Skyrim wins 2011 VGA GOTY award and over a dozen more.

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Reasonable said:

Izo said:
Skyrim deserves GoTY just like the other ones but this is a question I have. How do we show a developer that it's not acceptable to release a game in this state? You get high Tier reviews across the board, extremely high sales for a rpg (that is exciting in and of itself), and game of the year. If they release there next game in working order I would be wrong but what incentive do they have.

On a side note Dark Souls should've been on the list as well imo. Rpg's really showed they kick ass this year. What do you guys think had the least likely chance of winning. I'm going with Portal 2 not because it's a bad game but because in face of the end year releases I believe it went under the radar.

TBH my view is Bethesda should definately not have been given developer of the year for the state the game released in.  I can understand still going ahead and giving it the GOTY award but the media shouldn't be specifically rewarding the developer when they need (given the funds/time available to them) to focus on releasing better tested products.  Too often their games have serious low level coding flaws which is just not on.

Their is a reason why we hardly see any other developper making a game so huge like elder Scrolls and that is because those developpers just can't..but yeah giving an award to game that are already finished in less than ten hours or just want you to do a lot of backtracking to enlarge the game experience deserve the GOTY award =p...