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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land The people who brought you such fantastic headlines as “Burrito Eaten As If Someone In The Room Wasn’t Crying” and “Brief Reprieve From Mariah Carey’s Christmas Song Comes To Resounding End” have selected their Game of The Year, and it’s not ironic at all: Bethesda’s Skyrim has edged out the competition to take top honours.
The end of 2011 brings with it an implicit deadline for those inescapable year-end wrap-ups. Yet, the Paper of Record doesn’t really pony up a traditional countdown-to-the-best list.
It may be notching up top honours at outlets like GameSpot and The Wall Street Journal, but Skyrim doesn’t quite what it takes to be Forbes‘ Game of the Year.
The Wall Street Journal‘s Adam Najberg likes playing some video games, which gives him a leg up on some of his colleagues, one of whom “despises all of them.” (The love and hate is explained in this WSJ clip.) He’s picked Skyrim as Game of the Year. “No detail was too small for the developers of this game,” he raves.
Their readers thought the best video game of 2011 was Skyrim, but the editors of Games Radar have picked Portal 2. It’s their top game of the year.
“What is Kotaku‘s game of the year?” you may be asking yourself. Well, I’m certainly not going to spoil the surprise. But in the meantime, we’re sharing the GOTY winners from other sites around the web.
The Oscars have them. March Madness has them. But, numerous outlets start announcing their year-end picks, I’m wondering if anyone does Game of the Year betting pools?
What’s our game of the year? We’re not telling… yet. But Entertainment Weekly has gone with Batman: Arkham City. Portal 2 was second. Uncharted 3 came in third. Breaking the pattern, The Elder Scrolls V came in fourth, not fifth.
