Community RPG Codex 2023 GOTY - POLL IS CLOSED!

[Konjad]

All you posers whining about which should get 1/5: is it BG3, or Starfield? Diablo 4?

All you're telling me is you didn't play/back Arcadian Atlas. That thing is true dog shit.

But is it worse than Stray Gods?

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Huh. I have played exactly one game on that list. I guess I'll have to vote for it.

 

[Lord_Potato]

"Colon Shit or Bear's Gape 3? Which is better and why? Discuss!"

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colonoscopy seems to be hard topic for ai

That's a nice counterpart of a bikini armor on a dude with a beer belly

There's a niche to fill, developers.

They're already on it:

 

[Baron Dupek]

Still don't get why remasters are in. Remakes, fine, but remasters?

I guess remasters are the way to reach new customers, while still being closer to the originals than remakes?

 

[mediocrepoet]

All you posers whining about which should get 1/5: is it BG3, or Starfield? Diablo 4?

All you're telling me is you didn't play/back Arcadian Atlas. That thing is true dog shit.

Is Arcadian Atlas so bad it's good, or is it completely devoid of entertainment?

It took 7+ years to make? Holy shit.

The latter. It's just bad.

 

[Yosharian]

Jesus christ it is sad how few decent RPGs came out last year

I voted BG3 a '4' and Jagged Alliance 3 a '5', sorry Swen but I had way more fun with the latter

I played the demo of D4 so I feel qualified to vote on it, but it isn't the worst, no that goes to Starfield!

Edit: why are so many people butthurt by this post? lmao i am genuinely confused by this

 

[Lacrymas]

From the ones I've played, which isn't a lot when I went through the list, only Conquest of Eo is anywhere close to a good game. I'm sure I'm also going to like Colony Ship and maaaaybe Jagged Alliance 3 (because I know nothing about it), but that's it. I would like BG3 to not win, but it's going to win.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Only playing 1-3 games, with at least one of BG3 or Starfield, means you're a filthy reddit casual and have no ground to stand on to say it was a bad year for RPGs.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Only playing 1-3 games, with at least one of BG3 or Starfield, means you're a filthy reddit casual and have no ground to stand on to say it was a bad year for RPGs.

Caves of Lore, Spacewreck and Colony Ship are all noteworthy. Even with their flaws.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Only playing 1-3 games, with at least one of BG3 or Starfield, means you're a filthy reddit casual and have no ground to stand on to say it was a bad year for RPGs.

Having completed 5 and played 2 more (though only several hours each) I can say it was a pretty decent year for RPGs.

 

[Shaki]

Hey BG3 fans, are you sure you want to vote for it? There is a game on the list that will fit your epic RPG gaming tastes even better, you should vote for it instead. Rance IX Codex GOTY 5/5.

 

[REhorror]

Too many titles, I'm just gonna vote for Armored Core 6, Robocop, Star Ocean 2nd R, Rogue Trader and Colony Ship, and Octopath Traveler 2.

EDIT: List doesn't even have Armored Core 6 and Robocop, wtf man, these games have RPG branching paths and different endings, that's more than Skyrim.

 

[Lord of Riva]

Hey BG3 fans, are you sure you want to vote for it? There is a game on the list that will fit your epic RPG gaming tastes even better, you should vote for it instead. Rance IX Codex GOTY 5/5.

Compared to BG 3 Rance is god Tier.

 

[felipepepe]

felipepepe
Not sure why repeat the same mistake (1-5 rating scale, instead of 1-4) again this year, when it was admitted post-results last year.

I did ask Twiglard to change it, he didn't. I don't know if it's because he forgot, it's annoying to change it or he just prefers 1-5. He's already doing this whole poll as a favor, so whatever.

 

[Konjad]

felipepepe
Not sure why repeat the same mistake (1-5 rating scale, instead of 1-4) again this year, when it was admitted post-results last year.

I did ask Twiglard to change it, he didn't. I don't know if it's because he forgot, it's annoying to change it or he just prefers 1-5. He's already doing this whole poll as a favor, so whatever.

A true man of princliples, doesn't bend to no book writer

 

[ERYFKRAD]

only Conquest of Eo

Game where you play a casterfag is automatically shit. Only the most boring people pick those.

 

[Jeskis]

How to rate a game that is entertaining enough and even tickles the long forgotten strums at times, yet bashes you with writing and design choices so bad you can’t help but take it personally?

 

[Lacrymas]

only Conquest of Eo

Game where you play a casterfag is automatically shit. Only the most boring people pick those.

It depends on what you mean by "play". Yeah, theoretically the "godhand" is a wizard of some classification, but you can have all-martial parties.

 

[Lord of Riva]

How to rate a game that is entertaining enough and even tickles the long forgotten strums at times, yet bashes you with writing and design choices so bad you can’t help but take it personally?

2, Nostalgia is worth less than the actual gameplay.

 

[Spukrian]

I haven't played any game in the list... though there are som games on it that I'll play... eventually.

 

[Falksi]

Since it's already come up repeatedly, i'm going to go ahead and confess: I voted on some games I watched greater than 3 hours of footage of (mostly livestreams) even though I didn't play them.

These games were Lies of P (5 stars, actually the best thing that came out this year and already familiar with the subgenre.)

BG3, and Starfield (0 stars, it doesn't take a genius to figure out these are some of the worst RPGs of '23, if not the decade. You can already smell and see shit, you don't have to bend down and taste it to figure out it's shit.)

And yes, as previously discussed, the negative ratings were motivated by a combination of "I'd rather sound my cock with rusty rebar than play this." and "This game doesn't deserve to be Top 3 ANYTHING."

I might have voted on a few others, I'm not sure. Perhaps we should do a recount, along with including more games in the vote. I'm also ok with having my votes nullified, if that's an option.

This has to be one of the weirdest phenomena's in modern society.

Watching other people play games online is still an odd concept to me, but to then rate games on what you're seeing is just baffling.

I remember seeing screens of Flicky in mags and thinking it looked garbage, but playing it was addictive as hell and it's still miles better than half the dross churned out now. Yet if I'd have rated it on just what I saw, both via those screens and in the arcades, I'd have given it a 1/5.

When the next Codex top 100 games list comes around, only votes with mini-reviews which display the player has actually played the game to a respectable degree should count.

 

[Sweeper]

Edit: why are so many people butthurt by this post? lmao i am genuinely confused by this

I voted BG3 a '4' and Jagged Alliance 3 a '5', sorry Swen but I had way more fun with the latter

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Edit: why are so many people butthurt by this post? lmao i am genuinely confused by this

the gall to call others butthurt when you ignore someone for one negative rating

 

[Yosharian]

You'd have to be a fucking retard to be upset by that, JA3 is fucking great

 

[agris]

So, let me throw a hypothetical scenario at you. Let's say that there's a person out there, we'll call him NotNotSweeper, and let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

you will, ironically, help it win by doing so. the more people play something, even rating it low, increases the chance of it winning