Who even cares? After a visual novel winning 2019, Codex GOTY became as worthless as any of the 10000 journo GOTY awards.
Wait until we put Disco Elysium on the top of the next edition of RPG Codex 100 best RPGs ever!
The butthurt shall break the Internet.
DE is easily in the top 10 if you ask me.
Gary Gygax said:
"storytelling" games are not RPGs, but that is not to say that they are not games, nor to claim they lack high entertainment value--fun! My complaint has been that these games hould not claim to be RPGs
DE has builds and min-maxing, meaning more RPG gameplay than many other top 100 games.
Lmao, minmaxing for what? There are no challenges in this game, there is only one ending, your "decisions" and "gameplay" matter as much as choosing 1. Yes 2. No (yes) 3. Maybe (yes) in FO4, at best you'll change the text you see a little, but ultimately will get the same outcome, you can get through the game just by clicking shit randomly, lol.
It's a visual novel, I have no problems with liking visual novels, but why are people so obsessed with trying to call it an RPG, when it has nothing in common with the genre?