Poll: would you lower the difficulty?

[J-meMalone]

Very, VERY rarely. I try my hardest not to, in fact I can only think of one time I've done so, and that was Devil May Cry 3. I later found out that easy mode was normal mode in Japan, so... I'm not sure how much that counts.

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[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I play my games on easy anyways, if I lowered it, I may destroy the universe.

roughly this, i don't enjoy getting pissed off at games and i don't enjoy wasting time taking off a buffed enemy (most times they either add more enemies or just buff the ones there, the only difficulty they are adding is cheaper hits and more HP, which in turn takes more time) so i tend to play it on easy or normal, which ever one doesn't cause me to die multiple times in fights. I tend to play games for the enjoyment of playing them, not for beating some challenge or goal i made in my head (which is fine, i've done that before, not down talking anyone who does that.)

anyone can have whatever difficulty they want to imo, as long as it doesn't hinder me playing the game in my own enjoyable way (which thanks to command consoles in rpg's, i tend to get that one way or another)

 

[Eamar]

Yeah, I've done that a few times, including in Dragon Age If I'm just not getting how to do something after a few attempts and I'm not in the mood to come back to it later, then I have no problem doing it. Games are something I do in my free time, sometimes I like a challenge, other times not so much. I like that I get to pick and choose

 

[Shuguard]

i got sick of dying on normal mode for the witcher 2. Going from normal to easy is the biggest difficulty gap i've ever seen. I went from dying in 2-3 hits on bosses to not even having my life bar drop. I'm all for difficult game play, but death in a few hits and no in-combat potions to use just sucks the fun out of it.

 

[Storm Dragon]

If I'm repeating a section for the seventh time, then yeah I'll turn the difficulty down, but it's going back up when I get past that part. I recently started a replay of Mass Effect 1 on normal difficulty, but after a few hours I realized how terrible the combat was before the second game. So I kicked the difficulty down to casual simply so that I could spend as little time as possible in each fight. I've already beaten it on higher difficulties anyway, and I'm not really missing out on anything by doing this. I'll do veteran when I get to 2 and 3.

 

[teqrevisited]

Once I set the difficulty at the start I usually follow it all the way. Turning it down isn't an option for me. When I started playing games changing the difficulty really wasn't an option so I suppose it came from there.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I'll go for a walkthrough first in case there is something I'm not doing right. If that still doesn't help I'll lower the difficulty.

 

[DragonStorm247]

Mass Effect 1. Matriarch Benezia.

 

[Tahaneira]

Depends on how much fun I'm having. Some days, I want a challenge. Some days, I just want to play the story, or slice fifteen people in half and feel like a badass. It all depends, but I don't always equate challenge with how much fun I have.

 

[Jynthor]

Playing Shogun 2 at the moment... My thoughts:

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

My thinking is that if it become's too hard, it is no longer fun and therefore nullifies the point of a game so yeah it's ok to do that. But what are your thoughts?

That right there. Well said.

I usually play games where I'm unfamiliar with the gameplay on Easy, and ones where I'm mostly familiar on Medium. Only if I've played a game through multiple times and am very comfortable with the play do I go up to hard.

Or Rock Band. I'm working on mastering Expert on Rock Band with guitar or vocals. Drums I play on easy, because I suck at drums.

 

[DEAD34345]

No, I never do anything like that. In fact, I'd prefer to abandon a game entirely when it's too difficult than lowering the difficulty, or if I like the game too much for that I start again entirely and redo it all on a lower setting. Logically speaking I realise this makes no real sense, but there's no god-damn way I'm admitting defeat to a game like that. No, the shame would be too great. I'd have to commit seppuku or something.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I've only done it properly for SFIV when I started to play it and I move the slider around in TES games on my non serious playthroughs. That is because I am basically immune to physical damage thus when I am fighting melee/ranged I need it on highest. Magic damage however, just does way too much damage to my health even with my shield perk on highest setting so it goes a notch or 2 depending on my supply of potions and what is there.

It is kinda funny going for indestructible to dead in literally 5 secs against a Dwarven Centurion or Mage.

 

[JEBWrench]

I am a gaming masochist. Games are to be played on infuriatingly hard difficulty settings. If you are not pressing the quick save key every 45 seconds, you are not gaming!

Bah! Real gamers don't quicksave. They delete their savefile if they die.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I generally try not to, but I have done it before and I don't feel any particular shame for having done so.

I've only done it once, and quite recently too in Oblivion.
I just want to finally beat this ocean of bland and not have to grind my way through this uninteresting world.

Oblivion has a difficulty setting?? o_0

 

[darkcalling]

I tend to start on normal and drop down if I'm getting my butt kicked. Especially if it's early in the game. Some games I go straight to easy if it's a genre I'm not particularly good at like FPS or Fighting. I like them but I don't pretend to be that good at them. lol

 

[OhSnap]

If it's on normal, then no. I suck it up and figure out what I'm doing wrong. I enjoy the challenge of the game, I'd rather die a few times than breeze through it in a matter of hours. If it' on hard mode and I'm slamming my head against a brick wall... then I'll usually go back to normal and work through it like that.

Last time I did that was when I was recently replaying Devil May Cry 3 and was about to put y controller through the TV screen... Beowulf on Dante Must Die. For some reason, it's *always* that boss I have trouble on.