RPG Awards 2008 - Prestigious Codex Edition

[Occasionally Fatal]

Haven't played enough RPGs this year to make a completely informed decision, but...

RPGs released in 2008 -
Game of the Year: -
Best Visuals: Mass Effect
Best Sound: -
Honorable Mention: The Witcher EE

RPGs of all time -
1st Place: Fallout 2
2nd Place: VtM:Bloodlines
3rd Place: Planescape Torment
Honorable mentions: Diablo, System Shock 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Deus Ex, Morrowind

 

[Atomic]

RPGs of all time -
1st place: Wizardry 7
2nd place: Deus Ex
3rd place: Fallout
Honorable mentions: PS:T, Arcanum, Betrayal at Krondor, Ultima VII

 

[1eyedking]

- RPGs of 2008 -
Game of the Year
None. They all fucking sucked.

Best grafix
None.

Best .wavs
Again, none.

Honorable mentions
Guess what?


- RPGs of All Time -
Game of the Ever
Fallout

Runner-up
Fallout 2

Third Place
Planescape: Torment

Honorable mentions, in no particular order
The Witcher
Gothic
Arcanum
Ultima Underworld
Ultima VII
Wasteland
Darklands
Pools of Darkness

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

These awards are pretty shitty. We should categorize them more to RPG standards and critiques rather than 2/3 graphics whore/audiophile bullshit. Like ya know....

Best RPG

Best Character System

Best Dialog

Best Characters

Best Combat

Best Quests

Best Single Quest

and, you know, more shit that would actually make for interesting, and non-generic awards.

 

[1eyedking]

These awards are pretty shitty. We should categorize them more to RPG standards and critiques rather than 2/3 graphics whore/audiophile bullshit. Like ya know....

Best RPG

Best Character System

Best Dialog

Best Characters

Best Combat

Best Quests

Best Single Quest

and, you know, more shit that would actually make for interesting, and non-generic awards.

I agree, that would make it FAR more interesting.

New thread?

 

[oscar]

I must of played KOTOR I and II each four times. Pretty fun, only killing kath hounds (the first one) and mining droids at the start gets incredibly boring second time through. And combat (even on hard) is easy. Halfway through the second one your pretty much immortal.

 

[Volourn]

"ike 3 rpgs came out this year, so i guess Witcher: EE and Eschalon are allowed"

TW didn't come out this year, and it's so called speicial edition is the same fuckin' game for fuck sakes. Only morons would allow it to 'qualify'. FO3 is more deserving of the award than EE.

What eyar did Echalon came out in? If not 2008, then no it shouldn't qualify. If so, bring it on, BIATCHES.

 

[Whispering Darkness]

Didn't play any new RPGs in '08.

First Place: Arcanum
Second Place: Bloodlines
Third Place: Torment

 

[naarbin]

RPGs released in 2008 -
Game of the Year: The Witcher Enchanced Edition
Best Visuals: Mass Effect
Best Sound: Fallout 3
Honorable Mention(s): King's Bounty:The Legend (good game, really)

RPGs of all time -
Best RPG ever: Fallout 1&2 (one game for me :> ), Baldur's Gate 1&2 (also a two-parter)
Runner Up: Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the betrayer
Third Place: Betrayal & Return to Krondor
Honorable Mention(s): Neverwinter Shadows of Undrentide & Horder of the underdark, Icewind Dale 1&2 With All Addons...

Gosh, so many freakin good crpg worth mentioning :/

 

[Lexx]

RPGs released in 2008 -
Game of the Year: Mass Effect (was the only _new_ I've played. Has many things that I don't like, but was still the best...)
Best Visuals: Fallout 3
Best Sound: -
Honorable Mention(s): -

RPGs of all time -
Best RPG ever: Arcanum: Of Steamworks And Magick Obscura
Runner Up: Fallout
Third Place: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Honorable Mention(s): Deus Ex, Das Schwarze Auge Schicksalsklinge and Sternenschweif.

/Edit:

Snip

I agree.

 

[Tag]

RPGs released in 2008 -

Fuck all.
:evil:

RPGs of all time -
Best RPG ever: My own stoned dreams.
Runner Up: Arcanum.
Third Place: System Shock 2
Honorable Mention: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, Fallout.

 

[notnats]

RPGs released in 2008
Game of the Year: The Witcher EE (It's been another mediocre year and at least TW, despite the amnesia nonsense, had a good story)
Best Visuals: Mass Effect
Best Sound: The Witcher EE
Honorable Mention(s): Storm of Zehir duh

RPGs of all time
Best RPG ever: System Shock 2
Runner Up: PS:T
Third Place: Fallout 2
Honorable Mention: VtM:B, MotB, Deus Ex, Fallout, BG2

 

[ricolikesrice]

RPGs released in 2008

my "ratings":
Fallout 3 ( 7.5 / 10 )
Drakensang ( 7 / 10 )
Mass Effect ( 6.5 / 10 )
NWN2: SoZ ( ??? / 10 , will play in the next days )

Game of the Year: - (have to play SoZ first, if that disappoints then FO3)
Best Visuals: Fallout 3 -> Drakensang -> Mass Effect -> SoZ
Best Sound: none of them stood out positivly or negativly OVERALL
Honorable Mention(s): -

RPGs of all time
Best RPG ever: RoA : Star Trail
Runner Up: Fallout
Third Place: Vampire: Bloodlines
Honorable Mentions: Planescape, MOTB, Ultima Underworld, Wizardry 7, Deus Ex, Morrowind, Arcanum, System Shock 2


Summary about 2008:

okay year for cRPGs. 3 came out that were all worth their money (well probably not mass effect for full price, but for 30 bucks its worth it ) and enjoyable games overall.

still each of them had more than enough issues to not be a really great cRPG that can hold up to the classics either.

wonder whether SoZ will add in as the 4th "enjoyable but too flawed" cRPG or if it ll be outstanding, will know within the next week.

compared to 2007 we had one great cRPG (MOTB) and since i m neither polish nor retarded thats it. (just kidding, i didnt HATE the witcher, it was an okay game like mass effect , no more - no less, different tastes and all that .... )

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

2008
RPG of the year: Fallout 3
Visuals: Fallout 3
Sound: Fallout 3
Honorable mention: GTA4

Forever
RPG of the forever: Fallout 1
Second: Baldur's Gate series, or Baldur's Gate 2 if you're being picky
Third: Nethack
Honorable mention: Bloodlines

 

[Deleted member 7219]

GTA 4 isn't a fucking RPG.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Best RPG ever: RoA : Star Trail

German bias. :wink:

 

[SimpleComplexity]

RPGs released in 2008 -
Game of the Year: King`s Bounty
Best Visuals: King`s Bounty
Best Sound: Mass Effect
Honorable Mention: Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge, Storm of Zehir;
Edit: Deleted Fallout 3 for not being honorable

RPGs of all time -
Best RPG ever: Fallout 2 (for me not only best RPG, but also best game ever)
Runner Up: Fallout
Third Place: Arcanum
Honorable Mention: Jagged Alliance 2, Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, King of Dragon Pass, Diablo, Diablo II (...actually a lot more)

 

[ghostdog]

Is it already 2009 ? happy new year !

 

[PorkaMorka]

Best graphics and especially best sound are pretty awful categories.

Best RPG of 2008 - King's Bounty.

Earth's best RPG - Jagged Alliance 2
2nd - Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together
3rd - Gold Box series including FRUA, FRUA was amazing.
Honorable Mention: Dark Sun series. Shining Force 1 and 2. Fire Emblem 4,5,6,7. Super Robot Wars OG1 and 2. Baldur's Gate 2.

^____^

 

[Seldon]

2008:

GOTY: Storm of Zehir
Visuals: King's Bounty
Sound: Storm of Zehir
Honorable mention: Fallout 3

All time:
1. Planescape Torment
2. Morrowind
3. (Not yet decided)

Honorable mentions

Mask of The Betrayer
NWN 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Icewind Dale

 

[Ogg]

These awards are pretty shitty. We should categorize them more to RPG standards and critiques rather than 2/3 graphics whore/audiophile bullshit. Like ya know....

Best RPG

Best Character System

Best Dialog

Best Characters

Best Combat

Best Quests

Best Single Quest

and, you know, more shit that would actually make for interesting, and non-generic awards.

What did you expect from a thread initiated by Cloaked Figure?
Your proposition's interesting though. I would answer this.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Best graphics and especially best sound are pretty awful categories.

Best RPG of 2008 - King's Bounty.

Earth's best RPG - Jagged Alliance 2
2nd - Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together
3rd - Gold Box series including FRUA, FRUA was amazing.
Honorable Mention: Dark Sun series. Shining Force 1 and 2. Fire Emblem 4,5,6,7. Super Robot Wars OG1 and 2. Baldur's Gate 2.

^____^

How people have the nerve to call Volourn and myself morons, when you make a list of 'RPGs' like this, I simply cannot understand.

 

[Konjad]

RPGs released in 2008 -
Game of the Year: The Witcher EE (but original game is from 2007, so I'm not sure it's ok to put it in here. If not I vote for Storm of Zehir)
Best Visuals: The Witcher EE if you are asking about art in graphic, if you are asking about bloom then I would choose Mass Effect or Fallout 3, but these are not RPGs anyway)
Best Sound: The Witcher EE (in polish version at least)
Honorable Mention: But there wasn't more RPGs in this year, what are you talking about?


RPGs of all time -
Best RPG ever: The Witcher EE (because of great C&C)
Runner Up: Planescape Torment (because of great plot)
Third Place: Mask of the Betrayer (because of great plot, though not good as in PST)
Honorable Mention: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Gothic, Gothic 2 with Night of the Raven, Baldur's Gate II.

 

[JarlFrank]

I must of played KOTOR I and II each four times.

Sorry to go offtopic, but...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH PEOPLE WRITING "MUST OF" THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW STUPID ARE YOU?? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CERTAIN THING CALLED GRAMMAR??? I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS IT THAT HARD? WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES "MUST OF" MAKE? IT'S MUST HAVE, NOT MUST OF, LEARN YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING GRAMMAR GODDAMNIT THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN CONFUSING "THEIR" AND "THEY'RE" OH GOD WHYYYYYY

Please. Please, dude, learn your grammar. I always get the urge to smash something when I read things like this. Think of my heart. I might get a heart attack and die. You don't want that, do you?

 

[Darth Roxor]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH PEOPLE WRITING "MUST OF" THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW STUPID ARE YOU?? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CERTAIN THING CALLED GRAMMAR??? I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS IT THAT HARD? WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES "MUST OF" MAKE? IT'S MUST HAVE, NOT MUST OF, LEARN YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING GRAMMAR GODDAMNIT THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN CONFUSING "THEIR" AND "THEY'RE" OH GOD WHYYYYYY

This. And it's not only a case of 'must of' but generally trading 'have' for 'of'.

 

[Konjad]

Think of my heart. I might get a heart attack and die. You don't want that, do you?

You must of. It is your fate.

 

[Bluebottle]

I must of played KOTOR I and II each four times.

Sorry to go offtopic, but...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH PEOPLE WRITING "MUST OF" THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW STUPID ARE YOU?? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CERTAIN THING CALLED GRAMMAR??? I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS IT THAT HARD? WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES "MUST OF" MAKE? IT'S MUST HAVE, NOT MUST OF, LEARN YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING GRAMMAR GODDAMNIT THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN CONFUSING "THEIR" AND "THEY'RE" OH GOD WHYYYYYY

Please. Please, dude, learn your grammar. I always get the urge to smash something when I read things like this. Think of my heart. I might get a heart attack and die. You don't want that, do you?

It's just one of those common mistakes that's become almost acceptable, like "Me and my friend" instead of "My friend and I". I've seen librarians use this, who are usually pretty up tight about such things.