Ramp2024 Reviews - Link page
I decided to play every level in the gigantic Ramp2024 fan DooM level creation event. This is my new blog's links to previous reviews on my blogger page (and here, when published here.)
Part I: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/08/ramp2024-doom-map-reviews-part-i.html
Part II: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/08/ramp2024-map-reviews-part-ii.html
Part III: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/09/ramp2024-map-reviews-part-iii.html
Part IV: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/09/ramp2024-reviews-part-iv.html
Part V: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/09/ramp2024-reviews-part-v.html
Part VI: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/10/ramp2024-reviews-part-vi.html
Part VII: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/10/ramp2024-reviews-part-vii.html
Part VIII: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2024/11/ramp2024-reviews-part-viii.html
Part IX: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2025/11/ramp2024-reviews-part-ix.html
Part X: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2025/11/ramp2024-reviews-part-x.html
Part XI: https://jdcspot.blogspot.com/2025/12/ramp2024-reviews-part-xi.html
And of course the 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.