RPG Codex GOTY 2023

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  1. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Go back.

  2. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    As a former Codexer I don't give a shit, the site is a shell of its former self and no one who made it what it once was is still there now.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why? When was it good?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        As with all things, it was good for the first x years when anon first discovered it and it was novel, but now it's RUINED
        (it was always shit)

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          Posts like these are never true. morons parroting the shallow observations of midwits.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >morons parroting the shallow observations of midwits.
            Quite a succint summary of Codex, yes.

  3. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Cyberpunk listed at all
    Codex is a fricking joke

  4. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Soulslike in top 10
    Old Codex is dead.(and thats a good thing!)

  5. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't understand how people can vote on the quality of a game they didn't play? Hell, I thought BG3 was shit, but I made myself finish the game in order that my opinion on it would be accurate and informed.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      i think that's percentage of the total number of voters who played it, not people who voted on it who played it.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        My mistake. I see now, rereading it.

        >There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
        guy who runs the poll is a filthy statistician. years ago when i posted there, we blasted him for it.

        I dislike BG3, but that's pretty fricked up and dishonest.

  6. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kek, you know, I know, they all knew they were dishonest when BG3 didn't get first place

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      it did, if you read the stats. highest number of points and votes. the gay who runs this shit, if it's the same one as years ago, uses statistical pseudoscience to shift the results around.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >shift the results
        he maybe shifts your shit in your colon
        with his dick
        his method is consistent

        admittedly having it being a vote on a scale, rather than a simple yes/no vote means it's more of a tool to observe the state of average cuckdexer's schizophrenia than game ranking

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          nah, statistical methodologies are bunk and their usage indicates an incredibly small penis

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >small penis
            well I'll take your word for it
            hey at least that makes the process easier for you
            the process of your shit getting shifted in your colon
            by a dick

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous
    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      gay pandering doesn't make a game good.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        It doesn't make the game bad either, you culture warring moron homosexuals

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's a bad game that everyone has to pretend is amazing because of the gay pandering.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah like you have to pretend to hate it

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm not pretending, the game feels like a chore to play and everyone I know who finished it had to force himself to do so.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah and your dad works at nintendo

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's really the best you can do? Fact is the game just isn't fun.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                The fact is that it's fun

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                It really isn't

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the game feels like a chore to play and everyone I know who finished it had to force himself to do so.
                +1 data point, this. I was having fun for about the first half of act 1, and as the game went on it got worse and worse. By act 3 I was simply finishing it to move on.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Agreed

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Jagged Alliance 3 won because less people played it. Baldur's Gay had more votes, and the total points and votes for BG3 are almost twice that of Jagged Alliance 3.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nothing says GAME OF THE YEAR more than being played by 30% of voters, and giving it the first place just to spite the popular actual winner

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
          guy who runs the poll is a filthy statistician. years ago when i posted there, we blasted him for it.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's more homosexual than BG3.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bestiality Gay Tree does not even deserve to be in the top 10

  7. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    We already had this thread and a janny had to step in an autosage it. What is truly unfortunate is that our worst posters won't realize codex is the true home for them and move there, where they can finally b***h about politics all day and larp as hardcore red pilled gaymers while discussing bethesda games, ecelebs, and indie phone shit without interruption.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm pretty sure I know who you are from another imageboard

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm pretty sure I know who you are from another imageboard
        Please make him go back. I know who he is from this imageboard.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          I can't, the other ones dead

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't post on other imageboards. I have been on Ganker for 18 years, never left.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I have been on Ganker for 18 years, never left.
          Jesus fricking Christ what is wrong with you? Seek professional help immediately.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            >he thought “you’re here forever” was just a meme
            See you tomorrow, homosexual

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're cross posting here already because they ruined their shit forum and don't really want to be there any more despite all the virtue signalling.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's right, you should go back to cuckdex, tranime homosexual.

  8. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >codex
    not even opening the image, frick off back to there please

  9. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >4 of the games aren't even RPGs
    >3 of the games are not actually games but expansions

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >3 of the games are not actually games but expansions
      I didn't even notice this, holy shit

  10. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who the frick cares, site is fricked now with all the moronic troony israelite sjw shilling.

  11. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can you stop shilling your trash here? go back to your dying forums where its you and 15 other neonazis who circlejerk all day every day about "muh pozzed" games.

    You guys are irrelevant, literally worthless nobody except morons look into your opinions or picks.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      /vrpg/ is diet codex

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >irrelevant
      i don't like the codex very much and i know you are doing a bit, but this is the most laughable thing to care about. social media addiction is a real b***h.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >look yer guys the 4chitins are pozzed now!!
      you are the same falseflagger cuckdexer poster from the last thread

    • 2 months ago
      Emil

      We already had this thread and a janny had to step in an autosage it. What is truly unfortunate is that our worst posters won't realize codex is the true home for them and move there, where they can finally b***h about politics all day and larp as hardcore red pilled gaymers while discussing bethesda games, ecelebs, and indie phone shit without interruption.

  12. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >muh opinions
    Don't care. Next.

  13. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a great game but i woudn't call it an RPG. The only shit game on thier list that does not belong is Lies of P IMO.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can't possibly have enjoyed caves of lore, that's an atrocious game.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, i did not play that one. Did not play Space Wreck either. Should've specified that, i guess. But the rest are good with the exception of Lies of P.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's all pretty shitty. I was honestly ready to give up on crpgs entirely if bg3 had not released. 2024 is stacked with great crpgs to look forward to by comparison with some actual enthusiast stuff.

          • 2 months ago
            Anonymous

            Jagged Alliance 3 is really good if you like XCOM. Rogue Trader is if you like Warhammer lore, BG3 and Solasta if you like D&D, Cyberpunk 2077 if you like 80's sci-fi and action, Colony Ship is for sci-fi enthusiasts, Underrail if you like Fallout 1.

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Jagged Alliance 3 is really good if you like XCOM
              I don't like nucom, this site never liked nucom. That's a reddit thing.
              >RT
              The game is really unfinished and bad, even after months of patching and I really hate the changes owlcat makes to rulesets as well as their encounter/map design. I also really dislike all the homosexual shit the owlcat fanbase dumped into warhammer, the well has been sufficiently poisoned by them now. WH discussion will never be good again. I will stick with slitherine for WH games.
              >Solasta
              Solasta combat is extremely limited even by the standards of the very simple 5e ruleset and the rest of the features in the game range from offensively bad to background white noise.
              >Cyberpunk
              Actual goyslop, please no.
              >CS
              An enormous decline from AoD, which had much better combat as well as a more interesting world to explore with less preachy and whiny writing.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >this site never liked nucom
                >source:my butthole

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ganker has open xcom threads, no long war threads. Nucom is actual dogshit. Just stop, embarassing.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >talk about Ganker
                >is on /vrpg/
                schizo moment

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Are you moronic

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >this site never liked nucom
                thats a lie, whenever i ask about nucoms there are plenty of anons who says say to play OG xcom instead but usually do not shit on nucoms, they are different type of games but still good and enjoyable.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >there are plenty of anons who says say to play OG xcom instead but usually do not shit on nucoms
                No there isn't

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                What's your problem with newcoms? The only bad thing is that every tb game worth shooting evar started doing what nucom where doing, but that's not nucoms issue

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shallower cover system, worse stat system, and inventory system gutted. Time systems are now board game style instead of simulation style, and I don't mean like a good board game, I mean like candyland. Just all around way worse with far less freedom in how you can move your units around and what you can do with them, which is an enormous problem because old xcom isn't a deep strategy game to begin with.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Time systems are now board game style instead of simulation style
                homie what are you talking about it was always like that
                because actions were always tied to time units percentage
                so laser rifle will always allow you
                >2 aimed shots
                or
                >move a bit + 1 aimed shot

                also
                >xcom
                >simulation
                lol
                I mistaken you for someone who isn't dumb as a fricking log
                get the frick out of here you moron

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >old xcom isn't a deep strategy game
                >t. didn't play TFTD

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Two actions per unit is fricking moronic. It's why very few games that have a similar UI style to nucom actually use the full two actions. The TU system allows much better granularity of actions and has a real cost for said actions. While in Nucom you have 3 types of actions based on cost, free actions which you should always take, single cost actions which you should try and maximize and full cost actions which you should avoid or cheese using abilities.
                POD enemy placement is completely moronic player and AI no longer play with the same rule and this change doesn't benefit the gameplay. It removes things like ambushes, destroys the organic combat encounters. It is such a blatant dogshit design that nucom 2 introduced the also dogshit stealth feature to try and reintroduce the later too.
                The transformation of actions into abilities is more neutral than strictly negative as a change. The problem is the implementation. Nuxcom borderline plays like a simple puzzle game. There is always a best course of action for each turn while Old Xcom had equal worth for multiple solutions. The puzzleification of NuXcom got so bad that the last game they made Midnight Suns was a decent card puzzle game not a tactics game.
                Anywho this whole discussion belongs on a more dignified board.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                you could point out a lot of wrong in old x-com too,
                >very imbalanced and easy to cheese tech progression
                >too strong no ammo laser rifle rush trivialize midgame and shitty heavy laser making weapon variety dull
                >nonexistent economy cause producing then selling laser cannons makes money irrelevant
                >no range penalty so gameplay is just scouting with rookies for vision and sniping with better soldiers out of range
                >best way to deal with buildings is to blow everything up with rockets
                >shitty design where you basically have to discard all veterans late game and grind levels on new soldiers with good psi strength once you have psi labs
                >turbo broken Blaster Launcher and psi Amp

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you could point out a lot of wrong in old x-com too
                You can't because we've had literal decades of mods building on it that could have been used as a base for a reboot, but they completely threw out the foundation instead. Like why would I ever play long war over x-piratez, you can't make a good nucom mod because the foundation is shit, it's like modding skyrim in a "good" game.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                SCHIZO go TAKE your PILLS

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                What is schizo about that? What a strange post.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                its some other anon idk what hes on about, anyway you are overestimating your own subjective negative opinion on nucoms, i made plenty of threads about xcomEW Ganker and theres no hate directed towards the game, people usually discuss long war or complain nucoms team left firaxis and xcom3 will never happen.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >i made plenty of threads about xcomEW Ganker and theres no hate directed towards the game
                No you didnt

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                ok now i agree with the previous anon, take your meds

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don't samegay man

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                He is not samegayging you dumb schizo. Take meds. Also when nu-XCOM came out there were plenty threads and people loved it. Nu-XCOM 2 is a whole different beast which actually got hated by some anons. I personally am yet to play it.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Also when nu-XCOM came out there were plenty threads and people loved it.
                No there wasn't lol

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                jesus christ take pills already

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                All of your issues are a balance problem not a design problem. You can easily adjust tech progression, change how laser rifles work. It's something modders have done for over two decades and people copying/cloning X-Com.
                You can't rebalance Two Actions per turn to not be restrictive. You can't rebalance PODs to not be dogshit. You could rebalance actions to not be bad, that's about it.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anyone can post on Ganker. However never in my life have I ever seen Ganker say a single positive thing about nucom and there wasn't any threads about that game at all until the sequel where /trash/ just made threads about wanting to frick the snakes over and over. (While still complaining about the gameplay being bad) I have no idea what went wrong with your brain that made you think nucom is accepted here.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ganker doesn't need slavs pavel

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                There are no nucom fans here. Go back to codex.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >That's a reddit thing
                I just googled up some places the codex chart was posting and everyone is nodding in approval on reddit and updooting it, lmao

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think codex will ever live this down.

          • 2 months ago
            D

            Codexers are capable of discussing build mechanics, something /vrpg/ is incapable of doing, generally speaking, so they do have valuable input. In this the behavior of their statistical manipulation of the vote makes sense here, while seeming to discredit their system. However, it is also clear to me they lost their souls somewhere along the way to be replaced with nothing but numeric autism and decaying grognardism, which also makes sense in the context of their selection of titles.

            I haven't played some of these titles, but I doubt lies of P stacks up against all JRPGs released 2023.
            I'm not much of a JRPG player in the first place but seems to be a clear bias that there's not one on the list.

            I am surprised to see titles with leftist pandering in there like BG3, CP2077 but like myself they are probably rational enough to calculate when a game is good in spite of the political baggage.

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              >reddit spacing
              Maybe you should go back instead of shitting up the board

            • 2 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Codexers are capable of discussing build mechanics
              Youre describing owltard threads, which is an offshoot of a dead general for bad and dead games on /vg/, so of course they are full of morons. Actual good rpgs have plenty in depth discussion here. You should go back to codex and stay there, one less owltard would be an enormous improvement in this place.

              • 2 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Every thread discussing an RPG build is an owlcat thread.
                >We have good in depth rpg discussion, that apparently never includes a build.
                Proof that many anons here have no idea what logic is and why they still need external websites and streamers to tell them how to play rpgs.

  14. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    There's more than one non-rpg in the list, fricking zoomies don't even know the genre

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I personally don't like splitting games into gernes. There are good games(AKA games i like) and there are bad games. For example there are games like Warlords Battlecry 2 and Warlords Battlecry 3 that people like to put into the strategy section when in reality those games have more RPG elements then games like Diablo 2.

  15. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Bayesian Ranking that gives a massive boost based on the number of votes
    It sounds the poll creator really wanted the list filled with famous games rather than good ones.

  16. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >every game has ugly art
    the absolute state of wrpg-gays kek

  17. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the moronic codexer bargaining that Ganker TOTALLY loved the xcom reboot that can't accept his shit site is just a colony for people who got bullied off reddit
    jeez lol, it's getting pathetic now

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nta, but why are you here anon?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        To laugh at you

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sounds like an exciting worthwhile life.
          Best of luck to you buddy.

  18. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    TOVI TONGUES MY ANUS

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Der juden.

  19. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Remember when Disco Elysium got the BG3 treatment (vote bombing) but felipepe for some reason dismissed all 1/5 votes as troll votes and didn't count them towards the poll?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      No?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well, now you remember.

  20. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    JA3 is great.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's mid, but better than BG3.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm willing to tone it down to pretty good from great, but anything more would be an overcorrection.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        No, codexir/xer. BG3 is high.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >JA3 great
      >Colony Ship great
      >Baldur's Gate 3 great
      >Rogue Trader(is great so far, yet to finish it)
      The top 4 of the list is solid. Anyone who has problems with any of the games in the top 4 is a homosexual troon and should kys.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Youre here because codex is wrong and a shit board now. You'd rather be here than there.

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          moron. I was never on codex to beging with. That's why unlike you i don't try to twist a list that has genuinely good games on it as something bad. Fricking moron.

  21. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    expected

  22. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why did the janny autosage the first thread but leave this one up? Did codexers get asshurt and report it?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm seriously confused as to why this happened

  23. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    So which is your favorite merc and why is it Steroid?

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      BAD GUYS!
      MY SKIN IS PUNCTURED AND LEAKING

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        up there: barry, blood, raven, scully
        all of them are extremely efficient with decent personalities. Scully is obviously overpriced but he's ready to go the moment you hire him. Raven just kills everyone. Blood is very cost-effective early game (knives don't run out of bullets) and his ability remains useful lategame too. Barry is such a nobrainer pick for earlygame and his special is ridiculously good even late.

        I wish there were more mercs, especially ones with good EXP, MEC and LDR. Taking both barry and livewire early is too optimal thing currently.

        What about Fox? She's funny as frick. Having her and Wolf banter was highly entertaining.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      up there: barry, blood, raven, scully
      all of them are extremely efficient with decent personalities. Scully is obviously overpriced but he's ready to go the moment you hire him. Raven just kills everyone. Blood is very cost-effective early game (knives don't run out of bullets) and his ability remains useful lategame too. Barry is such a nobrainer pick for earlygame and his special is ridiculously good even late.

      I wish there were more mercs, especially ones with good EXP, MEC and LDR. Taking both barry and livewire early is too optimal thing currently.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        Or rather; your own merc is pretty much shoehorned into taking LDR and covering EXP and MEC with barry and livewire covers all your bases. I guess there could be more options for a really high MED too, since now M.D. is the obvious choice for that.
        I wanna see my man Trevor in ja3.

  24. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Boy Codex really wants to force their shitty mistake.

  25. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Codextards be like
    https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/honest-opinion-on-half-life-2.148156/

  26. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Picking Jagged Alliance 3 as best is such a contrarian opinion it might as well be a /vrpg/ hot take

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Take out the usernames, and codex devolves into /vrpg/

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think /vrpg/ is more on the ball than codex at this point. They miss tons of CRPG news and it's kind of become an ignorant bubble of shit consuming. Their goty poll is basically just felipepe copy-pasting the released rpg list off rpgwatch and just voting on the 3 out of 150 games they played that year. This place's main issue is just the mods letting spamming morons run rampant and set up permanent generals to push their garbage, makes this place feel claustrophobic sometimes as half the catalogue is pure garbage data.

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        >They miss tons of CRPG news and it's kind of become an ignorant bubble of shit consuming.
        I'm pretty sure they only post what people submit to their site. Like RPG Watch will straight up hunt down developers and personally contact them, codex staff doesn't do that shit. They just browse social media and collect paypig bux.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I personally really disliked bg3, but yeah, this is a pretty deranged thing to do.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like both JA3 and BG3. Don't really care as long as it isn't trash like Lies of P winning GOTY.

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