Community RPG Codex GOTY 2017: Results & Cool Graphs

[felipepepe]

Tags: GOTY 2017

It's finally time to crunch the numbers and see what the Codex played & enjoyed in 2017.
This year we had 966 voters, who rated 84 games divided into three categories: Game of the Year, Best Expansion and Best PC Port/Remaster.

For those of you who just want the TL;DR, here are the winners:

GOTY

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Prey
3. Battle Brothers

Best Expansion

1. Grim Dawn - Ashes of Malmouth
2. Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath
3. Path of Exile: War for the Atlas

Best PC Port/Remaster

1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky The 3rd
3. Disgaea 2

For the full results, fancy graphs and snarky analysis, just follow the link bellow.

Read the full article: RPG Codex GOTY 2017: Results & Cool Graphs

 

[Urthor]

Persona 5 was robbed

 

[Infinitron]

Top 3 of Real RPGs™

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Expeditions: Viking
3. ELEX

EDIT: lol no I'm not

 

[Gepeu]

The elections were rigged (trusted source). Here are the REAL results:

GOTY
1. ELEX
1. ELEX
1. ELEX

 

[Jasede]

Hmmm, thought Elex would be higher.

 

[conan_edw]

lol really thought ELEX was going to win

 

[Darth Roxor]

GOTY

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Prey
3. Battle Brothers

[DOS2] was the most voted game AND one of the most positively rated

burn the fucking codex to the ground

 

[felipepepe]

D:OS2 is an European turn- and party-based RPG with Ultima VII influences and Chris Avellone on the writing team. ELEX never had a chance.

Also, the S and the 2 form a heart. S2

 

[dragonul09]

Thank god nobody fell for that pile of shit Elex, one of the worst fucking games I played in the last few years. PB is dead and the crazed cum guzzling fan boys that keep this bloated corpse alive are the most delirious sons of bitches I have ever seen since H.Clinton thought she was adored by the people.

 

[Gepeu]

I'm calling the police.

 

[Infinitron]

ELEX didn't actually do that poorly, here's the image from the full article for all the low attention span kids in the audience

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Nice to see Trails got some love.

 

[Jasede]

GOTY

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Prey
3. Battle Brothers

[DOS2] was the most voted game AND one of the most positively rated

burn the fucking codex to the ground

B- but the writing is so good...

 

[felipepepe]

BTW, people like this are why ELEX lost:

Thank god nobody fell for that pile of shit Elex, one of the worst fucking games I played in the last few years. PB is dead and the crazed cum guzzling fan boys that keep this bloated corpse alive are the most delirious sons of bitches I have ever seen since H.Clinton thought she was adored by the people.

Remove the 1/4 votes and it would be #3.

 

[Jasede]

So people who have never played an RPG before? Okay.
Well, at least for those people, there's D:OS 2 and all its fanfiction romance, gay and straight! Progressive!

It's not an RPG if you can't fuck everyone, like in Fallout.

 

[Monty]

No real surprises, although I guess I expected ME:A to do a bit worse (11% positive ratings??)

Thanks for putting it together.

 

[dragonul09]

BTW, people like this are why ELEX lost:

Thank god nobody fell for that pile of shit Elex, one of the worst fucking games I played in the last few years. PB is dead and the crazed cum guzzling fan boys that keep this bloated corpse alive are the most delirious sons of bitches I have ever seen since H.Clinton thought she was adored by the people.

Remove the 1/4 votes and it would be #3.

Oh sure, let's remove a few electoral college votes and H.Clinton would be president, that's not how it works. Game was garbage and people only voted for it because there was nothing else to play.

 

[Jaedar]

BTW, people like this are why ELEX lost:

Thank god nobody fell for that pile of shit Elex, one of the worst fucking games I played in the last few years. PB is dead and the crazed cum guzzling fan boys that keep this bloated corpse alive are the most delirious sons of bitches I have ever seen since H.Clinton thought she was adored by the people.

Remove the 1/4 votes and it would be #3.

How about the same for Nier?

Top 3 of Real RPGs™

1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Expeditions: Viking
3. ELEX

EDIT: lol no I'm not

It is natural that turn based games would win over ELEX.

Game was garbage and people only voted for it because there was nothing else to play.

This is true for every game in the poll except West Of Loathing.

 

[Infinitron]

The discrepancy between D:OS 2's result in the poll and the commentary about it on the forums must be among the widest we've ever seen on this site.

And the thing is it's not something that's consistent across all games - Torment got a terrible result. So you can't blame it on casual votes from Twitter or whatever. There are a lot of D:OS 2 fans around here whose voices aren't being heard.

 

[Doma]

Prey 2nd best RPG? wat?

Also, ELEX way too low. Below Expedition Viking? Really?

ELEX is TOP 3 of 2017 at least.

 

[conan_edw]

Well D:OS2 deserved it

 

[Projas]

I can actually somewhat understand considering Prey an RPG. But what on earth makes Dominions 5 one? Afaik the game doesn't even claim to be an RPG, which is like the absolute bare minimum for something to be considered an RPG.

Nier: Automata was #6. It was quite popular and had 41% of its voters rating it 4/4, but was held back by 12% giving it 1/4.

Quite frankly I expected there to be more homosexuals on the Codex than 12%, so that's definitely a surprise.

 

[Infinitron]

Prey is definitely the dark horse of this poll. It's certainly appropriate that the Codex's favorite Bethesda-published game is the one that bombed commercially.

Before we published it, felipepepe and I spoke about how the fact that this poll is a contest between a bunch of flawed games only makes it more interesting. It shows what people on the Codex really value when they don't have an obvious favorite. As it turns out, most seek solace in the hands of safe and familiar turn-based goodness, but some chose to go in wildly different directions.

 

[Jimmious]

BATTOL BROTHARS

 

[Kem0sabe]

For such a fucking dissapointment, codex really cant help themselves buy vote for the game 90% of them won't bother to finish.