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Ramp2024 Doom Map Reviews - Part I
If you don't know what RAMP 2024 is, go here and download it, then go here and download GZDoom, install Doom somewhere and get to playing. It's great.
Review Rubric
1/2 - 1 star. Bad, a waste of time, offensive in some way. Simply doesn't run at all. I don't expect a community-created pack like Ramp2024 to contain anything in this range.
1.5 - 2.5 stars - Good but with a gamestopping bug or mistake. "Basic" maps with no significant depth. "Decent" maps with a serious flaw. By the time you get to the top of this range you're talking about the "median .WAD I would download from a ftp site in 1997".
3-4 stars - Solid maps, simple-but-polished maps, a good execution of an idea, feels good to play. By the time you get to 4 stars you're talking about a really cool idea, a commercial-DooM-level experience, or a highly polished experience.
4.5 - 5 stars - Superlative, great execution, a great idea that's explored well, great ambition, total conversions that hold up fully.
My own personal preferences only ever amounts to around 0-1 star in either direction, typically if it's too hard, if it's a slaughter map or a map of another "type" that I just don't care for, if there's music I don't like, etc. I try not to let this affect my score too much but they're my ratings so they do, a bit.