RPG Codex - 2009 In Review

Dhruin

SasqWatch
Joined
August 30, 2006
Messages
11,842
Location
Sydney, Australia
RPG Codex has posted their annual acerbic look at the past year. It's divided into "stuff that didn't happen" and, obviously, stuff that did:
Dragon Age: Origins, what is promised to be the first of many games in the Dragon Age series, was released by BioWare on the 3rd November 2009. Dragon Age was very much the only "A grade" title released in 2009 (fuck you Risen et al). That of course guaranteed it the "RPG of the Year" accolade from every website that even bothers to mention RPGs these days (with a mandatory "RPG of the decade" because gosh, why stop at just RPG of the year when you can give one for like, 10 whole years because it's shiney and new).
The process of selecting the title for RPG of the year goes something like this:
  1. Were any RPGs actually released this year?
  2. Were any of them released in English?
  3. Give the English one the award.
And give the award they did. In all seriousness, I'm sure Dragon Age is good, as surprisingly, BioWare actually put a reasonable amount of effort into Dragon Age. Namely in that all the choices are not bleedingly obvious. At least according to some. Not so much according to others.
More information.
 
Joined
Aug 30, 2006
Messages
11,842
Location
Sydney, Australia
Why give that website any attention at all?
 
Joined
Apr 17, 2007
Messages
5,749
Yay for superficial smartassery.
 
Joined
Sep 6, 2009
Messages
884
Location
US
An interesting read, but I think there was too much 'apparently this happened' - still full of opinions but lacking actual first-hand experience. Seems he could have managed to have the folks who actually played some games in '09 write some stuff ;)
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
14,932
Half the article is about games none played (not released) +other news and at the bottom there is a headline started with "I" , i think it is well written for what it is .
Yes we could have some people add stuff but this will make the article more serious than he wanted to be i guess.
 
Joined
Jun 22, 2009
Messages
1,439
Location
Athens (the original one)
Yes we could have some people add stuff but this will make the article more serious than he wanted to be i guess.

I dunno - if you hit the threads where he linked to opinions, I can imagine those folks could have added some colorful opinions to the main article )
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
14,932
Not sure about the site itself; but the pointer to this review:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=197
--
Is precious. I actually agree with much of the content. While I have played DA:O twice and think the voice acting/interaction is quite good at some places; the game itself feels horribly wrong. For the most part I call it dumb'ed down; but that is an over simplification. While BG II has many flaws (I much prefer the graphics and presentation in DA) the game itself is IMHO significantly better.
 
Joined
Oct 20, 2006
Messages
7,758
Location
usa - no longer boston
I laughed at this one :lol: :

Remember: What has been seen, cannot be unseen.

:lol:

Still, I was quite astonished the author filed Drakensang 1 among "others".
Or so it appeared to me.
 
Joined
Nov 5, 2006
Messages
21,908
Location
Old Europe
Back
Top Bottom