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

felipepepe

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Tags: GOTY 2016; RPG Codex; RPG Codex Awards

Are RPGs better than 5 years ago? Has Kickstarter really delivered? Have indies done any great RPG? Are we getting more PC ports? Has the "Age of Incline" truly arrived?


Join us now as we analyze the results of our latest poll, where 800 users rated 200 RPGs from the past 5 years, and see just how real the hype really is.

Read the full article: The Age of Incline: RPG Codex's 2012-2016 GOTY Results
 

Urthor

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Who stole the pixels from Felipe's graph?

Someone's made off with all the pixels, daddy's going to have to find his reading glasses on this 4K screen.
 
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Great chart categories! I wonder if in 2027, if RPG's enter another dark age, will the Codex pine for the era of Divinity: Original Sin, Dark Souls, Age of Decadence, Witcher 3, Underrail, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall?
 
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Vanguard against the Decline. Harbingers of Incline. Distinguished Gentlemen of Monocled Taste.

Which is Kickstarter Darling shall nab the top spot as the Champion of the RPG revival?

None.

Because apparently a by the numbers modern open world game with bad gameplay even by those standards and a completely mediocre story except one quest chain is what people around here really want. But it is fine because it is pretty.

Finally we have the answer to Narrative vs Gameplay question.

Presentation!

Before you even start with the any "newcomers" complaints keep in mind that last year Felipepepe did a 2009 and lower join date cut of the data and Witcher 3 won 2015 by those metrics.
 
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It would never be a kickstarter game since AoD and Underrail exist.

Maybe if there were more butthurt people to downvote it without playing like FO4/memetale/DaS you would have your way :M
 

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While I half expected the top 5 the fact that some Trump lovers who cant use a controller rated Dark Souls with 1s & 2s and thus kept it from beating Age of Decadence is kind of sad, I can understand if some players dont like Action RPGs in maybe the same way I dislike Diablo style games, but I wouldnt say Diablo sucks because it is not my kind of game and Dark Souls is hands down my favorite game from 2012 to 2016 and definetly in my top 5 ever
 

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I know getting into the "is it or isn't it" debate on a game being an RPG or not is largely pointless, but Dust: An Elysian Tale?

Really?
 
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Undertale at #130 with 215 votes but at #18 when the 1&2's get removed.

:hmmm:

I am sure all those votes came from people who at least tried the demo and wouldn't just follow the hivemind and mindlessly vote for a game they did not play.

Fucking sheeple.
 

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