I like to go the hard difficulty first to see how I fair, mind you sometimes that goes pretty badly
Poll: What difficulty level do you play on (first playthrough)?
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I start on the default, which is often normal.(unless it's a source game, where I only recently found out the default is easy...)
But if it's an RTS, a game type where I only play skirmishes against the computer, two or three highest difficulty PC players with health turned down to 95%, and if possible, steamroller AI to make me defend against waves of fairly weak enemies.
But if it's an RTS, a game type where I only play skirmishes against the computer, two or three highest difficulty PC players with health turned down to 95%, and if possible, steamroller AI to make me defend against waves of fairly weak enemies.
I usually play it through on the default difficulty first time, then go play the other difficulties afterwards.
Hard first, because most of the time I've just about the time to play through a game once, and only once. After a couple of years of multiplayer gaming in highschool, I need to have it on Hard to have some challenge.
I regret putting it on Hard sometimes though, like a few moments in COD4.
I regret putting it on Hard sometimes though, like a few moments in COD4.
i'll be honest, on the first playthorugh it only feels right to play on 'Normal' it's the way the game was meant to be played. yeah if you like it and want a more challanging experience then you replay on hard or harder. but i like to get the experience as it was meant to be had, and normal seems to be that benchmark.
mooncalf post=9.71789.737745 said:
Basically my view.
I figure a game should always have 3 difficulty modes: Normal, which is how it's meant to be played, which should be hard enough to be challenging without becoming massively frustrating to casual gamers; Easy, which should be built for people who are inept at that specific kind of game, sort of a "handicap version"; and Hard, which is for people who really want a big challenge and thus SHOULD, in fact, be frustrating and difficult.
If normal mode is so easy that veteran gamers don't feel challenged in the least, then the developers are doing it wrong, If it's so hard newcomers feel helpless they developers are still doing it wrong.
I always play on normal first as easy is always to easy and i never feel i'm playing the game right when i can just plow through everything and not worry about death (or crashing in racing game). Normal gives me the chance to learn the controls and basic gameplay without having to worry about getting constantly owned on the first level.
Hard mode then comes once the games been completed and is worth another go.
Hard mode then comes once the games been completed and is worth another go.
I play on normal just to get the fundamentals for 20-30 minutes, then start a new game on hard....if there is one. I hate it when games that don't have the choice of difficulty, or when some games just take normal mode and add an extra objective on a boss..I'm looking at you shadow of the colossus! As much as I'd give that game a 9.6/10..the hard mode is just a disappointment
I start on normal if it's an FPS of genre I am used to, though if it's an RTS or something of the sort I will put on easy to start with.
On most games, the default setting. On Thief, it was always Expert from the get go, with self-imposed limits on playstyle (e.g. perfect ghosting). This proved to be an issue on the second game, when it turned out that it was actually bugged so that the first mission couldn't be completed on expert....
depends on length and type of game, if it's a long game (>20 hrs, judged) I'll set it at normal (esp if FF games, those are about the storyline) but shorter (<12, most FPS's) I'll put it at hard, big name titles, which tend to have more levels of difficulty I'll ramp it to hardest, and decide if I want to play it at that level for the rest of the game.
