2005: The Year in Review

[Spazmo]

For the third year in the row, we've written up the events of the past year in the RPG genre and explained why they were a load of crap. Yes, it's time for <a href=http://rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=122>2005: The Year in Review</a>.<blockquote>You gotta love those Russians. They clearly love their video games over there, and so it's not all that surprising that they, too, should try their hand at making some games. Unfortunately, due to poor localization, poor funding or just poor gamemaking, the stuff they produce is all too often just not that great. Consider Metalheart: Replicant Rampage. This Russian-made RPG had a cyberpunk theme and was heavily inspired from Fallout (because lord knows we love developers who try to use the Fallout name to promote their own worthless games). Especially promising was the promised robust turn based combat system. Unfortunately, the final game was complete garbage.</blockquote>

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Great read.

 

[LlamaGod]

I like your fence sitting attitude about everything D:

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Wtf this isn't news lol

 

[Volourn]

Sure, it's old news about how much the Codex stands for lies, myths, bullshit, hypocrisy, and the rest.

And, also for entertainment.

Great read!

 

[HanoverF]

Is Rextum really playing WoW, or is that a joke re: his waffledom.

 

[Nicolai]

Yeah, he seems to be playing WoW again.

 

[bryce777]

The only gripe I have is that space rangers is the RPG of the year, period, and probably the top agme of any genre. Top 20 of the year??? Were there even 20 PLAYABLE games in 2005?!?!?!?!

 

[Vault Dweller]

It was supposed to be "top 20 games", as in "ever".

 

[LlamaGod]

Is Rextum really playing WoW, or is that a joke re: his waffledom.

even better, he is doing roleplaying in WOW now

 

[Frau Bishop]

Great summary, nice read.. dängs.

 

[Higher Game]

KOTOR2 is still the year's best computer RPG.

 

[Balor]

Yea... unfortunately.

 

[Proweler]

For some reason that was verry funny.

 

[Shevek]

KOTOR2 is still the year's best computer RPG.

Not if you consider Space Rangers 2 a rpg (it has stats; good enough for me).

 

[Mefi]

That pretty much summed up my year. And it looks like it will be right about this year. So here's to 2007 then

 

[FrancoTAU]

There a couple promising indy games coming this year isn't there? There's VaultDweller's game and that Ashes game by a couple Italian dudes that sounds good.

 

[dagamer667]

Yep, this year could've been far better than it was. Troika's death is definitely a major bummer. KOTOR II could've been awesome if it wasn't rushed for the #$^#& holiday season console release. PC version was released the next year, but console developers are extremely reluctant to make ANY content changes between different version. Even in the original KOTOR, many gamebreaking bugs known in the xbox version persist in the PC version even after a number of patches.

The only real disagreement I have is with bitching about Dungeon Siege II. That was actually one of the relatively few cases where the developers listen to what the fans have to say. I do know that I had a hell of a lot more fun playing DS2 than DS1 (glorified tech demo).

"You get skill trees that railroad you into one of the 3 stereotypes and force you to stick with one, unlike Diablo II skill trees that supported various and diverse builds, inviting players to experiment with them."

Ha. Experiementation only takes place whenever Bliz releases a patch and nerfs all the current popular builds. Then the search begins anew until the most efficient builds are discovered. I think the major problem with the DS skill system was the large amount of items that gave bonuses to all skills.

 

[bryce777]

It was supposed to be "top 20 games", as in "ever".

Oh!

Well, that is much stronger praise.

 

[DemonKing]

For some reason that was verry funny.

It's funny because it's true.

SO why is it that I want to cry?

 

[Levski 1912]

The Photoshop of the Oblivion box art was hilarious. Mostly because it's probably going to be proven a fact once the idiot-friendly product rolls off the factories.

 

[Trash]

Well, it's nice to see a new editorial. No matter how pretentious, not to speak of that horrible "people we pissed off" part. That was just sad.

 

[FrancoTAU]

I think the "people we pissed off" was supposed to be the tongue in cheek part of the editorial. I don't think it was meant to be pretentious boasting of "lookie at us, we piss people off so that must mean we're important"

 

[Volourn]

"Well, it's nice to see a new editorial. No matter how pretentious, not to speak of that horrible "people we pissed off" part. That was just sad."

Come on. That was hilarious! It helps me achieve my goal of being internet wide fame!

WOO HOO!

 

[LlamaGod]

I think People We Pissed Off is just a tradition and also a recap of some fun events around here (like Exitium vs. Cleve)