Poll: would you lower the difficulty?

[teqrevisited]

Once I set the difficulty at the start I usually follow it all the way. Turning it down isn't an option for me. When I started playing games changing the difficulty really wasn't an option so I suppose it came from there.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I'll go for a walkthrough first in case there is something I'm not doing right. If that still doesn't help I'll lower the difficulty.

 

[DragonStorm247]

Mass Effect 1. Matriarch Benezia.

 

[Tahaneira]

Depends on how much fun I'm having. Some days, I want a challenge. Some days, I just want to play the story, or slice fifteen people in half and feel like a badass. It all depends, but I don't always equate challenge with how much fun I have.

 

[Jynthor]

Playing Shogun 2 at the moment... My thoughts:

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

My thinking is that if it become's too hard, it is no longer fun and therefore nullifies the point of a game so yeah it's ok to do that. But what are your thoughts?

That right there. Well said.

I usually play games where I'm unfamiliar with the gameplay on Easy, and ones where I'm mostly familiar on Medium. Only if I've played a game through multiple times and am very comfortable with the play do I go up to hard.

Or Rock Band. I'm working on mastering Expert on Rock Band with guitar or vocals. Drums I play on easy, because I suck at drums.

 

[DEAD34345]

No, I never do anything like that. In fact, I'd prefer to abandon a game entirely when it's too difficult than lowering the difficulty, or if I like the game too much for that I start again entirely and redo it all on a lower setting. Logically speaking I realise this makes no real sense, but there's no god-damn way I'm admitting defeat to a game like that. No, the shame would be too great. I'd have to commit seppuku or something.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I've only done it properly for SFIV when I started to play it and I move the slider around in TES games on my non serious playthroughs. That is because I am basically immune to physical damage thus when I am fighting melee/ranged I need it on highest. Magic damage however, just does way too much damage to my health even with my shield perk on highest setting so it goes a notch or 2 depending on my supply of potions and what is there.

It is kinda funny going for indestructible to dead in literally 5 secs against a Dwarven Centurion or Mage.

 

[JEBWrench]

I am a gaming masochist. Games are to be played on infuriatingly hard difficulty settings. If you are not pressing the quick save key every 45 seconds, you are not gaming!

Bah! Real gamers don't quicksave. They delete their savefile if they die.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I generally try not to, but I have done it before and I don't feel any particular shame for having done so.

I've only done it once, and quite recently too in Oblivion.
I just want to finally beat this ocean of bland and not have to grind my way through this uninteresting world.

Oblivion has a difficulty setting?? o_0

 

[darkcalling]

I tend to start on normal and drop down if I'm getting my butt kicked. Especially if it's early in the game. Some games I go straight to easy if it's a genre I'm not particularly good at like FPS or Fighting. I like them but I don't pretend to be that good at them. lol

 

[OhSnap]

If it's on normal, then no. I suck it up and figure out what I'm doing wrong. I enjoy the challenge of the game, I'd rather die a few times than breeze through it in a matter of hours. If it' on hard mode and I'm slamming my head against a brick wall... then I'll usually go back to normal and work through it like that.

Last time I did that was when I was recently replaying Devil May Cry 3 and was about to put y controller through the TV screen... Beowulf on Dante Must Die. For some reason, it's *always* that boss I have trouble on.

 

[Right Hook]

I play a decent amount of games on easy, it's not that I can't play them on normal, I can even play most games on hard if I feel up to it but with some games I just want to shut my brain off and mindlessly play, not having to worry about playing the same section eight times.

 

[babinro]

I have fun beating a game, so lowering the difficulty to accomplish this task is all to common for me.

If a game is worthy of revisiting then I start to care about the challenge and the difficulty moves up accordingly.

Point is, I'd rather play a game, than put it down due to frustration.

 

[arnoldthebird]

I have never turned the difficulty down, I will play through the game once on Normal. If the game is fun enough I will play through on a higher difficulty, the satisfaction of defeating a challenging fight is a unique one.

Except for one game, StarCraft 2 on Insane. You need to cheese, winning a FFA had me massing Battle Cruiser's on a remote island. The AI just mines too fast, builds too fast etc.

 

[Iwata]

I play the games as much for the challenge as for fun, so no. I persist.

 

[Vykrel]

yes, if im having an incredibly hard time. i actually kind of had to do this yesterday during one of the final moments of Max Payne 3. i didnt change the difficulty, but i did change the controls from free-aim to soft-aim, which made it a lot easier.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Not really, I play on either easy or normal anyway, I don't ever play on hard.

 

[Jynthor]

If I'm dying on normal I usually trudge along unless I get really peeved off. That fucking Kraken in Witcher 2...

Otherwise I usually jump from normal to the hardest. Usually for the achievement.

I had to retry it a few times(was playing it on Hard on my first playthrough, but I never found it overly difficult, once I knew what I was doing I could kill it without getting hit. Why do you think it's hard?

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Considering I generally play games on easy/casual anyway, I chose 'sure' by default. I'll play some things on normal and if I'm really familiar with the game then I may up the difficulty but I generally prefer the easier experience to the harder, potentially frustrating one.