Community RPG Codex GOTY 2017: Results & Cool Graphs

[HeatEXTEND]

... Honestly if this was voiced in the early 2000s this would sound very progressive. Make-ups aren't just for girls and all that crap.

Dont'you mean the early seventies? In the 80's it was somewhat common for guys to wear eyeshadow and shit.

 

[Roguey]

Dont'you mean the early seventies? In the 80's it was somewhat common for guys to wear eyeshadow and shit.

I recall hearing an anecdote about Elvis looking at some early 70s glam rocker on his television and asking out loud what he had started.

 

[M. AQVILA]

I finally got to play Battle Brothers and I have to say that it's the best game of 2017. I still can't believe DOS 2 won, wtf Codex? And Prey? Seriously?

 

[Excommunicator]

Stop doing these polls

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I finally got to play Battle Brothers and I have to say that it's the best game of 2017.

For the first 10 hours.

 

[Black]

That's 11 hours more than DOS 2.

 

[Jasede]

BB was boring after ten hours but DOS 2 was boring after five minutes to me so I am forced to agree.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

That's 11 hours more than DOS 2.

Well BB is not even an RPG so it's only natural to be much less boring than one.

 

[M. AQVILA]

That's 11 hours more than DOS 2.

Well BB is not even an RPG so it's only natural to be much less boring than one.

You roleplay as the captain of a mercenary company and the game is listed as a tactical RPG. It's a RPG.

 

[Darth Roxor]

THE KAPTIN HAS NO STATS

 

[M. AQVILA]

Well, I guess it's not a RPG then. I'm convinced.

 

[Martyr]

Battle Brothers may not be a RPG, but it most certainly is an RPG.

 

[M. AQVILA]

Battle Brothers may not be a RPG, but it most certainly is an RPG.

Honorary RPG.

 

[belated]

Spreadsheet link doesn't work. Are the full results available elsewhere?

 

[Bohr]

name: belated

 

[norolim]

Hey felipepepe, what's up with that spreadsheet? Gulugulu says it's been removed.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Lol, back to back GOTYs for Derpinity: Original Boink 2 and Enemafinder: Poopmaker. Codex hath truly fallen.

 

[Lhynn]

Lol, back to back GOTYs for Derpinity: Original Boink 2 and Enemafinder: Poopmaker. Codex hath truly fallen.

Im so glad to see your anus is still bleeding.

 

[Crolug]

My advice to y'all - don't be afraid of co-op, embrace it. I found out many games gain tremendously when played with right partner(s). Take Borderland series for instance, on my example - I normally get bored with FPS shooter-like games in less than five minutes, with my best buddy - we finished B1, all its DLCs, after that we did B2 and all its DLCs, and it was a blast. Another example - us finishing Dawn of War II and all expansions together, on hardest difficulty - and I'm not a fan of these type of games at all!

This leads us to Divinity - these games are not special, for many even boring, I tried to play the first one alone and got bored before reaching the first city. These games change instantly when you turn on co-op. Fun already starts on character creation screen, when you can mock each others creations, which smoothly transition to quarrels about where to go first, how to proceed with fights and of course the best part - dialogs - each one can choose their own responses, which inevitably leads to paper-scissors-stone fights over and over again, and sometimes living with consequences of actions we were against of taking. And that's just a start - after you hit the first city you find it sometimes very demanding to even do shopping, because while you were concentrated on exchanging goods and valuables with a merchant, your... "partner" decides to... visit some private establishment and proceed with sudden change in ownership of things he found there, which led to being caught by a guard, which in turn led to sudden change in location, if we got lucky and fast, or more often in sudden change of life status, also known as death.

Now, if this is not a genuine computer roleplaying experience, I don't know what is. The plot? I don't even remember good, it didn't even matter much - probably some standard "be a hero, defeat great evil, blah, blah" type of plot - but in co-op so much was going on it didn't even bother us.

And, with Divinity 2 - you can do it all with 3 more people, not 1!

AND, you have editor and gamemaster mode.

So instead of stating the obvious how terrible the Divinity 2 is, do yourself a favor, find yourself some friends and dive in there together.

Provided you can find some friends. I understand for some here this might come as a challenge.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

If the game was meant to be played with friends, then friends should be included with the game.

 

[Alex]

If the game was meant to be played with friends, then friends should be included with the game.

Or, more to the point, if I had friends, I wouldn't need games in first place.

 

[felipepepe]

Hey felipepepe, what's up with that spreadsheet? Gulugulu says it's been removed.

Must be an issue with the link, it's still here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ayfs4lHr7UObw2o3dX3coweVbZf-iirXgaR1AiSaMpc/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT: Oh, I see it now. I had made a separate sheet with just the results & graphs, but I deleted that to keep just the one with the raw votes & calculations, since that's way more useful.

 

[Fenix]

My advice to y'all - don't be afraid of co-op, embrace it. I found out many games gain tremendously when played with right partner(s). Take Borderland series for instance, on my example - I normally get bored with FPS shooter-like games in less than five minutes, with my best buddy - we finished B1, all its DLCs, after that we did B2 and all its DLCs, and it was a blast. Another example - us finishing Dawn of War II and all expansions together, on hardest difficulty - and I'm not a fan of these type of games at all!

This leads us to Divinity - these games are not special, for many even boring, I tried to play the first one alone and got bored before reaching the first city. These games change instantly when you turn on co-op. Fun already starts on character creation screen, when you can mock each others creations, which smoothly transition to quarrels about where to go first, how to proceed with fights and of course the best part - dialogs - each one can choose their own responses, which inevitably leads to paper-scissors-stone fights over and over again, and sometimes living with consequences of actions we were against of taking. And that's just a start - after you hit the first city you find it sometimes very demanding to even do shopping, because while you were concentrated on exchanging goods and valuables with a merchant, your... "partner" decides to... visit some private establishment and proceed with sudden change in ownership of things he found there, which led to being caught by a guard, which in turn led to sudden change in location, if we got lucky and fast, or more often in sudden change of life status, also known as death.

Now, if this is not a genuine computer roleplaying experience, I don't know what is. The plot? I don't even remember good, it didn't even matter much - probably some standard "be a hero, defeat great evil, blah, blah" type of plot - but in co-op so much was going on it didn't even bother us.

And, with Divinity 2 - you can do it all with 3 more people, not 1!

AND, you have editor and gamemaster mode.

So instead of stating the obvious how terrible the Divinity 2 is, do yourself a favor, find yourself some friends and dive in there together.

Provided you can find some friends. I understand for some here this might come as a challenge.

You see, while you are right, there is something...
Like, take for example PS:T - it generates in my opinion completely opposite experience, and this experience comes first for me. Yeah, it was done to imitate tabletop RPG, but culturally and aestetically it's a thing on it's own. And completely different experience - which is imporant.

I'm not sure I would like that experience completley gone, and instead I got experience from cRPG same as from tabletop RPGs.
I think I will lose something. But looks like everything goes to that point.

 

[NJClaw]

Is there a quick way to find every Codex GOTY poll?

 

[felipepepe]

Is there a quick way to find every Codex GOTY poll?

2014: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U6ab3hhVbWHNKrHu2wwvw1yCYV2yZ2th5RUJFCY_VK8/edit?usp=sharing
2015: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nzVGja37jNVhItqkpFShcGPfPJ8q4jI5WXAOTtndCBg/edit?usp=sharing
2016 (The Age of Incline one, going 2012-2016): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LiuDLAg81FbA6-HwvOU54a4aImTEdR8pIXNDs0rPyAA/edit?usp=sharing
2017: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15QwbGyy4eIEiLr9u0wKwSdLb_-dvLQRtxJPGsnOT3q4/edit?usp=sharing
2018: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_fpBAJbM73Tkx7T9gsb47y0GOXGYw2bcUKfkCwpLv4/edit?usp=sharing
2019: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15QwbGyy4eIEiLr9u0wKwSdLb_-dvLQRtxJPGsnOT3q4/edit?usp=sharing

Before that we didn't really have votes, just DU doing the "Year in Review": https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9781

Might have been some forum threads with polls, but they were usually very small.