tsiro

Can't say for sure how long this issue has been around, but it seems relatively recent. I have a little script that is filtering games by number_of_user_reviews, and it suddenly started claiming that the number of games with non-zero user reviews is zero.

You can see this looking at the number_of_total_results to these two requests:

• https://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=<api_key>&limit=1&field_list=name,id,site_detail_url,number_of_user_reviews&filter=number_of_user_reviews:1&format=json
• https://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=<api_key>&limit=1&field_list=name,id,site_detail_url,number_of_user_reviews&filter=number_of_user_reviews:0&format=json.

Not only that, but it seems like specific games with non-zero user reviews on their pages are reporting zero user reviews, e.g. Pokémon Red/Blue:

• https://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=<api_key>&field_list=name,id,site_detail_url,number_of_user_reviews&filter=id:3966&format=json

Let me know if I can provide any other information! (Also, apologies if this should've gone in the Bug Reporting forum.)

Bumping this up because I'm running into this same issue still, and have also tried everything in the initial post.

I was also experimenting with fetching staff reviews for games (to see if this was specifically an issue with user reviews), and was able to fetch specific reviews with a &filter=game:[game name], even though the API docs say to switch "game" to "object" when using it in filters. However, this did not translate back to user_reviews.

I have never owned nor played any Amiga games, but I remebered that Bennett Foddy (the developer of QWOP, GIRP, Super Pole Riders, Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess, etc.) wrote this list (back in 2012) of Amiga games that he still thought were good and relevant.

http://www.foddy.net/2012/09/a-list-of-still-good-in-2012-amiga-games/

Over in the South Bay it shook for a good long while but it was pretty mild.

I like you. If you have not, you should read this article. It touches on this, and is good: http://www.hitselfdestruct.com/2013/09/0452.html

P.S. Gone Home is a very good video game and is definitely a video game, bye

NO!!! Now there'll NEVER be a Puzzle Agent 3 :(

But, seriously, this is so incredibly exciting. I could not possibly be happier about this.

go away

I'm sorry that the only metric for value that you place on games is the amount of time that you spent playing it once.

VIDEOBALL

@dungbootle: eff yeah, that game is rad. I haven't thought about it in years! My sister owned the game, but I ended up playing through pretty much the whole thing. Good times.