Community RPG Codex 2023 GOTY - POLL IS CLOSED!

[Darth Roxor]

You have to be effin kidding me about Dreams in the Witch House being an RPG.

 

[cvv]

I'm surprised how many new games my old fart jaded ass has at least sampled last year.

Still haven't played BG3 tho, which is gonna undoubtedly win. Looking in from the outside I can see Larian writing, Zoolander characters and degenerate zoomerisms like bear sex. But I'll give it a chance.

 

[Don Peste]

This year I only played 1 unit of 2023 RPG games.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

This is the year when Codexers finally have the opportunity to vote a true Jagged Alliance game the Codex GotY, but they will instead grant that honor to the latest entry in a series primarily known for bear-buggery.

 

[cvv]

This is the year when Codexers finally have the opportunity to vote a true Jagged Alliance game the Codex GotY

My Top 3 last year were Colony Ship, JG3, Lords of the Fallen, probably in this order. But I'd be happy with JG3 as the winner.

Which is not gonna happen ofc.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

I wouldn't have been able to run it on my PC, nor get it for PS5

Caves of Lore

Also, fuck off consoletard

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Still don't get why remasters are in. Remakes, fine, but remasters?

 

[Sweeper]

So, let me throw a hypothetical scenario at you. Let's say that there's a person out there, we'll call him NotNotSweeper, and let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

 

[cvv]

and let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

A karmic debt will be accrued and settled after you're reborn as a sexually abused bear in China.

 

[Lord of Riva]

I played like 7, more than I anticipated. JA3 should win,

 

[Lord of Riva]

So, let me throw a hypothetical scenario at you. Let's say that there's a person out there, we'll call him NotNotSweeper, and let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

The sole limit to Vote on the GOTY poll is having an account before 2024.

That is per design, you actually could limit any spam in the poll but I guess that is (understandable) way too much effort. So, lying is basically part of the game rules.

There will most likely also people who put it on 5 just to stick it to the other "tribe" as well, so tell your friend, who is obviously not you, to go ahead and Vote according to his conscience

 

[Sweeper]

There will most likely also people who put it on 5 just to stick it to the other "tribe" as well, so tell your friend, who is obviously not you, to go ahead and Vote according to his conscience

I appreciate the perspective, but I was mostly joking. I do want to rate it a 0, but cheating tickles my 'tism in a bad way.
There's that, but also I don't want to be reincarnated as a sexually abused bear in China.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

If enough people do this it'll end up boosting BG3's score since Felipe will just scrub all the "BG3 - 0 and nothing else" shitpost votes like what happened with Disco Elysium.

 

[Konjad]

So, let me throw a hypothetical scenario at you. Let's say that there's a person out there, we'll call him NotNotSweeper, and let's say that this person hasn't played any of the titles listed for Codex GOTY 2023, including BG3, but he has a burning desire to rate BG3 a 0. Would you consider it unethical to do so?

Why would you even vote for a game you haven't played?

The only reason I can imagine is pushing some agenda while not caring about RPGs at all.

Solution to such people should be beheading.

 

[Goldschmidt]

This list might serve as a good source to find games to play in 10 years.

I actually did play 1 game, albeit only the demo, and only for like an hour. Diablo 4. Gave it a big fat fuckin 1.

 

[Jaedar]

Why would you even vote for a game you haven't played?

On the one hand, I agree. On the other, having to play/finish a game to say it's shit is also awful.

 

[Konjad]

This list might serve as a good source to find games to play in 10 years.

I actually did play 1 game, albeit only the demo, and only for like an hour. Diablo 4. Gave it a big fat fuckin 1.

I gave it 2. After all we have to include on the scale games such as Starfield and - may Allah forgive me for uttering these words - Stray Gods (there should be a 0 just for this one game).

 

[cvv]

This list might serve as a good source to find games to play in 10 years.

I actually did play 1 game, albeit only the demo, and only for like an hour. Diablo 4. Gave it a big fat fuckin 1.

Ok is there actually anyone who played more than ONE new RPG last year?

 

[Sweeper]

Solution to such people should be beheading.

That's a good solution to any problem tbh.

 

[Goldschmidt]

This list might serve as a good source to find games to play in 10 years.

I actually did play 1 game, albeit only the demo, and only for like an hour. Diablo 4. Gave it a big fat fuckin 1.

I gave it 2. After all we have to include on the scale games such as Starfield and - may Allah forgive me for uttering these words - Stray Gods (there should be a 0 just for this one game).

In an ideal world, all voters should have played almost all games on the list to give a consistent and valid rating. I initially refrained of giving Diablo 4 any score because of that very reason but I said: "fuck it, it is probably horrible with regards to most on the list really."

I will never play Starfield. The youtube footage looked really bad. It is 100+ GB if you want to pirate it. Not worth my time. I am at ease with the thought that other codexers did their duty by playing it and giving it an appropriate score.

 

[lukaszek]

why the urge to rate game you never played and never will. Are you afraid it will be 5/5 goty or something?

 

[raeven]

This list might serve as a good source to find games to play in 10 years.

I actually did play 1 game, albeit only the demo, and only for like an hour. Diablo 4. Gave it a big fat fuckin 1.

I gave it 2. After all we have to include on the scale games such as Starfield and - may Allah forgive me for uttering these words - Stray Gods (there should be a 0 just for this one game).

Figuring out whether starfield was a whole point lower than Diablo 4 was the most stressful part of this poll.

I ended up ranking both as a 2 but im still second guessing myself

 

[Kev Inkline]

Asking voters to provide a ranking list would be more informative, but you do you.

 

[Jaedar]

why the urge to rate game you never played and never will. Are you afraid it will be 5/5 goty or something?

It's easy to imagine a polarizing game where the people who like it saw the trailer, bought it, and rated 5/5. But a lot of people saw the trailer, concluded it was shit and avoided.
So the result is it gets few votes 5/5. Which is fine, probably won't win goty. BUT
There's also games that just 10 people are aware of the existence of, which may be the bestest RPG released this year, so they rate it 5/5 and no one else rates it.

I want to be able to separate the "obviously polarizing so people who won't like it don't play it" games from the "obscure yet amazing" games. Easiest way seems to be to allow people to give low scores even if they didn't play. Although maybe there should just be a separate "didn't play because I lack of time/interest to play every game that release on steam" and "didn't play because it seems like shit" options on the poll (maybe next time?).

 

[Lord of Riva]

why the urge to rate game you never played and never will. Are you afraid it will be 5/5 goty or something?

It's easy to imagine a polarizing game where the people who like it saw the trailer, bought it, and rated 5/5. But a lot of people saw the trailer, concluded it was shit and avoided.
So the result is it gets few votes 5/5. Which is fine, probably won't win goty. BUT
There's also games that just 10 people are aware of the existence of, which may be the bestest RPG released this year, so they rate it 5/5 and no one else rates it.

I want to be able to separate the "obviously polarizing so people who won't like it don't play it" games from the "obscure yet amazing" games. Easiest way seems to be to allow people to give low scores even if they didn't play. Although maybe there should just be a separate "didn't play because I lack of time/interest to play every game that release on steam" and "didn't play because it seems like shit" options on the poll (maybe next time?).

That would be workable. I think we would avoid troll voting if we acknowledged reasons why people where desinterested.

How would it influence the scoring though?