I am impressed, when this year had such fierce competition, Uncharted 3 still managed to rake in GOTY awards. Now if only the game would stop crashing my 80GB PS3. Naughty Dog claim they have a fix in the works, it really soured my experience with the game unfortunately though.

When does it crash your ps3? I'm curious bc I have an 80gb ps3, too. It has crashed my ps3 as well, but mainly only when I'm in the multiplayer Cinema mode. Happened only once since the latest U3 update/patch, though.

I meant more like just keeping the goty awards grouped together. I didn't mean changing the focus of the thread or anything. No problem regardless though man. It's your thread so you get to do  it however you want. Oh, and I'm with  you  about loving all ND praise. I know I had mentioned being disappointed in U3 compared to my expectations, but I still love ND. Definitely my favorite developer, so  I'm lovin this thread.

Judging by your avatar you seem to like InFAMOUS 2 xP. It's crazy how much love that game has been getting around the boards. Well deserved ofcourse ^^

Haha I'm gonna have to change that now. I set that avatar a long time ago before the game released, then spent a while away from VGC. inFAMOUS 2 is the most disappointing game I've ever played. inFAMOUS 1 stood behind only Uncharted 2 and MGS4 as my favorite game of all time. But imo I2 exchanged almost everything good about the first game just for better graphics. I played through it once, was depressed by just about everything including the ending, then sold it. Never done that before. Sorry, been meaning to get that off my chest lol. Excuse me while I go change my avatar. Thanks for the motivation.

Haha damn! Well GT are seriously praising its guts.

I felt exactly the opposite of you ^^. I thought InFAMOUS 1 was.. OK. Nothing really stood-out to me and I disliked the characters, Trish for instance; I didnt give a shit at all. I don't know what it was but yeah...

InFAMOUS 2 wow'd me in the graphics departement, I loved the powers more, the mix of evil-good with ice-fire, I loved the soundtrack! and it was a fun ride that I completed in two-three sittings as opposed to InFAMOUS 1 which took me weeks. Damn I want to play it now but my buddy has loaned it :( xD.

Good talk man, gotta go to bed. Loving your new avatar :D!

Ha yeah I heard some VGC people praising it after it released, and I just don't understand, personally. Critics weren't too impressed, so I guess I'm with the critics here.

Part of the problem was how hyped I was for it; but, there wasn't much I liked about it regardless. I didn't like how they changed Cole - the voice (just all around less epic - loved the narration in inFAMOUS 1), personality (had more of a corny tough-guy personality in I2), and physical appearance.

Powers were decent but the gameplay/combat was so much less fun to me. Gameplay is where inFAMOUS 1 shined, so this was  a huge negative. They also exchanged fun, strategic boss battles for larger, more cinematic, and (worst of all) scripted ones.

The story stank as well imo. They changed it from the cool, this-is-a-real-city-where-ppl-start-developing-superpowers feel to a more fictional, less believable, and less interesting story involving monster creatures. I liked that they had Kuo represent good, but then in the end they blurred the line between good and evil by making her shallow and selfish and completely self-focused. I also was hoping there would be some development between Kuo and Cole (it's the romantic in me, what can I say?), but nothing came out of that either. Then Cole just dies and the game ends. Depressing all around. The biggest disappointments were the combat and the story/characters, although Zeke delivered even more than he did in inFAMOUS 1.

Okay, now I'm done I swear. Have a good night dude. Glad you like the new avatar ;)

It's not just limited to all 80GB ps3s so don't worry. It's a rather isolated case with some people with slimline and 60GB PS3s experiencing it too. Essentially it gets the 'overheat' red flashing light and the console turns off whenever i play campaign or co-op within 5minutes or an hour, despite it being cool as a cucumber. I had the same problem with co-op during the beta and told naughty dog. Funnily enough I can play multiplayer for 10 hours straight without it ever crashing, yet the other day campaign crashed it in 2 minutes. I have yet to be able to enjoy the campaign and co-op in their entirety, the multiplayer is a phenomenal improvement over 2s though. Like I said ND have promised a patch in January, I just hope it fixes the issue since theres a thread on their forums full of people with the same issue.

Nextgen.at gave UC3 GOTY
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextgen.at%2Fnews%2F17173-abstimmen-und-gewinnen-spiel-des-jahres-2011

NGB Readers' Choice GOTY to UC3
http://nextgengamingblog.com/blog/game-of-the-year-2011-readers-choice/

BLORGE Readers' Choice GOTY to UC3
http://gamer.blorge.com/2011/12/27/blorge-game-of-the-year-2011/

DailyEcho GOTY to UC3
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/leisure/games/gamesreviews/9444865.Those_were_the_Games_in_2011/

Eurogamer.pt Readers' Choice GOTY to UC3
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurogamer.pt%2F

GameOver GOTY to UC3
http://gameover.sapo.pt/artigo/jogo-do-ano-2011?pagina=4

MediaKick Readers' Choice GOTY to UC3
http://mediakick.org/2011/12/23/community-game-of-the-year-2011-overall/26981

thats 21 overall goty awards incase anyone wants to know.

(5 are readers choice and 16 critics choice)

I'm surprised at the reader's choice GOTY awards. With all those arrow in the knee jokes you'd think Skyrim was the bees knees amongst the kids today.