If you play a low difficulty, do you ever feel ashamed?
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I always start on the lower difficulties, then jump to possibly the highest to get achievements then will go mid to easy for later runs because it feels more fun to me when I'm more powerful than the enemy. I don't like being repeatedly slaughtered by a game. It may be challenging but after about 7 deaths I just want it to be over and will adjust difficulty accordingly once I've beaten it.
I do. But it's a good shame.
If you had sex with a (or guy
)girl who's a total slut or totally off her head, you'd still damn well enjoy it. You just can't help but feel, it was just too easy...
If you had sex with a (or guy
)girl who's a total slut or totally off her head, you'd still damn well enjoy it. You just can't help but feel, it was just too easy...
I feel kinda bad about playing on easier difficulties when I've been playing the game for years, but for the most part I'm not necessarily very good at some types of video games and I need to play on an easier difficulty if I ever want to get anywhere. On the downside, that does mean I never really get any better.
It depends on many factors for me. Do I own this game or is it a lender? What genre is the game? Have I liked it thus far? Some games I just wanna soak up and move on, like the Dead Space games, or as it shames me to say it, Dragon Age 2. Other games I like the challenge and amp it up, like the Halo games or Dragon Age: Origins.
I don't really feel bad about it, but I do get criticism but blow it off. I don't owe it to anybody to make my fun time into frustration time by unnecessarily challenging myself.
I don't really feel bad about it, but I do get criticism but blow it off. I don't owe it to anybody to make my fun time into frustration time by unnecessarily challenging myself.
I tend to play the middle difficulty since easy tends to make the game to simple so that any strategy goes out the window and hard mode tends to bend me over backwards.
I play on easy all the time, though in the rare ocassion I play a game twice Ill play on a higher difficulty
also if you truely want a challenge beyound what your run of the mill games offer play Fire Emplem path of Radience on Hard..............I DARE YOU
also if you truely want a challenge beyound what your run of the mill games offer play Fire Emplem path of Radience on Hard..............I DARE YOU
i usually play a level or two on normal and then start adjusting, or restart in case the game doesn't allow on the fly adjusting, i never play on easy because it takes the reward out of mastering a challenge if a game too easy and even if i play a game on hard later it's not as hard as the first time through because i already know what to do.
Nope. There's a difference between hard and frustrating. Harder difficulties in games are often the latter. Games need to have better balanced difficulties.
Take Prototype for example. Green is the worst boss I've ever met. Not because she was hard to kill or anything(I never came close to dying on Medium), but because she could take a shit ton of damage and you were constantly juggled around like a god damn ragdoll. She took me AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR to beat.
And Dragon Age Origins; the game often one-shots you even if you're playing on the easiest difficulty. Balls to that; I don't even care about using strategy at that point.
Take Prototype for example. Green is the worst boss I've ever met. Not because she was hard to kill or anything(I never came close to dying on Medium), but because she could take a shit ton of damage and you were constantly juggled around like a god damn ragdoll. She took me AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR to beat.
And Dragon Age Origins; the game often one-shots you even if you're playing on the easiest difficulty. Balls to that; I don't even care about using strategy at that point.
I feel ashamed for the devs, since I rarely switch to an easier difficulty out of, well, difficulty, but rather out of frustration. Usually it means I find a game poorly designed but will play through it on an easy level (where the bad design doesn't hamper me so much) out of morbid curiosity.
I will only switch to an easier difficulty(if possible in the game) if I'm having an inordinately hard time with a section/boss. Otherwise, play on Normal first then if I feel like a replay it gets the boost. Actually, I like InFamous' implementation of difficulty in that it would suggest which one for you to use after you complete the tutorial based on your performance. I surprisingly got a "Hard" recommendation the first time through.
Hell no, I always play the easiest setting. It's just what I'm used to doing, I guess. And I prefer the feeling of breezing through the game annihilating everything in my way to a challenge. I know, I'm weird.
Although when I play those games where it automatically sets the difficulty to normal and the difficulty option is hidden away in the options menu without telling you and I play on normal for most of the game without realising it's there I usually leave it as it is. Unless I'm stuck.
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Although when I play those games where it automatically sets the difficulty to normal and the difficulty option is hidden away in the options menu without telling you and I play on normal for most of the game without realising it's there I usually leave it as it is. Unless I'm stuck.
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Oh, I'm not the only one? HIGH-FIVE!Gyrohelix said:
