Hi Greive,
   I have to disagree with you on Eternal.  Looks great and plays great,
some inconsistency in the quality of levels, but you get that with multiple
authors.  Music is great too.

   I offer to host an Eternal co-op with Doom Connector.  I'm sure we will
kick a.s as we have with Quake2!

G.

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/me begs to differ:
http://www.doomworld.com/sir_robin/castle/reviews/eternal/review.html

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I can't agree here.  Eternal Doom had some of the most amazing and
intricate levels of any wad I've played.  Just wandering around admiring
the construction (after killing all the monsters) was a pleasure in itself,
I thought.  I don't recall too many teleporting cyberdemons but I usually
play on the easiest level as I'm not all that adept.  The challenge level
seemed pretty fair though I did get a little tired of the trick of being
dropped onto an adrenaline pack (and therefore disarmed) the instant before
a major ambush was sprung.  That was a bit cheap, I thought.

My only real complaint was with two specific levels, called Silures and
Excalibur (the end level).  In each of those levels I killed everything I
could find, and then was totally stuck.  I wandered for hours trying to
figure out where where the hell I was supposed to go next to continue the
level.  Finally I resorted to watching the demos for each level.  In
Silures I figured out what I was doing wrong pretty quick and hit myself
over the head when I saw what I was missing, though admittedly the clue was
pretty subtle (I'm trying not to spoil anything but if you've played the
level you probably know what I mean).  In Excalibur I had to do this three
times (I tried not to watch past the point I was stuck) until I started to
feel there was no point at all, having to be led through the entire level,
and I finally just quit.

It's a shame, really.  I enjoyed ED quite a bit except for those two levels    
(both by the same author) where the puzzle-solving challenge was way out of  
proportion to the rest of the game.  At least it was for me, and I've
finished enough levels and wads to know I'm not totally hopeless at this
game...

-- Bob

I disagree.
Darkdome (12) by Sverre Andre Kvernmo was classic
Sverre was hired by Ion Storm, IIRC, which had John Romero as one of
directors.
You might have a point on saving and UV but this was one of the harder
levels.

Also levels like WarCraft (19), The Seeker (22), Rainbow Bridge (24) by
Chris Couleur are very playable. Large yes, but can be completed on UV.

Inter-base (3) was easily my favourite "medium-level".

But he can be snuck up on. Did you see the demo?

Well Alien Vendetta is tougher than Eternal. There are just waves of
monsters
And Hell Revealed is incredibly tough on UV. Try level 32. You need to be
continuously using the BFG. And level 27 where there are 3-4 Cybers
wandering large maze like corridors.
And there are pepole who complete it on UV, no save.

Sorry I don't find them remotely dubious.
Jim Flynn, Sverre, Rich Nagel, Dia Westertecher, Bob Evans and particularly
Chris Couleur are all immensly talented.

Stephen Howe