I was on one of those fanpages for one of those groups just now, when I spotted a post I just couldn't resist, written so simply and elegantly that I just had to give it some attention:
"Best game of 2011??"
The obvious contenders for GOTY 2011 are games like Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, so I'll piece apart each of these a bit. Don't expect this to be good, I don't usually do stuff like this.

Skyrim is coming at us like the big awkward metaphor it is, and so many people are so hyped up for it and so expectant and blah blah blah. Personally, this is what I am now calling Brink Syndrome. Brink Syndrome has two cures, the first being that the game is released and it's everything the fanbase expected it to be, and the second is that is sucks arse. Now while I don't think Skyrim is going to be a cure of the latter description, it's certainly not going to be of the former either. The hype has reached a point of no return, where no amount of dragons or Dragonbourns(?) can make it what people want it to be. This isn't really much of a review of the game itself, but I haven't been keeping up with Skyrim since I don't really give a flying виджет.

Next on the list is Battlefield 3 and WHOOOOO what a battlefield it is. The first thing that comes to mind is the rivalry between B3 (I refuse to use the term BF3 because I'm hip) and CM3 (Again, I don't want to use CoD:MW3jibberjabber because a cod is a fish and NOTHING ELSE SHUT UP NOW). The point of getting involved in this fight is more null than zero gravity right now since if someone likes a franchise the odds of them giving it up for a different one - superior or not - are lower than the chance anyone will care about this blog post. And now that that's over with, some actual substance.
Next time, I'm due for my daily brain transplant.