RPG Codex's Best cRPGs - DISCUSS THREAD / NOW ACCEPTING REVIEWS

[MicoSelva]

Yeah, probably. I'm trying to think of alternatives... I like doing various poster reviews per game, but this time I want to focus more on the stuff below the obvious Top 10... I don't think we need 5 people telling us why Fallout is cool... AGAIN.

Why don't you employ people who gave the most points to each game to write a few sentence long reviews explaining why they are so good? If someone gave a game a 5/4, he/she should be able to justify it.
You could then choose the best (in your opinion) short review(s) for the game and post them along with the final list.

It would (theoretically) work for both top games and the more obscure ones, I don't think there will be many games that make the final top list and only get 1s, 2s and 3s from people.

 

[felipepepe]

I like that idea, but I'm a bit unsure... If we do a Top 50 or 60 list and ask 2 posters review per game, that's 100-120 Codexers that I have to ask for homework, wait for them to deliver and punish the wicked.

I'll still having trouble with the the Top DS RPGs list, where I asked the same thing and only 8 out of 20 people wrote anything... after a month. Lots of newfags and lurkers that only came to vote and will be hard to get a hold on... although a lot of regulars and even staff members are also procrastinating...

 

[MicoSelva]

Maybe the promise of theiropinion being featured in an actual Codex newspost (sorry, nobody cares abut DS ) will make for a better incentive to write a 4-5 sentence review (I don't think they could/should be longer). I know it would for me, and I'm pretty extremely lazy.

Also, you will have a bigger reviewer pool, so a bigger chance that someone actually responds.

The final list would be in its own thread anyway (which would be linked to in the newspost), so You could edit the original post later and paste in reviews as they arrive.

that's 100-120 Codexers that I have to ask for homework, wait for them to deliver and punish the wicked

Yeah, sounds like a lot of work. Good thing we have you to do that.

 

[felipepepe]

sorry, nobody cares abut DS

Yeah, I know. People here will kill over who gets to write about Jagged Alliance 2, but no one wants to talk about Etrian Odyssey III...

Yeah, sounds like a lot of work. Good thing we have you to do that.

Oh god, the logistics of making sure that each of the 60 games are reviewed by 2 people that rated it highly, without any overlap or gap...

 

[laclongquan]

Dont lose sight of your goal now.

Your goal, from the beginning, seem to experiment with a new voting system to see if you can change the 2013 list and kick out some. That is an worthy experiment.

If you change to best rpg of all time this is insufficient time to vote, as it's near deadline 31/1.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

felipepepe
If Dark Souls is allowed... I wanna change my vote to include Dark Souls. But the newfag editing priviledges no longer allow me to edit it. Reposting in that thread and quoting my old post will do?

 

[Deuce Traveler]

If Dark Souls is allowed, then shouldn't some of the Final Fantasy games? I know FF7 and FF8 had a PC release. Not sure if that will affect any votes, but I know at least FF7 was quite popular.

felipepepe , I've finished a huge amount of PC RPGs and I wouldn't mind writing a couple of paragraphs on each of those that make the top 60.

 

[felipepepe]

Some people voted for FF 8, and it is allowed, but this is is the Codex; it never had any chance of entering the Top list. Dark Souls is special, to the point that a lot of Codexers enjoy it as a PC title, so it belongs.

Dont lose sight of your goal now.

Your goal, from the beginning, seem to experiment with a new voting system to see if you can change the 2013 list and kick out some. That is an worthy experiment.

If you change to best rpg of all time this is insufficient time to vote, as it's near deadline 31/1.

The goal was always to compile a list of great RPGs, the voting system was just means to an end, since I found the previous system lacking. We already have 207 votes, more than NeoGAF's list or any previous Codex list. And only 1/3 of the voting period has gone by, we still gave a lot of time.

Now that all is working fine, we must think of ways to enjoy the list. Making short reviews of each title will help people choose what to play from the list, or understand why people enjoy it; I think is something worthwhile.

felipepepe
If Dark Souls is allowed... I wanna change my vote to include Dark Souls. But the newfag editing priviledges no longer allow me to edit it. Reposting in that thread and quoting my old post will do?

Sure, just quote your original post and write what you changed.

felipepepe, I've finished a huge amount of PC RPGs and I wouldn't mind writing a couple of paragraphs on each of those that make the top 60.

I thank you for the help bro, but we need to think about this. I'm too much of a librul to enjoy just a few people writting about the Kodex Konsensus... That's why I prefer having at least 2 people per game, based on their votes.

But we can use people like you as "reserve", if procrastinators start to fuck things up.

 

[Broseph]

I want to write about Wiz8 Or one of the Might and Magics I voted for.

 

[DwarvenFood]

You could also pick a couple of interesting games and ask a couple of people that voted for them to write about said games;

 

[DragoFireheart]

If Dark Souls is allowed, then shouldn't some of the Final Fantasy games? I know FF7 and FF8 had a PC release. Not sure if that will affect any votes, but I know at least FF7 was quite popular.

felipepepe , I've finished a huge amount of PC RPGs and I wouldn't mind writing a couple of paragraphs on each of those that make the top 60.

I'm going to flip a shit if felipepepe allows FF games but doesn't allow Dragon's Dogma just because PC release.

 

[Delterius]

FFS not even the FF fanboys knew those had PC releases.

 

[laclongquan]

If you want to make a best rpg list with just one month voting, it's a bit too short.

Should have request a front page news, and two month minimum.

 

[felipepepe]

I don't get why you and Grunker think that a month is too short. It's been one week, and most of the regulars already voted, with 215 votes so far. How many more you guys want? This is a list of the RPG Codex, I think it makes sense that people who are around vote, not those that only appear once every 2 months.

 

[felipepepe]

Hey DarkUnderlord , you were talking about using the database for PnP RPGs the other day, can we use it or do something like this in Xenforo?

(very rough concept, final list may not be so aweshum)

 

[LivingOne]

Now that all is working fine, we must think of ways to enjoy the list. Making short reviews of each title will help people choose what to play from the list, or understand why people enjoy it; I think is something worthwhile.

That's gonna be pretty long.Shouldn't be split across more articles?

Also,that pic reminds me of Worst rpgs vote,will there be an article for that too?I always enjoy reading Codex negative reviews.:D

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Hey DarkUnderlord , you were talking about using the database for PnP RPGs the other day, can we use it or do something like this in Xenforo?

(very rough concept, final list may not be so aweshum)

Will add it to ideas for RPG database... Servo

 

[felipepepe]

I have a mosaic of the current Top 50 cRPGs of the voting, but I didn't want to spoil it.

 

[tuluse]

I have a mosaic of the current Top 50 cRPGs of the voting, but I didn't want to spoil it.

Now this I'm excited for.

 

[himmy]

People could vote for SRR or Expeditions Conquistador

somebody already voted for SRR

i died a little

As I mentioned, the pretense for objective votes is at best an illusion and at worst God-hating megalomania. I voted for the games that I had fun with/remember fondly. I had more fun with SRR than with, say, DA:O.

Plus, SRR isn't even the most degenerate games by Codexian standards, as I also voted for The Secret World.

 

[MicoSelva]

 

[Minttunator]

Plus, SRR isn't even the most degenerate games by Codexian standards, as I also voted for The Secret World.

MMOs are indeed generally looked down upon on the Codex (for good reason, mostly!) - but I personally agree, for what it's worth. If any recent MMO deserves points, it's TSW - I actually sort of wish I could've spared a few.

 

[Lord Andre]

Why so little love for G2 NotR ? Even if only for 1 point, it shouldn't be missing from anybody's list.

 

[felipepepe]

Little love? Is one of the most voted games, currently on the Top 10.

 

[DragoFireheart]

So Feb 1 is when you will post the results?