To me MGS4 was the obvious GOTY game this year whilst next years obvious GOTY game will be Dragon Age:Origins, only possible toppled by FFXIII or White Knight Story, but seeing as how BioWare are the true masters of roleplaying games they shouldn't be able to lose that fight.
Fable 2 was a good game, but not much more then a 1-time playthrough game as there wasn't really that much variation to the side-quests and the story was, frankly, quite weak, always felt like they still were trapped a bit too much in Fable 1 territory where combat was in focus a bit much.
Other obvious contestants for GOTY, for many at least, would've been GTAIV which was a good game, but unfortunatley not great to me. Like many games today with multiplayer, GTAIV fell into the same trap. Instead of making a perfect singelplayer experience they focus on less in that area to spit out a less than mediocre mplayer part. See The Darkness for another obvious example of this.
One game I was hoping for to be GOTY material was Prince of Persia, story-wise and character-wise it would've had a chance, but it was just so ridicilously easy, especially for PoP veteran like me where the first 5 minutes of The Two Thrones is harder then the whole game combined.
Other games that could've been up there, obviously, are GoW2 and Dead Space, GoW2's multiplayer ruined a lot for me unfortunatley, not for everyone I'm sure but for me it did, and Dead Space just didn't really scare me. Got more scared of BioShock to be honest, but both of those were still good singelplayer experience with good stories.
To, aswell as them obviously, Fable 2 does actually hold something over all those other games and actually managed to deliver a co-op that didn't feel awkward, sure it was a bit pointless but could be decent fun, and out of place. Can't really hold its own against MGS4, but the rest of the games it can definatley hold its own to.
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