Personal Video Game Opinions

Video game forums these days are full of people claiming that Modern Warfare 3 is better than Battlefield 3 and vice-versa.  Then there's those that say "I'm mature and I play both games, because they are two different games."  While the fact that they are "different games," they are of the same genre, meaning that there is common ground to compare the two.  The fact is that if you just want to shoot and kill people, play Call of Duty.  If you want to have an immersive experience, or if you like working as a team and using strategy, play Battlefield.  Battlefield 3 IS better than Modern Warfare 3, and it is really hard to argue this for this reason: Call of Duty has not changed drastically in five years.  It's like a Madden game: if you buy Madden 08, then the next year buy Madden 09, you'll be disappointed by the fact that there's very little changes aside from rosters and a few mini games. However, if you buy Madden 08, and then years later buy Madden 12, your experience will be much better and you'll be able to see the progress.  If you play MW1 then MW3, you can see the difference, but if you slowly transition from MW1 to MW3 every year with the new game that comes out, it's just like buying the same game five times in a row.  Don't get me wrong, Call of Duty is an amazing game, possibly one of the best shooters, but its failure to improve upon itself rather than copy and paste the same experience as before limits how great the franchise could really be.  With Activision pushing a new game every year, it is not very likely that the 2012 COD game will be any different, because to make a truly revolutionary and brilliant game, it takes 2+ years of development.  Hell, look at Skyrim.