I think the link to BGG should be made more apparent. I mean, right now there's no way for anyone to even know it exists, unless they are familiar with BGG and they also know that you can filter by BGA games.
Certainly a useful thing to know and more people should be made aware of it, it shouldn't be something you have to dig in a forum to find out.
It's true that this site might not be the best place to rate games since this is a place to play, not to be a critic. With that said, this also means that we have countless replays of games that have been played, many of which being major games that have happened in important competitive contexts (given that bar some exceptions like Chess, BGA is the place where the competitive scene of most games happen).
So, it would be very useful to have the ability to comment and write reviews for specific instances of games.
Right now we can comment, but the format doesn't lend itself to very elaborate discussions, and it's certainly not intended for review-like writing, with ratings and all.
Along the same lines, I feel the ability to make personal lists is missing. For example, you could make a list of the top 100 games you've ever played for a particular game, or any other theme you want to make into a list. I've been wanting something like that for a long time.
It would also lead people to check out other people's games more. Right now, maybe people are aware of other players' achievements on some level, but they won't always go watch all the replays of the tournaments they won and things like that. And for the tournaments where they didn't even earn a medal, the chances are pretty low that anyone is gonna go rewatch those games. So, having lists would be a way for players to signal to other players which of the games they played they consider the best, so that other people can know what games they should go watch.
Certainly a useful thing to know and more people should be made aware of it, it shouldn't be something you have to dig in a forum to find out.
It's true that this site might not be the best place to rate games since this is a place to play, not to be a critic. With that said, this also means that we have countless replays of games that have been played, many of which being major games that have happened in important competitive contexts (given that bar some exceptions like Chess, BGA is the place where the competitive scene of most games happen).
So, it would be very useful to have the ability to comment and write reviews for specific instances of games.
Right now we can comment, but the format doesn't lend itself to very elaborate discussions, and it's certainly not intended for review-like writing, with ratings and all.
Along the same lines, I feel the ability to make personal lists is missing. For example, you could make a list of the top 100 games you've ever played for a particular game, or any other theme you want to make into a list. I've been wanting something like that for a long time.
It would also lead people to check out other people's games more. Right now, maybe people are aware of other players' achievements on some level, but they won't always go watch all the replays of the tournaments they won and things like that. And for the tournaments where they didn't even earn a medal, the chances are pretty low that anyone is gonna go rewatch those games. So, having lists would be a way for players to signal to other players which of the games they played they consider the best, so that other people can know what games they should go watch.
