I tend to complete a game on normal/hard, then change to easy to collect any random achievements if I can be bothered. Although I am playing ME2 on insanity at the moment, just for the achievement...
Question of the Day, Feb. 24, 2010
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Whenever I feel like just messing around ill switch it to easy and make up little challenges for myself, like just speed rushing to the end of the level, or only using a weak weapon. Just to have a little fun but when I'm playing the story and stuff, then it's a higher difficulty
If the game is something new that i haven't tried i'll play on an easy setting to familiarize myself with the games combat system, smartness of the AI and boss fighting patterns. After i complete the game once i go back on the harder difficulties to give myself a romping challenge
The only time you'll find me on anything less the the hardest difficulty is when I'm mopping up random achievements.
e.g, I finished my first Bioshock 2 run on 'Hard' and Vitachambers turned off. I'm replaying it now to get the research achievement (I was about one splicer's worth of research points off it - apparently playing on 'Hard' means the basic splicers dissappear after two levels [I assumed I could just research them later, but no!])
e.g, I finished my first Bioshock 2 run on 'Hard' and Vitachambers turned off. I'm replaying it now to get the research achievement (I was about one splicer's worth of research points off it - apparently playing on 'Hard' means the basic splicers dissappear after two levels [I assumed I could just research them later, but no!])
For me the easy setting can be left out of games. Most of the times a game lacks proper AI settings, or there are so few enemies you can see and feel them coming from a mile away.
Normal setting is the way a game is meant to play. So I always use that. Mmm, not always. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on hard. But I knew that one inside out.
Normal setting is the way a game is meant to play. So I always use that. Mmm, not always. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on hard. But I knew that one inside out.
Because most of the games are not focused on the gameplay itself for example Bioshock's story I will usually play it on the easiest difficulty for the first play through. For the chalenge I will then raise the difficulty.
Always start on at least hard, if the game beats me down enough times, go to normal, never struggled past that, and if I did it's my fault for messin' up so terribly but still easy is for the weak.
When I saw this on the main page and looked at it's description "How hard do you like it?" I had a different impression of what it was about.
There are some games where I want to be an unstoppable force of death and destruction, and others where I want to fight for every inch.
I will start on Normal most times, just to get a feel of the game // The point of games (at least for me) is to enjoy them and dying over and over again is not my idea of fun
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i usually beat a game on the hardest setting and then play the game through again on easy to achievement whore... 
I play games to relax and blow off steam that I have aquired by being in high school, so I go on easy to do so, I want somthing to play, not somthing to pound on my ass with a meat tenderiser.
If it's a game that belongs to a genre I'm not all that accostumed to (in way of gameplay or story), I'll play it on Easy.
Other than that, I play on Normal/Default difficulty. I want to play the game all the way through but I still want some amount of challenge.
Other than that, I play on Normal/Default difficulty. I want to play the game all the way through but I still want some amount of challenge.
I have to play on the hardest difficulty if I want to get my money's worth out of the game. I played God of War on easy and I ruined the experience for myself. But even on the hardest difficulty, the game's single player will only last about 8 hours befoer I beat it.
First I usually play through the game on easy, then, if I like the game, I play through it again on harder difficulties.