Wait Legend of Zelda has more than Uncharted, I thought it would be the other way around....I guess I have to blame Aldro from announcing every GOTY uncharted has one. 

Theres a lot on that list i dont agree with...

My apologies. I come from the UK, where Epic Yarn came out in 2010. I forgot it came out in 2009 in America

I'm happily surprised. I expected Portal 2 to be overlooked because it came out earlier in the year, as with some other games in past years. 

Glad to see people can remember just how awesome it is though and give it the recognition it deserves!

I suppose that my preferences just don't mesh well with a game like Skyrim. Don't get me wrong, I thought the game was great (and time consuming), but compared to the other great games that came out this year, Skyrim had too many issues to nab my personal GotY. Still, I guess the fact that it's one of the (very) few open world games I've enjoyed says something about it.

My personal GotY list:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
2. Pokemon Black/White (DS)
3. Batman: Arkham City (PC/PS3/X360)
4. Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC/PS3/X360)

Feel free to name specifics, whole point of a thread it to discuss things and I don't mind debating about or explaining the choices that were made.

Wow thanks! I'm definitely going to bookmark that.

Have you ever thought of changing the whole formula ?

I don't see a point in having "best FPS" for every console , it creates conflicts

IMO GameTrailers does it best by having best of every genre,  best game for every console , and overall goty, in addition to other stuff like best story/graphics ... etc

Yes, Craig and I have talked about it and next year we plan to have just overall awards and then an award for the best game on each platform, only issue is we'll have to work out how we decide on nominees, the best situation would be similar to gamespot (iirc) where there are nominees announced ahead of time (about 5 for each award) and then readers can vote based on those nominees and the staff will decide their own winner amongst those nominees.  This way we have a much simpler system but we can still give recognition to the smaller guys who might not be able to win a category but should get a mention and we can do more specific awards like best boss battles or other added categories we didn't want to mess with before like Best story.  

Other problem we'll have to figure out is how to work with the overall goty award which will essentially still be the same format as previous years.  How do you pick out 5 nominees for best overall when you haven't decided the one best game on each platform yet?  

You don't have to limit the nominees for overall goty by 5 , make them 10 like Gamespot or even 15 , it shouldn't be too hard to estimate the least deserving from each platform , or just list every platform's nominees all together, but that would make the list too long

That's a great system btw, I think it's much better than the current one