Gametrailers-Game of the Year 2011

Finally the moment has arrived! Congratulations to the winner of the 2011 GameTrailers Game of the Year Award!

[NewMonday]

U3 gets another one

Skyrim got the most GOTY awards this year, followed by U3 and Zelda

was always thinking GOTY was going to split the media this year, its going to be what kind of game the reviewer likes most.

and by the way Zelda wasn't nominated, Epic Fail!

[TBM]

lol no the order is

skyrim
portal 2
batman
zelda
uncharted 3

here's a link to a site where one guy gets all the info tallied up.

http://gotypicks.blogspot.c...

congratz to ND on the win. looks like GT made up for the mistake they made back in 2009 not giving it to U2 then.

edit
so instead of just clicking on the link to see what i said is true i get disagrees because some people here are afraid to be proved wrong. typical N4G for ya lol.

here's is what it looks like on the guys site i posted above.

* The Winners of this year *

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 87

The Critics' Picks - 68

The Readers' Picks - 19

Portal 2 - 25

The Critics' Picks - 23

The Readers' Picks - 2

Batman: Arkham City - 16

The Critics' Picks - 15

The Readers' Picks - 1

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 11

The Critics' Picks - 8

The Readers' Picks - 3

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 11

The Critics' Picks - 7

The Readers' Picks - 4

L.A. Noire - 3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 3

Battlefield 3 - 2

Dark Souls - 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 1

Dead Island - 1

Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten - 1

Gears of War 3 - 1

KillZone 3 - 1

Star Wars: The Old Republic - 1

Super Mario 3D Land - 1

[MsclMexican]

sigh skyrim.... the most over rated game of the year.

I don't trust "critics" goty's this year... because truth be told... the Skyrim ones piss me of.

1)Game comes out completely broken for one system.

2)Bethesda sends critics copies of versions that work....

3)critics eat it up because there is so much content...

4)however don't review the freaking broken version, all that content is not playable....

5)skyrim wins goty from dozens of media outlets...

6)thousands of gamers pissed of a Bethesda's douchebaggery...

That is why I don't trust critics with Skyrim...

It amazes me how a studio can get away with this crap constantly

The other games deserve those awards.... skyrim does not

[Christopher]

@MsclMexican: I'm a massive fan of Naughty Dog and the Uncharted series. Massive. But, even I would give Skyrim GotY. It really does so much right and showed off what is to be expected out of the third gen and gave us a look at how things can be improved going into the next gen. It's a great open world game.

And I even own and play the PS3 version, which surprisingly works perfectly fine for me.

[MsclMexican]

@cgoodno

You must have a god mode disk or PS3 or something. I literally gave up on Skyrim.

Batman, Uncharted, Portal..... those games deserve GOTY....

And also I've never heard of most of those cites that were recorded

@TBM below

wow... I can name you almost every problem I have had in this game

1) Freezed on me over 20 times

2) People have conversations with me when I am invisible

3) Was not able to feed as a vampire(option never came up)

4) Constant frame-rate dips every time I enter a city

5)2 weddings ruined by "dead body glitch"

6) College of winterhold quest messed up on me
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Had to kill a kid then book it in order for the quest to finish

7) Ysolda died randomly on me making the "Night to remember quest not trigger"

8) Arrow got stuck in my characters face until patch 1.02

9) Backwards flying dragons

10) One dragon when to the very top of the skyrim map instantly when I attacked it... and reverted to what im guessing is the game modelling section( legs together... wings apart)

11) two days ago that dragon randomly fell from the sky and I got its soul

12) Game corrupted on me... wasting 3 hours of my playtime

13)PS plus has saved me from losing data

14) Lydia's head got stuck in Breezehome(that was the weirdest one)

I've had this many problems.... but my people on my friends lists have had more. I remember on Nov 11 when everyone played skyrim.... now everyone gave up on it and returned to replaying Batman or Uncharted and ACR....

I think I should do the same.... hell you know you get kicked in the balls when the skyrim torrent works better than the PS3 version.... almost 200 people play Skyrim at my school... only 4... including me bought it ... one of my friends even bought that 150 dollar edition with the dragon statue.... even he gave up on the game and he was the most excited out of all of us... He plays TOR on his pc now....

I wish bethesda made a game were everyone got a fair slice... not with it working for some... and not for others...

I think Im gonna take a break from skyrim... play Assassins creed revelations... Im frankly sick of this crap

[TBM]

i actually have the ps3 version of skyrim too, i havent had that many problems myself expect for it freezing on me 3 separate times lol. i hated both oblivion, and fallout but im quite enjoying skyrim. maybe its the dragons i like killing in the game lol.

[Amphion]

I do not understand why people are disagreeing with TBM. All he did was post a link to a legitimate web site that tallies up all of the GOTY winners very thoroughly.

What is wrong with you people?

[starchild]

Deus Ex Human Revolution should have won more GOTY awards in my opinion.

[NewMonday]

@TBM

wow! that's a big detailed list, i was just mentioning passively what i noticed in N4G

in my book its a tie between the first 5 in the list + Catherine

i also think that Portal would have gotten more awards if it released at the end of the year like the rest of the contenders.

@MsclMexican
i bet the critics played the PC or 360 version.

[mabreu]

@MsclMexican: You have listed a lot of issues as if you have played Skyrim longer than any other games, lol.

Became a vampire, married twice and with people you have killed showing up to the wedding, College of Winterhold quest that lead you to kill a kid. Sounds to me like you have enjoyed it more than you like too.

Not to disagree with you but I'm still playing Skyrim on PS3 with all of it's bugs and it is still an awesome game to play. Although, I would love to see Portal 2 as GOTY.

[miyamoto]

Yeah. And at least Game Trailers' awards system makes sense unlike that Spike TV joke show.

How can anyone justify that Skyrim won GOTY when it wasn't the Best game on any platform PC, PS3 or 360?

[miyamoto]

I am looking at you too Play Station Life Style!

[slutface]

Naughty Dog cannot be stopped!

[megalonagyix]

Yeah.. still the GOTY is Skyrim.

[xneoarcx]

Even Portal 2 wasn't nominated

[DonaldBeck]

congrats ND!

[MasterCornholio]

All those games deserve GOTY but as they said in Highlander

"There can only be one"

Uncharted 3 is a truly fantastic title and it makes me happy to see that it received a GOTY award.

GOTY are varied because its all down to personal opinion. But if there's one thing that all gamers can agree with is that 2011 was a fantastic year for gaming.

Thank you and good Night.

[TheFallenAngel]

I really don't care for GOTY awards.

[stonecold3]

uncharted 3 all the way thank you naughty dog

[TheMailman]

How can be possible Batman AC be nominated for GOTY puzzles me.. The graphics are mediocre, the gameplay is ok but the story is boring and empty..

Batman should win the GOTY for the most overrated game of all times..

[HmongAmerican]

maybe because everybody love Batman, but i had to agree with you on this one.

[LettingGo]

No way! Arkham City was brilliant!

[Pikajew]

GiantBomb had a good game of the year. First all the staff had their Top ten GOTY and than they put them all together to get the top ten GOTY for the site. Their top 3 games were.
Skyrim
Saints Row the Third
Bastion

[Drekken]

What a horrible list. Looks like they don't own a ps3.

[SonyNGP]

Dat ignorance

[ksense]

you know i am a subscriber for giantbomb and love all their podcasts and videos but I gotta say i always get this feeling they are not big fans of the ps3 or they prefer not to spend too much time talking about it. but i am not going to argue it is their personal opinion and those are some good games. haven't played bastion but looks good.

[JonnyBigBoss]

I agree. Batman had less longevity and Skyrim was WAY too buggy. Uncharted 3 was my 2011 GOTY!

[LettingGo]

Good choice! My personal GOTY was Skyrim. inFamous 2 was a close second though. SO GOOD!

I'm legitimately surprised inFamous 2 didn't win any GOTY awards.

[Prcko]

Gz Naughty Dog!!!

Can't w8 to see Last Of Us gameplay uhhh!!!!

[jerethdagryphon]

glad it wasnt skyrim, i personally got bored halfway through it its so samey every quest bar a handful is
clearout this cave or similar.

got bored with infamous 2 less then halfway through

plated dark souls and am workingo n coop on portal so i have played them except batman not really my thing
dark souls uc3 portal id have been happy with

[T-Jani]

Resistance 3 was 1 of the stand out games for me, I loved the pacing of it. One minute its all action then there's a calm......then some bits were survival horror. Uncharted 3 is a worthy winner though, the part where your trying to get on the ship and the storm is starting to pick up....Jaw drooping!!!

[JohnApocalypse]

Skyrim has more value then Uncharted 3

[FATAL1TY]

congrats ND!

* Best graphics, best tps, best exclusive and best game 2012 *

Uncharted 3 > other games

[erivera1994]

Uncharted 3 is truly epic

[wolfofashes]

Congratulations to Naughty Dog.But I would give the GotY to Skyrim for the HUGE amount of content and how well it's executed we have there,even though as an engineer I need to see Rimlag fixed ASAP.Best Graphics for me it's Rage all the way. It's looks great,runs at 60 FPS on Xbox 360/PS3 and PC and you will never see repeated textures whatsoever.The amount of art there is simply huge!Console wise we know PS3 is the most powerful,and UC3 in fact is the most advanced tech-wisewhen we speak about consoles but tech is not all that there is to it and PS3 is no match for PC's.As a final argument I would like to point the fact that Crysis 2 should be at least a nominee for graphics.
Happy New Year To You All!