The Top Ten COD game lists....a few things I have noticed

OP, great post. This is the type of things I like to see and read on the forums. I like BLOPS but COD4 and WAW were by far my favorite games, for the following reasons. The game play was as you said FUN and enjoyable. They had a certain feel about them,
not complicated to set up your classes. If you wanted to run and gun or sit back and snipe(camp) you could do that. The maps were fantastic for all styles of game play, they had open spaces to run and places to hide. The newer games are so compartmentalized
and the play is so fast. IMO the newer games do not allow you to stop and think for a moment without getting shot. COD4/WAW is IMO the gold standard for the COD series. I started to loose interest when I saw a perk called "bling". I have Ghosts but it is my
least favorite game. A new WW2 game would be awesome, and I'm pretty sure they didn't have a perk called bling back then.

mw2 is very high on my list it was my first on line multi player cod game

i personally think there is mileage in the cold war or korean or vietnam wars

^roundhouse

One question I have is how you figure 3 killstreaks makes anything more balanced?

You could say that since you know exactly what they can earn, you know exactly how to counter it. But Thats not really balance .... its kust predictable. Predictability and balance are 2 different things. Everyone still knows which killstreakjs are available,
it just makes it so you have to gamble a little when setting up your classes. A little of the unkown makes the game more interesting.

You could also go back to the old argument that killstreaks never really benefitted objective players.

for those of you who didnt play cod 4 you missed out big time, 7 years on and its still my most played cod and people who say to others they are bored with cod because theyve been playing it 10 years or so, that isnt the case..its just got worse over the
years hence the reason why im still playing cod 4 and waw after all these years.

I believe CoD will keep going in the direction its going. Afterall, its CoD. Id love a WWII shooter built around gunfights, but CoD has become a "crapshoot" meaning there is a TON of randomness in the game, ie, perks, equiptment, SSRs, weapons, etc. Make
the game about gunfights, IMHO.