Best Role-Playing Game
The nominees are:
Dark Souls
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
And The Winner Is…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Stumbling upon a prescribed, unexplained public murder and the subsequent intrigue engages the player’s desire for world discovery. Becoming a gifted conjurer (by intent, accident, or necessity) and saving recluse woodsmen with an army of summoned flame atronachs casts the player as Skyrim’s first Daedric, dragonborn, necromancing do-gooder. The emergent story, the evolution of Skyrim’s player-character, is unique and empowering.
– Dan Crabtree
Runner Up: Dark Souls
WWE 12 beat out WWE All Stars? Absolute hogwash.
Yeah, we loved All-Stars, and some consider it more fitting for the “fighting” genre, but WWE 12 did a great job at pushing the sim side of pro wrestling, and felt deserving of the nomination.
It was a question whether or not to include a wrestling game here at all, actually.