my ratings are somewhat ironically based on old 00's gaming magazines and sites. i would say honestly, though, Xen makes HL1 a total 9.9. I wouldn't have anything about the game change, including Xen, but Xen sucks pretty badly. so 9.9 is a pretty tongue in cheek rating

i prefer the layout of backloggd, and it has certain features (like lists) that i find a lot of use out of. the user interface is also leagues ahead of glitchwave, which i find to be backwards in most respects.

the only thing i'll give glitchwave is that the chart system is much better. there's very little you can filter in backloggd due to it using igdb instead of its own database, which in turn has terrible terrible standards for entries.

I'm dumb as fuck, but thanks.

"smee tower defense 2016" https://gamebanana.com/mods/128696

you had to be there...

I've seen you on tf2 before

I adore TF2 and have a huge amount of nostalgia for it, it was my first ever online multiplayer FPS back on the Orange Box. I still have it at a good rating. I've changed my ratings for both OW and TF2 a bunch of times, but I think at it's core, OW is just a deeper, more rewarding experience than TF2, especially in a stack or in competitive scrim environments. I've actually been playing TF2 again some more recently and it's still a fun time, but ultimately a bit shallow at times. Valve just kinda dropped the ball supporting it and are too busy milking CS and Steam to really throw the game a bone. Blizzard sucks ass, but I just think the core gameplay and creativity of it all is in a class of it's own in the genre.

And that's always gonna be the basis on which I rate games, based on my experiences. I do not care whatever the narrative about a given game is one fucking bit anymore and I refuse to rate games on that basis generally. Narratives change around games all the time. I don't think you can find anybody with any good amount of experience with OW that doesn't agree the gameplay is very sound, regardless of Blizzard being shit.

This website is a meme when it comes to live service multiplayer game ratings though. Part of that is the nature of liveservice and part of that is nostalgia. I don't take it too seriously