While the review embargo for Skyrim is still in effect, those on the VGA voting council have played enough to nominate it as one the five finalists for Game of the Year! Skyrim joins Portal 2, Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
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Ohh yes ! you know it baby.. Beth 4-ever
Ohh shit… first !!!! Yay
why don’t you make the GOTY non steam???
if you do that then i’ll by it and i know alot of my friends will too
Congratulation Bethesda, i’m rooting for you
Even more confirmation my social life will be over next friday…
i knew it, i knew it would be nominated for goty it would just be wrong if it didn’t.
7 days and 12 hours to go
Amen!
Congrats guys, I know you all worked hard for it. I’m sure skyrim will win.
Damn, there’s some stiff competition this year.
SKYRIM IS THE FIRST!
When will Skyrim go gold? I bet Bethesda is having a massive crunch right now.
Or maybe they just didn’t announce it. Whatever. I’m just glad the cash cows (BF3, COD) aren’t nominees.
stay tuned
CoD3 is a repainted MW2. And both of them probably have a great 3 weeks of single player dev time. They shouldn’t really be considered.
So an MP game can’t be GOTY? why not? They bring just as much joy as SP. Not that I would want either one to win, but on principal i wouldn’t mind a pure MP og near pure MP to win.
Oh yeah, ik Skyrim will win, the last 2 games made by bethesda made game of the year, and this one is no different.
Last THREE, actually.
Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim all won handfuls of the many GotY awards.
I’m assuming you meant Fallout:3 instead of Skyrim?
nope, he can see the obvious future
Skyrim – Going to win.
Portal 2 – Amazing game, will get 3rd.
Batman: Arkham City – Great game but too short IMO. 2nd Place.
Uncharted 3 – Really? A game so short? 4th.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – Lol.
agreed
NO.
1: EIther Skyrim or Skyward…
3: Portal 2
4: Batman
5: Uncharted
anyone who thinks LoZ is stupid is stupid in and of themselves, they are one of the most creative puzzle-action games I have ever seen, and I think I know considering most LoZ beats Portal 2…and I LOVED Portal 2…
What is it with short campaigns for games? This is one area where the elderscrolls always shines. Long live the elderscrolls saga!
You deserve it Skyrim! I have not even played it yet sadly but I would still vote for it to be GOTY!
Congratulations Bethesda on the nomination of Game Of The Year for the SKYRIM child yet to be born. And thanks for another glorious wallpaper
Hail Bethesda! Hail the Elder Scrolls Studio the unstoppables in goal setting and execution!
i hope gonna get GOTY, one game like this deserve to get game of the year !
As much as I love you guys, this is a blatant example of the industry patting itself on the back. How can a game be Game of the Year when nobody’s even played it yet?
The reviewers who nominate the games have had it for a few days. Didn’t you see the unboxing videos all over the place?
I mean the release date hasn’t happened yet. And reviewers are part of the game industry. Hence the “patting themselves on the back”.
OH! Come on. I know game journalists are brownnosers, but seriously. If they think the game is that good why not? and by 10/12 We will all have lost a lot of hours to the game and I’m surewe will agree with the critics.
How much did this one cost, Bethesda?
First they review game, then they nominate it for an award before it is even released. I wonder, who exactly is going to vote for it when nobody has it yet.
And they wonder why players stop trusting professional review sites……
@giskard… make no mistake, the reviewers have the game to play it. The embargo goes up on 11/10, but we’ve given them time to go through the game and play it.
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! It’s the grand champion of games!
out of those games, skyrim will win way above any of those.
game of the decade actually
Gstaff
Beth must know that this sort of thing leaves a bad taste in their customers mouths. It is seen as protecting your interests by sacrificing ours.
We like to see our favorite games winning these things fairly and openly and AFTER RELEASE when we have seen the game too and can take part in the vote.
This one smells to high heaven….
What players really want from you is more videos, more interviews and more technical stuff from the guys making the game. Let those sites publish that sort of thing.
I love that stuff. I want to hear more from the guy who did the scripting language and definitely more on the sound and voice work. All my site users love that stuff too.
Even after release, you should keep these videos coming.
We enjoy them out here.
And for you the best part is nobody is going to complain when the game footage we see matches in the videos what we get in the game.
I will add though, between dragons you can summon, frost spells and invulnerability spells, I get this feeling the player will become super man. It is a concern for the late game I am starting to get.
Anyway I am a fan and I do hope the release goes well.
All the best.
Giskard when the show airs we will have been playing the game for almost a month. So that they nominate the game now in order to get in the show is hardly course for outrage among the broad fan base. I’m sure most will love skyrim ewnough to agrre with the nomination when the time comes.
Speak for yourself. Don’t pretend you speak for a large group of people. You don’t know that many if any
LOL at Skyrim being nominated before it’s released, but that’s awesome.
What’s also awesome is this large version of the Skyrim logo that you posted with this blog entry – thanks!!!! I can only imagine how large this thing is rendered fullsize – I would love to see even more of the detail on it! But it’s now my desktop and it looks SOOO good.
Too bad Witcher 2 is not nominated, it is my personal GOTY. Dark Souls did not top it, and I am pretty sure neither will Skyrim, although I am certain it will be a great game.
Games that win a game of the year award 6 months after release tend to be games that deserved that award, games that win a game of the year award around christmas tend to be pure hype.
See the Golden Joystick award for Fallout NV for a tip on how a great game can win such awards at any time not just 1 month after release whilst the hype is at its strongest.
Like it not, every player I have spoken too things this smells rotten.
Im pretty sure Zelda: SS, will win GOTY… Probably with skyrim as second place. Im so hyped about both games !
it’s has became tradition for bethesda to be goty.
it took a while to make skyrim, but they always set a standart for future games, they are simply the best gamecompany I know, they never disapoint
Already Voted! Skyrim FTW!
Skyrim is GOTY for me. Even against such amazing games like portal 2 or Dark souls or even Witcher 2.
In it’s current state, Skyrim isn’t even worthy of game of the month. Maybe after a patch or two it will be. Next time, wait until a game isn’t so bug-ridden before you release it.
Yay! But on HUGE QUESTION. Why is it that Daedric is better then dragon armor?!!!!
I have a very narrow social life since Skyrim came. And I love it
Number 1 for me !!! I love SKYRIM and all Beth works
I really hope that Skyrim wins, the devs made a very nice product, with loads of fun and play in it. Yet again Bethesda shows the world how to make good rp sp games. Other studios listen and learn by this great bunch.
Skyrim GOTY in the near future.!
THIS IS A MEANINGLESS BATTLE!
Lets hope they play it pre 1.2 patch.
Quite how it qualifies as a GOTY when it’s still practically a beta is beyond me. My experience thus far would make it ‘biggest disappoint of the year’ if anything. The potential is there, the polish is not.