Skyward Sword hands down. Come on guys, it’s Nintendo. NINTENDO. 
Think about it.
Portal 2’s story disappointed me to no end, despite its sexy visuals. Gameplay got boring instead of fun for me… You people should let others have their opinion about it instead of trying to convince each other…
[b]I’m going to get so much shit for this…[/b]
Skyrim was great -I mean so epic and fucking awesome- but I still need to explain why I can’t find it in me to pick it up and play it again; it felt a little too repetitive and disappointing in some aspects for me.
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Dragons were too easy on any difficulty setting and their tactics were predictable and few. Spell from sky, land - spell from ground and/or bite – repeat.
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Major reasoning right here - there were only… what? 12 different monsters in the entire game? Trolls, wolves, werewolves, crabs, witches, tree-bee things, giant, dragons, people, bears and cats, and undead. Oppose to Oblivion and Morrowind’s vast amount of creatures. Also, the game has gotten less and less original with their monsters as the titles have gone. In Morrowind they had a bunch of D&D monsters with a lot of original ones. In Oblivion they had even more D&D monsters. In Skyrim the few were nearly all D&D or REAL monsters with one or two original monsters, period - mostly interpretations of D&D monsters.
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The Map was WAY too small for me.
Thing is, I enjoyed it for 47 hours straight, but after that, there was just no adventure left in it for me. Caves are always lit and filled with people and shit. No dark abandoned caves like Oblivion; too tired of looting boxes and shit for hours; combat is too simple - I own everything all the time… except for giants…?!
And I already heard that the ending sucked – I’m just sucked away from enjoying it. Couldn’t really immerse myself when I already knew too much about the game and couldn’t really care enough to do all the side quests. Companions - Thieves, and maybe Dark Brotherhood…
As for Deus Ex – the gameplay was by far the most exciting this year. Funnest game in a long time, and for that reason alone, it rocked out-loud. But as a writer, the story disappointed me to no end. I played a Deus Ex a lot when I was really young, but never got very far. So maybe I needed to play it to understand – whatever.
It’s been a great year for gaming fun though. Story has been lacking in games, but I am DEFINITELY happy to see some mechanics and fun coming back to the board.
Ken Levine (favorite video-game writer along with Laidlaw) is finally pumping out another Bioshock to cover 2K Australia’s mess, Bioshock 2. Can’t wait for that - 2012.
This thread is funnier than YLYL right now.
Again, Skyrim /thread
On a side note, WHY NOT A POLL? HMMMMMMM
It had better be Skyrim! I don’t feel like paying for all my DLC seperately. I WANT A FUCKING GOTY EDITION!!! 
Skyrim will win.
What should win is Human Revolution, at least for me. The writing was fantastic, the universe deep and immersive, the gameplay flexible and varied, and the graphics were fantastic.
Sure, the boss fights were a stumble. But goddamn if Human Revolution was one of the few games I’ve enjoyed all year.
Dead Space 2, Mortal Kombat 9, Dark Souls.
Skyrim is overrated.
Portal 2 will win it. It looks good to outsiders for a unique game like P2 to temporarily become the face of the industry. Regardless of whether I liked it or not… -cries weak, disappointed tears-
If you said that a week ago, I would have given you so much shit that a toilet would’ve flown through your computer screen - but now, as much as I hate to say it - I agree with you.
I recall several times a promised “80+ enemies” in the game, and when I looked it up after seeing very few types after a long time playing, I found out that half of the bestiary is “animals” and half those animals are non-hostile. Why did they remove the daedra? The daedroths? The dreughs, and all that cool shit? They made atronarchs = daedra and did away with the cool ones, and dremora are just summoned. The only really “unique” monsters that were interesting were the dwemer shit from morrowind (though technically they’re machines)
The guild quests I did just weren’t interesting, and they were over before you knew it. Oblivion took a long time to finish each guild’s story, but skyrim you hit the top in many from barely doing anything? All the previous TES game’s getting to the top actually required effort on the player’s part (minus Arena - didn’t have joinable guilds)
[COLOR=‘Black’]and they made ghosts retarded - they are humans with a cool shader effect applied, but half of them talk like normal bandits and take damage from any weapons too.
Don’t get me wrong, It’s a great game - but while it improves drastically on some elements from previous games, it looses even more. It barely even feels like an RPG anymore honestly, and the skill system is just simplified to the point of almost being an insult to people’s intelligence.
Oh, I vote Arkham City and BF3
I still have to play HR - have it, just never got around to it.
MW3?
Black Mesa? 
I’m sorry, I was under the impression we were all adults here.
Out of all of the ones listed (although I haven’t played it, just seen gameplay footage) I’d say Dead Island should win PURELY and simply because it’s not a bloody sequel/remake although admittedly a zombie-based FPS is hardly original in itself.
mw3 is the clear winner here
honourable mentions: Deus Ex and TESV: Skyrim
Rayman Origins. Anyone with a different opinion has no soul.
Lol, it was 3 times cheaper than Half Life 2 in the development, the voice acting was incredible, so was the dialogue, the new ideas did fit perfectly, the humour was fantastic and it has one of the best fucking endings ever made. Oh and the soundtrack and the atmosphere were good too. Well, that’s my opinion. But it’s definitely not a “typical bloated high budget sequel in Hollywood style”, why? Cause they have fucking taken their god damn time, to create new ideas for it. You should start listening to the interesting developer commentary Valve puts into their games, so you learn how they work.
Portal 2 is my game of the year.
It wasn’t released for PC, it won’t get my vote. Sadly, since im a huge fan of Rayman.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha :lol:
I would lose my faith in humanity, forever.
Despite the fact, that there aren’t enough big boss fights
Portal 2 was the game i enjoyed the most this year.
Can’t decide between Arkham City or Portal 2