RPGWatch - Official Game of the Decade Voting

Originally Posted by you
I don't believe in 'best'; so i didn't vote. Now if we were to vote for worse game….

In that case, just make a list of the worst games, include all the games you played, sort them and then revert it.

Oh I can think of quite a few that made me utterly disappointed and deserve a "thumb down" (Earthlock for example). But I don't think we should do that, at least not in this "opening" round.

Finally the list of "all games I played" came in handy
http://ndnw.net/GameDB/GameDB.php

And here is my list of best ones:

RPGs
Weighting/Name:
1 Divinity: Original Sin 2
0.5 Underrail
0.5 Avernum: Escape from the pit
0.5 Wasteland 2
0.5 The Age of Decadence
0.5 Drakensang River of time
0.5 Fallout: New Vegas
0.5 Fallout 4
0.5 Elex
0.5 Might and Magic X Legacy

Debatable if it counts as RPG:
Weighting/Name:
1 FTL
1 Rimworld
0.5 Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire
0.5 Darkest Dungeon
0.5 Legends of Eisenwald
0.5 Xenonauts

Originally Posted by joxer
Oh I can think of quite a few that made me utterly disappointed and deserve a "thumb down" (Earthlock for example). But I don't think we should do that, at least not in this "opening" round.

There's only one round, the final round, and this is it.

Originally Posted by you
I don't believe in 'best'; so i didn't vote. Now if we were to vote for worse game….

Don't think of it as 'best' then, think of it as 'supporting' the kind of games you like, you, you know, giving yourself, you, a voice.

If you're only interest is talking about the games you didn't enjoy, then the codex is probably more suited to your tastes and perhaps an RPGWatch poll shouldn't count your vote anyway?

Everyone is welcome to make a list of games they hated. You wont have any idea if the list you make will count for anything, but you're welcome to include your dislikes. Maybe I will be counting them. Who knows.

My voting:


Top games (give more emphasis to these ones):

Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition
Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Starbound
Stardew Valley
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Wasteland 2
XCOM 2



Other votes:

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Battle Brothers
Disco Elysium
Dishonored
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
ELEX
Fallout 4
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
Mount & Blade: Warband
Octopath Traveler
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Phoenix Point
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Space Rangers HD
Sunless Sea
Tales of Maj'Eyal
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
The Outer Worlds
Yakuza 0

Here is my list. I also wanted to include near the top Batman Arkham Knight, Batman Arkham City, and Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order but the RPG elements in those are too light for me to put them on a list of great RPGs.

1) Assassin's Creed Odyssey = 10 points
2) Deus Ex Human Revolution = 9 points
3) Mass Effect 2 = 8 points
4) The Witcher 3 = 7 points
5) Mass Effect 3 = 6 points
6) Prey = 5 points
7) Mass Effect Andromeda = 4 points
8) Deus Ex Mankind Divided = 3 points
9) Watch Dogs 1 = 2 points
10) Greedfall = 1 point

Myrth and Co. were talking about what we had for our top 5 the last 10 years

Does anyone have a copy of that? I'd be greatly appreciative.

I have an idea of some of the games I will vote for but I don't want to leave any out.

PS -FTL is a good choice btw. I'm putting that in my PM when I get it bundled up.

I weight the below list equal. PM sent.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Torment:ToN
Pillars of Eternity 1 + White March
Pillars of Eternity 2 + DLC
Wasteland 2
Divinity Original Sin I
Divinity Original Sin II
Tyranny
Bard's Tale Remastered

Originally Posted by Capt. Huggy Face
That's a bold choice. Couldn't quite bring myself to pull the trigger on that, but I also think it is an underrated game, post patches.

Yeah it could of been a better game but show me a better Zombie RPG on the modern market. The rest are either pure action games, or some type of survival hybrids.

It must have been quite a nice decade since my first "I've played these and really liked them"-list was a massive 23 games. Not counting the strategy- or shooter-with story games. (And I learned that my wife might be right in claiming that I've spent quiiiite a bit more time than I feel on CRPGs…)

The top-10 ended up as a top 11 since I couldn't decide between the last 3:

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
2. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
3. Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition
4. Mass Effect 3
5. The Witcher 2
6. The Outer Worlds
7. Torment: Tides of Numenera
8. Dragon Age: Inquisition
9. Wasteland 2
9. Disco Elysium
9. Drakensang: The River of Time

Originally Posted by Lucky Day
Myrth and Co. were talking about what we had for our top 5 the last 10 years

Does anyone have a copy of that? I'd be greatly appreciative.

You have to create your own copy. Here is a list of all the GOTYs: https://www.rpgwatch.com/press/rpgwatch-1/articles.html
Look in the Miscellaneous section.

By the way, I voted for:

1. The Witcher 3.

I voted for only Pathfinder: Kingmaker

One big hurrah for @lackblogger. Massive work, I guess.

Best Narrative: The Last of Us
Best RPG: Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Most influential: Minecraft


Honorable mentions:
- Fallout New Vegas
- Witcher 3
- Factorio


…There really is no "best" with so many genres and tastes - way too subjective. Most influential is unequivocally Minecraft though (wherever you fall on its interest spectrum).

My list, in alphabetical order (disclaimer, I voted only for RPGs, so no tactical combat games, action adventures, roguelikes or similar nosense)

Blackguards 2
Darksouls 3
Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Dragon Dogma
(The) Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
(The) Legend of Grimrock
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition (If it counts as a "new" release, if not, ignore)
Pillars of Eternity
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Shadowrun Dragonfall
Underrail
(The) Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Well this isn't a vote and the posted lists pretty much cover my favorites for the decade, so I'm satisfied. No point in making somebody check an extra list. Thanks.

My votng list, in alphabetcial order (no priorities or weighting values were given):

• Age of Decadence, The
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
• Assassin's Creed: Origins
• Borderlands 2
• Divinity: Original Sin
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The
• Elex
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Lords of Xulima
• Mass Effect 2
• Pillars of Eternity
• Octopath Traveler
• Outer Worlds, The
• Path of Exile
• Wasteland 2
• Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The
• X-COM 2

Originally Posted by rjshae
Well this isn't a vote and the posted lists pretty much cover my favorites for the decade, so I'm satisfied. No point in making somebody check an extra list. Thanks.

Only PM'ed votes count, if you want to vote for every game mentioned previously to your post then you'll have to put it in a PM.