Baldur's Gate 3 placed second in the official GOTY poll on the RPGCodex

[Lordofriva]

Congratulations devs,

your game came in second, really close to Jagged alliance 3 in the RPGCodex game of the year poll.

To see the result go here:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=12309

[Bray of Cats (Pron in Bio)]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Larian just can't stop raking in W's. :P

Indeed.

Wait, they still got 2nd on a random toxic forum? This just makes the game look better really.

E; No proof of owning the game on this platform and obviously has an agenda for making this thread...

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Maraxus:

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

The first post shows the official Voting process by the RPGCodex, the most prestigious site when it comes to CRPG, the latter poll was made for the people like Chasolus and Orion Invictus that believe who isn't of their opinions is "irrelevant" or "suspect".

Larian can win all the awards it wants, it's only fair they do depending on the community (like the Gaymawards, which yes they won) however the real RPG Grognards remain on the Dex, it's their true target audience when the hype dies.

I don't remember DOS2 being that well received at the codex either though. In fact, Larian has always been the recipient of jokes there. xD

That is nonsense, both Divinity Original Sin:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9721

and Divinity original sin 2:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10819

won the GOTY of their respective year. Larian games are just on the decline when it comes to actual RPGs and on a incline when it comes to well, people interested in dating sims and other, "adult friendly" and "diverse orientations".

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Bray of Cats:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Indeed.

Wait, they still got 2nd on a random toxic forum? This just makes the game look better really.

E; No proof of owning the game on this platform and obviously has an agenda for making this thread...

Baldurs gate 3 can be played on mutliple stores and platforms some without forums to talk about them.

The RPGCodex however is mainly a PC player forum, it's only reasonable to celebrate with Larian that they achieved second place in such a prestigious GOTY poll, like the RPGCodex here where most people can celebrate with them.

[Bray of Cats (Pron in Bio)]

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Originally posted by Bray of Cats:

Wait, they still got 2nd on a random toxic forum? This just makes the game look better really.

E; No proof of owning the game on this platform and obviously has an agenda for making this thread...

Baldurs gate 3 can be played on mutliple stores and platforms some without forums to talk about them.

The RPGCodex however is mainly a PC player forum, it's only reasonable to celebrate with Larian that they achieved second place in such a prestigious GOTY poll, like the RPGCodex.

Larian has one for all platforms, so void.

Do you think I care about rewards in general, let alone a recommendation from someone with a clear agenda?

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Hey, man you are entitled to your opinion. I'm more of a free speech kinda guy, you know.

I'm not trying to silence you, it's just objective truth. Not that you have free speech rights on a private forum, but whatever.

Do you honestly suspect that Larian is offended by 2nd placing a GOTY year where some of their developers have Account's on the platform?

[Wokelander]

Oh dear....anyway

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Bray of Cats:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Indeed.

Wait, they still got 2nd on a random toxic forum? This just makes the game look better really.

E; No proof of owning the game on this platform and obviously has an agenda for making this thread...

And that was AFTER review bombing (which you can see in the votes). If it hadn't been review-bombed, chances are it'd be among the all-time best on this forum.

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Bray of Cats:

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Baldurs gate 3 can be played on mutliple stores and platforms some without forums to talk about them.

The RPGCodex however is mainly a PC player forum, it's only reasonable to celebrate with Larian that they achieved second place in such a prestigious GOTY poll, like the RPGCodex.

Larian has one for all platforms, so void.

Do you think I care about rewards in general, let alone a recommendation from someone with a clear agenda?

But I have no Larian Forum account, is there a Problem with me showing Larians achievement here?

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Personally I like how Baldur's Gate 3 won GOTY with nothing else coming even close to it in terms of quality.
Which is impressive since 2023 was such an amazing year for video games.

It however did not win GOTY on the RPGCodex, Jagged Alliance did.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Personally I like how Baldur's Gate 3 won GOTY with nothing else coming even close to it in terms of quality.
Which is impressive since 2023 was such an amazing year for video games.

It however did not win GOTY on the RPGCodex, Jagged Alliance did.

Literally who?

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Originally posted by Goblin:

What was that massive reward show about then, are those just suggestions

The first post shows the official Voting process by the RPGCodex, the most prestigious site when it comes to CRPG, the latter poll was made for the people like Chasolus and Orion Invictus that believe who isn't of their opinions is "irrelevant" or "suspect".

Larian can win all the awards it wants, it's only fair they do depending on the community (like the Gaymawards, which yes they won) however the real RPG Grognards remain on the Dex, it's their true target audience when the hype dies.

First, it’s Chaosolous*

Second, you’re a presumptuous little assumer aren’t you?

One website, “prestigious” or otherwise, doesn’t mean anything.

So back to my original point; and?

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

It however did not win GOTY on the RPGCodex, Jagged Alliance did.

Literally who?

It used to be a relevant forum for RPG enthusiasts, before certain people with agendas infected it. Now it's just a place for people to whine about how games are "woke" and gamers are oh-so oppressed.

[Maraxus]

Originally posted by Lordofriva:

Originally posted by Maraxus:

I don't remember DOS2 being that well received at the codex either though. In fact, Larian has always been the recipient of jokes there. xD

That is nonsense, both Divinity Original Sin:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9721

and Divinity original sin 2:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10819

won the GOTY of their respective year. Larian games are just on the decline when it comes to actual RPGs and on a incline when it comes to well, people interested in dating sims and other, "adult friendly" and "diverse orientations".

Hmm but on the codex review: https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10848

"I don’t know what else is really there to say that I haven’t said already. To me, Original Sin 2 is a disaster on every front, and a textbook example of an attempted fix of something that wasn’t broken in the first place. Almost everything about it is a clear step down from Original Sin 1, and I can’t for the life of me understand how the designers could consider most of these changes to be good ideas.

In case it wasn't obvious by now, I've never finished the game. I gave up after some 40 hours of deluding myself that it’ll eventually get better, even though I was playing it in coop, which should have ramped up the fun by itself. Instead, my coop bro and I kept wondering whether we weren't somehow scammed into getting a Chinese knock-off version of the game, while everyone else was enjoying the real deal.

The game is oversimplified, dull, scaled down in the worst of ways, and simply much less cool than its predecessor. I would hope for at least some of its ridiculous design decisions being withdrawn in future Divinity games, but I feel like it might be the voice of the madman calling in the desert. Everything points to Original Sin 2 being Larian’s most successful game yet, and I know too well what that entails, especially when you take this interview Swen Vincke did with PCGamer.

You may have a very vocal minority screaming how badly something is done, but then you have 95 percent actually enjoy what you've done, so you say: Well, we can certainly say that that feature is okay because so many players are having fun with it. If you didn't do that, and that vocal minority were represented by, say, a couple of developers inside your company, you may wind up going in the completely wrong direction. That's where and why I really like the early access model.​

I mean, this is a perfectly sensible business attitude, because if you have a successful product, you’d have to be dumb to change it to appease the angry minority. But on the other hand, here’s a daily reminder that the initiative idiocy was implemented late into early access, and nobody even seemed to have noticed it before long after the game was released.

Which brings me to my final point. I hope that Original Sin 2 was successful not because but despite all those changes. That people played it more or less on autopilot, ignoring the fact that it’s mechanically about as shallow as a puddle, because the pretty graphixxx, undead lizardmen player characters and battle teleportation managed to effectively distract them. Although the cynic in me can’t exclude the possibility that the pre-release hype campaign, with its constant barrage of big words including “Improved story! Better everything! Like the old game but expanded! More tacticool!” managed to condition everyone into fully accepting that view a priori, while the post-release exuberant echo-chamber that followed in the media only served to cement that conditioning."

Also they may have won GOTY but if you read through the DOS2 thread there is definitely not uncommon sentiment that it was because not much else better had been released.

And in that sense I can only get a sense of deja vu regarding the relationship between yet another new Larian game and the codex lol.

[ⰓⰑⰏⰋⰌ]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Goblin:

What was that massive reward show about then, are those just suggestions

Pretty sure this is just a forum that used to be decent (before the usual suspects infected it) trying to pretend it's still relevant. If you look at the actual poll results, it's clear people were just trying to bomb BG3 (for whatever completely unknowable reason).

The stats show the opposite. I.e. a large number of random lurkers/new accounts/alts came in to give 5/5 to BG3 at a much much higher rate than 1/5s

That's why the popularity poll shows BG3 in second, but trailing by a much larger margin than the actual GOTY results

[Lordofriva]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Bray of Cats:

Wait, they still got 2nd on a random toxic forum? This just makes the game look better really.

E; No proof of owning the game on this platform and obviously has an agenda for making this thread...

And that was AFTER review bombing (which you can see in the votes). If it hadn't been review-bombed, chances are it'd be among the all-time best on this forum.

That is untrue in general but the second poll, in the second post, did not feature review Bombing and was put up by people like you who can not fathom that players have different tastes than them. BG3 made second place in the GOTY poll but also in a separate popularity Poll where only one game could be selected and no down voting was involved.