User blog comment:AndImBatman/Why Call of Duty: Ghosts does not deserve it's unwarranted hatred/@comment-1854594-20131107045010

I can't help but wonder if this was inspired by my one for Black Ops 2. :P

Anyway I don't hate Ghosts but I am rather angry at the final product we've gotten. Everything I've seen of the campaign has abysmal writing and I hate how they had to put such an emphasis on grey.

One of the main things that really gets on my nerves though is how Infinity Ward apparently has a massive ego, completely ignoring everything Treyarch did with the exclusion of the pick ten systme kind of, and even then they seem to have made it not as obvious and well labelled as if they specifically wanted to trick you into thinking they didn't take it. They also had to ignore things like scorestreaks.

It also would seem they went out of their way to make sure Extinction wasn't a thing like zombies so they could continue to go "We aren't copying Treyarch, see?" when in fact they just ripped off Valve instead and hoped no one would notice. The dynamic map elements from what I've seen also seem to add NOTHING of value to the multiplayer.

For all their talk about this being the next evolution of Call of Duty I'm unimpressed. Just played Black Ops 2 before this and I wasn't thinking "Gee, if only there were some logs that moved and if all this nice color was replaced with grey. Then this would be perfect!"

Call of Duty's so-called next gen experience was hyped up way too far. I'm still getting it but not for a good while, and when I do get I'll probably not bother with any of it's map packs as I usually don't for Infinity Ward games anyway.