summer blockbusters not winning Academy Awards. We already have a metric to determine the success of a game based on a "jury of our peers", and that would be the number of units sold. Summer blockbusters may bring in more money, but those aren't the type of movies that you come back to in years or decades. The critically acclaimed movies are. Just as in games, the decision of game of the year should go to the game that will be looked upon favorably and played decades into the future, not simply the game that has the most flashy graphics and exploding cars... I mean dragons.

I haven't played Dues Ex or Portal 2 but I've always been of the belief that games like that need to have something spectacular to make up for the fact that they have like 1/20th of the content a game like Skyrim has.

Human Revolution was very very good. Not as good as the original but better than invisible War. Human Rev is definitely in my top 3 -4 for this year (Skyrim, Dark Souls, (Dead island, Human Rev tied at 3 rd place).

2011 has been a great year for PC gaming. All 3 of those games should be played by all PC gamers. Portal 2 was awesome and super polished on a rails fun. But Skyrim is my personal winner.