Yeah if he wanted it to be predictable and boring, well mission accomplished. I can't believe people still gush over John Carmack, he hasn't done anything for gaming recently. I don't think it's right to give a 10 to a game just because JC made it and it's the sequel to a legend. If it would have been called anything else and made by anyone else it would have been a flop, plain and simple.. Oh yeah Romero made daikatana the way he wanted too, we all know how that turned out..
I have to agree with you. We also never got any really good games for the Doom 3 engine. We got what Prey? What else? Nothing comes to my mind that stands out. Everything that did stand out used a completely different engine. HL2, Far Cry, Crysis, etc.