Poll: 2011 GOTY?

[bushwhacker2k]

I know it isn't out yet but how is Deus Ex not a contender?

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

That depends on if Diablo 3 is coming out this year or not.

According to the alleged leaked Blizzard schedule it should be coming out around next September, otherwise I would vote for that too.

I voted Portal 2 because it is the best of those listed, but I think LA Noire is going to blow us all away.

 

[MrStab]

I will put it between Skyrim and Diablo 3

 

[Aethren]

Well, considering the previous Elder Scrolls games all won GOTY for their respective years...Safe money's on Skyrim taking the gold again.

 

[tehsqueez]

Portal 2 all the way.

 

[Drummodino]

I am HONESTLY HONESTLY HONESTLY BEYOND UPSET THAT YOU FORGOT SKYRIM!

Calm down mate, honest mistake. The reason I didn't edit the poll was because people had already begun voting and some skyrim votes would be in other, hence skewing the poll

I love how Duke Nukem's not even on the list.

Well so far it's Portal 2

Ever since Bioware compared Mass Effect 3 to Call of Duty
Minecraft came out last year.
Dragon Age 2 was only okay.
L.A. Noire is a sandbox game by Rockstar. And Rockstar is really really bad at sandbox games.
Kill Zone 3 was crap.
Uncharted 3 won't be any better than Uncharted 2.
I don't care about Battelfield or any multyplayer focused FPS (And neither should you).
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim: stands a chance. but after playing Fallout New Vegas I think Bethesta is on a down hill slope from here on out.
The Last Guardian by team ICO comes out this year doesn't it.
Tales of Hearts is coming out in America this year. I might have to buy a PS3 for that.
When the fuck is Half Life 2 Episode 3 coming out?

I take issue with a couple of your points:

Rockstar make bad sandbox games? Are you kidding? The whole GTA franchise comes to mind as a pretty good series of sandbox games made by them.
I do care about multiplayer FPS because I find them fun if they are well made. I do not like people telling me what I should and shouldn't like. I respect your right to an opinion but don't try and force it onto others.

Yes Rockstar games are bad. (GTA Vice City excluded)
A sandbox game with a huge open world could work very well, there are just a few key points it needs to hit.
1) The story has to be tied to the sandbox or compelling enough to be more fun than sandboxing. GTA games have this deep dark story that doesn't tie in to the sandbox fun at all. So the tone of the game suffers a lot.

2) Cellphone and Email = not gonna happen. GTA 4 is the second worst game I've ever played because of the fucking phone. I don't check my Email on a daily basis in real life, this game wants me to have a stricter routine than I do in life? Fuck that.

3) The biggest problem with GTA and Red Dead Redemption is that moving is really hard.
In a sandbox game where you might spend 50% of your play time traveling from point A to point B and back again making walking and driving (or riding a horse) the two most frustrating aspects of your game is not a good business strategy.

So if they fix the cars and legs in L.A. Noire I might love it.


It was just a suggestion...
Every (A monopolistic majority of the) game(s) that come()s out now wants a slice of Call of Duty's market.
That means the game will be an FPS. which means you have two controls: Look and Shoot.
The campaign will be 6 hours or less and linear as fuck.
You will only be able to carry 2 weapons and a knife out of about a billion that have been programed into the game.
Writing and voice acting will be terrible. (or at least one of the two)
There will be a cover system and regenerating health. As a result you spend 100% of your play time either hiding behind a wall or running to another.
People who have been playing previous iterations of the game in question have a leg up from day one over everyone who is just now getting in to it. First of all the developers of these cash cow games don't feel the need to change a fucking thing from game to game so all the skills you honed in CoD 4 are just as useful in MW 2 or Battlefield Bad Company or what ever. That makes ranking skill levels in multyplayer impossible. So new players get pwned constantly, veteran players build up experience and earn more and more perks (which is bullshit on it's own) and better weapons (also bullshit) so the new players get to fuck them selves.

You can like them all you want but they aren't "objectively" good because there's no difference between Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2 save for the single player campaign (which is too short and shit to be of much consequence). All the changes to the multyplayer could have been changed by a Patch or by a DLC. How can a full priced patch to an existing game be called good?

And I can already smell your counterpoint coming, "If you don't like them you don't have to play them." And here's what I have to say to that Bioware said Mass Effect 3 would give Call of Duty a run for it's money. Bioware makes Action RPG's They've abandon their core market to gain a slice of the shitty FPS market. So you can't say that Multyplayer FPS games are an isolated incident. So stop buying them for 5 years and maybe the games industry will recover.

There is a reason the Call of Duty formula is so successful - it's incredibly popular and addictive. I agree with you that most modern shooters feel too similar but there is a reason for it. It pretty much guarantees good sales and reviews (note I said good not great).

And fair enough if you don't like GTA but you have to admit that they must be doing something right if they have been successful enough to spawn as many games as they have

 

[Saelune]

Unfair poll doesnt have what the winner will be....(Skyrim obviously)
If Skyrim is not GOTY, then its a broken system to decide it...or Bethesda failed me. (But I have faith)

 

[Drummodino]

Unfair poll doesnt have what the winner will be....(Skyrim obviously)
If Skyrim is not GOTY, then its a broken system to decide it...or Bethesda failed me. (But I have faith)

Vote other then

 

[2point]

DA2 is in there but not The Witcher 2 or Skyrim? At least these two have the potential to be good.

edit.
& Voted on ME3.

 

[StormShaun]

Skyrim
ME 3
LA Noitre (misspelt)...(that too :S)
The Witcher 2
Battlfeild 3

or Duke Nukem...

 

[Purplecoyote]

LA Noire, ALice Madness Returns, Anarchy Reigns, The Last Guardian, Skyrim and Mass Effect 3

 

[brendonnelly]

I pitch a vote for Zelda Skyward Sword, or Skyrim for that matter. Two of the most likely games to be picking Up GOTYs this year are not on your list

 

[blankedboy]

Minecraft isn't a 2011 game. And it isn't 2012 so we can't decide on a GOTY yet.

/thread?

 

[Estarc]

I personally can't vote in a 2011 list this early. I mean, there are so many games to come that picking one at this stage seems pointless. I also see you have games that aren't out yet up there. Why? There is no way to have an accurate picture of a game before you play it. I expected Dragon Age 2 to be a great game, for instance, because of how good Bioware games usually are and Dragon Age: Origins in particular. I was dead wrong.

Anyway, I'll instead say the games I am looking forward to most are Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim. Nothing that is out yet deserves my vote for game of the year.

 

[Laser Priest]

It's the middle of the year, so I can't say.

What's released so far, I'd go with Dead Space 2.

Although Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim look promising.

 

[Zay-el]

I'm not making any verdicts yet, is still waaaay too early.

 

[Mace Tulio]

It's far too early to hazard a guess, but I have high hopes for Brink.