Vigilance

So Skyrim is the first Western game to get a 40/40 from Weekly Famitsu, and only the 17th game ever.

That puts it in a league with games like Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid 4.

Sounds like a GOTY contender to me.

@thebazel said:

@megalowho said:

It's probably been mentioned, but Brad did not review the PS3 game here. http://www.giantbomb.com/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/61-33394/reviews/ Clearly stated that the review is for the 360 and PC versions of the game, and the score does not show up in the PS3 Metacritic listing for Skyrim. Now whether this makes him lazy or honest, well, that's for readers to decide. They did post multiple articles articulating issues across the platforms, focusing on PS3, as well as talking about it on the podcast as you noted.

In a perfect world yes, Brad sits through 50 hours of the PS3 version after it arrives on release day and reviews that version accordingly. But I understand that Giant Bomb has limited resources and makes editorial decisions on what they can and can't cover, and a release like Skyrim is time consuming to the point of shutting down an editor for a week. Again, up to us to decide if this equates to fair opinions or not.

How I yearn for that perfect world!! Everything you said is true, yep. I don't even fault GB since I know they're a four man crew. But Famitsu giving this game a perfect 40...and supposedly they DID review the PS3 version...hey...now....

And maybe they just thought it was that good.

You seem hell bent on assuming everyone is ignorning bugs in some weird conspiracy of silence.

Maybe they didn't have that many or thought the game was worthy of the score anyway.

I know I have enjoyed the hell out of buggy games in the past.

@thebazel said:

@EdIsCool said:

@thebazel: anyway the consenus is that Skyrim should be a contender and in fact will win easily.

You got what you came for.

/thread

I got discussion. That's what I came for. No, not /thread. The discussion continues, whether you want it to or not. You can watch from the side though.

I think the main point @thebazel:is trying to make is that if the issue that PS3 gamers are experiencing also occured on the Xbox 360, the GotY discussion would be quite different.

I didn't even try to make this point because I made it in a similar thread I made about the PS3 bugs not getting exposure. The 360's texture issues got front page news on this very site. It's no secret that if the 360 version of this game didn't work like the PS3 version this site would have a much different reaction. Still, I'm not even going to try and fight the Skyrim AND Xbot collective at the same time.

You don't seem to want discussion. At least not two-sided discussion.

You just keep telling everyone who disagrees with you how wrong they are, without conceding a single point.

That's not a discussion.

@thebazel said:

@AlexW00d said:

The fuck would I care about other people's version of the game when considering my GOTY?

YOU don't work for a gaming review website, so, you wouldn't. The GB crew does, so, they should. Understand?

Also just to point out for everyone else, Uncharted, Batman, and Saints Row weren't my THESE OTHER GAMES SHOULD GET GOTY INSTEAD list. They were examples of multiplatform and single platform games (PS3) that don't have technical issues rendering them unplayable (not that they too don't have bugs, what game doesn't). You can add 10 other games to the GOTY discussion. Skyrim doesn't even come close for me, if it matters, Dark Souls takes it followed by Radiant Historia.

We get it, you don't think it should be game of the year.

However, it most likely will be, because most people (including the bomb squad) found it the best game they played this year.

The answer to the OP is yes.

I can be a GOTY contender and most likely will win.

@KaneRobot said:

This is not the "game of the year."

I disagree.

I suspect lots of other folks will too.

@Afroman269 said:

@Vigilance So are you suggesting hardware? That's hardly the case, both my 360 and PC copies have been running into annoying bugs and glitches. I barely ran into bugs when playing Fallout 3 but that doesn't mean I'm going to dismiss the people who had problems with their copies. There's plenty of evidence of fucked up instances in this game.

Speaking strictly of PC copies here, who knows what it could be?

I've heard the game was designed for Windows 7, so it could be XP, hardware, how much RAM, type of video card, etc etc.

All I know is, the problem isn't inherent with the game or the patch, because I installed the patch, and have seen no backward flying dragons, and the Dwarf Spheres in the dungeon I am in are resisting Soul Tap, which means their resistances are intact, and mine seem to be as well.

In short, the patch and/or game are not universally broken, which leads me to believe there's a hardware or software conflict somewhere. And this isn't unusual for PC games in my experience.

@Afroman269 said:

@EveretteScott

@Afroman269 said:

Fuck you, Bethesda. I like Skyrim and all but this is just stupid, fuck you.

yeah fuck them for not being able o know 100% what every bug will do an if any more bug will pop up. Fuck them for not being all knowing.

Fuck them for continuing to solidify their track record of releasing broken games. Still sad to see people still wanting to bend over backwards for this nonsense.

Except a lot of us aren't having any problems with the game, or any problems with the new patch.

So maybe something else is at fault rather than broken software?

Works great for me with the patch so far. I actually tried not to install though cause I've heard so many bad things about it. Steam had other ideas.

Well, I am running the Steam version of the game on Windows 7 and haven't yet noticed any issues with the patch.