Easy, normal, hard?

[Gladion]

Depends.

Horror - Easy (I prefer the experience to be more scary than frustrating)

Weird especially in horror games, I pick hard, for it makes the enemies harder (doh) thus more of a threat. Most _real_ horror games (not counting in shooters with a lot of gore) let you escape from the monsters anyways, instead of making you fight them. Only good exception (that comes to my mind now): Condemned - but they managed to make the gameplay both fun and suspenseful at the same time. Kudos to Monolith.

In most other games I pick normal, since I'm not that much of a great gamer (I wanted to say nerd but that might offend some of you hee hee ) but don't like to rush through it without having any challenge. I go for the overall experience, which sucks if you get no tension from hard parts.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

I start on normal then work my way up.
Except for Gears where i completed both of them on hardcore first and worked my way up...and failed the second one on insane cause they turned me into swiss cheese.

 

[Lord Kofun]

Depends.

Horror - Easy (I prefer the experience to be more scary than frustrating)

Weird especially in horror games, I pick hard, for it makes the enemies harder (doh) thus more of a threat. Most _real_ horror games (not counting in shooters with a lot of gore) let you escape from the monsters anyways, instead of making you fight them. Only good exception (that comes to my mind now): Condemned - but they managed to make the gameplay both fun and suspenseful at the same time. Kudos to Monolith.

In most other games I pick normal, since I'm not that much of a great gamer (I wanted to say nerd but that might offend some of you hee hee ) but don't like to rush through it without having any challenge. I go for the overall experience, which sucks if you get no tension from hard parts.

I guess I didn't explain what I meant clearly enough. I've never had much of a tolerance for scary things. I mean, the first horror movie I had ever seen was the Village, and that scared me senseless. That was years ago, mind you, but the concept remains. I played FEAR and FEAR2 on Normal, but Dead Space on Easy. Why? FEAR wasn't all that scary, but Dead Space was downright crazy. If I had to worry about my health any more than I did already, I doubt I'd have been able to sleep at night.

 

[Gladion]

I guess I didn't explain what I meant clearly enough. I've never had much of a tolerance for scary things. I mean, the first horror movie I had ever seen was the Village, and that scared me senseless. That was years ago, mind you, but the concept remains. I played FEAR and FEAR2 on Normal, but Dead Space on Easy. Why? FEAR wasn't all that scary, but Dead Space was downright crazy. If I had to worry about my health any more than I did already, I doubt I'd have been able to sleep at night.

Heh, funny, FEAR and Dead Space were exactly the two things that came to my mind when I was saying that shooters with a lot of gore are no horror games. But now I can see where you're going

 

[Vorpals]

I start on Normal and then change to Hard once and if I get a hang of the game.

 

[sneak_copter]

Hard..

*insert perverted joke here*

I just love it turned up to hard...

That the kind of thing you were looking for?

 

[Mockingjay]

Hard. Start of playing games on a hard mode means you won't be so much of a pussy when you go to beat your friends online.

 

[DeadAccountMoveAlong]

It depends on the game. For things like Call of Duty I tend to do Expert (although World at War had so many random, unavoidable deaths by grenades I stopped), but when it is a game like Condemned or FEAR where I'm playing for the scares (and in the latter case not for the mediocre combat), I'll do something easier like medium or easy.

 

[not a zaar]

Normal, and then I'll replay on the higher difficulties if I feel that the game warrants another go (but that's very rare and reserved for games with exceptional gameplay mechanics, like Devil May Cry or God of War.)

 

[Mezrev]

Hard, unless it's a game that I've got absolutely no idea how to play. Then I'll start off with normal.

 

[RapidCrash]

It all depends on what game, but most games I'll do Hard.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

I play normal cause i don't want the difficulty to ruin the fun of the game

 

[Azraellod]

usually easy, because unless its pure strategy i die horribly otherwise.

 

[A random person]

Hard, It makes games longer

[Insert perverted joke here]

I play on normal myself.

 

[MusicalFreedom]

I only ever play games that have an Ultra Violence difficulty. Admittedly, this has limited my game choice somewhat.

 

[bulbasaur]

i play whatever the lowest difficulty needed to unlock the hardest difficulty is, then i do the hardest. first play through for fun to familiarize my self, then second is the serious one.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I start out on easy, then normal, and then hard.

 

[zauxz]

Easy or normal. Usually normal, but if i find the game to be too difficult i switch to easy.

Im not one of those maniacs who feel orgasms for beating a game on its hardest difficullity.

 

[LordSnakeEyes]

-Normal: Too much pride for Easy and not Masochistic enough to take Hard in case the game is Devil May Cry 3
-Hard: After Normal because it's natural proggression (exept in some games where I play normal and it's so easy I switch to the insane difficulty to get satisfaction).

 

[Photon_Man62]

Easy to get used to the game, then I start a new game with (or switch to) Normal. I don't like Hard in any game.