Poll: What difficulty level do you usually play on?
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I always play on the default difficulty of normal games, unless that's painfully easy (the original Dawn of War, for example, was pathetic on normal because all the enemy troops had their damage and HP nerfed- I turned it up to hard for Winter Assault). I will NEVER turn a game down to easy, if I can't beat it on normal then I guess I'm stuck- this happened with Devil May Cry 3 (the original version, where the Japanese "hard mode" was rebranded as the Western "normal mode") when I got stuck on the Agni and Rudra boss. I will only play a game on hard if it's either a game I enjoyed enough to play more than once (Zone of the Enders is a good example for me) or if it's a game where the challenge comes from repeatedly doing the same thing progressively harder, such as Guitar Hero or Ouendan (I've taken both games up to Expert level).
I go on the hardest diffculty available to me. I've played games too long to be surprised by enemy positions, ambushes or the otherwise massive main characters. Most FPS's are the same to me just with different people so it's "play one play them all" so the only thing to seperate them is their respective difficulty.
I feel retarded and bored if I play a game on anything less than hard because for me the AI is either unable to shoot properly, have so little health that paper would kill them or do so little damage that I could walk past them with a pram and baby.
Racing games are similar. The only way to not win by 50 hyperbolillion miles is to put it on the hardest setting.
RPG's tend to not have any settings. Some do so I put those ones on hard but most don't.
But in essence, multiplayer is harder than the most advanced AI still (otherwise you would not die would you?) so the hardest difficulty is multiplayer due to the fact that no matter how good you are there is always someone better.
I feel retarded and bored if I play a game on anything less than hard because for me the AI is either unable to shoot properly, have so little health that paper would kill them or do so little damage that I could walk past them with a pram and baby.
Racing games are similar. The only way to not win by 50 hyperbolillion miles is to put it on the hardest setting.
RPG's tend to not have any settings. Some do so I put those ones on hard but most don't.
But in essence, multiplayer is harder than the most advanced AI still (otherwise you would not die would you?) so the hardest difficulty is multiplayer due to the fact that no matter how good you are there is always someone better.
I always start with medium. If I feel like playing through it again; I'll play it on hard or easy (easy just so I see the ending again).
I usually start medium just to do the game with a challenge but not too frustratingly difficult and to see what the game has in store for me, then I go hard. (In COD4, there is not much of a difference between regular and hardened, so I usually play hardened)
Ninja Gaiden 2 medium was so hard, I had to play on the easy setting
Ninja Gaiden 2 medium was so hard, I had to play on the easy setting
Well i usually do my first play-through on medium, then my second just for fun on easy and then, if i feel like it, go hard.
I start on the highest available difficulty, simply because I usually don't bother finishing a game more than once (I take no less than two months to complete one and there's always a queue in my playlist). Also, difficulty is mostly something to get used to, I don't like when a game is too easy on me, I want to feel a challenge.
Of course, it has to be a fair challenge, I'm old enough to have played through games wholly based on Fake Difficulty, and really hate them.
Of course, it has to be a fair challenge, I'm old enough to have played through games wholly based on Fake Difficulty, and really hate them.
Hm, I always go for hard. Not that I'm a super legendary gamer or anything, but I like to be challenged. Also if the insane/hardcore/legendary mode is unlockable and the game has somewhat of a replay value, I tend to go for that too. ;3
I normaly start on hard mode, and if I like the game enough work up through the difficltys from there.
Lately I've been playing through mass effect on insane mode, It's tough but I like the challange, even if the amount of times i have died is getting frustrating.
Lately I've been playing through mass effect on insane mode, It's tough but I like the challange, even if the amount of times i have died is getting frustrating.
For the first time, medium, but if the game's good enough, I'll do it again on harder difficulties.
Depends from game to game. Most games i start out on easy just because i feel that anything else would be to hard somehow. The exception is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and l4d. Especially in stalker where i ramp up the difficulty to max, turn off any and all help and if necessary i blindfold myself.
)like mos tpeople do i`d assume
Games should be a challenge, I play normal, if its too easy i play hard. I do enjoy completing games on "insane" however it can be very annoying. i.e. get so far and die at the the end and start all over again!
