I'll start on normal, then go higher if I like the game. I usually tone the difficulty up to squeeze a few more hours out of the game.
What difficulty do you start with?
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Always have and always will start one normal, mainly cause some of the games I play the hard/hardest difficulty has to unlocked.
It depends on a game.
1. A game i got no knowledge about: easy to learn the mechanics and so on. for example a new sim game.
2. A game that i have never played before: normal
3. A game that i have played before and found it too easy ot next installment in the series that should be of same difficulty.: above normal
4. A game i am replaying and want more challenge out of it: raise difficulty one notch than previously played.
There are some games that are imbalanced. for example i found stalker way too easy on hard until the last part which turned kinda impossible. Also morrowind has a nice trick, at first any animal will kill you if your not careful. get your first enchant - you feel like a god with so much power you could take on all NPCs at once. kinda turns adventure into a boring walk.
1. A game i got no knowledge about: easy to learn the mechanics and so on. for example a new sim game.
2. A game that i have never played before: normal
3. A game that i have played before and found it too easy ot next installment in the series that should be of same difficulty.: above normal
4. A game i am replaying and want more challenge out of it: raise difficulty one notch than previously played.
There are some games that are imbalanced. for example i found stalker way too easy on hard until the last part which turned kinda impossible. Also morrowind has a nice trick, at first any animal will kill you if your not careful. get your first enchant - you feel like a god with so much power you could take on all NPCs at once. kinda turns adventure into a boring walk.
It all depends on why I'm playing the game in question. If it's a game I play for the challenge (such as Guitar Hero, or even Halo), I'll usually start on Hard/Heroic/whatever the game's medium-high difficulty is. If I'm playing because I was to simulate doing something (like a flight-sim or some very realistic shooters), I'll usually try to set it at the most realistic settings possible (usually the hardest). If I'm playing because I want to dick around a feel like a badass (Half-Life 2: SMOD, Just Cause 2, FarCry2/3), I'll set the difficulty way down so I don't get killed and break flow.
Either normal or easy mode (depend what that game define easy as) depening on the game.
I know for one thing is that my brother had always played the Halo series on hard mode, he find it more challanging from the game that way.
I know for one thing is that my brother had always played the Halo series on hard mode, he find it more challanging from the game that way.
I used to go for the easiest difficulty very often, mostly because I wanted to experience the story first. If a game warranted one or more playthroughs, I would bump the difficulty up progressively.
Nowadays, I usually do normal - it being the "intended" level - and kick it down for particularly frustrating moments. I sometimes play on harder difficulties, but I often feel that the challenge it provides is achieved through fake difficulty.
Nowadays, I usually do normal - it being the "intended" level - and kick it down for particularly frustrating moments. I sometimes play on harder difficulties, but I often feel that the challenge it provides is achieved through fake difficulty.
Default is Normal. But it really depends on the game.
For stealth based games I go with Hard.
For games with crappy gameplay but good story like Mass Effect 2 - easy, ofcourse.
For shooters - if hard means "more damage taken, more enemy HP" - ef that, easy. Played Halo games on Legendary because enemy starts to use some tactics.
For stealth based games I go with Hard.
For games with crappy gameplay but good story like Mass Effect 2 - easy, ofcourse.
For shooters - if hard means "more damage taken, more enemy HP" - ef that, easy. Played Halo games on Legendary because enemy starts to use some tactics.
Usually I go for normal, unless I have enough experience in the game, or it decides to be too much of an Asshole.
For example, I always go on Minecraft's Hardcore mode because it's way too fuckin easy. The only time I die in it is when I'm either being cocky, or because my luck was shit. I.E. a skeleton shoots me into some lava, meanwhile I'm carrying over 1000 pounds of items...
Another example for the latter category would be Serious Sam BFE. It wasn't too hard, it was alright, then they spammed thousands of monsters at me to the point of impossibility. Easy mode it is!
For example, I always go on Minecraft's Hardcore mode because it's way too fuckin easy. The only time I die in it is when I'm either being cocky, or because my luck was shit. I.E. a skeleton shoots me into some lava, meanwhile I'm carrying over 1000 pounds of items...
Another example for the latter category would be Serious Sam BFE. It wasn't too hard, it was alright, then they spammed thousands of monsters at me to the point of impossibility. Easy mode it is!
Usually normal, and usually what I stick with unless I've played the game so much that it needs to be a bit of a challenge to be fun. I play games for fun, not for competition or a challenge, so I usually can't beat them on the harder difficulties anyway.
I used to go with hardest, so I'd open many achievements at once, and if it turned out TOO hard, I'd just switch to an easier mode. Nowadays, not only because I don't care about achievements/trophies anymore, but MOSTLY because I don't have half the patience I used to and much less the time to play all the stuff I want to, i just go straight into easy mode (if I reckon it's a genre I'm not very good at) or normal (if I know I could even take hard mode, but normal means faster)... Obviously, depending on the game "nightmare mode" will be to easy, or "normal" too hard...
I usually just play normal mainly for the fact that it gives me room to muck around and have more fun. I could probably complete the harder difficulties but I find that the most fun you have in games is when you create your own. (and on harder difficulties you have to properly pay the game and not mess around)
I'm probably going to start playing on harder difficulties now as the games just go by too quickly on normal
I'm probably going to start playing on harder difficulties now as the games just go by too quickly on normal
I usually go for the middle and \ or default difficulty, unless it's cover-based shooting, in which case I go for the next higher setting. I'm usually inclined to go for lower settings when the game is more about the experience than the challenge to me (open world exploration games), or if it's a racing game (which I just suck at).
I do RPGs on hard and RTSs on normal. I recently stepped up to playing RPGs on hard because Skyrim was too easy even if you had it on Master. So I've played Torchlight 1 on hard and am currently on Torchlight 2.
Used to go for the highest difficulty at the start of every game. Boy, that had mixed results, so now it's normal difficulty, but if I'm replaying a game, it will be on the hardest difficulty available, no question.
For most solo player games, easy. For most multiplayer (co-op) games, the most challenging option. For me, I am more usually interested in the mechanics and story of the solo player game than the challenge. For Co-op games, I value the exploration and strategic planning, struggling with friends. I don't feel any reward for being amazing in a single player rpg type game after hours of struggling, and in fact I feel pretty sad about it... but on the other hand, for co-op I'm usually lost in the moment in a difficult situation. Because of the momentum, the frustration often doesn't turn into boredom for co-op games, like single player games of constant endless hours at a time, retries.
This question reminded me of when Left4Dead first game out. I grabbed my 3 closest friends, and made sure no one even TRIED the game before we all get started at the same time. It was the long weekend. We started off with the highest difficulty level, without any knowledge of how to do anything and struggled through. It was amazing. Probably because it had horror element in it and we weren't overrun with the knowledge of what's going to happen before it did, and had to strategize for the unknown while splitting resources and backing each other up.
This question reminded me of when Left4Dead first game out. I grabbed my 3 closest friends, and made sure no one even TRIED the game before we all get started at the same time. It was the long weekend. We started off with the highest difficulty level, without any knowledge of how to do anything and struggled through. It was amazing. Probably because it had horror element in it and we weren't overrun with the knowledge of what's going to happen before it did, and had to strategize for the unknown while splitting resources and backing each other up.
