Each person has 25 points to distribute between what they think are the best RPGs ever. You have to spend at least 1 point per game, and at most 5 points on each game, so you can vote anything from 5 to 25 games, weighting how great you think they are.
Should be a different section, so they still can be voted on initial release.Would be good to clarify the qualifying time period for games that are localized into english years after their initial release.
You should just ask people to list their order of preference, as many games they wants. Then you could assign points to the way you see fit, say for instance by using Borda Count or modification thereof.Read the rules: you can't give 25 points to a single game, 5 is the cap.
So one can give 5 to AoD, 5 to Underrail and then distribute 15 points among other games they enjoyed. The whole point is not to see if Aod > Underrail, but rather to see what else is cool and people should give a try.
Read the rules: you can't give 25 points to a single game, 5 is the cap.
The whole point is not to see if Aod > Underrail, but rather to see what else is cool and people should give a try.
Not one of you has more than 25 rpgs that deserve to be on any all time list.
Only a few hundred people participated, 10 people being able to override 200 people by giving 25 points instead of 1 is ridiculous.
Order of preference is shit, I like a lot of games equally well and want to reflect that.
There's 72 freaking games on this list, how big do you want it to be?And this is solved with my current proposal. If you believe 6 games are equally good, and they are all 5 out of 5s, you will be able to reflect that.
There's 72 freaking games on this list, how big do you want it to be?
No one has more than 25 top rpgs, everyone can vote honestly.There's 72 freaking games on this list, how big do you want it to be?
If people vote honestly, I can guarantee you it won't be as massive as you think.
The problem with the previous voting was that people literally said "I won't vote Fallout, it will make it to the top anyways". Thus the list gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
No one has more than 25 top rpgs, everyone can vote honestly.
This is the codex, so you will never see 100% honest voting regardless of system.
Anyway, my plan is to start this on January 8, with a similar voting system of the Top 50 list:
What made the list long was that I framed it broadly. From the data I could've taken a BEST GAME EVER, Top 5, Top 10, Top 100... whatever. It's not the voting system that determines this.The problem with the previous voting was that people literally said "I won't vote Fallout, it will make it to the top anyways". Thus the list gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
Bah, we can do it later. I want to get this done before the D:OS2 and Numanuma hype begins, and It's not like 2016 was a fucking awesome year anyway...Wait, don't we have a regular GOTY 2016 to do too?
We came up with original system for very good reasons.
Not one of you has more than 25 rpgs that deserve to be on any all time list.
Only a few hundred people participated, 10 people being able to override 200 people by giving 25 points instead of 1 is ridiculous.
Order of preference is shit, I like a lot of games equally well and want to reflect that.
You're confusing game of the year voting with top rpg voting.I thought that was the purpose of the Bayesian analysis. Making many 1 point votes competitive with fewer 5 point votes?
You're confusing game of the year voting with top rpg voting.I thought that was the purpose of the Bayesian analysis. Making many 1 point votes competitive with fewer 5 point votes?
What made the list long was that I framed it broadly. From the data I could've taken a BEST GAME EVER, Top 5, Top 10, Top 100... whatever. It's not the voting system that determines this
And everyone should get the same points, otherwise people like you will spend like 125 points voting and distort the results.
Then you list them with equal rank, there's no inherent problem with ranking systems regarding indifference.Order of preference is shit, I like a lot of games equally well and want to reflect that.
I disagree 105%. Everything I do is precisely to avoid the voting being just a popularity poll.To me, it is much more important to know 20 people thought a certain game was worth playing, than some stray Codexer's opinion that an obscure game is a 5 out of 5.
We already know that shit. PoE, W2, AoD, D:OS, Twitcher 3, etc... those are the obvious most popular games, ranking them in other of popularity is meaningless.
Gems like NEO Scavenger, Tale of Wuxia, Sunless Sea, Heroine's Quest, Voidspire Tactics, and so on.
You may now think NEO Scavenger is popular on the Codex, but it won 3rd Best RPG of 2014 with very few votes:All of those I wrote down on my lists. The only one I know is very popular (on the Codex) is NEO Scavenger. Of the rest, I've heard little other than a name drop. And who knows how many more games like those are around. But until I see a consensus, they are just random names. One guy saying Tale of Wuxia is a 5 out of 5 doesn't mean anything if no one else has played the game.
That's why I make these lists. You can't have a consensus if no one even knows the game exists.
#3 - NEO Scavenger
The third place comes as a surprise. NEO Scavenger was released less than a month ago and was only played by 15% of the Codex, yet people were clearly impressed. About 42% of those who played it gave the game a 5/5 score, and 36% rated it 4/5. The game's average score was 4.12, the Bayesian average lowered it to 4.09 to compensate for the low number of votes, but it still managed to stay ahead of Wasteland 2 and grab the third place.