Ability to Rate games for personal organization.

[Stepping Razor]

I am on steam less and less as i get older and my library keeps expanding. I feel like i have less and less time to play games (because life). Sometimes its hard to find those hidden gems that i really enjoyed but didn't have enough time to play them at the time of purchase LOL :P.

I know i can make groups and organize my games or add them to favorites etc, but as i am now at 322 games it would be cool if i could rate my games in some sort of fashion. rating my games in some way based on how much i enjoyed them would be neat. I usually sort by hours played because that is a good indicator weather i liked a game or not.

a simple rate by percentage would work well for me like 1-100 then i can just see all my 100% enjoyments at the top.

I'm usually not a big fan of A+ B- S tiers system's the seem not intuitive and clunky.

[Mikoto]

What is stopping you from making your own custom categories right now to achieve the same thing?

Let me put it another way, how would still even calculate what game you enjoyed the most without you manually making the list anyway? Because hours played =/= enjoyment. I have games with over 1k hours that I would not say are my most enjoyed titles.

[Stepping Razor]

Time.

If i gave a game a rating of say 75% and one a rating of 83% enjoyment it would order them accordingly, i could then just change my rating any time and games would move up and down on the list.
Usually when i have a super busy point in my life where there is a lot going it can be cathartic to unwind and escape into a new video game, at that point the last thing i'm going to want to do, before or after i play that said game is put it into a specific category that i would then have to specifically remember and when i do put it there it just order's it by game title anyway. if i am able to give it a rating it could then just go on the chart of enjoyment, i could then make a choice when i look at this said chart weather i need to buy a new game or not :P
i usually like browsing the steam store, this mechanic would just help me clean up some of those old purchases if there are any so i can get back to swiping my card :)

I'm basically saying if i had this mechanic there is chance i would have swiped that credit card tonight, but honestly i couldn't even be bothered into re hashing 200 + video games and trying to remember weather i enjoyed them or not so i felt like this was a better use of my time.

[Gwarsbane]

You have just under 300 games.... thats not a lot....

Besides rating a game is going to take as long as putting it in a category...

[Stepping Razor]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

You have just under 300 games.... thats not a lot....

Besides rating a game is going to take as long as putting it in a category...

Honestly i dont see the big issue if i can say order my games using these options. whats stopping me from ordering them according to my preference.


Alphabetical
Friends Playing
% of Achievements Complete
Hours Played
Last Played
Release Date
Size on Disk
Metacritic Score
Steam Review

putting the games in a category does not achieve what i am aiming for. I am still going to be limited to the above list of organization.

i could however have 100 categories 1-100 and add specific games based on that but it still doesn't create the organization, it will end up separating them based on page which in turn will just create more clutter.

I can understand this being a bad idea if it is a coding nightmare to implement, simply telling me i can do something that i can't do does not change my stance.

[Stepping Razor]

will use custom artwork to set up system that i want.

[Bamboot]

First, I really like your name. Great song, one of my favs.

I guess for now, you could make just 10 (or maybe even just 5) groups according to your personal raking: 90+, 80+, 70+, 60+, 50 and below. Then when you feel like it you can add games over time to each "rating group". When you fire up a game, add it first, or take little breaks of 10 - 15 minutes to do a few games at a time. Before you know it, you'll have your games rated. I personally wouldn't bother with any rating below like 60 or 50% since most of the time, the point is to play the better games, I'd think.

Anyhow, good luck. I think more tools to organize our forever growing libraries is good, and a rating system makes a lot of sense as a feature.