>>12110929
Quake 2 was always considered good/fine, but just not as stand-out/revolutionary as q1. Q2 was also relatively mundane, I enjoyed playing it at the time but felt no interest in replaying it, like I did with q1. Q1 also had the multiplayer locked down w/ qw, qwtf, and - interrelated - spawned a bigger modding scene from the start. Same reason HL dominated so hard for years.

>>12110939
I never had the impression it was overemphasized, but i've never browsed reddit.

>>12110961
This trend was around long before 2018-2019, I mean just look at quaddicted ffs.