Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

Hey this uses Giant Bomb data! You have no idea how hard it was to convince the various business parties that a free API of video game data was a good idea.

Glad someone is using it.

I'm not as interested in the social aspect, but oh my god have I been waiting for a recommendation engine for video games for a looooong time. It's especially a problem if you're running on an underpowered rig, where playing the latest titles isn't always an option. This will be great if they can somehow provide a netflix-esq 'play this next' based on your past playing stats. I've discovered some great games like Hearts of Iron II, Mount & Blade just through pure chance. Providing new (read:younger) gamers with a way to discover games made prior to ~2009 would be a big boost for all parties involved.

Looks great. Probably too many features for my taste, as I deal with enough social networks in my life.

For the past couple years I've been using http://www.backloggery.com/ to keep track of what I am playing.

Search function is kinda weird. From my journal, under Update Your Journal, I searched for "space quest", and my game wasn't one of the five listed, but there was no scroll bar or way to expand results. So I went to Browse and searched there, and finally found "Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter" roughly 40th in the list.

The game also has 5 sequels which didn't show in the list (unless I didn't scroll down far enough), not to mention it's one of several "quest" games produced by Sierra. Would be good to show related titles on a game's page.

EDIT: also went to the "Space Taxi" page. There should be a clickable Platform listed there, so I can go find more of my favorite Commodore 64 games.

Looking good. I used raptr[1] way back in the day. It is any different? Not sure how much they've change if at all since I used them.

[1] http://raptr.com/

Would be nice that if you signed in with a Steam account, it did a bit of automatic population with what you've already played, are playing, and so on.

Also, some kind of prod with the "to play list" from your unplayed steam games.

Knocked this up a while ago http://bellendsebastian.github.io/steam-backlog/ and it's kinda depressing.

I'd be surprised if this isn't already in your backlog, but I'd love to be able to import the list of games I've played from my Steam account (maybe let me import anything which I've put > 1 hour into). The same for Xbox Live would be good as well, but probably harder to implement.