Poll: The difficulty you prefer.

[Sinclair Solutions]

I played easy for the longest time because I actually wanted to enjoy myself. But, as of late, I am doing more games on normal. I still enjoy myself, and the challenge is not frustrating.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I usually play on normal.

The only games I've played on hard or higher were horror games like Bioshock 1, Silent Hill 2, Dead Space, etc. Because I felt that horror combat would have to be hard in order for the monsters to scare the crap out of me... and that pretty much is the case... playing Dead Space on normal or easy is startle-worthy at best.

Now... the only game I've played on easy was Far Cry 2, and that was because all of the extra AI functionality (along with the physics) was too much for my PC to handle.

 

[Miumaru]

Whatever the achievements require. Otherwise normal. Though easy sometimes for fooling around in depending on the game. (like Oblivion for example)

 

[Drexlor]

I usually just play on normal but I am currently attempting to play WaW on veteran. Stupid grenades.

 

[Ziggy109]

If it's a game I'm brand new to, I like to stick to normal so I don't get overwhelmed with the difficulty. If it's something I know I'm going to be good at (like a sequel to a game I played on hard; Mass Effect 1 & 2 come to mind), I bump the difficulty up right away so I don't get underwhelmed by how easy it seems on normal.

 

[Death God]

Normal. Then easy for achievements, then impossible for a try and back down to hard. Lets me know what I can do/expect from the game and my skills.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

normal for fun legendary or whatever its called for the achivment or to celebrate. right now to ussure in Halo: Reach im playing ALL the halo games on legendary...i finished HaloCE, Halo 2, and im halfway done Halo 3....just need to finish this and its onto Halo ODST and Halo wars.

 

[captaincabbage]

Almost always Normal, even when MW2 tells me I should go Hardened or Veteran on the time trial mission.
Screw you game! I'll go with whatever makes me feel most kickass!

p.s If you can't tell I'm one of those people who'd rather have fun that a hard time. XD

 

[zombiestrangler]

I usually play normal the first run through and then switch to stupid hard for achievements.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Normal for most games, but if I'm playing my beloved Touhou games I'll not step a foot below Lunatic. (Well, except 10-12)
Easy for fighting games because I'm horrendous at 'em.

I still never figured out how anyone beats them on Lunatic. The sheer visual overload defeats me every time. I can't make sense of it all at once and react the way I want to.

I default to normal/hard. Hard is mostly for practice. I at least have a shot of reaching the final boss on normal unless it's Subterranean Animism (dammit Orin!)

It took a while, but I just got the feel for it. Although, I find that I get pretty lucky every now and again. But then again 10 and on are just insane.

 

[phenity]

I usually end up playing one notch below the hardest difficulty level, so Normal if there is only 3 difficulty levels and Hard if there is 4.

It does really depend on the game as well, though. I'll pretty much always play a CoD game on Veteran.

 

[2xDouble]

Normal for regular gameplay (unless it turns out I suck too much at the game. i'm looking at you Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden Sigma). Easy for achievements/unlockables (unless otherwise required), why make grinding any harder than it has to be?

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Hard--I like a challenge alongside the story of a game, although not so much of one that it becomes frustrating.

 

[Kaltazraza]

Normal depending on the game's difficulty

 

[Paulie92]

I often play better on Legendary/Insane then I do on Heroic/Hardcore but I usually playthrough on hardest

though I'm not afraid to bump the difficulty down if it becomes lame

 

[rddj623]

I always start on "normal" and then if I do a second play through, or find it exorbitantly easy I'll switch it up to "hard". I too do "easy" for quick play throughs, and "impossible" for when I have some time to kill.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Usually, I only play easy because I strive to feel like a god wading through a battlefield!

But if I have a group of friends over, with only a single player game to be found, we do the hardest difficulty possible! We hand it off each time we die!

 

[The Furbinator]

I think playing through a game a second time on a harder difficulty is rather pointless, you've had so much time to get better at the gamer and know every fight/puzzle etc it just becomes another playthrough of the same difficulty that makes you think you're better at games then you are imo.

OT: Impossible, unless you have to unlock the harder difficulty with games like NG2.

 

[Sacman]

I play my games on Homicide... cookie for reference...

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

More often than not now I choose impossible because nothing else will do.

For RTSes or boring games though I'll choose an easier difficulty either because I can't play RTS or to piss about. Impossible can get very annoying after a while.

EG: I played postal through on one of the easier settings simply because it's so much fun to hack through all the people there with ease!