Why Play On Hard?

[Plurralbles]

i play hard when Easy makes the game boring and dull.

When i just want to beat it and it's still fun, I'll play on normal or easy but sometimes a game needs to be hard or I wont' finish it from the boredom it sometimes causes.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I play on Hard when Medium gets too easy.

 

[Korten12]

frustration is fun

No.
[HEADING=3]No.[/HEADING]
[HEADING=2]No.[/HEADING]

Frustration if anything, is the opposite of fun. If I'm playing & get frustrated, that's when I know it's time to stop playing.

Yeah, I've played a game once on Hard. It was Prototype, & it was smooth sailing until the morgue level. Hard modes tend to just piss me off.

oh then you would have fun with Demon's Souls. /sarcasm. xD

 

[The Heik]

While playing Mass Effect 2 on insanity and dying (AGAIN) I realized I wasn't even enjoying it anymore. And I thought why the hell am I playing something I don't enjoy.

So Escapist why do you play on hard (If you do)? Are achievement points really worth a broken controller.

well if I start off on an easy setting (almost never happens) it's to get the feel of an entirely new control layout. I then upgun to hard to give the gameplay a new twist and keep the re-playability alive.

And to stroke my ego when I win.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

Why do I play bass instead of guitar?

because doing hard stuff is fun.

real men seek a challenge.

THIS!

 

[L-J-F]

I always play on medium difficulty: easy is just stupid and not really worth playing and all hard does is make you die quicker, so there's no point.

 

[PhiMed]

Sometimes it's for the achievements, others it is for the challenge. I beat God of War 3 on Spartan, God, and Titan, and I am seriously thinking of playing it again on Chaos even though there is no real benefit. More just to see if I can do it..

I'm not one to tell you what to do, but I'd recommend against it. It took me less than 8 hours and fewer than 10 deaths to beat Titan mode, but Chaos mode has defeated me. I got to the last fight before you get out of the labyrinth (the neverending stream of sirens, reapers, and minotaurs with shield soldiers thrown in), and I just don't have the will anymore.

 

[KingKamor]

Beating the crap out of someone in a game is cool, but if they're so hard that you can't beat them then everything's just, "Why do I play this if I'm just going to die every time?" I usually go for the plain old Hard mode as opposed to Extreme Ultra Chaotic Masochism Mode.

For me, it's when you're neck and neck with someone until the final moment that really gives me a charge. I crank things up a notch in games like Blazblue or Soul Calibur when I get to a certain skill level so that I can maintain that "not exactly hard but still challenging" kind of setup.

 

[MGlBlaze]

I play on hard to challange myself.

Bragging rights too. If you're into that sort of melarky

Pretty much this. I like a good challenge, though I'll sometimes knock the difficulty down if I just feel like having fun if I know the higher difficulty settings in some games are a little unreasonable for just having fun. 'Crushing' on Uncharted 2 is a very appropriately named difficulty setting.

I'm not sure why I do it sometimes though, as some games have me dying over and over to the extent where I want to throw the controller into the nearest wall on those difficulty settings.

 

[ezeroast]

It isn't for achievement points.

Hard is fun! Not so hard you can't play it, but hard enough you have to think fast is great.

Game devs don't seem to realise nowadays that frustration is fun.[footnote]Before anyone else angrily quotes me, what I mean by good frustration in games is 'Seemingly insurmountable challenge that provides great frustration UNTIL you beat it'[/footnote] I spent the last hour having my ass kicked by the bots in Perfect Dark because they're JUST TOO FUCKING FAST and I had the time of my life.

I find hard way more fun than normal, and easy isn't fun at all. Extreme (assuming that game has it) is too much though.

Turns out my brother has found a copy of perfect dark and a 64 in the basemen of his house, never played it i'll have to go steal it from him.

OT: I'll usually play on the hardest difficulty first, if it ends up just being too insanely hard I'll drop down a lvl. It just feels like a waste of money to finish a game too quickly and easily. And turning up the difficulty after you've finished it just inst the same

 

[Snarky Username]

When I die so many times it's just not fun, I set it down to regular. I try setting it to a difficulty between breaking my keyboard and just blasting through every level like it was styrofoam

 

[Zap Happy]

I only play hard on mission style games like CoD and Halo. It's just fun to go back to specific missions and challenge myself. In story based games, however, I like to take it easy. Playing the same thing over and over just puts me in a bad mood.

 

[Generator]

I usually don't because when I do, I almost always end up extremely frustrated. However, if a game is super easy, I sometimes play it on a harder difficulty for more of a challenge.

 

[mrbones228]

It makes victory all the sweeter, one example of this is COD:world at war. The second last level is nigh impossible, but if you persevere and somehow survive wading though a waist deep lake of live grenades and manage to reach the Reichstag without being shot by the 50,000 snipers hiding in the rubble, you get the greatest scene of achievement and you get to sit there grinning while the next level loads before being sent into the slaughter house once again.

 

[Simriel]

Given I play games for relaxation and fun I tend not to. Normal usually, easy if I just wanna run around giggling and killing things.

 

[Darth Rahu]

It isn't for achievement points.

Hard is fun! Not so hard you can't play it, but hard enough you have to think fast is great.

Game devs don't seem to realise nowadays that frustration is fun.[footnote]Before anyone else angrily quotes me, what I mean by good frustration in games is 'Seemingly insurmountable challenge that provides great frustration UNTIL you beat it'[/footnote] I spent the last hour having my ass kicked by the bots in Perfect Dark because they're JUST TOO FUCKING FAST and I had the time of my life.

I find hard way more fun than normal, and easy isn't fun at all. Extreme (assuming that game has it) is too much though.

Same reason why I played God of War 3 right off the bat on Hard. I tore crap up and came close to throwing my controller at one point, but man when I crushed a boss's face in, I let a spartan battlecry!! It was awesome!

 

[Dr.Helios]

I play on hard very rarely because I find that normal is usually where I'm at with skill level but when I do play on hard that sense of achievement at the end of the game when you feel like you have completed the game in spite of the developers instead of being helped by them is really worth while.