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Why do you guys even pretend DOOM is better than DOOM II? The reason I hear most often is that DOOM II is "hit and miss" as if this doesn't describe Episodes 2, 3 & 4.
I wanted to compare how many good/bad maps are in each game so I played through all levels and rated them. These are the compiled results. Obviously these are totally subjective but I tried being as objective as possible. I hadn't played through the first DOOM in years and went in expecting you guys to be right about DOOM's quality. But I was disappointed to find there's just so many bland uninteresting levels that bleed together. Then I played through DOOM II expecting that I'd realize a lot of the levels aren't as good as I remembered but they are, and even DOOM II's bad levels are at least interesting, both in layout and look.
I could only see an argument for DOOM being better if you included Sigil and even then that's a stretch.
inb4 nice blog post