Games you admit playing on easy.

[mexicola]

Every new game I try I start off on normal, but when I want to try some old school RPGs I hear about I usually do it on easy since I'm doing it for the story and/or setting people keep droning on about not because I'm looking for a challenging turn based combat. Saves time and I don't have to abuse save system until I get the hang of the mechanics.

 

[Pointer]

The original Dragon Age, Starcraft, F.E.A.R. the first playthrough, and Rainbow Six Vegas 1&2. I also lowered the difficulty of Bioshock 2 because I felt I wasn't actually a Big Daddy when my shotgun did not kill people from two feet away.

 

[Puggeh]

I played through Witcher 2 on normal and felt proud of that (I cried and cut myself along the way, but shush).
I played through Fallout 3/Oblivion/Morrowind on Reg difficulty the first time, and started pushing it up later into the game/other playthroughs.
Never liked playing a badass character, I like running away yelling, "OH SHIT, OH SHIT, OH SHI--!" and genuinely struggling to survive...guess I'm just a closet masochist.

 

[Sordak]

Wizardry 8 and Armies of Exigo, those games are mean!

 

[Incomer]

Dragon Age 2, I started out on normal but the combat was so boring and repetative that I had to switch to easy for it to end faster.

I feel you brother. Though I was more resilient and tried to finish the game on hard at first - fools hope with warrior class and no clear idea what is ahead of me. You can clear all of the trash with any group composition but bosses are nearly impossible unless you have a few hours just so you are able to dodge every single one of their attacks - which is annoying boring and middle-finger-deserving pile of crap.

 

[EclipseoftheDarkSun]

Never had to play on easy yet, I prefer to play on normal. It's an ego thing. Playing on hard doesn't appeal to me however as typically it means you have to grind along taking 10x as long to kill things or save every few seconds and that's wasting too much of my time.

Oh wait, I did effectively play Oblivion on easy for a while before getting jack of it. For the reason that every opponent was a grind, there was no 'go up a few levels and then those previous enemies are your ***** now'.

Oblivion turned out to be too much 'by the numbers' boring and a grindfest for me to continue.

Addendum: If it's too difficult, sometimes I just give up entirely rather than set it to easy. I also gave up effectively on Demons Souls as it was again just too much of a grindfest before you have to reload from the very beginning of a section. Something I was glad that games had generally moved away from.

 

[Grimh]

I alway play on hard or normal, played on easy alot when I was younger though.

 

[Vibhor]

Farcry 1. I swear the enemies had psychic abilities. Also because the indoor levels were boring.

 

[Varanfan9]

I play almost everything on easy. I have the most fun in a game when I am effortlessly blowing away enemies not having trouble killing some of the weakest ones.

 

[gbemery]

Every game I've ever played usually because I like to play the first time for the story and combat or skill level can be damned at first.

 

[Captain Pancake]

A whole bunch of games. I'll always start on normal and change it accordingly, but Bioshock is one game that I admit to playing on easy because that's the only difficulty that I had any fun on. Even normal was too hard, and when a games that hard it's not fun. Challenge is all well and good but if you can't get past one level or spend two hours trying to conquer it, it's time to bite the bullet and tone it down a little.

 

[emion]

eh... every game O.- I start playing it on easy and if I like the game I just play it on a harder difficulty later. to be honest thats kinda a part of a games replayability right XP

 

[Warlord211]

I always do easy on the first play through but if I like the story or something I will play it again at the highest difficulty.

 

[OrenjiJusu]

Pretty much everything for 2 reasons.
1) I don't really play for frustration, and dieing every time i attempt a level because i die in 2 hits, annoys the hell outa me.
2) i am terrible at videogames.

 

[thejackyl]

recently? None.

Back in when I was playing on my N64 and Gamecube, I would play on easy. and pretty much any game with a difficulty setting before that.

I play most games on either normal, the default difficulty, or "+1" if easy, normal, or hard aren't named like that. "+1" being one difficulty higher than the default difficulty.

Also, if a game seems too easy I will up the difficulty if it will allow it.

 

[Kraj]

None. Ever.
I've always set the first run to the hardest difficulty available.

The only game that I had to turn it down, "rather than work through the frustration improving myself" was Baldurs Gate 1. "Because hell, when a level 1 character with 9 strength can critical hit for more health than level 1 fighter with 18con, you just DON'T play with Quicksave on shutter-step."

 

[mysecondlife]

I remember playing this on my uncle's computer.

sigh.. the good days..

Oh my god my childhood favourite game!!

yeah its a great game. when I found the secret parrot in the beginning of the level, it was the first sense of superiority I had on my uncle.

 

[Skoldpadda]

I very seldom do this, I tend to play on normal, and then on really brilliant games I up the ante on subsequent playthroughs.

One exception was Dragon Age: Origins, which was just too fucking annoying otherwise due to its own bad design. I just wanted to see what happened next (not much) and the very first hordes of orcs (or darkspawn or whatever) were an insurmountable obstacle because the interface was so awful (I played it on Xbox).

Otherwise, when a game is hard on normal, it's probably supposed to be, and it doesn't feel right to lower the difficulty. I wouldn't feel any satisfaction in beating it.

In some cases, lower difficulty even breaks immersion. In the third Monkey Island game, there was an "easy" option. Actually, the harder version was the real one, since they just cut down on puzzles for the easy one, creating clear plot holes. For example, there's a hotel in which there's a haunted room. The hotel owner clearly states that because of the weirdness within, he's closed off the room for everyone. Cue a puzzle for breaking in. But in the easy version, the door's wide open.

No, easy is always a very last resort, and in all honesty, Dragon Age didn't deserve me making an exception. It was very mediocre, it wasn't worth it.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Dead Space and DA:O, that's it.

Filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler, that'll do.