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Last week we took the nominations, now it’s time to vote! What was your favourite console game of 2011?
I had forgotten about a couple of these games until I went through the [epic] nominationans list. Also don’t forget to vote in our other awards posted earlier this week.
Drop your votes in the poll below, and we’ll announced the winners next week. The poll closes midnight November 29.
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I’d have to say Uncharted, even though this latest one had a couple of problems there’s still nothing like adventuring with Drake. I personally loved L.A. Noire too. In another year, it could easily have been game of the year for me. Good problem to have when there’s too many strong games. 😀
Oh man, that’s tough. I was about to vote for Arkham City, then I saw inFamous 2 directly below it. Now I’m conflicted. Both were fantastic games. Then there’s Dead Space 2 and Portal 2…argh!
We’ve really been spoilt for choice this year…
Owing to my limited gaming budget for the year, i couldn’t comment much, so my vote went to space marine. Great atmosphere through the whole game, MP needed more work, but in general a great game.
I think we are past the point of retail releases and xbla/psn games not being included. From dust!
you seriously think from dust is better than Batman, Gears, Skyrim, and Uncharted?
Each to their own…
Will never win, but InFamous 2. I feel that many of the others are not ‘console’ games- like Skyrim, which is cross-platform.
Gameplay is what makes games unique from film. There is this odd trend that watching cinematics is somehow a good thing in a game. bah! humbug.
It was the cinematic feeling, though — playing the game and truly feeling like you were in a movie. The huge action set pieces too.
Exactly. Uncharted 3 is, one of, if not the best gaming experiences of the year; not just on an edge-of-your-seat cinematic level — but in the huge attention to detail Naughty Dog have crafted & packaged into this masterpiece. I know there are so many contenders to love listed, but I feel this is the most deserving game of 2011. If you haven’t played it, be sure to pick it up!
So many great games in that list… it’s hard to pick just one!
I’m going to have to vote for Skyrim. I’ve only played a paltry 10 hours, but having a blast every minute I’m playing. It’s so easy to get lost and absorbed into the world, its epic in every sense of the word.
I too, am going to throw my vote in for Skyrim, even if I’ve only clocked up 4 hours. I’ve played a handful of games that made the list (on PC though, not console), and spent more time in them as well (Easily played 25 hours of BF3, 10 in both Portal 2 and DiRT3, about 5 or 6 in Deus Ex, and watched my brother play a fair bit of Batman: Arkham City), yet Skyrim takes the cake.
Sure there are glitches, but the amount of great gameplay you can milk out of it and the amount of exploring you can do, just makes it nudge past it’s competition in my opinion. And to be honest, I’m not usually into games set in medieval times or so…..
Voted for Uncharted 3. It’s entertainment at it’s best. Skyrim is an escape, that will absorb me for hours, but Uncharted 3 literally has me at the edge of my seat dying to find out what happens next – which is something Skyrim fails to do.
This is depressing. This list is just a long reminder of all the ace titles that have come out this year that for one reason or another I haven’t gotten to play yet. Aarrgg! So many games, so little time…
Voted for Deus Ex, because… I haven’t played Skyrim yet. I won’t start that until I finish exams so can actually afford to spend 20 hours a day in front of the TV.
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So many PC games on this list! :p
Why do I suspect Skyrim will win both console GOTY and PC GOTY?
The one I forgot about: Child of Eden.
Easily one of my favourite games of the year.
I have heard good things about Child of Eden. I really want to get it, but unfortunately the only things I could afford this year is Gears 3 and skyward sword (if I manage to pay it off this year).
Gonna have to vote Uncharted 3.. As much as I’ve loved every other game so much this year (And Gears of War 3.. my god, some tears there…) Uncharted 3 is still the cliffhanger from start to finish. The gameplay was great, the cinematic seamless and welcomes and the ending was nice too. I can’t say another game had me more involved to be honest.
Skylanders!! A surprisingly good game with longevity outside the game world. I wish the figures were posable though.
Nier was released in April 2010, why is it on the 2011 poll?
Also, Skyward Sword in there when it’s not even out yet? :\
Out of all the games I have played this year, I have to vote for Xenoblade. Wasted 200+ hours in that game, well worth the $71 I payed for it.
Hmm… Batman, AC:R or Skyrim… Decisions, decisions… It’ll have to be Skyrim, for no other reason than I can see myself just building a life for myself in Whiterun. Maybe go travelling around the countryside, just wandering for hours on end, with no particular destination. By comparison, it’s just so peaceful (civil war aside :P), I could spend months there. I suppose I could do the same in Constantinople, that city is so alive, but I’m only four hours in.
So I can’t vote for MW3? The “biggest entertainment release of the year”? There are at least as many people who love it as there is who hate it. I’m not voting.
If no one nominated it, then it’s not on the list, simple as that… I’m sure many Kotaku readers picked up the game (I for one), but that doesn’t translate to being a great game. Personally I would have at least 10 games in front of it.
I love Resistance 3 too much to vote for anything else.
Such a good year in gaming though. Fifa 12 and Skyrim round out my Top 3.
No MW3 as they are on the “COD hate bandwagon”. It’s cool to hate on it, they are desperate to be cool, so they leave it off. Biggest entertainment franchise in the world and it’s doesn’t get a nod? Seriously, stop being such arrogant ‘art house’ douches; it was a great game, it should be given a chance. Let the people decide.
Nah, it was a simple error by me. There were so many games nominated, I must have assumed I had already written it down and I hadn’t.
Have added it to the poll now. Apologies folks. Big boo boo on my part.
Dark Souls. Hands down.
It’s the only game this year that does something genuinely different whilst also being so engaging, challenging and huge.
I find your lack of Homefront disturbing.
But, I can understand why it’s not on the list.
Because it was so mediocre that it’s terrible?
I kid, I kid. Seriously though, I hated that game.
Was going to vote Arkham City, which was brilliant, or Deus Ex, which was also brilliant, but then decided to go Skyrim as it’s rapidly becoming a lifestyle choice…
Really, really don’t want to be at work right now 🙁
For now, Xenoblade. But I only started Skyrim yesterday. It may change, give me a week or so to sort it out
I had to vote for Dead Space 2.
Skyrim and BF3 are great on the console, but they do feel like I’m compromising. Dark Souls is fantastic, but it has so many design flaws disguised as difficulty that I just couldn’t put it as my number one.
I also really like MW3 and Rage on xbox, and I can’t help but notice they’re not on the list at all. I did nominate them.
The Kotaku awards, brought to us by Dick Smith, so clearly Australian. So why is Catherine a choice? It’s not even like it’s had a PAL release anywhere yet, let alone here.
And just to add to this now I’ve spent some time with it, where the hell is Serious Sam 3?!
It’s probably because someone nominated it. Plus everyone who had a ps3 simply imported it.
I’m surprised by the support of Uncharted 3 in some of the comments. Portal 2 got my vote (although Arkham City almost stole the vote) because I spent pretty much the entire game, both single player and co-op, grinning like a madman. Uncharted 3 just had too many moments where I was not having fun.
Not to say that you’re wrong for voting for Uncharted 3, just that I’m more correct than you for not doing it :p
This is a very tough decision! There have been so many great games this year. My top 3 so far have been Poartal 2, Batman: AC and Skyrim. UC3 was also great, but a couple of the levels towards the end left a sour taste in my mouth.
In the end, I voted for Portal 2. There is so much genious packed into that game, that it has to win! The script, the gameplay, the co-op! I’ve never laughed so much playing a game before, whilst at the same time been genuinely challenged by the gameplay. The co-op was brilliant. My fiance and I had so much fun working together to solve the puzzles. And the humour cotinued throughout the co-op campaign, even without the stellar performance of Stphen Merchant as ‘Wheatly’.
That being said, I’m wasting too much time here. I need to harvest plants and kill more dragons!
So hard to choose. In the end, I voted for LA Noire, just because I feel like it’s going to be the big game that people just sort of ‘forget’.
Well it says console game otherwise I would have voted skyrim. Unfortunately i play on pc.
For me, Portal 2, Skyrim, Deus Ex and Battlefield 3 were all PC games available on console, not console games.
Thus, I voted for Arkham City, which feels and plays like a console game, as I haven’t played AC:R yet.
I can’t help but go for gears 3. Gears made me buy a 360 and the 3rd one Is great. Horde and team deathmatch are awesome! So many games I haven’t played though but will have to. Mortal kombat should be on the list it’s unreal
Deus Ex.
I know it won’t win, and I love skyrim to bits. But Deus Ex was just something special for me.
I doubt it’ll win but my vote still goes to Catherine! Though Uncharted 3 was just as amazing.
It’s down to Skyrim or Arkham City for me. Oblivion was one of my favourite games ever and Skyrim makes many improvments, already spent 40 hours on Skyrim and have barely touched the main quest. Arkham City was everything you could want from a Batman videogame. SKYRIM gets my vote though, such a massive world and amazing quests.
Special mention to Nba 2k12 and LA Noire.
Biggest dissapointments were Uncharted 3 and Battlefield 3
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