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list of tropes/mechanics that suck in Games:
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: Mr. Content -stealth -skill-based matchmaking -female characters that aren't sexually attractive -unskippable dialogue -"battle passes" -sniper classes/sniping -dedicated healer/"support" roles -aim assist
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: incel adams You've really covered everything IMO I will need to think on this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697131) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:15 PM Author: incel adams New game+ modes - absolute turbogoy shit. Play the game all over again goy, it's slightly harder now! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697137) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo tbf there are a few games that add entire new things to the new game+ to the point its a completely new game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697215) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: bloomington (🦬) I feel like it's CR if you're a youngster and your parents won't let you get a new game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697216) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: incel adams Maybe but youngsters are bombarded with free ipad games and endless roblox shit I don't think they are playing this stuff, its just losery old redditors demanding more hours for their dollar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697277) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: gedood persoon yeah but what about when you had one Nintendo cartridge that cost $100 in 2026 dollars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697282) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: incel adams All the millennials I know gave their kids nintendo stuff and they never played any of it. Brains fried by ipads (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697287) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: incel adams achievements & trophies. Just run the credits when I beat the game. Maybe give me a star icon if I 100% it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697145) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Mr. Content personally i think achievements are uninteresting but a lot of people like them so i think it's ok
but when games are constantly shoving them in your face it's fucking cringe and annoying. or when anything is actually gated behind "achievements" that's an instant Drop |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: incel adams I think just build goy tasks into the game organically like mario does. It has like collect all the secret coins and end level flags etc. To 100% the game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697161) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) i like them because it shows what % of people did a thing. it's interesting to see how many people went down x path, experienced some rare event, or completed the game on different difficulties.
there are way too many of them and usually are just used as some skinner box sense of accomplishment. that's gay. |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: michael doodikoff i never understood "achievements" or people who obsess over them. WHen I beat the Game, its time to move on to the next in the Backlog, not backtrack to try to find nit picky bullshit to "100%" the Game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697211) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:43 PM Author: Mr. Content but have you ever actually Beaten A Game and moved on to the next game in your Backlog? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697222) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: michael doodikoff Yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697441) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:32 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) Bog standard list of complaints from ADHD-addled gamerbro archetype who just wants to swing a sword around and effortlessly destroy everything to indulge a power fantasy he can never approach irl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697198) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:33 PM Author: Mr. Content just say you're not Good Enough to play pvp multiplayer games, Champ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697201) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:36 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) I play Counterstrike and Arc Raiders, what does this have to do with anything (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697207) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:43 PM Author: Mr. Content but do you play them well? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697219) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: incel adams He seems like a PvE guy. I bet he plays against bots in CS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697283) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo tetris style inventory management (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697213) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:58 PM Author: ,..,,,,,,....,,,..., This is the #1 answer. Tell me how much shit this motherfucker can carry; I don’t want to sort shapes to cram in an extra sword that I’ll sell when I get back to town. Ideally give me gold directly rather than making me simulate being the African guy sorting through garbage for scrap metal I can sell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697256) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo having said that, the entire point of this game is tetris style inventory management and it was actually fun and deep
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3026450/Deadly_Days_Roadtrip/ |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:09 PM Author: Mr. Content yeah this is a good one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697274) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: incel adams inventory management at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697279) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot Lol wtf? Too many games are turning into drudgery simulators. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697401) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:11 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) i like this because it can add additional dimensions to what you can have. if an item takes up whole horizontal row you cannot carry something that takes up a whole vertical row. but if they were just reduced to weight you could carry both. it's not much different than only being able to equip one weapon and one accessory. the devs can design items that make it impossible to use with others in a way that just boiling them down to weight wouldnt. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697462) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo gbtr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697465) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Mr. Content you have an unbelievable "natural talent" for ragebaiting without even trying holy shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697472) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) oh im trying to lmao. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697486) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:42 PM Author: michael doodikoff "Heads Up Display" with direction markers that will take you to your "choice" of new "missions" out in the distance, with only certain ones actually advancing the story
Horizon Zero Dawn and modern Ghost Recon are the worst examples of this that I have seen |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 2:47 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) (guy who never beat margit because there was no tips, mapmarkers, etc) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697232) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: bloomington (🦬) I like Horizon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697342) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: incel adams "Crafting"
This shit sucks ass, only ever liked 1 game that had this |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:14 PM Author: Mr. Content i actually kinda like crafting it can be chill but it's definitely not ever the main draw for me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697291) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 3:17 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo cr crafting was cool and interesting when i was like 12
now i dont have time or the desire to either memorize or look up the billion fucking crafting things they add these days
its insane |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: michael doodikoff TOTK's was so over the top that it was kind of fun. like you could piece together ridiculous shit and sometimes it actually worked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697445) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,,.,,...., Open world games that have checklists of things you need to do with map markers and directions showing you exactly where on the map you need to go (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697452) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:33 PM Author: foodie faggot Name one where you can't turn that off. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697555) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:34 PM Author: artificial intelligence Sad thread. How old are you people? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697561) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo 50 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697603) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:14 PM Author: last time gaming was 180 in a frutiger aero-sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697668) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:57 PM Author: incel adams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697767) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:17 PM Author: don diaper (🧐) only controllertards complain about "skill-based matchmaking". you will literally never see a KBM PC player mention it. sorry it takes you ten seconds to do a 180, Champ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697676) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:39 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo sbmm is stupid and makes people weak (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697728) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:42 PM Author: Mr. Content it's literally the opposite lol
i've seen you make this comment in the past too. complete opposite in reality |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: don diaper (🧐) I have literally never seen anyone other than people playing COD, Halo, etc. complain about "SBMM". You don't hear CS/Valorant/Overwatch/whatever players mention it, that is just how the game is expected to work. I don't want to run around farming five year olds
google "SBMM" and basically everything that pops up are COD players whining. you are just delusional |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: Mr. Content yeah they absolutely do wtf
sbmm doesn't even fucking matter for console controller games. everyone has aim assist and is just mongoing around pointing their camera in the general direction of the enemy and their inputs barely even affect the outcome compared to mouse and keyboard players |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:50 PM Author: don diaper (🧐) The first two pages when you google "SBMM" are from:
halo cod cod (bunch of cod youtube links) cod cod cod cod
And Valorant is more popular than COD now, so it's not like this is just a matter of "it's not on the first two pages because fewer people play it."
I stopped looking after this. Just admit you're a codboi and be done with it. |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: Mr. Content i have not owned a "console" since the ps2. i am an exclusive PC Gamer
the reason why pc players don't complain about it as much is they've resigned themselves to being sbmm-cucked and they don't even resist anymore because they've just Given Up |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:57 PM Author: don diaper (🧐) No it's because most FPS are just not fun if you are curbstomping 10 year olds, and the exact kind of person who loves doing this is also the exact kind of person who loves COD. It's different if you're playing a game like Battlefront or the TF2 mode with a billion players, but a 5v5/6v6/etc style game without SBMM is just fucking boring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697769) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:07 PM Author: Mr. Content it's definitely fun to curb stomp bads. not all day every day, exclusively, but it is definitely fun
starting to suspect you are not being Fully Honest in this conversation, friend |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:17 PM Author: don diaper (🧐) I'll leave this here
Nobody gives a shit about SBMM besides COD players or maybe other roller-first games like Halo or Apex. Nobody. Nobody else talks about it. You play COD and that's why you care. It's as simple as that. |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:13 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo i grew up in a time where sbmm dint exist
the games were much more fun, some times you got rolled sometimes you rolled, most of the time it was balanced and there was a vote balance which worked great |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:55 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) never even knew sbmm whinning was a thing. imagine a chess grandmaster whinning about Elo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697763) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:00 PM Author: incel adams People don't want SBMM in casual modes, it shouldn't be in regular ass TDM on call of duty, like back in the old days it was random matchmaking that sorted by ping and sometimes you got stomped or sometimes you did the stomping, games were variant and you could bullshit around and have fun instead of every game being the fight of your life. People are fine with SBMM and Elo in ranked game modes of course. There is room for both. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697772) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:03 PM Author: Like Clavicular but maxing annoying screeds (gunneratttt) yes they do lol. newbs dont wanna get curbstomped and devs dont want that either because then newbs wont buy their games. the only people that complain about this is balding middle aged men that want to feel powerful stomping on toddlers. and theyre buying gameslop regardless so their opinion is irrelevant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697780) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: Mr. Content (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697792) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:12 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo every game u mentioned has sbmm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697800) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 5:21 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. drowning as a boundary mechanic or a character being unable to swim because the developers didn't want to deal with water physics. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697688) |
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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:01 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) RTS seems flawed in comparison to TBS. A commander doesn't strategize in "real time", he assesses the potentialities of the battleground and plans for them. and in fantasy/RPG games it makes little sense to be frantically clicking around and trying to direct the actions of your party in "real time". it's like you're trying to play God but without any of the advantages that an actual God would have. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838669&forum_id=2#49697774) |