What's your default starting difficulty?

[Ready2Go]

I play most games on normal, but i play games like dragon age on causel, but most FPS on hard.

 

[karloss01]

Normal mode, then if i like the game or it was too easy, hard and so on.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

My default is normal. I'll tweak it higher on repeat play throughs though, if I plan to play it again.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

Usually normal. If things get tough or too easy, i´ll shift the difficulty to an appropriate level.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Normal. Especially if the game seems to be fairly story-heavy. And most of the games I choose and play, are story-heavy. lol

 

[Mr.Teatime]

Depends on if I played a prequel or something like it before. Usually the one just above normal.

 

[Grant Hobba]

if its cod or anything of that nature... usually hard. Because ... it's easy.

everything else, normal....

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Shooters the hardiest, RPGs normal

 

[ace_of_something]

Typically the default which is 'normal' i rarely do anything different.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

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.

 

[Dr Pyramid Head]

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.

 

[Cinderella Man]

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.

 

[Hollock]

Normal, but the last game I played I switched it to easy at the start.

 

[tobuji]

depends on the game. if it's from a series or genre i'm familier with, i'll choose normal. if it's something like an RPG or a game that i'm not familiar with, i'll go for the easiest difficuly.

 

[the spud]

Usually hard, but not incredibly hard. I like a challenge, but not my head exploding.

 

[internetzealot1]

I always start on the hardest difficulty. Because these days, its the only one that will ask you to play well.

 

[Mr. Gency]

Normal. Proud (hard) for Kingdom Hearts games.

 

[major28]

I do normal and then do hard and try and get all the trophies on that playthrough. Only exception is if there is a higher difficulty you can unlock by playing hard(like in God of War), in which case I'll start on hard to unlock the higher difficulty then play that, because I want to beat the game on hardest difficulty but I can't usually play a game more than twice.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Whatever the game suggests. Apparently, that's how the folks at Game Informer do it and they feel that it gives the experience the developer wanted the player to experience. Thought it was an interesting view, and decided to adopt it.

 

[Catalyst6]

Always on normal. I assume that "normal" is the balanced level that the developers designed for, where it's difficult, but not The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard hard like the upper difficulty levels.