Poll: What kind of gamer are you?

[leady129]

This doesn't necessarily apply for every game, but lets talk in general terms.

You've just purchased a brand new game, you pop it in your machine and you come to your first important decision:.. The difficulty setting. Did you purchase the game because mega veteran super soldier difficulty is supposed to be impossible to beat and your out to prove everybody wrong. Or are you the kind of person who's in this for the story, thus picking the easiest as the brilliant plot and pacing wont be disturbed by countless game over screens.

Remember, this is your FIRST play-through, so if you're the kind of person who does easy first and then switches to hard for the second round, you're answer for this poll is "easy".

Let me know of any games where you might go one extreme or the other.

My answer: I used to go full story, however lately have progressed up to slightly more difficult settings, though not really high enough for too many deaths, until I near the games end.


(Note: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this has been done before, but I'll be buggered if I could find it when I tried looking.)

 

[rainman2203]

What a novel thread topic!

OT: Probably the easy-hard category. I couldn't real care about online multiplayer, as my internet is run by Amish people.

 

[rokkolpo]

i always start the game as hard cuz then i can lower it when it becomes to heavy.

but i almost always care more for the story then the gameplay.
which would make me a EASY-EXPERT.

 

[DazZ.]

Multiplayer, shooting A.I is boring. Single player is good for story/RPGs or puzzle games, and horror.

 

[Eleuthera]

I generally start at normal/medium. I'm in it mostly for the story and will switch to easier settings if it's too hard. Even on second/third playthroughs I'll probably stick to medium, unless the first time really was too easy.

 

[sms_117b]

I like a challenge on my first play though, so I picked Regular - Hard, but Dragon Age: Origins kicked my arse so frequently and so brutally, I had to drop it down to easy and replace the wireless mouse, this one won't reach the wall or the screen, second time through it's flowing between normal and hard, I do really dislike having to pause the combat all the time thiough so I probably won't go much higher in difficulty.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Multiplayer, shooting A.I is boring. Single player is good for story/RPGs or puzzle games, and horror.

I get chased by bears too. Wait, wrong mindset.

Multiplayer is fun if the game is made for certain multiplaying charactaristics. (Obviously Tf2. Lol) But i stick single on regular, absorb as much as possible, then test my mettle in hard or expert. I'm no ''Uberleet 1337 gamer'' xD

 

[Proteus214]

It really depends on the game. Most of the time I play single player games for the story, but I do like a challenge. I usually start off on the Hard difficulty setting.

 

[Senor Smoke21]

Usually the normal difficulty. I don't want it to be too easy but I don't want to miss important story elements because I'm screaming at my TV.
=]

 

[Xanian]

Normal. I can make it harder, but I don't dig much on having a simple run through, I can get a walk through for that. I do skip the cut scenes as much as possible. I just like beating crap.

 

[Spygon]

i normally play a game on regular so i can take in the story while slighty challenging myself.But then after finishing it if i enjoyed the game and have enough time i put it on the hardest diffculity.

 

[Kollega]

In general? It was Easy earlier,but now it's on Normal most of the time.

 

[wildpeaks]

If it's a FPS, I'll go with Normal/Advanced.

If it's a RPG-FPS, I'll go with Easy/Normal.

If it's something else.. well I don't have other types of games, so if it's something else, I don't know where it came from, who installed that on my computer ?!

 

[9NineBreaker9]

Generally, I'm in the "normal" category I guess. I want to enjoy the game's story first time around, but if it's entirely too easy, I'll switch the game's difficulty. In playing Tales of Vesperia recently, I had to bump up the difficulty to Hard because I was getting bored on Normal xD

 

[LGC Pominator]

hmm cant pick any of those really because:
1: I Play mainly for the story in all games, its whats important (screw ZC!)
2: I only ever play on the hardest difficulty in games when playing single player, and don't die much, if at all
3: I kick arse in multiplayer
4: A game without a story is not a game to me

The poll makes it seem like the more interested in the story you are, the less of a gamer you are, which is certainly not the case

 

[leady129]

hmm cant pick any of those really because:
1: I Play mainly for the story in all games, its whats important (screw ZC!)
2: I only ever play on the hardest difficulty in games when playing single player, and don't die much, if at all
3: I kick arse in multiplayer
4: A game without a story is not a game to me

The poll makes it seem like the more interested in the story you are, the less of a gamer you are, which is certainly not the case

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I personally wouldn't consider someone less of a gamer because they used a lower difficulty setting. (Then again, I'm a part of that group so maybe I'm just trying to protect my own arse there.)
I can see your predicament with the answers though.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

I absolutely LOVE a good story, but the gameplay has to be able to match up with it. Multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2 are also fun, but I have to be in a certain mood before I can play them.

 

[LGC Pominator]

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I personally wouldn't consider someone less of a gamer because they used a lower difficulty setting. (Then again, I'm a part of that group so maybe I'm just trying to protect my own arse there.)
I can see your predicament with the answers though.

I see what you mean and i didn't mean to make it sound like that, in the end i consider a true gamer as someone who actually appreciates the art form that games are, the high difficulty is more of a personal challenge really, however someone who sits down to play a game and skips cutscenes, or talks through them, I have to reach over and smack them across the face with my controller, theres a time and place for talking, and that is multi player, you don't walk into the cinema and jabber on with your mates whilst the film is running, so a higher form of art than that should not have to suffer the same fate

once again zero coordination can get screwed (if you don't know what that is, look for the n00b effect on youtube)

 

[Kajt]

Depends on what kind of game it is. If it's a FPS I'll usually go for the second hardest difficulty setting available, but if it's a RPG I'll go for medium.