Great thread.
I'd like to say that I'm the opposite thinker though. I'm the guy who laughs at people who say, "yeah man old school games on SNES were the shit"...I'm the guy who generally thinks newer is better.
I think COD4 was a good game, and there were less things to abuse, keyword LESS. Also it was the first like already stated, so of course it's good. But I also think we look back on older games with rose colored glasses.
I made a thread right before BO came out warning all the people were literally jizzing intheir pants and acting like TreyArch was the 2nd coming of the Lord.
People acted like MW2 was the worst game ever when in reality it wasn't. Noobtubing and boosting were annoying, and it was a game where if you didn't know how to avoid getting tubed as much as possible you'd hate it.
Black Ops takes a little more skill than MW2 did as far as not being able to depend on shooting a ****ing grenade in the air and getting a multikill at the beginning of the map.
I'm a wrestling fan, and like in Boxing and in any sport you need a villian. Black Ops doesn't have that, outside of 2nd Chance users. MW2 you had Tubers, Boosters, Quick Scopers, Commando and that pissed people off.
Black Ops is pretty cut and dry. So in conclusion it's a mix of people OVERHYPING what Black Ops would be and Underrating what MW2 was.
COD4 might be the "best" to some of you, but no way I'm going back to that with lack of Killstreaks haha. Even though I miss a good M16