Depends on my mood. Sometimes I want a challenge, and sometimes I just want to relax and play casually. I rarely play on the easiest difficulty though, it feels like I'm cheating somehow.
Why Play On Hard?
- Thread starter Sky Captanio
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I play on hard because I often find the lower difficulties way too damn easy...
DA is the only exception, though.
DA is the only exception, though.
I like the challenge and the achievement is just that extra good feeling I get once its all over and done. ;D
Achievement points aren't worth shit.Sky Captanio said:
The only achievements worth earning are the ones that in themselves you consider worth earning. Do you REALLY want to collect all cog-tags in gears of war? Is that something to be proud of?
Is is a more worthy achievement is something like "longest jump" or "three headshots in one breath".
As far as difficulty settings, find the highest difficulty setting YOU CAN ENJOY and play that till it gets boring, THEN move onto the higher difficulty.
I am amazed at the retarded idea that people HAVE to get all 1000 possible points you can in the game... WHY? When half the things asked are boring?
The best kind of achievements are those that you earn not by seeking them out but by merely playing the game WELL and INVENTIVELY. Team Fortress 2 rewards this perfectly, nothing like getting three backstabs in a row than the game also recognising your achievement.
I absolutely HATE doing things on hard. I always play on the easiest difficulty because it's way more fun. I really don't see the point of playing on any difficulty other than easy.
agreed. most games i play i play for entertainment and to relax away from the real worlds annoyances and frustrations, i dont need to be trying to shoot or kill something thats invincible and 100x faster than me with no checkpoints, thats just bullshitCheveyo said:
Now let's say there are 4 difficulty levels, Easy, normal, hard and very hard. I will usually play on "Hard" because it challenges me suffciently without me being completley smothered by the AI, and playing Very ard just isn't fun, because you die over and over agian until it becomes more of a nuisance than anything else. To put it like this: Fun + the experience > achievments + challenge
I'll admit there are times where I do only play the hardest difficulties for the achievement points, those things are like crack man. Once you get some you just want more. But most the time I'll play a difficulty that matches my skill level and if the game has replay value step up the difficulty till I get to hardest to challenge myself. Most the time I stick to normal occasionally hard though.
Usually play normal and rarely change it, and that's only if the balance is off. Like the Total War games, their difficulty is quite badly made. Easy and medium: You don't even have to try. Hard: Ok except for terrible diplomacy/ai decisions. Very Hard: Game cheats to make it more even (stat bonuses), but still fails due to wonky AI.
only game i play on a difficulty other than the easiest is guitar hero. i just don't see the point in being blown to shit and repeating the same thing over and over.
Yeah... Underground had a few hard parts too. Underground 2 took me 40 minutes to beat.Furburt said:
GTA SA was one of those games where I just couldn't have any fun in it without cheating, kind of like The Sims, but that might have just been me.