Community RPG Codex 2021 GOTY - VOTE NOW!

[Glad]

Pathfinder WotR upvoted - check
Janapese bullshit downvoted - check

Completely destroy the poll intent as you are supposed to vote only on what you play , so unknown titles with higher user satisfaction will emerge from the crowd. Most of them are probably complete shit but it's possible amongst the hundred there's one worth playing. Last time i only played troubleshooters and start reading the thread because it was highly ranked here. Despite the kawai graphics, it was superior to most western games.

Who said I didn't play them xd

 

[Q]

Best for me was Solasta and Wildermyth.
Trudograd, Black Book and Encased was fine too.
I guess it's already something - to get 5 fine turnbased western rpgs in a year.

 

[toro]

Pass. It was a shitty year.

 

[Excommunicator]

Hard Pass

 

[buffalo bill]

So how bad is it?

Spoiler

Looks like it might be an RPG
ATOM RPG: Trudograd
Age of Fear 4: The Iron Killer
Black Dawn Rebirth
Der Geisterjäger / The Ghost Hunter
Disciples: Liberation
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Fallout: Olympus 2207
Gamedec
Hearkenwold
Note of the Outskirts
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
Realms of Antiquity - released dec 2020
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
The Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Tortured Hearts - Or How I Saved The Universe. Again.
Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos
Urtuk: The Desolation
Vagrus The Riven Realms


After a few beers, I might call them an RPG
Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Dust to the End
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
Gloomhaven
HellSign
Himeko Sutori
Mechajammer
Midnight Protocol
Osteoblasts
Sands of Salzaar - smells like something else, but eh...
Siralim Ultimate
Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi - weaboo shit but maybe?
Wildermyth


Definitely not RPG
Arboria - action game
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace - Adventure game
Aron's Adventure - "Action adventure"
Arthurian Legends - FPS
Blue Reflection: Second Light - weaboo shit
Banners of Ruin - card battler
Black Book - card battler
Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom - weaboo shit
Bravely Default 2 - weaboo shit
Cardaclysm - card battler
CarsFuckingDragons - is a joke
Chernobylite - survival horror
眼中的世界 - Conviction - weaboo shit
Cris Tales - weaboo shit
Dark Deity - weaboo shit
Death's Door - action adventure
Devil Slayer - Raksasi - action game
Disjunction - action adventure/stealth
Dodgeball Academia - a fucking joke
Dohna Dohna - alicesoft porn game, but rance didn't make the cut?
Dreamscaper - roguelite action game
Drox Operative 2 - action game
Dungeon Encounters - borderline weaboo shit
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance - parody option, it is an action game
Dwarf Journey - roguelite platformer
Dysmantle - survival game
Eastern Exorcist - side-scrolling action game
Eastward - action game
Echo Generation - adventure game
Edge of Eternity - weaboo shit
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights - sidescrolling action game
Erannorth Chronicles - card battler
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch - metroidvania
Fight Knight - FPS
Fuga: Melodies of Steel - furry jRPG
GRIME - action adventure
Garbage - survival/hobo simulation
Griftlands - roguelite card battler
Hobo: Tough Life - a joke
剑魄 JianPo - hipster action
Jupiter Hell - turn-based shooter
King's Bounty II - turn-based strategy
Library of Ruina - card game
Looking for Heals - action roguelike
Loop Hero - barely a game and NOT AN RPG
M.E.A.T.- has RPG in the name, but looks like an action adventure to me
Magia X - 2d action weaboo shit
Maneater - a joke
Medieval Dynasty - survival
Mercenaries Blaze - turn-based tactics/sRPG
Might is Right - turn-based strategy game
Monster Crown - weaboo shit
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin - weaboo shit
Märchen Forest - weaboo shit, no rpg in sight
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles - nice gimmic does not an RPG make
Ortharion project - action adventure, released dec 2020
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- - metroidvania
Redaxium - weaboo shit
Rift Wizard - roguelike and spells, but does not an rpg make
Rogue Lords - roguelike but not an rpg
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - LOL!
Scarlet Nexus - weaboo shit
Serin Fate - "creature collector"
Shattered - Tale of the Forgotten King - action adventure
Silent Sector - action adventure
Super Robot Wars 30 - NO!
Sword and Fairy 7 - wumao action game
Sword of the Necromancer - action adventure
Tails of Iron - soulslike action adventure
Tainted Grail: Conquest - card battler
Tales of Arise - weaboo shit
The Ascent - action game
The Captain - adventure game
The Forgotten City - adventure
The Last Hex - card battler roguelite
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV - weaboo shit
The Red Solstice 2: Survivors - real time tactics
The Riftbreaker - tower defence
Touhou Blooming Chaos 2 - weaboo shit
Trials of Fire - card battler roguelite
Undungeon - action game
Unsighted - action adventure
Vampirem - hack & slash
Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars - card battler
WitchSpring3 Re:Fine - The Story of Eirudy - - weaboo shit
Wolfstride - action game
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox - weaboo shit

That is pretty fucking bad. I probably put more effort into this than was put on the poll itself.

Definite highlight was seeing an Alicesoft porn game there, but no Rance. It is like MAGIC, man!

Protip: if it says "action adventure", most probably it isn't an RPG. If it has "deckbuilding" somewhere there, it isn't an RPG. Roguelite + action... not an RPG.

Jupiter Hell is definitely an RPG

 

[felipepepe]

Poll is closed, thanks everyone who voted, results should be out by the weekend.

 

[Konjad]

We should rename the thread and the poll to "RPGCodex 2021 butthurt thread".

 

[Rance]

Racist poll excluded Rance games once again.

どインポ下衆野郎!

 

[Konjad]

Poll is closed, thanks everyone who voted, results should be out by the weekend.

Which weekend?

 

[Tacgnol]

Poll is closed, thanks everyone who voted, results should be out by the weekend.

Which weekend?

5 micro issues remain.

 

[Modron]

Which weekend?

Here on the codex weekends can last a long time, one of those Zero-sum developers said he would post the source code to Prelude to Darkness the next weekend after he got home from vacation and that was at least 14 years ago.

 

[Tacgnol]

Which weekend?

Here on the codex weekends can last a long time, one of those Zero-sum developers said he would post the source code to Prelude to Darkness the next weekend after he got home from vacation and that was at least 14 years ago.

He'll deliver one day.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Which weekend?

Here on the codex weekends can last a long time, one of those Zero-sum developers said he would post the source code to Prelude to Darkness the next weekend after he got home from vacation and that was at least 14 years ago.

Now I just want to know where he went vacationing.

 

[Konjad]

Which weekend?

Here on the codex weekends can last a long time, one of those Zero-sum developers said he would post the source code to Prelude to Darkness the next weekend after he got home from vacation and that was at least 14 years ago.

We were this close to making the ultimate best RPG ever?

 

[Tacgnol]

Which weekend?

Here on the codex weekends can last a long time, one of those Zero-sum developers said he would post the source code to Prelude to Darkness the next weekend after he got home from vacation and that was at least 14 years ago.

Now I just want to know where he went vacationing.

I believe several Codexers have tried to get in contact with the Prelude team, the dev team all seem to have disappeared off of the face of the earth.

In all honesty at this point, it's unlikely any of them would still have access to the source code.

Edit: Interestingly enough, the old "president" of Zero Sum is now some sort of inclusion and diversity officer at Microsoft.
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,241118/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cp-mcbee-322a812
https://twitter.com/cpmcbee

 

[felipepepe]

Poll is closed, thanks everyone who voted, results should be out by the weekend.

Which weekend?

I finished it on Sunday and showed to the staff to see if there was any comments or mistakes. No one said anything, so I'll post it now. Glad we all agreed Biomutant was GOTY.

Here it is: https://rpgcodex.net/article.php?id=11966

 

[ROARRR]

Ok, my vote goes for Final Fantasy XV.
Please inform us when the poll is over and the results are there.
We all know that I will win, but to be fair, they should be told this by you pepe.