RPG Codex - 2012-2016 GOTY Results

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Felipepepe of the RPGCodex wanted to know if we are really living in an age of incline (RPG-wise) - here are the results of his poll:

The Age of Incline: RPG Codex's 2012-2016 GOTY Results

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the RPG Codex's latest poll results!

As you all know, the mid/late 2000's were quite sad for RPG fans. We were treated to the glory of the late 90's/early 2000's with some of the best RPGs ever released, only to see the "Death of PC" - Black Isle, Sir-Tech, Troika, Looking Glass Studios, Westwood Studios, DreamForge, New World Computing, Origin - all closed down or were bought (and then closed down), leaving us under the iron, multi-platform rule of a few giant publishers.

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The winners are:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Age of Decadence

Divinity: Original Sin​
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For me, i am not surprised at all, basically voted the same as above. Great work Felipepepe
 
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Pillars of Eternity made it onto the bitter Codex's top 25 list? Hmm, me thinks something must be fishy with their data. ;)
 
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That's a lot of work and really cool. I especially like the visual graph but it's all interesting to look through.

Top 25 is a good list too. Sure I'd move a couple things around for my own personal tastes but a very nice selection overall.
 
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My top 3 from that list would be:
#1 Shadowrun: Dragonfall DC
#2 Expeditions: Conquistador
#3 Underrail
 
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When a phonegame pwns so many better games at #6, no wonder Codex is considered a trolling site.
 
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Gotta give them credit they got the souls games in the right order, 1,3,2. They should have been the top 3 games though.:biggrin:

Pretty good list though. The only shocker would be dragons dogma at 7. Shouldn't even be on the list imo. It's not terrible but not that good either imo.
 
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Witcher 3 on top by a good 5% even on the Codex, hell yeah!

I'm surprised to see Dragon's Dogma so high, too. I might have put it there but I'm a bigger fan than most (I just loved those huge spells).

No XCOM?? No South Park?? Well, OK, South Park might have been a bit too racey for Codex... ;)
 
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Witcher wins even on codex? They're going a bit soft lately, aren't they?
It's amusing to see the butthurt it causes to some people. Poor ydraig is going to kill himself. :p
 
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sakichop said:
Gotta give them credit they got the souls games in the right order, 1,3,2. They should have been the top 3 games though.:biggrin:

Pretty good list though. The only shocker would be dragons dogma at 7. Shouldn't even be on the list imo. It's not terrible but not that good either imo.
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Classical sakichop-crazy-talk, but Dogma turned out disappointing, gameplay wise.
Not bad, but more flash than substance... enemies were way too passive and heavy on health bars.
 
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Codex says the only game better than Dogma last year was a mod.

Felipepepe's stats and graphs are impressive! Check that positives vs. known by chart. Seems like there should be a band of games going from the lower left (shovelware) to the upper right (greats) with a few cult classics below the band and some games that suckered people into pre-ordering above. There might be a bit of a band but it definitely isn't as obvious as I would have expected.

I'm surprised to see Final Fantasy X and Risen 3 did so bad.
 
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Great job, felipepe!
Also, the results are more in line with my personal preferences.
Remove the salt and you have a pretty solid recommendation list!
 
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Everyone always posts the total 2012-2016 order, but results for 2016 alone are all over the place. They're certainly more diverse than you'd expect from a site with reputation like Codex.

1. Fallout 1.5: Resurrection
2. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
3. Dark Souls III
4. Dungeon Rats
5. Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
6. Stardew Valley
7. Grim Dawn
8. Stranger of Sword City
9. Rance VI: The Collapse of Zeth
10. Salt and Sanctuary
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I love those graphs! And it seems I must finally go ahead and finish Shadowrun Returns so I can eventually get to Hong Kong...

felipepepe said:
Voidspire Tactics was voted the 8th best RPG of 2015, but it's practically unknown outside the Codex and only sold ~2k copies according to SteamSpy. Surely there are more games like that, just waiting to be found.
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I wonder if felipe has enough material for something along the lines of "fun games you never heard about", though I guess finding them in the first place is the problem, as he mentioned in the article.
 
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BoboTheMighty said:
Classical sakichop-crazy-talk, but Dogma turned out disappointing, gameplay wise.
Not bad, but more flash than substance… enemies were way too passive and heavy on health bars.
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Did you just call me crazy and then agree with what i said?:biggrin:
 
BobotheMighty said:
Classical sakichop-crazy-talk, but Dogma turned out disappointing, gameplay wise. Not bad, but more flash than substance… enemies were way too passive and heavy on health bars.
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sakichop said:
Did you just call me crazy and then agree with what i said?:biggrin:
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That is Bobo-the-Crazy-talk. :biggrin:
 
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