It is the gaming community that added all the cool mods. If all you could do was play Quake II the way it shipped it would suck. I like playing Quake II, but not in single player and not multi-player without all the incredible mods you people have created. I only bring this up to put things in perspective. There are weapons that let you kill someone in one shot.
People complain when the weapons are too powerful.
They say it is unfair. I am not saying that it is perfect, but I enjoyed it. I loved the beauty you could find just around every corner. The story was weak, but I felt like I was exploring a strange new world. Not like in Quake II where I felt like I was in an old abandoned military complex.