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

[lestatdark]

For all the fun I've been having with Skyrim (200+ hours now), I wouldn't consider it for my GOTY (that honour goes to Dark Souls without any doubt), but I can clearly see why it would populary gain the vote of the majority.

Skyrim is a fun, vast, expansive and encompassing game, with a myriad of possibilities. Does it have some problems? Yes it does, even for the PC version (which is the one I have). Do those problems detract from the experience? Other from the Lag glitch on the PS3 there's no reason for that.

To be honest this whole deal is blown out of proportion, but mostly by newcomers to Bethesda games (that started gaming on them in this generation).
I had quite a few laughs when I read in one of the comments that Bethesda always gets free passes from the Media, which when put into perspective on how much they were bashed, bullied and destroyed critically in the 90s (and with reason, because if you people think Skyrim is buggy, never, ever, touch Arena or Daggerfall).

Plus, like another user has said, there's not a lot of developers that take the gamble to develop games as expansive and open as Bethesda games are. Sure, they do have some basic programming errors that account for a lot of their bugs and poorly implemented routines, but when you've got a game with thousands of minuscule variables that constantly add up from the start of the game and dynamically affect one another, there's bound to be some fuck-ups here and there.

Also, it's not like smaller games come out glitch or bug free? Bugs and Glitches, even game-breaking ones are present since the early generations, be it or consoles or PC games. Heck, even modern console releases are full of glitches, for example the game-breaking glitch on Skyward Sword.

Anyway, we had a thread for the bitching of Skyrim's bugs, I propose that people continue to use it to allow a cleaner atmosphere whenever Skyrim is talked about in other threads.