Community RPG Codex's 2018 GOTY - VOTE NOW!

[felipepepe]

Tags: GOTY 2018

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time!

The voting for the RPG Codex's 2018 GOTY poll is now open: https://goo.gl/forms/iRugybmNxjKHFtJp1

2018 was a very different year, as we had more RPGs than ever before, but few "must-play" big releases. Instead, every sub-genre got its own niche title:

ATOM for Fallout fans,
Pathfinder & PoE2 for Infinity Engine fans,
Monster Hunter for Action-RPG fans,
Dragon Quest XI for JRPG fans,
The Bard's Tale trilogy remake for nostalgic people,
Battletech and Mutant Year Zero for Tacticool bros,
Kingdom Come for walking simulator fans,
and so on...

As such, this time we have almost 100 games in our GOTY poll, divided into three categories: GOTY, Best DLC/Expansion and Best Port/Remake. The poll is long, but just scroll past all the games you didn't play and focus on the ones you did.

Hopefully we can narrow that list down to the the truly special games released this year. Or maybe we will find out that everyone enjoyed a different game. Who knows?

 

[naossano]

ATOM for Fallout fans,

What about Fallout 76 ?

 

[BEvers]

I haven't played a single one of the games listed in the OP

You could have included Underworld Ascendant "for Looking Glass fans."

 

[Night Goat]

The only ones I played were Final Fantasy XV, Avernum 3 and Monster Hunter World, and while none of them really deserves a 4 I gave them all 4s anyway because fuck you

 

[luj1]

Kenshi ez


PS lots of garbage in that list that doesn't even deserve to be there (OR isn't even an RPG) but hey its felipepe so it doesn't surprise me at all

 

[purpleblob]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker all the way

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Kenshi and Kingdom Come: Deliverance are easily the top two CRPGs of 2018.

Spoiler

Unless we count Grimoire v2 as a new game.

 

[Bastardchops]

Is Kenshi better than Mount and Blade?

 

[Black]

Poplists are decline.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Again with that 1-2-3-4 shit?

I refuse to participate because this is a stupid and skewed rating system.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Also, list of rpgs includes ASSASSIN'S CREED ODYSSEY? Are you for fucking real?

If that's so, then where's Ghost of a Tale?

 

[Gregz]

Again with that 1-2-3-4 shit?

I refuse to participate because this is a stupid and skewed rating system.

What's wrong with it? It forces everyone to make a meaningful non-neutral decision. I had to debate long and hard whether to give Kingmaker a 1 or a 2 for instance.

 

[Jaedar]

I have played 2 expansion, 0 remakes, 2 goty candidates.

2018 such a shit year for rpgs.

 

[Darth Roxor]

What's wrong with it? It forces everyone to make a meaningful non-neutral decision.

Because that scale goes "terrible-bad-good-great", and there are multiple entries there that I could vote neither bad nor good in good conscience. This would include e.g. Battletech (which I've played for a while and for a while it was alright but then I got bored and never played it again) or Bastard (which was disappointing in comparison to the base Eisenwald, but at the same time not bad enough to be called straight up "bad"). Those are only two examples, but I'd probably have similar trubble with a bunch of other entries too.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Forest Dweller]

Haven't played any of those in the OP.

That said, I'm rooting for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

 

[Martyr]

my personal game of the year 2018 is Knights of the Chalice.

 

[V_K]

Arguably, The Council should have been on the list. But since we don't have a special mention for "most innovative", I guess it's not a big deal.

 

[Barghest]

Where is the 'Not sure' option? I hate voting for stuff I haven't played.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Where's the Battle Brothers DLC?

 

[Urthor]

Kingdom Come Deliveroo and Ghost of a Tale easily the best, so many games missed out on this list it's sad and depressing

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Battle Brothers: Beast and Exploration hasn't been included into DLC/Expansion poll.

 

[Dreed]

Where is Grimoire V2?

 

[conan_edw]

Why am I able to access the link again? Also since it's the Codex GOTY why is it open for everyone

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

What's wrong with it?

It allows people to downvote games they didn't play. Polls are popularity contests and the genre has limitations, but Felipepepe thinks he can do a poll while pretending is something else.