Community RPG Codex GOTY 2023: Results & Cool Graphs

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This schizo provided me with some entertainment, what the acutal fuck is this? Is the entirety of that forum like this? There will be no Caves of Lore slander on my watch.

Also, why is this faggot Mortmal still doing here?

Yeah the retardation really looks strong there. From my perspective the GOTY poll helps me find some hidden gem's I may have overlooked. CoL was on wishlist but now I will certainly give it a try soon.

Just because I saw a few things questioning Caves of Lore. Yes, it's actually good. I was giving away copies of it around Christmas to try and promote the game and its solo dev which I basically never do. It's surprisingly solid, though not flawless. A great first attempt that I hope he iterates on in a sequel. I wholeheartedly recommend anyone who actually likes RPGs check it out. It's not even expensive.

 

[std::namespace]

there is no objective basis and process upon which votes could be discarded

i threw away yours and racofers

 

[std::namespace]

Just out of curiosity how would the ranking look like when all 1 would be 2, and all 5 would be 4?

about the same? all games with 50+ votes are kinda normal, only bg3 is not, its been disproportionally updooted by cuckfaggots
so it would lose a bit compared to other games if its big count of 5/5s are gone, its 1/5s are not that pronounced

 

[Viata]

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This schizo provided me with some entertainment, what the acutal fuck is this? Is the entirety of that forum like this? There will be no Caves of Lore slander on my watch.

Also, why is this faggot Mortmal still doing here?

That guy is retarded. If the objective was to fuck BG3, it was far better to vote 1/5 on it and 5/5 in the games that had a higher change of win against it: JA3, CS, 40k, Underrail and Cyberpunk, as they are all famous game on codex (good or not is something else) and that implies more people would vote on them, Also, game seems interesting as fuck and one of the good things about this poll, for me, was learning about it.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

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This schizo provided me with some entertainment, what the acutal fuck is this? Is the entirety of that forum like this? There will be no Caves of Lore slander on my watch.

Also, why is this faggot Mortmal still doing here?

That guy is retarded. If the objective was to fuck BG3, it was far better to vote 1/5 on it and 5/5 in the games that had a higher change of win against it: JA3, CS, 40k, Underrail and Cyberpunk, as they are all famous game on codex (good or not is something else) and that implies more people would vote on them, Also, game seems interesting as fuck and one of the good things about this poll, for me, was learning about it.

And seeing all the stats, there really wasn't any great effort to push BG3 down, but on the contrary.

Either way enjoying seeing the fanboys seething and thinking I'm butthurt about anything. I would've easily voted a 1/5 for starfield and 2/5 for BG3 because I know enough about them to be satisfied with my judgement, but didn't play/didn't vote, don't really care for the placements.

 

[Ryzer]

I don't get the bitching, these days, I feel like the production value of games is considered above everything else.

Baldur's gate 3 has extraordinary productiion value? 10/10 it should be goty

Jagged Alliance has an intermediate production value? more like a 6/10 good but could be better

Caves of Lore has a very low production value? 3/10 another random indie game.

And the most important criteria: quality value is sidelined. For once you have one website having a different opinion because it considers NOT ONLY production value, and the inquisition squad goes against it.

 

[ropetight]

All this recounting of the votes, taking this and that into consideration because "objective" and "fair" reminds me of the Championship Manager and fantasy leagues.

Fantasy RPGCodex GOTY voting could be permanent, not only annual thing.
League and cup with team/developer standings also!
Calling ones that voted differently with innovative slurs gives you popularity points that can be spent on Fantasy RPGCodex avatars(tm).
So much stats, so much RPG!

 

[Hellraiser]

there is no objective basis and process upon which votes could be discarded

i threw away yours and racofers

Username	ID	Reg Date	Posts	Votes	Baldur's Gate III	Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game	Jagged Alliance 3
Hellraiser	8048	22.04.2007	11075	150	1	5
racofer	9311	05.04.2008	25507	160	5	1	1

Clearly a purely arbitrary decision based on bellyfeels, one that was no doubt fueled solely by the desire to make JA3's lead over BG3 even bigger!

 

[cvv]

Happy with the results. Who would've thunk the pre-hated JA3 would not only turn out to be good but win our fucking poll.

Told you Haemimont are a good studio. Bulgarian, sure, but good.

 

[jaekl]

I had more fun talking shit about Baldur's Gate 3 than any other game this year, so in that sense it's my #1 game of 2023. Runners up were Lords of the Fallen and Rogue Trader. Looking forward to talking a lot more shit in 2024, but I doubt anything will manage to assault my senses so thoroughly as bg3 did for many years to come.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Fucking clown world.

Where is that other great RPG, Street Fighter 6?

 

[Hellraiser]

I had more fun talking shit about Baldur's Gate 3 than any other game this year, so in that sense it's my #1 game of 2023. Runners up were Lords of the Fallen and Rogue Trader. Looking forward to talking a lot more shit in 2024, but I doubt anything will manage to assault my senses so thoroughly as bg3 did for many years to come.

Don't know about assaulting the senses, but there's a dumpsterphyre in the making scheduled for release this year and it already shows great promise in the potential to shit on it (unfortunately). Also the Fantasy Outer Worlds might also come out this year.

Although I will be shocked if Bloodlines 2 gets released this year, I expect it will get delayed, doubt The Chinese Turd has the chops to ship their first "RPG" on time. Especially considering how confidence-in-their-abilities-inspiring the gameplay reveal was, or considering how well pair-of-cocks interactive has been handling the Bloodlines 2 project so far.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I had more fun talking shit about Baldur's Gate 3 than any other game this year, so in that sense it's my #1 game of 2023. Runners up were Lords of the Fallen and Rogue Trader. Looking forward to talking a lot more shit in 2024, but I doubt anything will manage to assault my senses so thoroughly as bg3 did for many years to come.

Posted in April 2021:

Reasons BG3 is good:

• If it succeeds, it will forever overshadow the Bioware BG games
• If it fails, it will tarnish the Bioware BG games by association

I prefer to think of BG3 as a win/win situation.

Posted in July 2023:

Me in April 2021: I look forward to Baldur's Gate 3, whether good or bad, overshadowing the Bioware BG games.

Larian in July 2023: We're going to ensure that the name Baldur's Gate will forever be associated with bear-buggery.

 

[MerchantKing]

For some reason, Swen doesn't seem thrilled to share this result on twitter, I wonder why?

I doubt Larian will ever acknowledge Codex's existence again, after hitting mainstream like that. Their current audience would probably cancel them for any mention of such racist, misogynistic and transphobic site.

They can't handle being called the seven man cuck squad either.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

Colony Ship? With how unimpressed reviews and impressions were? Every year, I think the real take-away from this survey is that there are more RPGs released than we can hope to play in a year. This year was exemplary of that.

 

[Disciple]

If the GOTY results and graphs' post count is any indication of heated debate and controversy, 2023's is already poised to be placed very high in such a ranking after three rather 'calm' editions. For those who don't know or don't remember, the 2016 GOTY vote was merged with a 'best games of the last 5 years' vote in which The Witcher 3 came out on top after only having ranked third the year prior.

 

[Jaedar]

... If Larian ever has to resort to kickstarter funding again after BG3, that's 10/10 bad business.

Even if they don't have to, they might do one anyway. It's free advertising/money.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Larian's actual fanbase is the kind of people that will get offended just by Larian tweeting about Codex GotY.

The average BG3 player doesn't suspect the Codex' existence.

 

[AwesomeButton]

RPG CODEX'S 2023 GOTYs:
#1 - Jagged Alliance 3

bayzed

At least 8 members confirmed then.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Yeah well at least a FUCKING RPG won in 2016 lmao

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

If the GOTY results and graphs' post count is any indication of heated debate and controversy, 2023's is already poised to be placed very high in such a ranking after three rather 'calm' editions. For those who don't know or don't remember, the 2016 GOTY vote was merged with a 'best games of the last 5 years' vote in which The Witcher 3 came out on top after only having ranked third the year prior.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was the actual winner of Codex GotY 2012 2013 2016.

 

[Lord of Riva]

And the most important criteria: quality value is sidelined. For once you have one website having a different opinion because it considers NOT ONLY production value, and the inquisition squad goes against it.

They are a religion, and we pissed on their bible, that is what the butthurt is about. They needed proof that the majority of people are true believers.

 

[Hellraiser]

Every year, I think the real take-away from this survey is that there are more RPGs released than we can hope to play in a year. This year was exemplary of that.

There's probably more since the cutoff for what went into the list was "50 reviews" (if you ask me that is a bit too high if you want to just exclude RPGmaker fodder/steam card scam, and with AI/botting this is anyway "unfair" to something really indie and obscure with more effort put it than some chink bitcoin miner), in addition to needing to be suggested and thus known by the community in the first place, usually*.

*although personally I think Robocop Rogue City (which was not suggested at all for the list, I think) would be a better shitposting can of worms opener for "what is RPG and should be on the list" autism than the FIFA or Forza nominations, apparently it has experience, character levels and skill points, probably better than some jRPGs on the list. But that is a dead horse rotting and getting beaten for as long as these GOTY events exist here. That and honestly you will always get some arbitrary cut off or judgement what goes into the list if the criteria for inclusion are anything beyond "a user suggested it and it is a game".

 

[Viata]

Was that Robocop game good? I rewatched the first 2 movies this month so I was wondering if the game was worth it. I really love the old Robocop vs Terminator games (all versions).

 

[Lord_Potato]

And the most important criteria: quality value is sidelined. For once you have one website having a different opinion because it considers NOT ONLY production value, and the inquisition squad goes against it.

They are a religion, and we pissed on their bible, that is what the butthurt is about. They needed proof that the majority of people are true believers.

Look at those culture warriors patting themselves on the backs.

I'm sure by downvoting a game most of you didn't even play you struck a serious blow to the 'system' and who knows, maybe even to the 'globalist elites'!

I'm convinced Sven Vincke and Klaus Schwab are literally shaking right now