What's your opinion about Thy Flesh Consumed?

[Admen]

I think it's a good episode, but a litlle bit hard, especially E4M1 and E4M2.
Overall, very enjoyable.

[Electric Cupcake]

People were complaining that the base game was too easy, so they went all out in some pretty dickish ways, like trapping you in a small room with Barons on the very first level when you have barely any ammo. And making you face a Cyberdemon in the second level.

Of course, you can avoid the barons in M1 by just ignoring level secrets, and you can telefrag the Cyberdemon without a fight, but it's still pretty harsh.

Playing through Episode 4 with just the Project Brutality Deagle is a fun challenge.

[Le Perv]

They're fairly tough but once you learn the secrets they're a lot easier. especially the case with E4M2. I love a good challenge so E4 has always been a favorite of mine.

[Ridley100™]

I genuinely think E4M2 is the best map John Romero ever created. Masterpiece.

[VTRibeiro.]

F*ck Perfect Hatred, thats my opinion.
*sigh*

[Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs]

Only episode from first Doom i like, not so hard, try it with brutal Doom for real hard. :) I played D2 hundred times, first game, just twice or three times. But Ultimate episode was a good one.

[Tony]

It's meh. First level is skewed way too hard for a first level, then the rest of it episode is okay if not exceptional.

[Sandro138]

Kinda meh, but I do like E4M8. I feel like it's a much better final/boss map than the others which were a bit too basic and meh also.

[GamerXT]

If you're playing on UV, then sort of cheap, like the fake wall in E4 M1.

[Cantina Turner]

I haven't played it since release (I completed it back then) but I've just done the first three levels and good god it's tough! I blitzed through the main Doom game no problem, I didn't even die once... but in these three levels of Thy Flesh Consumed I've already died four times!

[₦₣Đ]

it sucks....the level design is garbage and unbalanced...you're suppose to work your way up the difficulty ladder, not break it apart. It's the dumbest level design I have seen for an official episode. TNT and Plutonia suck for the same reasons. Same goes for Sigil 1 and 2. I would rather play better community-made maps.

[V I D A L]

That was a last minute, poorly designed episode that came out for Doom 1 after Doom 2 was even out. It's infamous for having maps done by Romero in only a few hours without any planning or testing.

Years later he even made a video playing those maps himself and admitting how abysmal the designs are.

It's hot hard on purpose.. it's just not properly designed.

[Cadaver747]

Oh how I was disappointed with The Ultimate Doom 4th episode. I thought for some reason that id Software would update the Doom 1 engine to Doom 2 engine and that the 4th episode would have the new enemies and a super shotgun, and larger levels akin to Doom 2, plus the new music tracks, and maybe a new special big boss at the end. And guess what, the only new thing I got was a pretty nice skybox texture.

The levels were not fun for me, 2 levels were extremely hard, level design was nothing special. I still have no idea what was the point of one secret in the first level to contain 5 barons of hell and nothing else than a NIN logo on the floor, it's not cool to kill those with so little ammo around. Yet some levels were super easy, and the last level was even more so, it started out good but in the end you could grab the invincibility and kill the boss, just like that. Not a fan of such approach.

At least they provided a free update for every existing Doom owners (and pirates).

[AWMonopolyMan]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

That was a last minute, poorly designed episode that came out for Doom 1 after Doom 2 was even out. It's infamous for having maps done by Romero in only a few hours without any planning or testing.

Years later he even made a video playing those maps himself and admitting how abysmal the designs are.

It's hot hard on purpose.. it's just not properly designed.

It is also legit weird as one map was done by someone not even on the team (E4M7’s map being done by John Anderson aka Dr. Sleep, may he rest in peace).