User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Skyrim Wins Game of the Year at VGAs/@comment-121.220.5.65-20111212102035/@comment-86.31.136.230-20111213150553

the witcher itself is flawed. it has a wealth of ingame lore but to understand it you have to read (and pay for) a load of real world books just so you can understand the convoluted politics of it all. the story is nice but too short (as is the whole game) the views are lovely but you need a super computer to run it at anything near high quality. combat is fun but initially is just about not being awful, and at later stages (if you focus on swordsmanship) is just about spam clicking till your adrenaline meter fills up and then entering a cut scene. customization forces you to specialise in nly one or 2 areas, if you want to be any good at them. armour variey is poor, and most armours are simply retextures of each other with out 5-7 base appearances in all. the crafting system is similar to skyrims but with no dedicated skill, and instead it forces you to pay extortionate amount of money.

im about 60 hours into skyrim, im only halfway trhough the main quest, and im nowhere near maxing out my character. i find the world immersive, entertaining, and engaging, its clear a sincere effort has been made to make the game the best it can be. its only 6Gb on PC which is tiny compared to other large games out there, and i can run it on medium/high on a 4 year old computer. winner:skyrim