If anyone else wants to help, or in any way become involved, feel free to join us over at https://pcmr.slack.com/! Send me a private message with your email and I'll give you access :)

Thanks, your commit made a lot of sense so I merged it. I appreciate it!

I've been focusing on rapidly getting basic functionality so I admit it's quite messy in places. Parts of the code is badly optimised or even dumb...

As long as the wider design and philosophy behind the code is sensible and tidy all these things can be cleaned up or improved however.

I agree with most of your points, I think the categories and wordings will need to be refined/changed somewhat as it originally evolved as a way to identify, even warn about, "bad console ports" like AC:Unity, the new batman game and similar games.

Framerate refers to horrible stuff like the new Batman game which dips down to 5-10FPS even on powerful computers. Same thing happened before they patched AC:Unity.

Resolution I agree, it's incredibly rare for games not to support a wide range of resolutions now, perhaps little point to it.

Yeah optimized can basically mean anything and nothing! Again I like to point to the newest Batman game, it seems like WB was so frikkin focused on the console versions they kinda forgot/ignored how the game ran on PC. Even on very powerful PCs it can run like shit... Obviously the "final site" will have good explanations of all the categories and certainly all the wordings will be revised and improved too!

Why python? I think it's a relaxed and flexible language, I like it especially for quick prototypes. I also quite like Django - the philosophy and how it's designed makes a lot of sense to me. To be honest I don't know much about meteor or mongoDB - I kinda fell off the web development ride about 10 years ago hehe. Nowadays I really only program in c# and python - call me a casual if you like but I do what I enjoy and what works for me ;)

I also really like PostGreSQL because it's open-source, it's proven to be secure and incredibly powerful, plus it's a full SQL implementation.

That site was hacked together one day after I proposed the idea, which is quite impressive but I think it's missing the most important part of my idea.

You can't use your own custom weight on each category. The whole idea was objective ratings which you can then shape to your personal preferences.

Do you love amazing graphics? Then weight graphics a 10. Is controls not so important for you? In the mood for a platformer with great controls and fun mods - make a custom search then!

Additional, me personally, I'm not a huge fan of the execution or design of that page.

AFAIK 3 websites spawned from my idea. pcmasterating.com, pcmasteratings.com and my page pcmr.co. I wish them all the best and eventually I hope the best one will "win" in the end. For the benefit of the community.