Community RPG Codex GOTY 2021: Results & Cool Graphs

[luj1]

its the old rpg as well

 

[Maxie]

the result is = codexers dont play games that much

 

[Elwro]

I completely missed Realms of Antiquity, thanks!

 

[Humbaba]

No man. Just no. There is a lot more than that. Its not just gays and lesbians, that stupid fox/anime girl alone made want to stop playing. I cba to go all over this again but there is a whole thread about this if you are interested.

What is he on about? Nenio is not an anime girl. Last time I checked anime wasn't considered woke either.

I've seen the cringefinder thread. Replied to it even I think. It's a wholly unconvincing collection of cherry picked, extremely minor and mostly optional bits of dialogue.

 

[Tacgnol]

There are plenty of legit complaints to make about Wrath, such as the abysmal trash combat encounter spam, how many classes are still bugged months after release, the generally boring writing, or how uneven the mythic paths are (both content and character building wise), but the wokeness complaints are really overstated.

In 99% of cases you really have to interrogate NPCs for them to tell you their life stories. In many cases the "offending" stories are gated behind difficult skill checks. It isn't like Siege of Dragonspear at release where troons rush you with their life story when you ask them their name, or your companions make GamerGate jokes.

A lot of the woke bitching about WOTR reminds me of RetardEra. They do the exact same thing, scanning every inch of a game for something to offend them.

 

[Jaedar]

There are plenty of legit complaints to make about Wrath, such as the abysmal trash combat encounter spam, how many classes are still bugged months after release, the generally boring writing, or how uneven the mythic paths are (both content and character building wise), but the wokeness complaints are really overstated.

Yeah.

I don't mind that Wrath lost to Archolos (even if I disagree), but I do dislike that wrath lost to kingmaker. Because I think the mythic paths and the narrative and mechanical c&c that comes with them is great and really elevates the experience. There are certainly things kingmaker did better, but still, it's a shame.

the result is = codexers dont play games that much

With wrath being a 100hour+ game, and Archolos being a 100+ hour game... how are we supposed to have time for 50 other rpgs?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Wrath comparatively more bug-prone compared to Kingmaker? Even if you account for increased complexity and such?

 

[Fedora Master]

We could just do a Western list and an Asian list.

Or we could finally acknowledge that JRPGs are not RPGs to begin with.

 

[Tacgnol]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Wrath comparatively more bug-prone compared to Kingmaker? Even if you account for increased complexity and such?

It had less game breakers at release (at least on certain mythic paths), to the point I actually managed to complete it shortly after release. With KM I had to wait a couple of months to do a full playthrough.

That said, it has (or had) way more mechanical bugs than KM ever did. Things like classes and archetypes not working correctly, some being plain broken.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

The Mount System and Charge action were broken and Blood Kineticist didn't even worked at all, at least for a least 1 to 2 months lmao.

 

[Eyestabber]

Any plans to track down the brainlets who voted D:OS 2 as one of the best RPGs of recent years and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy? Or at least name and shame them if they ever whine about a MSM reviewer not actually playing the game?

 

[Tacgnol]

and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy?

Pretty sure that violates the Geneva convention.

 

[lukaszek]

Any plans to track down the brainlets who voted D:OS 2 as one of the best RPGs of recent years and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy? Or at least name and shame them if they ever whine about a MSM reviewer not actually playing the game?

you make assumption that codexers dropped the game after fort joy. Im aware of only Darth Roxor not completing 2nd island

 

[Eyestabber]

Tainted Grail:Conquest next time it goes on sale, as I have it in my wishlist for a while and it scored decently well here.

Because it's a good game.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

So, I assume that the area in the plot where to look for good RPGs is in the bottom-left.

 

[Jaedar]

Any plans to track down the brainlets who voted D:OS 2 as one of the best RPGs of recent years and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy? Or at least name and shame them if they ever whine about a MSM reviewer not actually playing the game?

you make assumption that codexers dropped the game after fort joy. Im aware of only Darth Roxor not completing 2nd island

I couldn't even make myself complete fort joy...

 

[Humbaba]

So, I assume that the area in the plot where to look for good RPGs is in the bottom-left.

The Chad contrarian.

 

[NoMoneyNoFameNoDame]

TY for this!

It's very motivating on many levels to see!

I hope to be around for the next one.

Spoiler

redacted.

 

[Drowed]

I had expectations that Encased would be a flop, but damn, not that bad. This is sad, another game for the "had potential until you played more than 20% of the game" list.


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Any plans to track down the brainlets who voted D:OS 2 as one of the best RPGs of recent years and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy? Or at least name and shame them if they ever whine about a MSM reviewer not actually playing the game?

you make assumption that codexers dropped the game after fort joy. Im aware of only Darth Roxor not completing 2nd island

I couldn't even make myself complete fort joy...

Oh, I kind of finished the game twice. Sucks to be me, I guess. But yeah, combat is a downgrade from DOS1, it's bad. Still, if you like Larian's humor and setting (something rare in the Codex) and find it fun to exploit the AI and game mechanics to win battles in 1 turn, it is possible to have fun with the game. It is less an RPG and more a barrel-exploding simulator.

 

[Konjad]

I had expectations that Encased would be a flop, but damn, not that bad. This is sad, another game for the "had potential until you played more than 20% of the game" list.


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Any plans to track down the brainlets who voted D:OS 2 as one of the best RPGs of recent years and force them to actually play that piece of shit past Fort Joy? Or at least name and shame them if they ever whine about a MSM reviewer not actually playing the game?

you make assumption that codexers dropped the game after fort joy. Im aware of only Darth Roxor not completing 2nd island

I couldn't even make myself complete fort joy...

Oh, I kind of finished the game twice. Sucks to be me, I guess. But yeah, combat is a downgrade from DOS1, it's bad. Still, if you like Larian's humor and setting (something rare in the Codex) and find it fun to exploit the AI and game mechanics to win battles in 1 turn, it is possible to have fun with the game. It is less an RPG and more a barrel-exploding simulator.

I liked the game in Fort Joy. It wasn't perfect but decent enough to have fun, but afterwards it went downwards instantly. Couldn't enjoy the game anymore and dropped it.

And I played DOS 4 times (two only Cyseal, but still).

Hopefully BG3 will be as fun as first DOS at least, not second.. I kinda suspect that the first area (in the alpha) will be well done and fun, while the rest not. We'll see though.

 

[Outmind]

Half the number of voters that we've been getting the past few years. Maybe half our usual crowd didn't care about this year's games and maybe a good chunk of them gave up when they saw that bloated list. Four games got 0 votes period and over 50 got a single digit number of votes. Like I said a while ago, the list of games should be restricted to those that have had a thread with multiple pages worth of discussion. A goty poll is not the time or place for "exposure" for a bunch of RPGs no one gave a damn about for most of a year.

Anyway congratulations to the Archolos fans for successfully downvoting Wrathfinder into second place. And RIP Encased for screwing up a Fallout clone for the Codex of all places.

Yeah, that was me. I saw the list, thought "what are all these no-name RPGs, I just wanna vote for WOTR" and noped out.

 

[Dorateen]

The graphs remind me of Knights of the Chalice 2 with the circle tokens.

 

[Mortmal]

I'm happy to see Solasta prominent on the chart. Very charming and honest true computer roleplaying game.

There's no such thing as prominence, it's amongst the most played , but satisfaction rate is not so high. If there's a winner with a reasonable amount of people who plays it and high satisfaction rate its atom tudograd or chronicle of myrtana winning .

 

[V_K]

I'm happy to see Solasta prominent on the chart. Very charming and honest true computer roleplaying game.

There's no such thing as prominence, it's amongst the most played , but satisfaction rate is not so high.

You have to take into account that the horizontal axis starts at 50% though. So the satisfaction rate (=% of positive votes) for Solasta is a respectable 73.5%.

 

[Gromlintroid]

These graphs are the most obtuse, hipster fucking bullshit things ever.
Just do a fucking list, jeez.

 

[Sandor]

Half the number of voters that we've been getting the past few years. Maybe half our usual crowd didn't care about this year's games and maybe a good chunk of them gave up when they saw that bloated list. Four games got 0 votes period and over 50 got a single digit number of votes. Like I said a while ago, the list of games should be restricted to those that have had a thread with multiple pages worth of discussion. A goty poll is not the time or place for "exposure" for a bunch of RPGs no one gave a damn about for most of a year.

Anyway congratulations to the Archolos fans for successfully downvoting Wrathfinder into second place. And RIP Encased for screwing up a Fallout clone for the Codex of all places.

How does Encased not meet up to quality standards? It' setting and options seem way more interesting then another mundane post apoc barren empty world like Atom RPG Trudeaudrad.