Community The RPG Codex's Top 70 PC RPGs (And Some Hidden Gems)

[luj1]

This list is getting worse with each passing year.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but this year it was actually decent. Not perfect, but loaaaads better than most previous lists, actually.

 

[flyingjohn]

Btw, one of you fuckers posted the list again on /vrpg/ and they're gonna laugh at us... again.

Vrpg actually likes Oblivion. Their opinion should be mocked, pitied and discarded.

 

[Maxie]

Btw, one of you fuckers posted the list again on /vrpg/ and they're gonna laugh at us... again.

Vrpg actually likes Oblivion. Their opinion should be mocked, pitied and discarded.

I mean its more fun than snorewind

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Most of the people who voted for this list are new fags with no respect and reputation, I don't consider it a legit Codex list.

 

[ferratilis]

BG2 being #7 is offensive, and I don't mean go-cry-on-twitter kind of offensive, more like rounding up all the local retards and giving them a bullet in the back of the head kind of treatment offensive. Decline, through and through.

Also, the formatting fucking stinks.

 

[luj1]

There is a bunch of stuff to like about this list,

The Divinity Original Sin games fell from 32nd to 84th.

Pillars #63 ahahahhaaha

The list lashes out at Swen and Roguey for critical damage!

 

[Dark Souls II]

https://rpghq.org/

>most threads have just a few pages
>Starfield thread 60 pages
>BG3 thread 90 pages

 

[Camel]

Btw, one of you fuckers posted the list again on /vrpg/ and they're gonna laugh at us... again.

Someone post the list on Resetera.

Spoiler

 

[LizardWizard]

Underrail beating AOD once again.

 

[Mark Richard]

I was pleasantly surprised to see KCD relatively high, and then dismayed by the bizzare writeups. Like, I found the story and quests more interesting than in some of the games above it. Oh well.

Good list I guess. Finished 30 out of 70, not bad.

Yeah, I prefer accentuating a game's strengths while avoiding nondescript terms such as 'boring' or 'fun'. Basically, give people a reason to want to play. Most of the text is so negative that I get the impression both writers didn't like KC:D at all.

35 of 70.

 

[GloomFrost]

This list is more or less OKish i guess. Except for couple of very annoying things like New Vegas being higher then Gothic 2 or Disco higher then Icewind Dale, ToEE or KOTOR 2.

 

[ferratilis]

The list that Red Hexapus made on backloggd is a lot more presentable than the dreck infinitron put together. Also, you don't have to read the dumbass mini-reviews.

https://www.backloggd.com/u/RedHexapus/list/rpg-codex-top-rpgs-2024/

 

[Infinitron]

The list that Red Hexapus made on backloggd is a lot more presentable than the dreck infinitron put together.

Hey, read the first line: https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=12405

 

[Roguey]

BG2 being #7 is offensive, and I don't mean go-cry-on-twitter kind of offensive, more like rounding up all the local retards and giving them a bullet in the back of the head kind of treatment offensive. Decline, through and through.

Also, the formatting fucking stinks.

BG2 was always top ten.

The list lashes out at @Swen and @Roguey for critical damage!

I do not mind PoE getting pushed down in favor of other better games that have been released in the past 10 years. I wouldn't say it's particularly good, just okay.

 

[Infinitron]

Perhaps our bot is saying that IWD is bad too?

It's objectively a C-tier game, on par with something like Wasteland 2. It reaches high rankings in polls like these because people remember it as essentially a standalone Baldur's Gate expansion pack that they binged on while waiting for BG2.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Icewind Dale is better than any Baldurs Gate

 

[LizardWizard]

Disco being that high is the real travesty.

 

[Jvegi]

Perhaps our bot is saying that IWD is bad too?

It's objectively a C-tier game, on par with something like Wasteland 2. It reaches high rankings in polls like these because people remember it as essentially a standalone Baldur's Gate expansion pack that they binged on while waiting for BG2.

Either you've misspelled IWD2 or you're bad at being objective.

 

[ferratilis]

BG2 was always top ten

Not enough. BG2 must be #1 or #2 by default for Codex to be taken seriously. The fact that PST ranked higher three fucking times in a row shows that this website is populated by retards and storyfags. First five spots of the list should be locked: BG2, Fallout, Arcanum, Deus Ex, Morrowind, and then put whatever else is there. Anything else is heresy.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

First Pillars is better than Shitfire and M&M too low on the list, otherwise pretty decent.

 

[Infinitron]

Perhaps our bot is saying that IWD is bad too?

It's objectively a C-tier game, on par with something like Wasteland 2. It reaches high rankings in polls like these because people remember it as essentially a standalone Baldur's Gate expansion pack that they binged on while waiting for BG2.

Either you've misspelled IWD2 or you're bad at being objective.

You're free to like the game, I like it too. But a slam dunk linear combat crawl game just can't be viewed as being on an entirely different level of quality and achievement than Owlcat's games. They're either both on the list or they're both off of it.

 

[luj1]

First five spots of the list should be locked: BG2, Fallout, Arcanum, Deus Ex, Morrowind, and then put whatever else is there. Anything else is heresy.

Well to be honest, the Codex top 3 is always the same

Fallout, PST and Arcanum (as it should be)

The top 5 is also the same - just add Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 (no arguments there)

The other five places are a shuffle of Bloodlines, Morrowind, Deus Ex, New Vegas, etc.

It's pretty consistent, the first 10 games

 

[luj1]

Underrail beating AOD once again.

Don't see an issue there.

AoD = patriotic memeing (it was among the first Codex-affiliated indies)

Playing AoD = being teleported from one dialogue to another

That's objectively very poor gameplay. I like that it's difficult, but not much else.

 

[Roguey]

Not enough. BG2 must be #1 or #2 by default for Codex to be taken seriously. The fact that PST ranked higher three fucking times in a row shows that this website is populated by retards and storyfags. First five spots of the list should be locked: BG2, Fallout, Arcanum, Deus Ex, Morrowind, and then put whatever else is there. Anything else is heresy.

Black Isle-over-Bioware was part of this site's foundation, johnny-come-lately.

It's objectively a C-tier game, on par with something like Wasteland 2. It reaches high rankings in polls like these because people remember it as essentially a standalone Baldur's Gate expansion pack that they binged on while waiting for BG2.

Icewind Dale receives a lot of favor for being a competent fantasy game released in 2000 with the art and writing style that existed in the period between 1996 and 2003. As the Kickstarter revolution proved, you can't go home again when it comes to style, it's just not the same.

 

[Inhabitants of Khorinis]

oh no, not the chantards laughing at us, lol.