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

Discussion in 'General RPG Discussion' started by Fairfax, Dec 3, 2015.

  1. felipepepe Prestigious Gentleman Codex's Heretic Patron

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    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...
     
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  2. Daedalos Arcane The Real Fanboy

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

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    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).
     
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  4. felipepepe Prestigious Gentleman Codex's Heretic Patron

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    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.
     
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  5. Zorba the Hutt Arcane Weasel

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    A few alts or a thousand 'lurker' votes

    :philosoraptor:
     
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  6. Goral Arcane Patron The Real Fanboy

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    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.
     
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  7. Cowboy Moment Arcane

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    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.
     
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  8. Excidium II Self-Ejected

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    Where is it?
     
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  9. laclongquan Arcane

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    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?
     
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  10. Xzylvador Savant Patron

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

    (Edit: Then what have we been doing here this past year?!)
     
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  11. Zorba the Hutt Arcane Weasel

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    The real highlight comes in 2018 when DU publishes "2015 - The Year in Review"
     
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  12. laclongquan Arcane

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    Hell, three year gap is nothing. Remember:

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  13. Jaesun Fabulous Moderator

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  14. V_K Arcane

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    I don't. :rpgcodex:
     
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  15. Average Manatee Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    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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  16. t Arcane Patron

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    Codex 2014 PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Serpent in the Staglands Divinity: Original Sin Torment: Tides of Numenera Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
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    ^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.
     
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  18. Cowboy Moment Arcane

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    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.
     
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  19. hell bovine Arcane

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    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.
     
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  20. Average Manatee Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    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
     
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  21. Bubbles I'm forever blowing

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    I'll make personally sure that doesn't happen.
     
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  22. V_K Arcane

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    You're gonna make an army of bubble butts bots to rig the vote?
     
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  23. Goral Arcane Patron The Real Fanboy

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

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    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.
     
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  25. hell bovine Arcane

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