Giant Bomb's Game of the Year Thread: Skyrim? Skyrim? Skyrim? Skyrim? Skylanders!

I hope they go back and re-dub the videos with 800% more, Klepstep.

2 Giantbomb staffers had YDKJ on their lists. Top Website Game of the Year Personal Top 10 lists: Giantbomb.
 
Saint's Row: The Third ROBBED? HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED. Everything was so lined up and perfect! ::flips table::

Logically I don't see how a game ends up on on top of 3/4 of the "main dudes" list (and not even on Vinny's), and still loses out, but I'll have to listen to this monster of a podcast to find out. Fuck.
 
Saint's Row: The Third ROBBED? HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED. Everything was so lined up and perfect! ::flips table::

Logically I don't see how a game ends up on on top of 3/4 of the "main dudes" list (and not even on Vinny's), and still loses out, but I'll have to listen to this monster of a podcast to find out. Fuck.

BRAD FILIBUSTER? :P
 
Just listened to the first hour of the first podcast and the spoilers are getting too much for me to listen anymore. Is it all like this or was this just true of the first episode?

Edit: To be clear I'm not complaining. Not sure how you could talk about "Best levels" without getting into spoilers, I just want to know if I should try the other episodes or give up on the whole thing.
 
BRAD FILIBUSTER? :P

Most likely. I just really thought that because Skyrim is already going to have 4,000 quotes to spew on it's GOTY cover, that it would've been really nice to see a major site get behind Saint's Row. I wouldn't call it an underdog, and 2nd place is good, but... if you ain't first, you're last.
 
everyone is going to pick skyrim, so they should pick something else to be hip
 
Just refreshed iTunes to get today's cast. FOUR hours? Oh holy shit, this is gonna be good. There must have been a war in that little room.
 
Saying they should've picked Saint's Row: The Third simply because everyone else is picking Skyrim is also kind of undercutting how good SR3 really is, though. I don't know what to think anymore. My life has been turned upside down.
 
Just listened to the first hour of the first podcast and the spoilers are getting too much for me to listen anymore. Is it all like this or was this just true of the first episode?

Edit: To be clear I'm not complaining. Not sure how you could talk about "Best levels" without getting into spoilers, I just want to know if I should try the other episodes or give up on the whole thing.

The range of games they talk about in-depth is not that wide. They spoil Saints Row, LA Noire, Gears, Driver and Modern Warfare quite a bit, but most other games don't get the spoiler-treatment.
The last podcast may be worse, though.
 
Just refreshed iTunes to get today's cast. FOUR hours? Oh holy shit, this is gonna be good. There must have been a war in that little room.

sweet fanny moses. I flipped out when I saw the length.

this one is gonna take me a while to get through...
 
Wow. That really surprised me.

I'm really curious to see how they gave it to a game that only one of them picked as their own personal GOTY as opposed to the game that three of them picked as GOTY.

Interesting to see Witcher 2 on the list, and it's also surprising not to see Deus Ex: HR.
 
Wow. That really surprised me.

I'm really curious to see how they gave it to a game that only one of them picked as their own personal GOTY as opposed to the game that three of them picked as GOTY.

Interesting to see Witcher 2 on the list, and it's also surprising not to see Deus Ex: HR.

Is there a written list anywhere of all of their top 10s?
 
OP FULLY updated :)

ow man Drew was a little disappointing, off to watch Patrick.

[edit] watched Patrick, GREAT list and great explanation but his character was not so great :(
 
"Wow, Patrick liked Catherine enough to be number 2?!"

...

"Oh, he didn't mention any game mechanics."

lol

(I'll take it, Catherine had a really neat story.)
 
Not a particularly great list in my opinion. Skyrim certainly shouldn't be crowned GOTY... maybe 360 and PC GOTY but not GOTY overall, massively undeserved. Then again GB have clearly never given a flying fuck about the PS3 so I shouldn't be surprised.
 
That top 10 was odd when you take other people's top 10's into consideration. Perhaps the podcast will better explain how they compiled it.
 
"You guys wanna cut
Zelda?
"
"Didn't play it"
"Didn't play it"
"Didn't play it"
Patrick:
"I love that ga-"
"Alright, cut it!"
Patrick:
":("
 
Shame Patrick showed basically a rerun of the Skyward Sword quick look, could have used some new footage even though this was apparently among the top parts of the game.
 
Patrick's list probably includes the most of the internet's fan favourites. Especially with Catherine, Zelda, Shadows of the Damned and Sword and Sworcery. He only lacks a proper handheld game and Bastion to cover all grounds. Even though I find it refreshing to not see Bastion on a list. Don't understand the love for the game.
 
Brad: I think Renegade Ops is better than Dark Souls
Vinny: What does that even mean? I Think nachos is better than liberty

:lol
 
Patrick's number one was Skyrim? Wow, that's surprising. He seemed to be the most negative on the game in all of the GB crew's discussions about it, or at the very least was always seemed to be first in line to point out the game's flaws. I'd almost gotten the impression he flat-out hated it.

But hey, I'm glad at least one of them chose Skyrim as their #1, I'm just really surprised it ended up being Patrick.
 
"You guys wanna cut
Zelda?
"
"Didn't play it"
"Didn't play it"
"Didn't play it"
Patrick:
"I love that ga-"
"Alright, cut it!"
Patrick:
":("

Definitely too bad. I just started the game a while ago and am 12 hours in, but it's fantastic, in my opinion.
 
I love Greg, but
In my mind, The Witcher 2 is the best BioWare game since Mass Effect 2... and it’s not even a BioWare game!
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