User blog comment:Magma-Man/Treyarch or Infinity Ward?/@comment-1263839-20130504145101

I prefer Treyarch, although I am not some blind fanboy like most Twitter and non-internet dwellers. I can easily identify the faults of anything I like and dislike.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One was a nice game that kept me enticed to play it a few times, but it was by no means perfect. Call of Duty 3 receives more hate than it deserves, but in the end it's a forgettable game. WaW did suffer some major problems but ultimately it's my best in the series for it's characters, atmosphere, Zombies and genuinely honest attempts at fixing Cod 4's flaws. Black Ops receives too much hatred. Black Ops II is good, but it's nothing special. Ever since WaW Treyarch's relied on the whole "cutscene gameplay" that I despise, in which the game flow stops so that you can enter an unskippable non-gameplay section (For example the fire beam falling on you in WaW, stabbing the man with the tomahawk in Black Ops with no checkpoint after it, moving Woods about in Black Ops II).

Infinity Ward and I haven't gotten along well in the past. I don't think CoD 1 and 2 are that memorable, CoD 4 is my favourite game by them but it's terribly unbalanced Campaign and Multiplayer wise, MW2 is just awful and it has this awful reputation and legacy and MW3... no, no I don't even want to go into it, more enjoyable than MW2 but still just... just awful.

Admittedly, I do over-react to everything, it's my function, it's my mental status and what not. But usually when I actually bother thinking about the subject matter I do root out everything wrong. I do rage about the FMG9 Akimbo being used... at all, but it's a fact that it kills in 0.6 seconds. I do rage about Silenced SMGs shooting through walls in Black Ops II, but it is just a stupid fact that they can kill so fast given everything that cripples the gun given the situation.

I would go on a rant about MW3, but it's just a simple fact that Black Ops 1 is better balanced. Yes, spout FAMAUG, Galil and AK74-u all you want, but everything else (including the other weapons) isn't as horrifically unbalanced as MW3, I should know I did play both games for several months (circumstances on "why" vary, and I won't go into them).