Poll: would you lower the difficulty?

[Dahdutcher]

Also with Dragon Age.

I was pretty new to the game, and I could not defeat those bounty hunters before Orzammar when you first come there. (Frostback Mountain I believe)
Turned it to casual, and then back to normal.

But I usually try to never lower the difficulty- I mean, I already play at normal

 

[Harkonnen64]

I'm burned out on games so I stick the games to very easy and blast through them in a day.

But you can only get glasses for Fox McCloud if you are an expert!

 

[miketehmage]

I really try hard to avoid turning it down but if I'm absolutely tearing my hair out, I will.

 

[Odbarc]

Depends;
Is the game cheating and wrecking me with no possible chance to succeed that corrupts my save spot to be unplayable?
Or am I getting close or doing something wrong that's trying to teach me a new method I haven't tested yet?

Usually when I set a difficulty, I have very much the intention of keeping it there.

 

[Ando85]

I made a thread awhile back about if you liked adjustable difficulties at any point in a game or a set in stone difficulty you pick at the beginning. Many said that they see no disadvantage to adjustable difficulties.

I think I prefer the set in stone type so I am not tempted to lower it. I just have a sort of anal satisfaction (that does sound a bit wrong lol) in beating a game at a certain difficulty. If I lowered it to easy for one tricky part I wound feel as though I didn't complete the game at the difficulty I wanted.

the thing is with that completionist mindset you can just ignore the option to make it easier surely?

Im much the same with certain titles i will beat myself into beating the game xD

Well, I ignore it for the most part. I have however caved in and lowered it due to frustration, but regretted it later.

To me it is kind of like say you want to stop eating unhealthy food. It is a lot easier to resist it if you don't buy it and it isn't available in the house.

 

[Rumpsteak]

Generally I'll only turn down the difficulty if I encounter a ridiculous difficulty spike, the kind when if fells like it goes from hard to masochistic and then back to hard.

 

[rokkolpo]

I remember lowering the difficulty on Ares in God of war.
He felt incredibly cheap and after what felt like a dozen battles I just went and EXPLODED easy mode on him.

ALMOST killing him 10 times can really piss you off.
Goddamned multi-armed bastard in a waaaaay too small arena.

 

[Mudkipith]

I've yet to play a game that was too difficult for me to beat on the hardest difficulty without a bit of effort. When that day comes when I can't, I suppose I would.