Poll: Easy difficulty

[darkbshadow]

Normally play on Normal difficulty. Only type of games i play on easy are ones i'm pretty sure I'm not going to like. So i just make it easy so it becomes at least some fun to just hack my way through... That or if i get an urge to play a survival horror game... I suck at them so i play on easy difficulty.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I always play on easy because for some reason the difficulty level tends to apply only to the fighting sequences and I'm more of a negotiator at heart. It's easier to get past the crunchy bone-and-blood exterior into the, hopefully, creamy conflict-resolving interior when it's on easy.

EDIT: Also, I get in a really foul mood when the combat is too hard. I have been told numerous times not to play on Hard difficulty.

Hey, you got a friend in me.

'FOR FUCK'S SAKE I WAS FUCKING MELEEING HIM 10 TIMES AND HE TOOK ME OUT IN ONE FUCKING SHOT!'

How many controllers have you broke? 4 for me-PS2, PS3, Xbox, Gamecube.

I haven't broken anything yet, thank god, but the temper runs in my family. My brother has broken at least 2, probably more, both PS3.

 

[rokkolpo]

ALWAYS HARD...

...unless the game is scary....

 

[Zaverexus]

I said it depends. Meaning: I have played/ will play everything on normal mode with the exception of the Megaman Zero games. Megaman is infamous for its difficulty and so, wanting to be able to experience the story line, I played the games on easy.

 

[Silentwindofdoom]

Playing a game on easy is like throwing money down the drain, next to just robbing yourself of a decent game play experience.

Games tend to be about our protagonist going up against a relentless army of [INSERT SPECIES/FACTION HERE]. When you can just read a book and mow down wave after wave of evil stormtroopers with the weakest starter gun there is i don't care how well the dialogue is written, you are fucking up the immersion.

That, and i like a challenge.

 

[MordinSolus]

Playing for first time, choose normal. If achievement gaining, easy. Unless is "beat game on difficulty."

 

[Normandyfoxtrot]

Ultimately there is no right way to play a game we all do it for differing reasons and with different goals in mind, some people like challenge some people couldn't care less, some people like having long tactically involved combats, and well some people tend to find tactically involved to mean cheating AI.

 

[Joey245]

When I first played Kingdom Hearts 2, I started on Beginner Mode (easy).

Next playthrough, I went up to Standard (Normal).

Then I went to Proud Mode (Hard).

And now I always play Proud mode with that game.

Whenever I get a new game, I always start on the easiest difficulty. Then, if I liked the game enough, when I replay it, I go up a level in difficulty. Every subsequent playthrough of that game, I move up another difficulty level.

And in the rare case of playing the game more times than there are difficulty levels, I'll always play on the hardest.

It's like working out. You don't start benching six hundred pounds at a time and doing 300 sit-ups at once. You start out small, and gradually work your way up to the extremes.

 

[TiefBlau]

I used to always play on easy difficulty because I didn't want constant failure impeding on the experience of the game.

Nowadays I take that failure as part of the experience, and I've gotten better as a player anyways, so I always choose normal because I want to see the game developers created for the average gamer. Also, it's probably the one they spent the most time balancing, so it's the most reliable one to choose each time.

I've been toying a bit with hard difficulty simply because I'm getting better at games in general, and it's interesting to see how difficulty has an effect on how I acquaint myself with games.

2: Mass effect style games. Games that are about story. More or less pure and refined. If a game has a great story, making the game too hard is simply frustrating. I want to know more story, but I keep dying to a boss or a hard encounter. On such games I play on easy and breeze through to enjoy the story.

Lets face it, you wouldnt want some guy trying to snag your book all the time while you were reading, right?

But the gameplay is in there for a reason. If it wasn't, they would have made it a book. But it's not. Not even one of the choose-your-own-adventure assortment. It's a game. It's meant to be played, and if the challenge isn't there, you remove that aspect of the game and turn it into a movie that stops every once in a while to remind you that you have a controller. I agree that games that focus on experience are different from games that focus on gameplay, but I wouldn't say that warrants just breezing through easy mode. Normal mode at most.

I played a few games with just godmode once. It was boring. I regret doing it because I couldn't enjoy the game anymore.

 

[Hachura]

I hunt achievements like a crack whore hunts the spoon. Hard/Veteran all the way first playthrough, then a clean sweep on Easy/Normal for the remaining achievements second round. Then the game either gets traded or banished to the bottom of the 'finished' stack, never to see the light of day again.

 

[Korzack]

If I get a choice, first time through I play through on the easiest setting to get through the story, then for subsequent playthroughs the difficulty get racked up, unless the easiest mode is insultingly easy, like an F1 racer where the AI takes 3 minutes to do 1 lap of Monaco or something.

 

[Motakikurushi]

There's only none game I've ever played on easy mode. Devil May Cry 3. No surprises there then.

 

[General Sarrano]

I play on Normal first, and then on easy if i want to enjoy the story more or find hidden items, normally only play through a game on hard if i want achievements. This might seem lame, but theres no real fun in going though something that was enjoyable, but making it less so, unless Im getting prizes but thats just my opinion...

 

[Manicotti]

On single-player games, I go through it on Normal just because I feel that's the way the game was designed to be played at face value. On multiplayer games - well, really just L4D - i play it on Easy when playing with random strangers because it's easier to compensate for others' mistakes and there's no damage dealt via friendly fire (which ends up being about 20% of my shots somehow).

 

[ecoho]

well if its my first play through yes ill go through on easy get the feel of the game then go back at a harder difficulty. this way i dont end up spending 15 hours trying to find a key/door cause i keep dieing.(im looking at you ninja gaiden!)

 

[Samcanuck]

I can find my way around all genres...but some I just have no fun with. A great example...RTS. A level of that takes me 30 min longer than it says it's supposed to. And 3 levels in, I'm done with the genre for a bit. Atleast on easy mode I can breeze through a good helping of story to have some fun.

 

[Screamarie]

I prefer to pick and choose based upon the game that I'm playing. JRPGs, always going to be on normal if the choice arises, but when it comes to the rare shooter game that I play, I always start on easy and work my way up to get used to the machanics first since I'm not used to playing them.

 

[Abengoshis]

I play on the hardest difficulty in every game when I first play. If I play on anything lower I feel as if I'm not playing "properly".

 

[wfpdk]

i play on easy for the story, then I'll go back to play on hard if i liked the game.

 

[Baneling Aspect]

I always start out on Normal and if the game is unplayably difficult or easy I change settings accordingly. I like to be challenged, but not to the point of frustration. This usually ends up being console FPSs, as I can't get used to the control scheme, having played FPSs on the PC my whole life, but I actually had to do this for Deus Ex too (and still spent 10 hours dead, if Steam is any indication).