Never below normal. Several games recently have started me out on the hardest difficulty setting, Skyrim and Arkham City, and I did "lower" those once I realized. I like a challenge, and I can handle some frustration, but if I'm constantly reloafding that really breaks the immersion.
Poll: Do you lower the difficulty setting if you find a game too hard? (Somewhat Skyrim related)
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I change the difficulty to reflect a moderate challenge.
In skyrim for example one of my characters plays on master, and the game only kills me when I don't play well.
On another character I play on Adept, and the game only kills me when I don't play well.
If the weaker character would play on master the game wouldn't be fun, since it would be practically impossible.
In skyrim for example one of my characters plays on master, and the game only kills me when I don't play well.
On another character I play on Adept, and the game only kills me when I don't play well.
If the weaker character would play on master the game wouldn't be fun, since it would be practically impossible.
Not usually. Only in a few special cases.
Call of Duty 4 - the mission "Heat". Yeah, fuck that mission. Reduced it to Hardened from Veteran. That mission was damn-near impossible to beat.
Mass Effect 2 - Was planning on doing a hardcore/insane run like I did in ME1, but the higher difficulties just made the already boring-as-hell gameplay even more boring. So I didn't do that.
Dragon Age Origins - I was just on Normal, but the fight with Branka was just ball-bustingly difficult. I made it even worse on myself since I didn't have a mage in the party, and not many health potions. Even on easy that battle was a huge pain in the ass.
Pertaining to Skyrim - a couple of times I've wanted to lower the difficulty, but I just left the dungeon/ruin/whatever, did other things, leveled up, then came back and stomped on everyone.
Call of Duty 4 - the mission "Heat". Yeah, fuck that mission. Reduced it to Hardened from Veteran. That mission was damn-near impossible to beat.
Mass Effect 2 - Was planning on doing a hardcore/insane run like I did in ME1, but the higher difficulties just made the already boring-as-hell gameplay even more boring. So I didn't do that.
Dragon Age Origins - I was just on Normal, but the fight with Branka was just ball-bustingly difficult. I made it even worse on myself since I didn't have a mage in the party, and not many health potions. Even on easy that battle was a huge pain in the ass.
Pertaining to Skyrim - a couple of times I've wanted to lower the difficulty, but I just left the dungeon/ruin/whatever, did other things, leveled up, then came back and stomped on everyone.
I think I lowered the difficulty once. Most of the time I'm a good judge of my skills and how hard a game looks and choose the perfect setting from the beginning. Most of the time it's normal but if a game is known for being hard I change it to easy immediately. I HAVE NO DIGNITY!
Oh, you can't play normal on the first play-through of Catherine.Aurora Firestorm said:
The second play-through though, I've been doing fairly well on "normal" - after some of those later levels, the early levels on normal weren't that hard anymore.
