If you play a low difficulty, do you ever feel ashamed?
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I enjoy challenge; I don't enjoy frustration. Banging my head against the same segment for four straight hours is not fun. I experienced this recently with Catherine; it was a little disheartening, but for the sake of my blood pressure, I restarted on Easy.
On my first playthrough of a game, I'll usually start on Normal. If it's too hard, I'll kick it down a bit. If I beat it without much difficulty, and I feel like playing again, I'll take it up a notch.
As much as I enjoy fighting games, though, I'm just not very good at them. I mean, even on Very Easy, I have difficulty beating Street Fighter IV. But, then again, fighting games pretty much always have killer final bosses; on Very Easy, SF4 doesn't pose much challenge until that point. But on Easy, I start getting my ass kicked around the 5th match.
But in games that are a bit less frenetic, or at least have more of a flow, I can take it up to the harder difficulties with a bit of practice. Bioshock allows for careful planning, which lets me think through situations rather than just react. Racing games, once you know the course, it's just a matter of small adjustments. And music/rhythm games, I just get into the zone, and the performance flows out of me.
On my first playthrough of a game, I'll usually start on Normal. If it's too hard, I'll kick it down a bit. If I beat it without much difficulty, and I feel like playing again, I'll take it up a notch.
As much as I enjoy fighting games, though, I'm just not very good at them. I mean, even on Very Easy, I have difficulty beating Street Fighter IV. But, then again, fighting games pretty much always have killer final bosses; on Very Easy, SF4 doesn't pose much challenge until that point. But on Easy, I start getting my ass kicked around the 5th match.
But in games that are a bit less frenetic, or at least have more of a flow, I can take it up to the harder difficulties with a bit of practice. Bioshock allows for careful planning, which lets me think through situations rather than just react. Racing games, once you know the course, it's just a matter of small adjustments. And music/rhythm games, I just get into the zone, and the performance flows out of me.
Depends on my mood. If I want a challenge, I'll crank the difficulty up If I want to go a'slaughterin', I'll put it on easy.
If I don't know the game, I'l put it on normal/hard for the first playthrough, then easy for the next one, to get any achievement I missed.
If I don't know the game, I'l put it on normal/hard for the first playthrough, then easy for the next one, to get any achievement I missed.
i usually play on the normal setting first and do more play through on harder difficulties if i consider it worthy, but i tried to play gears of war on its "normal" setting and my allies dropped like flies.
I usually play on normal unless it's an Atlas game, in which case I choose the easiest setting I can find. Catherine was ridiculous even on easy. So many deaths...
I feel like Normal has become the new Easy.
I tend to choose the hardest option available to me as I really feel like that is the way the game was meant to be played. In many games, it is only in the harder difficulties that your decisions actually matter. Playing through on easy means you can literally just run through the levels and knowing that that is an option would kill all enjoyment for me.
I am not adverse to playing through on a lower difficulty if the game has proven to be amazingly hard on the difficulty I have chosen; but it is 95% of the time not the case. Most games are easy ON super hard mode.
I tend to choose the hardest option available to me as I really feel like that is the way the game was meant to be played. In many games, it is only in the harder difficulties that your decisions actually matter. Playing through on easy means you can literally just run through the levels and knowing that that is an option would kill all enjoyment for me.
I am not adverse to playing through on a lower difficulty if the game has proven to be amazingly hard on the difficulty I have chosen; but it is 95% of the time not the case. Most games are easy ON super hard mode.
The only game I ever lowered difficulty to the minimum was Dragon Age 2, basically during whatever boss fight because going higher on "challenge ladder" just gave them more HP + they hit harder which meant moving your party every fu... second to different position while desperately trying to do some dmg. Yeah I eventually nailed them on 2nd play-through (which I never finished completely because its just boring) having my party somewhat well suited for the task but hell annoying your player to oblivion ain't the same as providing challenge >_< I didn't feel ashamed (tried for a way too long to finish it on the 2nd hardest, then immediately switched to "Sheesh let's get this over with mode").
It depends on my loyalty to the game.If i couldn't care less about the game difficulty doesn't matter to me but i feel an almost duty like sense to some games to try out the harder settings.
It really depends on the game. Games like Devil May Cry I can live with without completing Dante Must Die, but other games like Infamous or Catherine where there's achievements or rewards to be had, then that provides some incentive to complete the harder difficulties. (As long as it's fair difficulty.)
Sometimes yes. If I've had to repeatedly drop the difficulty down, I tend to feel ashamed that I'm not good enough to beat the game. I was playing some RTS and I just couldn't beat this level. I dropped the difficulty down. Got massacred again. Tried again. Couldn't do it. Dropped the difficulty again. Scraped through the level by the skin of my teeth. Felt like a moron when I watched a guy complete it on Youtube on a harder difficulty than the one I was originally playing, and beat it in half the time it took me on the original setting.
Ninja Gaiden was the only game I ever wanted to play on Easy, but it mocked me for the switch and so I put it away never to play it again. Yeah, I could of beaten it on normal, but at some point, the challenge stopped being fun and just got on my nerves. I did enjoy the boss fights but I got very annoyed with the cheap shots the regular bad guys give.
To openly mock a player, their customer, was the last straw. It may appeal to a more hardcore gamer, but getting dissed for wanting to finish a game while avoiding a stressed induce stroke is not a good way to treat a customer.
To openly mock a player, their customer, was the last straw. It may appeal to a more hardcore gamer, but getting dissed for wanting to finish a game while avoiding a stressed induce stroke is not a good way to treat a customer.
i leave it on easy, depending on what easy does, if like in fallout it just pumps up the amount of bullets that need to enter an enemy and makes me less durable, then i leave it on easy, if its like fear where they make enemies dumber than rocks, normal or hard, if its like the original doom, where they make it so that there are more enemies to slaughter then its Ultra Violence for me.
I never play easy.
Normal is the lowest i'll ever go, besides normal difficulty is the difficulty the game is meant to be played.
Normal is the lowest i'll ever go, besides normal difficulty is the difficulty the game is meant to be played.
I must play at the highest difficulty setting and struggle through it, no matter how bad I am. I did it with Halo: Reach, Legendary-all-alone, and felt an amazing sense of achievement from it!
If a section of a game is really kicking my ass then I'm not ashamed to turn the difficulty down to get through it. Then afterwards I'll turn it back to normal or whatever level I was playing at.
I like at least a bit of a challenge with my games, so that's there's at least some sense of accomplishment when I win.
Then again sometimes It's fun to turn the difficulty down to the lowest level and mow down enemies with such ease you feel like a god. Mostly depends on what I feel like doing.
I like at least a bit of a challenge with my games, so that's there's at least some sense of accomplishment when I win.
Then again sometimes It's fun to turn the difficulty down to the lowest level and mow down enemies with such ease you feel like a god. Mostly depends on what I feel like doing.
Nope, never ashamed about playing something on Easy. I'm mainly there for the story anyway, not to get my ass kicked by mercenaries, monsters or mechanoids. If there's a special feature such as some extended ending on a higher difficulty, then maybe, but I don't care if the game doesn't make me care.