Poll: Difficulty Selection Screens

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

I choose the easiest setting then i go to the hardest mode on the next play through. In New Vegas i stay on easy though cause all it does is make enemies take extra bullets. If it gave them better equipment A.I and more frequent and larger spawns then i would.

 

[Gralian]

I play games on the hardest difficulty available. This is primarily because i am an achievement hunter, and a considerable amount of achievements are difficulty based. Since i generally have to play on the hardest setting anyway to unlock those achievements, it's become habit to just select the hardest difficulty from the get-go whether or not the game in question has difficulty specific achievements. I do, however, enjoy a challenge and i select the hardest difficulty not just out of habit - but out of a personal desire to experience the greatest challenge that the AI can give me. My love of a good challenge is also why i play Demon's Souls to this day and keep it online so black phantoms can invade. Contrary to most 'gamerscore whores', i don't play easy games for easy points. My 89k comes from (for the most part) tough, challenging games. I like to think of my gamerscore as a testament to my dedication for "perfecting hardcore titles" (though i certainly don't think any less of people who choose to play on easier settings out of choice or people who farm gamerscore on easy games)

 

[NinjaOnXTC]

What's the point of playing a difficulty orientated game without difficulty, if I wanted to learn how to play chess I'd rather have a day with Bobby Fischer playing and discussing chess than I would with, umm, a mentally retarded person playing and discussing chess, the harder the competition, the bigger the satisfaction. I don't care if it feels like I'm versing a bunch of aimbotters or a twelve armed asian, it would give me more satisfaction than feeling like I was stomping on retarded children... Seriously, I get my moneys worth from the sheer kick of 'epic win', not of expected results.

 

[SaltyOrange]

Normal (medium) the first time and if I want to play it again I play it a difficulty higher.