"i bought COD4 around the same time as TF2 and it's been ~4 months of owning and i've only played COD4 for about 9 hours (you can see your cumulative play time in the console). in my opinion COD4 gets a lot more hype than it should, but also most people who are hyping about it never played the original Counter Strike which was quite possibly the greatest first-person shooter multiplayer game ever made."
I know exactly what you're on about, but am going to have to disagree. The original CS was actually a rip off of the original Rainbow Six for PC. IMO CS was garbage compared to Rogue Spear (sequel to R6 and of same era) in the whole skills scaling category. I have not seen a single fps come even close to RS since, the combination of controls, movement, maps, guns, reticules, skill scaling, reflex scaling, and speed scaling was off the charts. The newer Tom Clancy games have been utter crap...they need to reinvent RS with better graphics.
But I agree, today's 15 and 16 yr olds have no idea how it used to be. Now all there really seems to be is pretty graphics and big explosions...nice...but the skill cap tends to hit a wall very low. If you want real twitch/reflex shooters, good luck finding them now.
Mishkin_ISSO (considered best player of RS, wasted 3 yrs of my life accomplishing it)