Poll: Easy difficulty

[Ulquiorra4sama]

It seems i do things pretty backwards compared to a lot of other people...

I tend to start on easy and earn as many achievements as possible on my first playthrough and then, i play through again on the highest difficulty setting available to earn the last of the achievements.

 

[Normandyfoxtrot]

I usually play on normal cause I wanna play the game it is meant to be played.

Games are actually meant to be played on the Hardest difficulty. After the dev team codes the hardest difficulty mode, THEN they put in more health, stronger weapons, weaker enemies, more allies, etc. to make the easier modes.

Frankly neither one is wholly correct it depends on the dev team themselves yes some designer from the hardest and work down, some start from the middle, and yes, some start from the bottom up and frankly I tend to attribute artificial difficulty to those who start design at the middle or the bottom and increase difficulty by taking the easy way out.

 

[TerranReaper]

Whatever game it is, Mass Effect or old games, I will go for the hardest difficulty. I find easy to be too disengaging from the game and it just doesn't seem like a challenge or the satisfaction of beating something difficult. On a side note, I always chuckled when they lampshaded on your selection of easy mode though, such as Quake's "Can I play now daddy?" names for difficulty or this one JRPG that laughed at you, I've even heard of a game not allowing you to get to the actual ending if you played it on easy.

 

[kampori]

I will always start any game on Normal. If it proves too hard I'll happily bump it down to easy/recruit etc. I have no qualms with that, it's there for a reason anyway.
I rarely play on Hard difficulties, unless the game is really easy, or I'm too good (rarely the reason unfortunately!)
I prefer to play games for the exploration, story and gameplay. I like to cleave through enemies like a hero.

 

[interspark]

when i play a game for the first time i'll usually start out on normal, but as soon as i have the faintest idea as to how the game works i'll crank up the difficulty as high as it goes, unless of course it's the kind of game where the top level is designed to be completed by the superhuman alone, in which case i'll just have it as hard as physically possible

 

[Polyg0n]

No. I play most games on hard difficulty. Except those times when I for some reason pick up an RTS game, then I usually put it on normal.

 

[Light 086]

For me it depends... say for example ME 2. I'll beat the game on the hardest difficulty. However if I want to replay the game and choose a different option (Paragon or Renegade), I'd do this on easy(more likely a medium difficulty) because at this point I'm just playing for the story.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I always play on easy because for some reason the difficulty level tends to apply only to the fighting sequences and I'm more of a negotiator at heart. It's easier to get past the crunchy bone-and-blood exterior into the, hopefully, creamy conflict-resolving interior when it's on easy.

EDIT: Also, I get in a really foul mood when the combat is too hard. I have been told numerous times not to play on Hard difficulty.

 

[Nifarious]

Pretty clearly, if you're into games, you'll want the most out of them, which means playing on the hardest settings. Compare Halo on easy/normal to legendary. That's hours of added gameplay. So easy/casual is really there just to get achievements or ostensibly to just pat yourself on the back for having rushed through something. Games like RPGs, however, are much more about the immersion and experience than the challenge of gameplay. Playing those first on normal than hardest for a second time is more par for the course, I feel.

 

[darkbshadow]

Normally play on Normal difficulty. Only type of games i play on easy are ones i'm pretty sure I'm not going to like. So i just make it easy so it becomes at least some fun to just hack my way through... That or if i get an urge to play a survival horror game... I suck at them so i play on easy difficulty.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I always play on easy because for some reason the difficulty level tends to apply only to the fighting sequences and I'm more of a negotiator at heart. It's easier to get past the crunchy bone-and-blood exterior into the, hopefully, creamy conflict-resolving interior when it's on easy.

EDIT: Also, I get in a really foul mood when the combat is too hard. I have been told numerous times not to play on Hard difficulty.

Hey, you got a friend in me.

'FOR FUCK'S SAKE I WAS FUCKING MELEEING HIM 10 TIMES AND HE TOOK ME OUT IN ONE FUCKING SHOT!'

How many controllers have you broke? 4 for me-PS2, PS3, Xbox, Gamecube.

I haven't broken anything yet, thank god, but the temper runs in my family. My brother has broken at least 2, probably more, both PS3.

 

[rokkolpo]

ALWAYS HARD...

...unless the game is scary....

 

[Zaverexus]

I said it depends. Meaning: I have played/ will play everything on normal mode with the exception of the Megaman Zero games. Megaman is infamous for its difficulty and so, wanting to be able to experience the story line, I played the games on easy.

 

[Silentwindofdoom]

Playing a game on easy is like throwing money down the drain, next to just robbing yourself of a decent game play experience.

Games tend to be about our protagonist going up against a relentless army of [INSERT SPECIES/FACTION HERE]. When you can just read a book and mow down wave after wave of evil stormtroopers with the weakest starter gun there is i don't care how well the dialogue is written, you are fucking up the immersion.

That, and i like a challenge.

 

[MordinSolus]

Playing for first time, choose normal. If achievement gaining, easy. Unless is "beat game on difficulty."

 

[Normandyfoxtrot]

Ultimately there is no right way to play a game we all do it for differing reasons and with different goals in mind, some people like challenge some people couldn't care less, some people like having long tactically involved combats, and well some people tend to find tactically involved to mean cheating AI.