Re: Voting for best RPGs of 2015

I disagree.
At least if RPGwatch keeps being a PC focused page.

Myrthos said:

In the list there are also Enhanced editions and such and add-ons. Should they be voted for as well?

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Should be left out.

This is the user ranking on the RPGWatch Steam Curation list for 2015
(Games in bold are remakes, enhanced editions,…)
Early Access games are excluded.

1 Fallout 4 (192)
2 Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition (156)
3 Pillars of Eternity (135)
4 Shadowrun: Hong Kong (108)
5 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (105)
6 Hard West (100)
7 The Quest (99)
8 Thea: The Awakening (97)
9 System Shock: Enhanced Edition (96)
10 The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians (80)
11 Ori and the Blind Forest (71)
12 Card Hunter (70)
13 Undertale (70)
14 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) (70)
15 King of Dragon Pass (69)
16 The Amber Throne (67)
17 Swords and Sorcery - Underworld - Definitive Edition (67)
18 Chroma Sqad (66)
19 Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord (66)
20 Serpent in the Staglands (65)
21 Victor Vran (64)
22 Satellite Reign (64)
23 Renowned Explorers: International Society (56)
24 Templar Battleforce (56)
25 Highlands (54)
26 Life is Strange (53)
27 Wave of Darkness (50)
28 AntharioN (48)
29 Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal (48)
30 Survivalist (47)
31 Invisible, Inc. (47)
32 Siralim (46)
33 Fallen: A2P Protocol (46)
34 Grim Fandango Remastered (43)
35 Telepath Tactics (42)
36 Ultimate Space Commando (35)
37 Apotheon (34)
38 Blackguards 2 (28)
39 Dark Quest (24)
40 Underrail (1) [low votes, because it's on the list since 2014]

Uhm...but does this have any implications on the actual voting?

No, it doesn't
I will remove all enhanced editions, add-ones and remakes from the list.
All games in the list are released for PC, so I will not remove them because they have also been released for Android or iOS.

We also will do a 'Most anticipated game in 2016' vote, but as our database is not really up to date with 2016 releases, I'll just provide 3 open fields, where you can type in the games you look forward to most in 2016.

The voting should go live on Monday or Tuesday. As before you get to select your top 3 of games.

The numbers after the games, is that the count of votes they have? If so, kudos to the Quest, it is fully deserving of every vote and more.

Since I am to lazy to read this whole thread can I ask will we get a poll about best game and most fervently anticipated game of the coming year

I actually really like those polls not in the least beacause they sometimes tell me about games I migth have missed and games that I didn´t know about that I should check out for the coming year

also I really liked the separation into indie and aaa titles because my computer is old and I can´t play todays aaa titles

You don't need to read all of it, just go 2 posts back

you´re correct and I stand chastised

Kordanor said:

Tons of games in that list I have never heared of. Anyways:

646 Chaos Reborn 26/10/15 - not an RPG but Strategy/Tactics
877 King's Quest: Your Legacy Awaits 28/07/15 - Cant say for sure, but isn't that "just" an action adventure in a fantasy setting?
867 Life is Strange 29/01/15 - Pre Adventure Game, isn't it?
544 Massive Chalice 01/06/15 - Not enough RPG to have a spot on the list
727 Might & Magic Heroes VII 29/09/15 - Does it have enough RPG elements? Didn't play it
891 Dungeons 2 28/04/15 - Does this have enought RPG elements?
808 Mordheim: City of the Damned 19/11/15 - isn't this a pure multiplayer tactics game?
856 Technobabylon 14/05/15 - isn't this a pure adventure game?
525 Telepath Tactics 16/04/15 - that's a pure tactics game?

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I wouldn't know really as I have not played any of these. We tend to go with how games are labeled when entering them in our database and following them (or because we just thing it is fun to follow them).
So in searching for RPG labels on games, I can't find any (in my quick search) on these games from your list:
- King's Quest
- Life is Strange
- Massive Chalice
- Technobabylon
For the others, someone somewhere did label them with RPG, for what it is worth as it appears to be tagged on a lot of games these days.
I removed these four from the list in any case.

This has been another great year for RPG choice, and, as a result, we have quite an extensive list. The drawback is that no one person will likely be knowledgeable about every game's contents and a lot of games will be on the list which are in that really borderline state of being. As an upside to that, this year, unlike the year Bioshock Infinite snuck onto the list, I seriously doubt the obscurer stuff is going to feature in may people's votes anyway. There's been plenty of big budget, nice graphics games that are actually accepted as RPGs for such people to have more relevant choices this year.

Best RPGs of 2015 for me were Pillars of Eternity and Age of Decadence; hands down, no contest.

Wait, Fallout 4 is really winning this? WTF happened to CRPG fans?

LordCrash said:

Wait, Fallout 4 is really winning this? WTF happened to CRPG fans?

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Only on Steam...

Fallout 4 is fun and all but it's more a large Bethesda sandbox ala Skyrim post-apoc; it's no storytelling masterpiece that kept me on the edge of my seat like Age of Decadence did, and it had no interesting lore that kept me going like Pillars of Eternity. (Despite what people said about PoE I loved the lore and the writing.)