Sigh, they are two different gameplay styles, there's no use even vaguely trying to compare them. They only share the military theme and first person shooter aspect in common.
Different styles or not, I think Bf3 is way better.
Your opinion, but as Dark said they are two extremely different games, sure they both have pewpew and boom buttons, but the gameplay is very different, Bf3 is more open and tactical (And is open to ranged fighting) while CoD is more like an arcadey, kill to win kind of game - there's not a lot of skill involved, and sometimes that's the kind of game you need to play once in a while.
In any case I love both franchises, and they're both hecka fun (But if I play too much of either It makes me want to dropkick the producers in the throat.)
How is there no skill involved?? Sure it is much easier to pick up but have you seen some of the good players, they are nuts how good they really are, so I beg to differ that there is no skill.
Also I would consider CoD more tactical (small firefights, very fast paced, limited objectives) while BF3 is more strategic if you want to win a game (much bigger maps, objectives are much more important then killing people)
Aha, pardon my poor wording x)
For the average game of CoD, you don't really have to THINK about the game - at least from my perspective, and skill (Which there is, again, poor wording) comes naturally to the player.
Again, bad wording, I was aiming for strategic for BF3.
I'll agree with you partially here (I have not played Battlefield three) If I were asked to legitimately describe Call of Duty nine as a "Game" the first thing I would say is "Mindless", the second word would be "Stahp"
Call of Duty require very little thinking on the players part. A no, camping in one spot and watching a door for an hour waiting for a kill is not "strategic" or "Skill testing" in fact, Automatic doors use the same technique when waiting for a person to enter their domicile.
The only time you'll find "Teamwork" or "Strategy" in Call of Duty (one - nine) is when you're playing with your friends. The rest of the time it's a rather large Fluster Cluck of people climbing over each other in a desperate bid to get that "Super 1337 rolfocopter" that also doesn't require any skill to operate.
In my honest opinion, if they put some harsher penalties in the game and removed that horrible "Kill streak" system, which I believe is the main source of "Kill whoring" it would raise team work and easily improve the game.
But as it is, Call of Duty 9 and 3/4 lacks any elements of Team play and any shred of Skill requirement that might have been had, was tossed aside when people learned, that if they ignore everyone else and don't help the team, they can get enough kills to fly a helicopter and look good.