Does making Fallout NV GTYO irresponsible?

" I can't wrap my head around the title's grammar. "

" Considering that this was the year that Mass Effect 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Meat Boy came out, I would have to say yes, making Fallout New Vegas game of the year would be irresponsible. "

This is always a huge problem. I remember last years discussions here in Sweden on the site that I ran at the time. It was between Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Dragon Age: Origins. This year I kind of feel like THE game of the year (in my opinion Mass Effect 2) is almost the opposit way. While the story isn't something that everyone enjoy (I did) the game was pretty much flawless. In my opinion you kind of have to look at these things as Giant Bomb and when it comes to that I think that Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect 2 are two very close to perfect games. Fallout: New Vegas is way out off the GOTY discussions because of it's engine flaws. 

I played a lot of games this year and it was hands down my favorite, is that what "Game of the year" means?

" @Undeadpool:  Ehm I said Fallout 3 and Oblivion, those game are openworld as fuck.  And my point still stands, I never had to stop playing any big RPG (openworld or no) just because the sheer amount of glitches and errors either made it unplayable, not fun or erasing progress. New Vegas was kinda of a big deal right? Famous voice actors, lots of ads and hypes around, people being pretty excited, and then the game decides to be crap.  This reminds me btw, The Witcher, another great RPG which was near unplayable at launch, but I discovered it sometime after the big patch that fixed everything and its one of my favorite games of all time.  If my savegame crashes in a FPS, I'll re-do the level, no worries, same for a beat em up, hell I'd even do the water temple again if my Zelda cartridge messes up, but a story driven huge rpg game that is influenced by my (impulse) choices and actions is not something I want to replay every 15 minutes.  Still, I am going to buy it again soon if I can convince myself that it won't die on me again. "

Nah, it's irresponsible to give a bad or over-rated or merely popular game GOTY. Games will have bugs if given insufficient funding and time, the people at Obsidian are talented with a proven track record. They are just given a year and low budgets to make sequels to established franchises because it's a convenient arrangement for the publisher. Also, open-world RPGs on Bethesda's scale are the hardest to code and bug-test, in addition Gamebryo seems the default engine for such games and it unfortunately is "janked". 
It's the fault of Emergent Technologies for coding it and Bethesda for licensing it. Obsidian did the best they could in constrained circumstances, and a lot of the criticism seems to be kneejerk reactions based on a lack of understanding of capitalism, publisher-developer relations, and game design.
 
Also: Fallout 3 won GOTY, it was also broken, and it's an inferior game mechanically and in terms of writing. So I rest my case.

How many of the people complaining about the brokenness of F:NV have actually played the game? Most of the people that have actually played the game seem to say that the reports of bugginess are exaggerated.
 
Based on my time with Fallout NV, which was almost entirely free of bugs, I wouldn't call it irresponsible at all. It wouldn't quite be my top pick as Mass Effect 2 felt better produced over all, but it's definitely up there.

I don't think that Giant Bomb would count as a relieble source for video games if they said that Fallout: New Vegas is the best game overall of 2010. To be honest. It's a very good game, but we did see some pretty amazing, near perfect games this year. 

I haven't heard a lot of NV GOTY talk. There are plenty of other games worthy of that title. 
 
Speaking of titles, change your subject title. Come on, man...

" I don't think that Giant Bomb would count as a relieble source for video games if they said that Fallout: New Vegas is the best game overall of 2010. To be honest. It's a very good game, but we did see some pretty amazing, near perfect games this year.  "

Most people here seem to be in the "it's fine" camp, so I'll got he other way. 
 
Yes it would be at least a little irresponsible for a large publication to name this the GOTY. For a random internet user to do it is one thing, but it's entirely different when people that are paid to rate games do it. I do think that it may send a bit of a message that shipping broken games is OK. Sure games can easily be patched these days, but that's far from an ideal situation. 
 
At the end of the day, I don't think any game with that many problems should be considered for GOTY. Especially when there are so many other great games released during this year that don't suffer from copious bugs and glitches.

" @CH3BURASHKA: That title is pretty heinous. Is it actually possible to change the title of a thread? "

The reason why the title is confusing is because he did his best to fit his thinly veiled rant into a title supposedly about something else other than 'hurr durr bugsss'. 
 
You know what is  irresponsible for journalists? To ask questions that nudge towards a particular answer.

I don't think Fallout New Vegas is glitchy compared to other similar games, because there are no other game companies that try to do what Bethesda does. A huge open world with genuine non-linearity of questing, with a morality system, lots of dialog, and the ability to interact with almost everything. Noone else even tries to do this. The reason they don't is probably because they couldn't pull it off. Bethesda does pull it off, albeit only by the skin of their teeth.

I think it is my game of the year.

They'll release a GOTY-edition anyhow, so who cares.