Community RPG Codex 2016 Role-Playing Game of the Year & Age of Incline Voting

[HiddenX]

One of the best RPGs of 2016 is missing: Ara Fell

How does it score on your crpganalyser though?

Ara Fell comes with a very good in story (with some surprises), interesting dialog and with many memorable characters. Combat is turn based and challenging. World exploration is fun and rewarding. Character development is weaker due to the predefined characters.
Two thumbs up.

I played it and it's really not good. Unfinished, too. (E.g. that quest with the brigand girl, of which the developer himself said he didn't have enough time to flesh it out.)

I mean, I admire the effort - and I can see there was some actual effort behind this game (especially in terms of art style) - but no small indie team has actually managed to make a great classic-style JRPG so far. And Ara Fell is no exception.

And I don't remember the combat being challenging at all.

Unfinshed? - That is bullshit. Ara Fell is a 30 hour game that tells a believable story with many side quests, never gets boring and is really fun. The boss fights are challenging. But it seems that indie games get more criticized on the Codex these days or are ignored completely.

 

[an Administrator]

It's because the game looks like this

 

[felipepepe]

felipepepe Apologies if the main post answers this, but when will the final vote be compiled? Would you like to do a show about it? I'll reserve you a Saturday if you want.

EDIT: I see voting runs through Feb 1, but when will the results and accompanying analysis, etc be released?

Analyzing it shouldn't take long - by the 5th or 6th of Feb I should be done.

However, then we have to write a post to present the data, probably with some artwork, staff comments, etc... and that I honestly can't tell ya how long will take. :/

But sure, we can do a show about it. Just don't roast me for not releasing the new CRPG Book preview yet.

 

[felipepepe]

felipepepe What is this travesty? Where is Rance 6? The English release was 2016!

Rance VI: The Collapse of Zeth was now added to the poll.

Just click on the voting link again and you can update your votes.

 

[V_K]

It's because the game looks like this

Not really - the way it looks, the level of detail that went into the environments, is actually the best thing about the game. Everything else is mediocre at best.

 

[sstacks]

felipepepe Apologies if the main post answers this, but when will the final vote be compiled? Would you like to do a show about it? I'll reserve you a Saturday if you want.

EDIT: I see voting runs through Feb 1, but when will the results and accompanying analysis, etc be released?

Analyzing it shouldn't take long - by the 5th or 6th of Feb I should be done.

However, then we have to write a post to present the data, probably with some artwork, staff comments, etc... and that I honestly can't tell ya how long will take. :/

But sure, we can do a show about it. Just don't roast me for not releasing the new CRPG Book preview yet.

Ok if you think of it give me as much heads up as you can when the post is going live and we'll get you on the show. I want to time it as close to the post going live as possible.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

felipepepe Apologies if the main post answers this, but when will the final vote be compiled? Would you like to do a show about it? I'll reserve you a Saturday if you want.

EDIT: I see voting runs through Feb 1, but when will the results and accompanying analysis, etc be released?

Analyzing it shouldn't take long - by the 5th or 6th of Feb I should be done.

However, then we have to write a post to present the data, probably with some artwork, staff comments, etc... and that I honestly can't tell ya how long will take. :/

But sure, we can do a show about it. Just don't roast me for not releasing the new CRPG Book preview yet.

Will there be mini reviews like the last time? Can help with a few

 

[Average Manatee]

Is Dark Souls supposed to be an RPG?
Man, what has the world come to. Back in my day we had games like Soul Reaver and Ninja Gaiden and they were called action-adventure.

It's functionally pretty similar to Diablo-like and it has way more roleplaying elements than Diablo 3.

 

[Fenris 2.0]

Damn, not a lot of Games that I played in this Timeframe... I bought and started a lot of the "Incline-Games" but I could only get into maybe three or four of them, the rest just where no fun, even if I could see their qualities, I just couldn't enjoy them...

 

[Gregz]

It's nice to see a robust anonymous poll with a high-energy analytics team in charge of collating the data.

I haven't even heard of most of the games in this poll, so I'm looking forward to playing the gems I missed.

This is why the Codex is great.

 

[Invictus]

If Dark Souls doesnt win 2012 I would be really surprised, 2014 is where thing begin to get interesting...

 

[KyivAfter12am]

I'm very interested to see the results for the last 2-3 years. Apparently I've missed a shitload of less known games. Out of the ones I actually played, I only have 5 points for witcher 3. It's only flaws are simplistic combat and badly balanced crafting. But good writing, fun system of buffs and excellent environments more than make up for that.

Age of Decadence and Legends of Eisenwald were pretty close, but it would have been silly to give 5 points to games I didn't even finish.

 

[Keye_]

Underrail gets my GOTY vote.

 

[throwaway]

As someone with a huge backlog I'm glad to realize how skippable 2013 was.

 

[Sigourn]

What is the point, anyway. This system is stupid, anyone can downvote games they didn't play to prevent them from winning.

You would have to be a cunt to do that. You would be shitting on your fellow Codexers.

 

[veevoir]

What is the point, anyway. This system is stupid, anyone can downvote games they didn't play to prevent them from winning.

You would have to be a cunt to do that. You would be shitting on your fellow Codexers.

Your point being?

 

[mondblut]

Why are "didn't play" and "sucks" mutually exclusive? We are not neofag peons, we don't play games because we know they suck.

Tried to vote, but quickly lost my way among all the action trash, jrpg trash, adventure trash and other trash. Can we have a bullet point list of actual by the book CRPGs to vote for? Disregard that, just give them all a 4 on my behalf for not being completely gay.

 

[Sigourn]

Your point being?

It's the best system there is to vote. Voting against the system is no different than me saying

"5 points to Skyrim, 5 points to Obliivion, 5 points to Fallout 3, 5 points to Fallout 4".

Retards eikk be vertwgere

 

[mondblut]

If only "pure" RPGs were allowed, that list would be kinda short

That's the whole point.

Suffer not the inbred impures.

 

[an Administrator]

B-but... what is an RPG?

 

[Somberlain]

RPG, for me, is about a knight on horseback running around and killing things.

 

[Jarmaro]

B-but... what is an RPG?

It's a game where most part is playing as self created or well desricptioned character, it must have also possibility to progress your character/level up, have inventory and items player can gather and equip, have money or other currency, it'd be also good if game has story in which player can participate and make choices. That's the core I suppose.

 

[Sigourn]

B-but... what is an RPG?

"A game that makes people argue whether it is a roleplaying game or not."

 

[set]

My 5's:

Underrail
Path of Exile
Rance
Invisible Inc.
Darkest Dungeon
Shadowrun: Dragon's Whatever It's Called (the one set in Berlin)


That was like, honestly it. Everything else I gave a 3 or lower.

I was generous with giving DE:HD a 4, because I want more Deus. Lords of Xulima, Age of Decadence, and some other titles I really wanted to give a 4, but if I didn't even make it through it to the end, I just couldn't.

 

[Wayward Son]

this poll made me realize how many games I liked but never finished -.-

Same here.

My highest ratings went to: D:OS (5), LoG2(5) (what can I say, I have a hard-on for blobbers), LoX(4), Fallout 1.5(5), and Witcher 3. My lowest two votes went to Inquisition(1) and Fallout 4(2). I basically gave a 5 to the best game that I played in that year. Didn't vote at all for 2013.