Poll: Difficulties in gaming (Which one suits you?)
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Hardest possible. I think its nice. But sometimes the games really really will not let you pass on the hardest setting. Then I give the lower level a go. But I usually play FPS so the hardest settings seems to be very easy these days. Not so difficult after all. But I am waiting a RTS to come out so I can play. The new Starcraft. Lets see if the hardest in that is hard to beat.
I usually go with normal on my first playthrough, because 1, I'm not entirely sure what my 'skill level' is when compared to the majority of gamers, and 2, it's just kind of interesting to see what the developers consider to be "normal" difficulty. Then in my second playthrough I'll go for the hardest difficulty there is. Unless I know the hardest is going to be ridiculous, like extreme mode in MGS or something like that, then maybe I'll just go for hard mode, or maybe just not do a second playthrough.
Unless it's part of a series that I'm already accustomed to and understand the difficulty levels for. Then I'll probably do my first playthrough on a harder difficulty, or whatever difficulty I've found is good and balanced for that series.
Unless it's part of a series that I'm already accustomed to and understand the difficulty levels for. Then I'll probably do my first playthrough on a harder difficulty, or whatever difficulty I've found is good and balanced for that series.
I usually stick to one setting of difficulty in games that have "difficulty settings".
Most of the time switching from Normal to Hard or Insane or what have you just means that the enemies have more health and deal more damage and it takes more damage to kill them. The game isn't actually harder, its just more tedious.
Like Mass Effect for example...I've had multiple playthroughs but I only play on Easy or Normal. Why? Because increasing the difficulty doesn't improve gameplay or make it more challenging, it just takes longer to play and the game already takes forever to play.
I like the Resident Evil 4 approach where at least you find less healing items and ammo and there is a clear difficulty increase that isn't just proportionate health increases.
Beating a game on "Insane" rarely makes me feel like I've accomplished anything unless the AI actually change the way they react to you or the game itself has more difficult puzzles or something on that setting.
Most of the time switching from Normal to Hard or Insane or what have you just means that the enemies have more health and deal more damage and it takes more damage to kill them. The game isn't actually harder, its just more tedious.
Like Mass Effect for example...I've had multiple playthroughs but I only play on Easy or Normal. Why? Because increasing the difficulty doesn't improve gameplay or make it more challenging, it just takes longer to play and the game already takes forever to play.
I like the Resident Evil 4 approach where at least you find less healing items and ammo and there is a clear difficulty increase that isn't just proportionate health increases.
Beating a game on "Insane" rarely makes me feel like I've accomplished anything unless the AI actually change the way they react to you or the game itself has more difficult puzzles or something on that setting.
Easy, pretty much exclusively. I've mentioned this on previous iterations of this thread, but I don't particularly care about too much challenge. I want to enjoy myself, and I don't have the time to commit to playing a long-ass time to enjoy a good challenge.
(Not that there's anything wrong with challenge.)
(Not that there's anything wrong with challenge.)
MOst games I start on normal and play through roughly the first "level" as I deem it. RPG's I play for about 20 mins and restart if it seems too easy. If its Bethesda game, its an automatic "hard" though I have noticed. Their stuff is just way too easy.
It depends entirely on what i'm playing. Most games i start on normal, but if it's a sequal to a game i played before or something then i'll most likely play on hard or whatever they chose to call what's after that. Guitar Hero i play only on Expert, so... It varies a lot.
To quote a good friend of mine when we started playing MW2 special ops: "As far as i am aware there is only one difficulty" Everything goes on hard. The only thing that doesn't is forza because i just aint that good to play it at that level. working onit though 
To start with, I play on the middle or one-slightly-up-from-the-middle one. After that I normally play on easy for a while for loads of fun, then bump up to hardest if I like the game enough.