Like my semi-famous rants (#1 and #2), Blink of the "delighfully tacky, yet unrefined" Flip-Net has ranted for all of you. It's a nice read, and he makes some decent points. Here's a snippet:
...It leads to something I'll call the Quake2 factor. When released, Counter-Strike was really the only quality mod people had seen since TFC (not that I deem that quality in any way), and so therefore they latched onto it. This same thing happened with Quake II about 4 years ago. After Quake II, any company's attempt to emulate or build on it was utterly shot down as a Quake-a-like....Read the whole thing here.