What's your default starting difficulty?
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I tend towards "normal" or "medium" or whatever, to see how difficult it is. If it's too easy for my tastes, I'll go up to hard, but I generally don't drop down to easy unless "normal" means "normal for twitchy fuckers with Ritalin-fueled reaction times".
Normal. Most of the games I prefer have a heavy story emphasis, rather than combat and all that, so I wouldn't object too hard to easy.
Mass Effect 2 is the exception, oddly enough. I can't play on anything easier than hardcore without it feeling deeply wrong somehow. This is odd, because I very rarely bother with higher difficulty settings in games.
Mass Effect 2 is the exception, oddly enough. I can't play on anything easier than hardcore without it feeling deeply wrong somehow. This is odd, because I very rarely bother with higher difficulty settings in games.
If it's a game like Batman Arkham Asylum or Bioshock where there's the classic Easy, Normal and Hard, I'll go for hard for a little more challenge.
If it's like Gears of War, Aliens vs Predator, Resident Evil 5 or Doom 3 where the hardest setting is pure BS with puke over it, then I'll pick the second or third hardest (though I've beaten RE5 Pro alone, never again)
I'm contemplating playing everything now at Normal and fight my OCD while enjoying the game to the fullest without allowing the gameplay flaws or my general suckness become too evident. At the end, it depends on the game: Silent Hill works best on Normal, as does Doom 3 or Resident Evil 5.
I like games with one difficulty setting like Super Mario Galaxy or The Legend of Zelda, they are so well designed that they don't need extra settings because they're fun anyway.
If it's like Gears of War, Aliens vs Predator, Resident Evil 5 or Doom 3 where the hardest setting is pure BS with puke over it, then I'll pick the second or third hardest (though I've beaten RE5 Pro alone, never again)
I'm contemplating playing everything now at Normal and fight my OCD while enjoying the game to the fullest without allowing the gameplay flaws or my general suckness become too evident. At the end, it depends on the game: Silent Hill works best on Normal, as does Doom 3 or Resident Evil 5.
I like games with one difficulty setting like Super Mario Galaxy or The Legend of Zelda, they are so well designed that they don't need extra settings because they're fun anyway.
Normal.
I like playing with some level of difficulty, but not hard for the first time through, especially if it's a story game, since I play first for the story then for the combat etc.
And then once I've beaten normal, I do the higher level of difficulties, and if I like it enough, I'll even bother with doing an easy difficulty run through just to say that I played all difficulty levels.
I like playing with some level of difficulty, but not hard for the first time through, especially if it's a story game, since I play first for the story then for the combat etc.
And then once I've beaten normal, I do the higher level of difficulties, and if I like it enough, I'll even bother with doing an easy difficulty run through just to say that I played all difficulty levels.
I'll typically stick to the normal difficulty first. I only drop down if I have issues, and I like to understand the game's mechanics before I try anything tougher.
My default is normal. I'll tweak it higher on repeat play throughs though, if I plan to play it again.
Usually normal. If things get tough or too easy, i´ll shift the difficulty to an appropriate level.
Normal. Especially if the game seems to be fairly story-heavy. And most of the games I choose and play, are story-heavy. lol
Depends on if I played a prequel or something like it before. Usually the one just above normal.
if its cod or anything of that nature... usually hard. Because ... it's easy.
everything else, normal....
everything else, normal....
Always normal, I'm no puss in boots.
I will go down later if the game infuriates me to that point, but that has never happened before. I'm not playing Demon's Souls, not enough a selling point for it to die in one hit.
in boots.I will go down later if the game infuriates me to that point, but that has never happened before. I'm not playing Demon's Souls, not enough a selling point for it to die in one hit.
Hard in RPGs, puzzlers, horror and platformers, normal for everything else.
If it's complete, I'll go up a diff. to extend the replayability and get a little better at it.
If it's complete, I'll go up a diff. to extend the replayability and get a little better at it.
When I go to play a game for the first time I usually always play it on normal difficult, then afterwards I play it on it's hardest difficulty, so then i can get all of the achievements from the hard difficulty as well (usually). Well that's my strategy anyway.