What do you think of the GDC Awards GOTY choices?

In case you don't know what it is or what it stands for, GDC stands for" "Game Developers Choice" which is an award ceremony where develoeprs gather and vote for the nominees of each award category. Here are the GOTY winners of the GDC Awards for each year choices and tell me what do you think of them.   
 

• 2000: The Sims
• 2001: Grand Theft Auto III
• 2002: Metroid Prime
• 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• 2004: Half-Life 2
• 2005: Shadow of the Colossus
• 2006: Gears of War
• 2007: Portal
• 2008: Fallout 3
• 2009: Uncharted 2  

Honestly those are really good choices, the only one of them I didn't personally love is Metroid Prime and I know I'm in the minority on that.  Shows the developers have good taste in their games. 

I agree with most of them, not really sure about the Sims...

Personally I think Portal is pretty heinous. The rest were actually longer than 3 hours.

Looks about right. Not exactly what my personal list would be but I can definitely see their reasoning behind the choices.

why does everyone hate on fallout 3 so much? i get that is not made by the same developer as the originals, nor have i played the originals, but its a fun game.
 
i agree with all of the picks and i find them hard to argue over.

Opinions man! Everyone has one, as the developers at GDC have one also. :p 
 
I agree with you on 2001 and 2002. Disagree with you on 2003. Agree on 2004 , 2005 and 2006. Don't remember the games released on 2007. Disagree on 2008 with you, because despite agreeing with you, F3 gave a new and much more immersive perspective on the wasteland, and was much more approachable than the elder titles, for that it deserved the nomination. On 2009 i disagree with you on Dragon Age as i hated it, and my choice would be Batman: Arkham Asylum.  
 
What are your thoughts on the 2010 award winner?

I don't think The SIms has a place on any game of the year list but that's just me.

Overall, pretty good. I'd easily pick Deus Ex over The Sims and the rest are fine. But I don't put much stock in anyone's awards.

Deus Ex was a very very good RPG but The Sims was a revolutionary game as well as really good so I can understand why The Sims won it.  
 
2010 should be between Mass Effect 2 and StarCraft 2

I agree with Metroid Prime, Half-Life 2 and Fallout 3, but the others...

" @Jeust: b-b-b-b-b-but mass effect 2 should've won!!!! :( "

Portal? *poop noises* 
 
It's a good game and all but GOTY? Hell no.

I think I would not have complained about any of those choices except the sims. That being said, while ostensibly it's not one of the greatest games ever, it was quite different, and it was (perhaps still is) incredibly popular. It's  deserving of far more praise than I'd ever give it.  
 
The rest, I could live with. They may not all have been my favourite games of the year, but I didn't think any others got robbed by them being there.

" Portal? *poop noises*  It's a good game and all but GOTY? Hell no. "

Only game I won't agree on that list is Portal. It's a nice little puzzle game but that's about it. For 2007 I'd say Mass Effect. It is no where good as ME2 is, but back in 2007 it was my favourite title of the year.
 
For 2010 I'd say Red Dead Redemption.

" @DoctorOptimist: Mass Effect 2  was released in 2010..."

I would probably change most of these, but 2000 and (to a lesser extent) 2008 are the only choices I REALLY wouldn't be okay with.

Uncharted 2 was amazing, but Batman should have won for successfully turning a license into a great game.

" @Faint: Play the original two Fallout games, and you'll know what I and many old-school Fallout fan mean. That's not to say Fallout 3 is a bad game, it's far from it, it's in fact a very good game. It shouldn't be called Fallout however, since it's not Fallout in terms of game design or spirit. Only similarity being the presentation and Vault Boy. "