Incline RPG Codex's Top 50 cRPGs - Results and Reviews

[Xor]

Played 30/50, finished 14/50. What can I say, I never much cared for the Wizardry or Might and Magic games. Also I'm really bad about leaving games unfinished.

 

[joelofdeath]

Played 26/50, finished 17.

Interesting that NWN is nowhere to be seen. I didn't vote for it, but it's decent, especially with expansions, mods, persistent worlds, etc. I'd assume most western RPG fans would pick it in their top 50, if not higher. This list might be perfect for eliminating everyone's 26th favourite RPG though.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Can't somebody love both Arcanum and Fallout 3?

I'm sure they can just not on Codex.

Interesting that NWN is nowhere to be seen. I didn't vote for it, but it's decent, especially with expansions, mods, persistent worlds, etc. I'd assume most western RPG fans would pick it in their top 50, if not higher. This list might be perfect for eliminating everyone's 26th favourite RPG though.

People just considered the original campaign, which was shitty.

 

[Rake]

Played 22/50, finished 15/50. I don't care about any game that is FPP or OTS, so that does shrink the list quite a bit for me...
And most of the games i started that i didn't finish were FP or TP like New Vegas, Realms of Arkania(even this...), and Witcher 2.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Most of you guys really love to leave games unfinished it seems
I'm
47/50
46/50

Couldn't complete Arx Fatalis due to some annoying bug back then, forgot if after that. Maybe I'll try it if I find some spare time nowadays.

 

[felipepepe]

38/50 played, only 17/50 finished...

 

[Jasede]

Most of you guys really love to leave games unfinished it seems
I'm
47/50
46/50

Couldn't complete Arx Fatalis due to some annyoing back then, forgot if after that. Maybe I'll try it if I find some spare time nowadays.

Holy shit, quoted for amazing.

 

[felipepepe]

And people still say that newfags are bringing decline...

 

[V_K]

I'm not sure if "played for about an hour and dropped interest" counts as "played", so

Played total: 39/50, 52/72
Played for more than an hour: 24/50, 32/72
Finished: 14/50, 19/72

Full disclosure - most of the games I never played or played briefly belong to one of these categories:
-SF or PostApo settings. The only one such game I played extensively (and finished) is SS2. For some reason they just don't do it for me. I tried to get into either Fallout repeatedly, but to no avail.
-Biowarian RTwP combat. I played PST to completion twice (over some years) and I still think it's a nice visual novel but a pretty bad game.
-DnD. I simply hate DnD. It's rigid and convoluted and totally unsuitable for computer games. The only one DnD-based game I enjoyed (as a game) is Dark Sun.

 

[Zetor]

And people still say that newfags are bringing decline...

This is kinda offtopic, but if I had to say there was a definite point in the history of the codex where it 'declined', it happened around the time Oblivion came out, the gates to the hell that were the bethsoft forums were opened, and the 'dex forums started morphing into 4chan++.

Soo... people joining in 2010+ aren't responsible for bringing decline, it already happened in 2005-2006!

 

[Minttunator]

Played 26/50, 34/72
Finished 20/50, 25/72

On the bright side, there are a lot of classics I can look forward to playing once the 2014 incline dries out.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Holy shit, quoted for amazing.

I had way too much spare time at both high school&collage Those were the days...
I don't really like to leave a game unfinished, even how bad it was. Regretted this decision at oblilvion(I closed all them oblivion gates also...) and dragon age 2.

 

[Minttunator]

It's kind of funny reading some of the borderline worshipful comments there, like they are looking at some kind of strange, grognard wonderland that they can never hope to reach.

I was really surprised by the reaction on NeoGAF as well - I've never paid much attention to that forum, thinking it was mostly for casual console gaming faggots and JRPG fans. Some of those dudes seem all right, I wonder why they don't post here if their taste is so similar to that of the Codex...

I was attracted to GAF /---/ and stayed because I could talk about games without being called a "faggot"

Well, I guess there's that...

 

[bonescraper]

Wow, first comment on NeoGAF, and dude nails it already.

And would you really consider Dark Souls a cRPG? I dunno, it's barely an RPG in all honesty. I mean, I guess you can consider it an action RPG, but still....

How do you faggots feel now, huh? Schooled by some random dude from a decline infested forum.

 

[bledcarrot]

Mannnnn so glad to see Betrayal at Krondor at number 16. I thought this was an overlooked and forgotten gem, even amongst the cRPG nuts. Begged my parents to get it for me after reading Magician when I was 12 years old and played the absolute shit out of it. You have brought a tear of appreciated nostalgia to my eye Codex.

 

[Crooked Bee]

This is a good list. It's quite a shock that, apart from Witcher 2 and NWN2 OC, pretty much all top 70+ games are actually worth playing.

Nice job, felipepepe.

 

[StaticSpine]

Most of you guys really love to leave games unfinished it seems
I'm
47/50
46/50

 

[SuicideBunny]

QFG4 - Never played any of the QFG series, figured they were more like adventure games.

qfg 1-4 suffer from some typical adventure bullshittery, that is stuff where your stats do not matter and the outcome is fixed, but otherwise they are close to the perfect computer implementation of rpgs, with puzzles and not just combat where solutions are many and depend on your stats and abilities and so on. it's sad that qfg made list below dao, though. actually, it's sad that dao made list at all.

 

[Smejki]

Where is Gothic 3?

No really. Amazing job. Good list

 

[Niektory]

Played (for more than an hour) 22/50, finished 19/50.

Well, I'm not going to run out of games to play anytime soon.

 

[laclongquan]

Most of you guys really love to leave games unfinished it seems
I'm
47/50
46/50

:shrug: he can talk the talk but can he walk the walk?

 

[MrMarbles]

Awesome job felipepepepepe, this is the new reference point. Has anyone called for a sticky?

 

[Hirato]

I like that Bayesian average, partly because it kicks BG2 out of the top 3!


Played 26/72
Finished 9/72

Well damn, I guess I'm a popamole loving newfag

 

[sea]

Good list, though as always I think it's less an indication of "game quality" and more a popularity contest. But then, just about every vote you hold is gonna be.

 

[Infinitron]

How the fuck are older games overlooked on the codex?

Because we have a huge influx of newer people. The lists in the past, were all when the Old Ones were more prevalent on the codex. Most of the Old Ones rarely visit here anymore. And now looking at this list, with reason.

Not necessarily the case considering the biggest Black Isle/Troika fanboys tend to -2005 people

You mostly see newer people like Deuce, Octavius, Sceptic when it comes to older shit

This is true. One must remember than when the RPG Codex was founded, it wasn't a "retro gaming" forum. Being "retro" is something it became by necessity over the years.

And let's not forget the most striking example of that, the appointment of a dungeon crawler fan* (who joined in 2010) to editor-in-chief - a far cry from the days of Vault Dweller.

*Yes, Bee, I know you're a lot more than that.