Originally Posted by Paul 
What saddens me though is that Witcher did not get these scores, since even after Skyrim it is still my GOTY.
Witcher 2 I assume? With the Witcher I felt the story was being rammed down my throat, but Skyrim lets you create your own story which I much prefer. And the Witcher is a nasty world, where Skyrim feels to me like a high fantasy LOTR type setting.
All personal preference of course but I just can't get enough of Skyrim so far, that dread of dungeons I got playing Oblivion is gone and I've had some really fun encounters - scripted, radiant I don't know, and don't care!