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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.
While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.
If you read through my posts, you'll see that I mentioned 3arc can't balance SMGs and used the MP40 as an example. I also never said that everything was completely balanced, because that's impossible with custom classes, but the other gun/perk combinations did cancel each other out in CoD4, providing a more balanced game. The M16 was overpowered at medium-to-long range. Up close, it was too slow and any of the SMGs would beat it, which is how it should be.
The extra customization options in the more recent CoD games would add more variety if they balanced each other out. However, there are some very obviously overpowered perks and guns in each of them, so most people gravitate towards those options. As such, I honestly only encounter about three different classes routinely.
MW2: Lightweight, Marathon, Commando ... UMP45 / One Man Army, Danger Close, Sitrep ... Any Assault Rifle with a noobtube / Sleight of Hand, Stopping Power, Commando or Steady Aim ... Intervention / ACR and FAMAS ruled
Black Ops: Ghost, random perk, Hacker ... Galil / Lightweight, random perk, Marathon ... AK-74u
MW3: ACR and MP7 ruled the game.
Black Ops 2: Everyone has Tactical Mask, and half the team is using an SMG.
Posted by: Flee4Me
The maps haven't gotten worse. You'll always have the few good ones and then a load of bad ones.
The more complicated unlock and create a class system hasn't ruined anything. You can customize to a much greater extent which allows you to play the game more like you want to.
The simplicity of just 3 killstreaks had it charm, but more variety makes things more interesting and has you trying out more new things.
What weapon trumps everything in BO2? The only two vastly overpowered weapons I've seen in a CoD game were the MP40 in WaW and the M16 in CoD4, which are the two games you praise for not being imbalanced.
Although I too think that CoD4 had the best multiplayer out of them all, I disagree with several of your points.
[Edited on 01.08.2013 7:54 AM PST]