2007: Mass Effect ... really only quality title for this year aside from maybe Bioshock which has plenty of problems especially in the story
2008: Fallout 3 ... No brainer here really, and it has survived the test of time by being better than New Vegas
2009: Dragon Age Origins ... all I could think of really as this year sucked for gaming
2010: Red Dead Redemption ... Mass Effect 2 would have been GOTY had it not been inferior to the original in every respect. Red Dead was a real surprise for me considering it was Rockstar which is best known for its highly overrated and incredibly bland Grand Theft Auto series
2011: Deus Ex Human Revolution ... Better than all 4 of the other games mentioned by far, a very rare game that is only seen maybe once in a decade or so