Skyrim continues to impress!

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 105

Portal 2 - 36

Batman: Arkham City - 23

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 11

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 11

Gears of War 3 - 4

Battlefield 3 - 3

Dark Souls - 3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 3

L.A. Noire - 3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 2

Dead Island - 1

Dead Space 2 - 1

Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten - 1

KillZone 3 - 1

LittleBigPlanet 2 - 1

Star Wars: The Old Republic - 1

http://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2011/09/2011-game-of-year.html

Lol.Sad list :/

The game with the most GOTY awards is...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 131

Portal 2 - 44

Batman: Arkham City - 30

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 12

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - 12

Gears of War 3 - 5

Battlefield 3 - 3

Dark Souls - 3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 5

L.A. Noire - 4

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 2

Dead Island - 1

Dead Space 2 - 1

Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten - 1

KillZone 3 - 1

LittleBigPlanet 2 - 1

Star Wars: The Old Republic - 2

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - 2

http://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2011/09/2011-game-of-year.html

I personally kinda wish we could give Portal 2 the Game of the Year award...to be honest. While skyrim definitely has more content by a LONG shot, it also has a lot of issues and I agree that a game so glitchy should be penalized for it.

That said, it's still a great game and the good greatly outweighs the bad. Both Portal and Skyrim deserve the high praise.

Okay, I really had to say this.
To the Moon = Awesome.

Honestly, I only heard of it because of the site, however, I just love how the story unfolds, and I don't think this is a never seen before type of game, but it's how it was done in the 16-bit era (Heck, this could have been a FInal Fantasy), before the industry took an unfortunate turn to cinematic games.

Just an old, beautiful art, simple music, no cutscenes, just text unfolding the story.
Really, a masterpiece, THIS is how the industry should go, this is a benchmark for future titles, such a shame we won't see a game like this for a long time.

Above, I do not mean the lack of gameplay that should be followed, but this simple, text-based, storytelling, with a beautiful music in the background, really, it's far more effective than a bunch of cutscenes.

I think I can honestly say that every other shooter I played this year was better than Bulletstorm. Epic should stick to third person ... they have had 3 games to get good at it, and they are finally showing signs of improvement.

Aside from that, everything else seemed alright ... I guess. No love for Deus Ex anywhere in there despite the almost complete lack of stealth games this gen (only survival horror gets less titles than stealth with 0 this gen aside from Amnesia).

I will admit that, even with its flaws, Bioshock was a great game; it just did not need a continuation of any kind. I wish they would just leave the game alone. We already got a craptacular sequel, and now we have a prequel game that seems to have nothing to do with the original aside from the "Bioshock" title. Maybe I will skip Infinite and wait for the inevitable Bioshock "IN SPACE!" which will be out in 2014 ... actually I will skip that too and just be content with the excellent SystemShock games (we all know that is where this is going, a remake or continuation of that series after they run out of new locales for Bioshock).

No open world/sandbox/emergent game play category...I could further disagree with the results as Bulletstorm getting best FPS of the year was a good laugh, yet I will not.

I agree Skyrim is a game of the year contender, yet to not have a category for Batman: Arkham City to win is thoroughly disappointing and intriguing. Disappointing in that I thought it was a well done, latest iteration of Arkham Asylum. Intriguing in that not having a best open world/sandbox/emergent game play game is quite old school.

Overall, I can't quibble with the winners. All great games.

we toyed around with the idea of an open world category but found we couldn't really populate it enough to our liking.  If there aren't atleast three games that are reasonable contendors for an award any given year I'd rather take the award out than give a game an award just for being one of the few games in the genre to actually release.  

It's like the fact that even though I love SRPGs there weren't enough of them to populate a reasonable category this year so we fold them into Strategy as a whole.

The funny thing is...can you think of any FPS games that are objectively better?  

Modern Warfare 3 was a multiplayer expansion pack, the campaign was a veritable joke (less than 4 hours long)
Battlefield 3 had an even more dismal campaign and was just as brown and grey as every other shooter
Killzone 3 was good most of the way through, but fell apart at the end and had lackluster multiplayer
Crysis 2 was good as well, but nothing special aside from "oooh, pretty"
I personally was a huge fan of Resistance 3 (I wrote the review), but realistically it was just a nice retro styled game, nothing more
Halo Anniversary was....a remake, so it's basically exempt
RAGE was pretty generic
FEAR3 was...do I need to continue? 

Bulletstorm may have been silly, but it actually had a shred of originality and innovation.  The Graphics were rather unique compared to other FPS games (not just brown and grey, but lots of yellow, blue, orange, and even green), the Kill with Skill system was a load of fun, and the campaign lasted longer than a football fan's average beer fart.  While I don't think ANY FPS game was far and away better than the competition, Bulletstorm was the only one I think really tried anything new or interesting, and the only one not just content to half-ass a cookie cutter sequel.  my own personal votes have only Resistance 3 and Bulletstorm as legit contenders (Resistance was a nice retro style, great graphics/audio/plot/setting, not to mention flawless controls), but Bulletstorm won becuase it was the only thing NEW.