Megawads as easy as doom/2/tnt?

[invictius]

These iwads have one thing in common, I was able to reach at least level 8 on them as a kid without too much trouble (even on consoles) but latest megawads have me trying to figure out where to go, find a hidden switch to progress, slaughterfest etc.  What megawads out there could be effectively released as a commercial product, with similar progression and "easing into" the game play as these iwads?  Even the early megawads had people trying to "out-do" the iwads to be bigger, better, harder - even in the vanilla era.

[bioshockfan90]

How many questions do you ask per day?

[Ponqo]

memento mori 1 and 2

[Master O]

When can we revoke invictus' thread creating permissions? 

Edited February 11, 2018 by Master O

[bonnie]

Perdition's Gate, Hell to Pay. They literally WERE commercial products, with Perdition's Gate in particular almost making it into Final Doom. They're pretty short, moderately easy (probably between doom 1 and plutonia), and Hell to Pay has a bunch of (imo) cool custom assets.

[Grazza]

Icarus, TVR and Extremal spring instantly to mind. All are roughly similar in difficulty level and size/complexity of maps.

 

Others you might consider (with reasons in parenthesis as to why I hesitate to recommend them quite so instantly) are 2002ado (some convoluted routes/secrets), STRAIN (uses dehacked; also harder in places), Marswar (variable quality/size of maps) and h2h-xmas (contains some slaughter maps and revenant hoardes).

 

Edited March 5, 2018 by Grazza

[seed]

MM1 and 2 (2 is more Plutonia-esque in terms of difficulty from my experience so far), Icarus, and maybe Requiem.

 

Nothing else (and not new either) to suggest since I myself only recently started playing various PWADs.

[Walter confetti]

The way ID did series.

Also Demonfear, i recall it to be pretty easy. That's the first that came in my mind