GameSuggestR, named in true Flickr fashion, provides suggestions for video games you might like based on your ratings of other games. The site grabs its data from Amazon and is slightly buggy in the process (for example, it refused to allow me to rate Theme Hospital for the PC because Amazon no longer stock it despite that it is readily available on its marketplace and sites like eBay).
The site appears to be inspired by a South Park episode (clip below) as the site, like in the SP episode, has a stage 1 and stage 3 but no stage 2! This appears to be a gag which continues throughout the site but can be a little annoying as when you click stage 2 you don’t get anything meaningful back (stage 1 is rating and stage 3 are the recommendations).
The whole rating and searching process is done through RoR-powered Ajax which works extremely smoothly; I have yet to have a problem of any sort whilst rating. Searching can be refined to specific platforms; all major sixth and seventh generation consoles are supported as well as PCs and Macs (but no Linux!).
The actual recommendation engine seems pretty good. I rated 27 games and from that it gave me 19 suggestions, many of which are extremely accurate, however I dislike how it tosses so many systems in (I had one SNES game suggested!). I’d like the ability on start-up to say which consoles I have so I don’t get so many irrelevant ones!
Also, widgets are provided for Netvibes, Google IG and the OS X dashboard. These widgets can either display a random game or a suggested one.
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That seems like a pretty cool setup. I am into games so I will check it out.