GotG Round 1: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim vs. Left 4 Dead

Haven't played either... Really wish these polls had a ''See results'' option, for those in my predicament. Although from the comments I would imagine that Skyrim is winning pretty heavily up there.

If this were Left 4 Dead 2 there'd be no question as that games multiplayer hit me in a very special place and I've sunk over 500+ hours into it, Scavenge 4 Lyfe, bra'.

I played 100+ hours plus of Skyrim and I don't know, man. It wasn't because of the story, it wasn't because of the characters and it wasn't because of the combat. I thought the main story quest was pretty boring and I actually haven't finished it, it just fizzled out for me.

I don't know why I played it for so long, I think I just like Bethesda's worlds. Just exploring around, doing whatev's and hunting out every nook and cranny uncovering cool stuff. There are some cool story arcs, like Oblivion, the Assassins Guild, Thieves Guild, Mages Guild. I don't know *shrugs*, tis a toughie.

79 - 21 at the moment.

I cannot believe Left 4 Dead is going to lose this. Skyrim was/is buggy as fuck, and unless you are playing it on PC, it has a finite amount of pleasure to behold in it. Left 4 Dead is a dynamic multiplayer game with multiple modes that has gone on to influence multiple games in the industry, the latest of which would be Call of Duty: Ghosts' Extinction mode. The only honest thing that I think Skyrim (and other Elder Scrolls games) has influenced in the industry...is for other developers to not use the Gamebryo engine.

... except the next Dragon Age game is very clearly Skyrim inspired. It's one of the most successful RPGs of all time and a lot of the big ones going forward are going to be taking notes.

A bit silly to criticize a game as having "finite" content when it has hundreds of hours of it, plus DLC and yes an incredible modding community (which Bethesda supports and encourages).

Ok, I thought about it, and I had to vote for Left 4 Dead, despite TES being one of my favorite series. Not surprised to see it's losing this, though.

I took long vacations to Skyrim....If my chair had a toilet I wouldn't have gotten out of it. L4D is not bad.

@artisanbreads: "Hundreds of hours" of gameplay and a modding community as an argument work for Left 4 Dead just as well. Beyond that, I understand this is all coming down to personal feelings towards a game. I personally think that Left 4 Dead is the superior product in this respect. I just know that it won't win, and that makes me so ridiculously sad.

Skyrim is one of the few games I whole fully obsessed over. So, that.

Skyrim shows why it's the dragonborn by winning with a hefty 79% of the vote and 730 votes cast.