RPG Codex Game of the Year 2015 - VOTING HAS BEGUN [AUTISM ALERT]

[Daedalos]

It's always the same thing, people have this weird belief that the TR00 CODEX is extremely hardcore and monocled, and only the filth from outside taints it...

Yes, that hope kind of died, when UnderTale was generously reviewed here, and people came out as fans.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I'm not under any delusion that registered Codex users are somehow free of the popamole taint. I just think a poll without some form of verification is too easy to manipulate with a modicum of effort, and we have quite a few obsessives who'd do it just for the sake of it (I have to admit to an urge to have Fallout 4 win just to see the, well, fallout, myself).

 

[felipepepe]

I think you people underestimate how many alts there are around here. It's much easier to manipulate a small codex-only poll with 100-200 people than a massive one with 1300.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

A few alts or a thousand 'lurker' votes

 

[Goral]

It's always the same thing, people have this weird belief that the TR00 CODEX is extremely hardcore and monocled, and only the filth from outside taints it...

With votes being public we will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. Or are you ashamed of publicly voting on shitty Undertale and want to do this anonymously?

Anyway, what's the point of creating another poll where anyone can vote? There are dozens of such polls and the list looks pretty much the same with Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and Pillars of Eternity (plus maybe Undertale) at the top.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

To be fair, last year's anonymous poll had pretty good results, m-value drama notwithstanding. That, however, is no guarantee that the same will happen this year.

Whatever, do as you please felipepepe, and feel free to PM me if you need any help. Even if the results are ridiculous, Codex has survived Dragon Age being 2009 GotY, it will survive PoE or Witcher 3 winning as well.

 

[Excidium II]

Where is it?

 

[laclongquan]

Yeah, this is February already~ The holiday season should be over and people can start seriously playing their purchased games.
felipepepe how about you start that thing soonest? based on last time, it take 3 months to run, which mean we will know the result in May maybe?

 

[Xzylvador]

We'll have to wait until May to disagree which game we should have played last year?


(Edit: Then what have we been doing here this past year?!)

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

We'll have to wait until May to disagree which game we should have played last year?

The real highlight comes in 2018 when DU publishes "2015 - The Year in Review"

 

[laclongquan]

Hell, three year gap is nothing. Remember:

 

[Jaesun]

 

[V_K]

I don't.

 

[Average Manatee]

I tried automatic vote extraction in the Top 72 RPGs vote thread, didn't work at all. There's so many ways to write games like Baldur's Gate II - bg2, BGII, Baldur's Gate 2, Baldur Gate 2, etc...

That's actually not that big of a problem. First, a lot of variation can be removed by applying some simple input sanitation - removing anything that's not a letter or number, converting to lowercase, and so on. Then, what you do is, after the voting is closed, you run your script over the results, but have it print out all the unique game identifiers instead of counting votes, and then manually include every option you're missing. It's not that much work to do this, certainly less than inputting votes manually, and you can probably cover more than half of the spectrum through common sense guesses before you even start.

The way I'd normally do this (after input sanitation) is by creating a special spellcheck dictionary with only the game's names as words. If anyone manages to write Undertale in a way that tricks my word processor into thinking they meant Underrail then they can go choke themselves to death on their own tears.

 

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[Neanderthal]

^Its watchin videos like that makes me believe owt could be improved by armoured boot o an Adeptus Astartes smashin through nearest wall, followed by a molten stream of promethium as he burns all involved into ash, while screaming "HERESY" at top o his lungs.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I tried automatic vote extraction in the Top 72 RPGs vote thread, didn't work at all. There's so many ways to write games like Baldur's Gate II - bg2, BGII, Baldur's Gate 2, Baldur Gate 2, etc...

That's actually not that big of a problem. First, a lot of variation can be removed by applying some simple input sanitation - removing anything that's not a letter or number, converting to lowercase, and so on. Then, what you do is, after the voting is closed, you run your script over the results, but have it print out all the unique game identifiers instead of counting votes, and then manually include every option you're missing. It's not that much work to do this, certainly less than inputting votes manually, and you can probably cover more than half of the spectrum through common sense guesses before you even start.

The way I'd normally do this (after input sanitation) is by creating a special spellcheck dictionary with only the game's names as words. If anyone manages to write Undertale in a way that tricks my word processor into thinking they meant Underrail then they can go choke themselves to death on their own tears.

Yeah, you can factor edit distance (and now that I think about it, explicit substring matches would likely not throw any false positives either) in, but you still need to manually incorporate acronyms and other specific ways of writing game titles. There's no programmatic way of detecting that Realms of Arkania 2 and Star Trail are the same thing.

 

[hell bovine]

We'll have to wait until May to disagree which game we should have played last year?


(Edit: Then what have we been doing here this past year?!)

Considering we are still waiting for SitS review, I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout 4 both wins the poll and gets a review first.

 

[Average Manatee]

but you still need to manually incorporate acronyms and other specific ways of writing game titles. There's no programmatic way of detecting that Realms of Arkania 2 and Star Trail are the same thing.

Of course, anything that can't be matched should be flagged and then you can look at the flagged un-matchables, add Star Trail to your dictionary, rerun it, and have a second pass script that simply replaces Star Trail with Realms of Arkania 2

 

[Bubbles]

Considering we are still waiting for SitS review, I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout 4 both wins the poll and gets a review first.

I'll make personally sure that doesn't happen.

 

[V_K]

Considering we are still waiting for SitS review, I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout 4 both wins the poll and gets a review first.

I'll make personally sure that doesn't happen.

You're gonna make an army of bubble butts bots to rig the vote?

 

[Goral]

And put all his votes on Undertale so that F4 can have the second place.

 

[Mortmal]

By amount of hours played fallout 4 sures deserves the second place after witcher 3 . At release i remember almost everyone, codex group and outside, playing it, and those who doesnt show on steam just torrented it.

 

[hell bovine]

I'll make personally sure that doesn't happen.

Well, at least your avatar is appropriate for this quest.

 

[felipepepe]

Sorry, yesterday was Carnaval here in HEUHUEland, I got... uh... busy.

Gonna build the poll now.