What's your default starting difficulty?
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I'd like to see those who claim to play an FPS on the highest difficulty all the time try to play Serious Sam HD.
Normal. I am not an especially good gamer, but I like to know that I can at least finish the game as the more widespread difficulty.
I will admit though, that on the few games I played on hard- Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, for example, because you have to play on "proud" mode if you want the actual ending without getting 100% completion- and then on normal, I did enjoy the sense of superiority it granted me, as I destroyed every threat in a matter of hours.
I will admit though, that on the few games I played on hard- Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, for example, because you have to play on "proud" mode if you want the actual ending without getting 100% completion- and then on normal, I did enjoy the sense of superiority it granted me, as I destroyed every threat in a matter of hours.
Depends on the genre and the age of the game
Sometimes the easy of the past is the hard of today
Sometimes the easy of the past is the hard of today
Normal. Then if normal isn't hard (because sometimes the game says 'normal' but it is actually deceptively difficult) I'll try hard. But I like to know the game before I see how good I am.
Normal. I dunno, there's no pride in easy. Plus it usually makes the game too easy and boring once you get the hang of it and the last 3rd of the game is just a slog. With normal you tend to get better and then the game is fun till the end.
I usually go on the easiest setting, to make my first play-through relaxing and mostly free of stress.
If I like the game enough, I'll replay it at a harder difficulty setting.
If I like the game enough, I'll replay it at a harder difficulty setting.
I usually go with hard and take the first 10~20 min of the game to decide whether to keep it that way or to tune it down a little bit. In non-sequel RTS games, though, I usually go normal and pretty much every time I beef it up to hard on my sencond match or scenario.
Usually the one right below the hardest. If the game's good, I'll go back and do the hardest later
Really depends on the game.
If it's a WW2 game? Hardest difficulty possible, with headphones and sound levels that'd be appropriate. Brothers in Arms: Earned In Blood had me going two days straight yelling "WHAT?!" whenever someone tried to talk to me because I almost caught a Panzerfaust and barely dodged buying the farm once xD
Games like H.A.W.X. and Heroes of the Pacific also gets the hardest difficulty.
FPS games usually get Normal once, and if I replay it I'll try the harder/hardest difficulties
Fallout 3 got the Very Easy difficulty after I got Broken Steel (stupid Overlords and Reavers... >_>), but I've kept New Vegas on Normal all the way.
RTS games also get normal, but I won't hesitate to turn down the difficulty if I'm struggling. (Managed the entirety of Starcraft 2 on normal except for the last "defend the thingy while it charges up"-mission where I went to Easy after two fails.)
Games with puzzles in them (like Silent Hill or Catherine) are usually instantly put on Easy, though I did beat Catherine on Normal on my first playthrough (even if it meant loosing 50-60-ish lives during the 9th Night and its 5th stage...)
If it's a WW2 game? Hardest difficulty possible, with headphones and sound levels that'd be appropriate. Brothers in Arms: Earned In Blood had me going two days straight yelling "WHAT?!" whenever someone tried to talk to me because I almost caught a Panzerfaust and barely dodged buying the farm once xD
Games like H.A.W.X. and Heroes of the Pacific also gets the hardest difficulty.
FPS games usually get Normal once, and if I replay it I'll try the harder/hardest difficulties
Fallout 3 got the Very Easy difficulty after I got Broken Steel (stupid Overlords and Reavers... >_>), but I've kept New Vegas on Normal all the way.
RTS games also get normal, but I won't hesitate to turn down the difficulty if I'm struggling. (Managed the entirety of Starcraft 2 on normal except for the last "defend the thingy while it charges up"-mission where I went to Easy after two fails.)
Games with puzzles in them (like Silent Hill or Catherine) are usually instantly put on Easy, though I did beat Catherine on Normal on my first playthrough (even if it meant loosing 50-60-ish lives during the 9th Night and its 5th stage...)
Normal. Always normal, doesn't matter if I've played a game in the series before, if it's a different genre I don't know, or whatever reason, always normal.
Depends on the game, to be honest. I usually try to keep it on normal, but I'm not afraid to trun it to easy if the game is too hard. I'll ocassionaly do a harder run through if I play a game again.