I only lower the difficulty if I'm absolutely convinced that the level in question is impossible to beat without lowering the difficulty (as can happen in several RPGs.)
Do you ever lower the difficulty?
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I tend to play on the most moderate difficulty there is, or easier. I've always had a bit of a god complex and generally like to dominate a game, but I lack the attention span to improve much to cope with difficulty. I'm less picky if I'm on multiplayer, thankfully. ^_^;
I used to start at easy but now I start every game at normal, just decided it was time to man up.
Though with Dragon Age I actually upped the difficulty to hard, I hate saying this it makes me sound like a tool, but I just got too good at the tactical combat. Things were actually lacking challenge, so I upped the difficulty.
I never lower difficulty, though. I refuse to let games beat me. I will not bow to you games, YOU WILL BOW TO ME!!!
Though with Dragon Age I actually upped the difficulty to hard, I hate saying this it makes me sound like a tool, but I just got too good at the tactical combat. Things were actually lacking challenge, so I upped the difficulty.
I never lower difficulty, though. I refuse to let games beat me. I will not bow to you games, YOU WILL BOW TO ME!!!
I usually start games on Hard. I don't go below that often.
But I went to - commence humiliation - easy in Dragon Age when I went up against Gaxkang. All I could think when I finally beat him (after many deaths. Yes, even one on easy) is Why can't I have this guy on my team?
But I went to - commence humiliation - easy in Dragon Age when I went up against Gaxkang. All I could think when I finally beat him (after many deaths. Yes, even one on easy) is Why can't I have this guy on my team?
I almost always play through games on their easiest level first. If I like the game enough I'll go through it on the harder levels when I play it again.
Never I play it on the hardest difficulty, stop playing for months for no reason, come back and finish the game.
This has not gone well for Ninja Gaiden 2
This has not gone well for Ninja Gaiden 2
No I would feel like too much of a ***** if I lowered it.
Although I did start Reach on legendary and had to force myself to bring it down to heroic about 3 missions in.
Although I did start Reach on legendary and had to force myself to bring it down to heroic about 3 missions in.
I played Mage, but once I got my PC to be an Arcane Warrior, he became an unstoppable tank. Actually I think I had two soldier NPCs at the first Ogre, so it wasn't too bad.daftalchemist said:
Usually I get multiple play-throughs of most of games, so I start on normal or hard difficulty and usually when I go through it again, I start uping the difficult level if battles start getting too easily. Some games do better at this by including multiple difficult settings (I'm looking at you Final Fantasy). Other games I usually play through on the normal difficulty level. Mostly because I don't tend to get as frustrated as some people do ? my brother ? and it usually takes me only a couple of tries to get through the more difficult parts. But usually the games don't come with any lower difficulty settings other than normal.
I am so unbelievably stubborn that once I play on a certain difficulty in a game, I refuse to ever drop below that.
Normaly I crack straight on the Normal or Middle Difficulty, Sometimes if the games especialy bad and i'm playing it ever for the story, to shut a friend up, or from a design point of view, I'll sneakly turn it down...
I'm starting to wish demon's souls had the option though...even though saying that would defeat the point of the game.
the rare exception to this rule was the moment of utter frustration when I had to complete devil may cry 4 on normal mode after finishing dante must die mode on the much harder third...
but then I suppose capcom games you want to make the space between the terrible story last...
I'm starting to wish demon's souls had the option though...even though saying that would defeat the point of the game.
the rare exception to this rule was the moment of utter frustration when I had to complete devil may cry 4 on normal mode after finishing dante must die mode on the much harder third...
but then I suppose capcom games you want to make the space between the terrible story last...
I start on normal for the most part. Some games I'll throw it up to hard on the first play through like I did for the Halo and Modern Warfare games
I usually start out on Normal, in any game I play. If I find it really difficult, in which case a "normal" actually means "grab your intestines and pull them out FROM YOUR EYES JESUS CHRIST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HELP" hard, then I'll turn down the difficulty.
I used to ALWAYS play in Easy mode, I loved it, but I felt unrewarded and, frankly, kind of a wimp for doing so. So I beefed it up and haven't looked back. Besides, I've finally hit a point that I can handle dying a few times without wanting to drop kick my PS3 out of the window.
By the way OP: Haha knitting.
Kidding, in all aspects, just wanted to say that since you immediately brought out "Shut up" after admitting it. Actually my grandmother used to knit and I got some awesome stuff out of it, so kudos on you for admitting it so openly and good luck on all future knitting projects.
Edit: Actually when playing a flight simulator game like Ace Combat or HAWX, I always go with the HARDEST mode and most realistic flight settings. I find it way more enjoyable to be challenged in those games than in any other game where I hit normal and move up from there.
I used to ALWAYS play in Easy mode, I loved it, but I felt unrewarded and, frankly, kind of a wimp for doing so. So I beefed it up and haven't looked back. Besides, I've finally hit a point that I can handle dying a few times without wanting to drop kick my PS3 out of the window.
By the way OP: Haha knitting.
Kidding, in all aspects, just wanted to say that since you immediately brought out "Shut up" after admitting it. Actually my grandmother used to knit and I got some awesome stuff out of it, so kudos on you for admitting it so openly and good luck on all future knitting projects.
Edit: Actually when playing a flight simulator game like Ace Combat or HAWX, I always go with the HARDEST mode and most realistic flight settings. I find it way more enjoyable to be challenged in those games than in any other game where I hit normal and move up from there.
I'm always on normal difficulty, 'cause I feel that's probably what the game developers had in mind when they made the game.
I start on normal and after I beat the game, move up to the max. If I rent the game I start on max ( for the achievement of course) and beat it. Unless the game is CoD:WaW that was too hard. I mean c'mon who has that many grenades AND sees through smoke.
My theory (or something like that) is that the difficulty bar is like the fun factor. If you're really pro at a certain game for example and you have the difficulty on easy then it would be no challenge for you. Therefore, no fun. If you're not really that great, more on the nooby side and you have the difficulty on expert than the enemies you have to defeat will be too hard. You lose flow. You get frustrated. Therefore, no fun PLUS frustration. If you get the sweet spot, just the right difficulty than the enemies will be set great and you will get more immersion and fun.