| The last time I played on easy mode was in MGS4, just so I could speed up my playthroughs getting all the emblems. Outside of that I usually play on normal, and I will play higher difficulty if I like the game a lot. I feel easy mode often trivializes the experience for me. |
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| I used to do that all the time when I was younger. Now I play at normal mostly, or the hardest difficulty if I love the game and I’m confident in my abilities. |
| I play normal, after beat the game, i think if i am gonna play again on hardest mods. |
The battle is over.  Show respect for the fallen who fought so bravely. |
| I've only ever played one game on easy because I'm a scrub and I didn't think I'd beat it otherwise. But I plan on trying it on standard at some point. So almost always, standard/normal for me. |
| Usually I do either easy or normal difficulty. I’m not very good at video games lol :( |
| I usually tend to go for the normal setting. I might do easy setting on a game I already beaten before but want to go through it quickly. |
| It depends what kind of game it is. But normally normal or higher. |
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| i play easy or normal first then go for the hard after i finished playing the game |
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| nahh, i'm a uber l££t pr0 g@mer bro. we don't know that mode |
| I always start with the easiest difficulty and I increase it once I get skilled enough to change to a harder difficulty. I rarely play on the hardest difficulty though. |
dejwidu said: I always start with the easiest difficulty and I increase it once I get skilled enough to change to a harder difficulty. I rarely play on the hardest difficulty though. Same here. I only try the hardest difficulty when I'm achievement hunting (and I rarely succeed at it so). |
| Straight to hard these days. Normal doesn't usually require you to use all of the game's mechanics. Unless it's the off chance I'm playing a shooter. Then I'll go normal and likely have to switch down for certain sections. I'm not a fan of KB&M. |
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| I usually play on normal/medium as that's how the game's generally supposed to be played. If the difficulty is changeable during the game, then I usually go higher if I want to complete some achievements. Even if the game is easy for me on medium with my perks, I usually wouldn't up the difficulty as I like the satisfaction of defeating a boss on my first try. |
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| I usually play them on normal.. and after I complete the game then i'd try it on a higher difficulty. It's best not to jump into a new game on the highest difficulty possible because then you'd end up fucking yourself up and not enjoying the game. |
| always only easy mode |
| I usually play games on normal, because that is usually the baseline that the developer do when they design a game. I would only turn it to easy when I'm facing difficulty to progress through the game, I never played a game on hard or hardest difficulty because it makes no sense and unrewarding for me. |
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| never, how boring would that be, i suppose people who dont have lots of time can get away with it but the game wont be enjoyed to the fullest, imagine playing dark souls with sorcery class, it's no fun |
| The older I get, the higher the difficulty setting. I remember not liking Quake I too much back then, and enjoying Quake 2 a lot in easy/normal difficulty. Bought the two games recently again, Q2 put me asleep on the hardest setting, but Q1 wrecked my face at level 3 with a nasty teleport ambush lol. Kept me on my toes throughout most of the game by being sadistic and unforgiving af. Modern gamers will never know the adrenaline rush you get when ill-intentioned devs teleport shamblers straight on your face. Nowadays I always start games in the hardest difficulty setting. It's often easy af anyway >.> I'm afraid most shooters are balanced around inadequate controllers since the 2000s This said I'm mostly a FPS person since ages, I can see tons of cases where high difficulty settings would make little sense to me. 1on1 fighting games? Yeah no thx I don't like getting my bum kicked by an AI who can do everything frame-perfect. |
DeathkoSep 22, 2021 3:22 PM
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| In video games since little I am a masochist so I put always the highest difficulty possible and if there are additional options to make it harder I am switching on everything of them x). edit: Here's a little proof that I actually enjoy being a masochist(some of them might be more or less impressive but I've never said I am a pro in any of games x) ): |
ZettaikenSep 22, 2021 6:41 PM
| nah, I mostly play on normal and move on to hard. |
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| I mostly play games on a normal level, except moments when the game is that unbalanced so I have to increase difficulty of a game (for example TW: Warhammer, bot is just too stupid on normal so I play on legendary). |
| yes I'm in control ak wrapped around my shoulder strike with venom like a cobra murder all in the aroma |
| Sometimes, but i prefer playing on the Normal difficulty |
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| I play at a suitable level to how hard/easy the game is, which mostly is normal. |
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| I just auto-set everything to the hardest difficulty because thats just always how i've done it. |
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| depends on the game but mostly on easy/normal. maybe after i complete it i try hard but it happened only once with danganronpa |
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| Depends on the game but no just on normal |
| I always pick/start from Normal or above because my pride as a gamer doesn't allow me to choose easy, it just doesn't feel right |
| oftentimes i jump to the highest difficulty, ike when i got a touhou 8 LNN clear which took 15 months. i had nO touhou experience prior to tHat and practiced every day. i don't play the hardest setting of arcade toaplan shmups typically because the harder difficulties aren't really made to be plAyable considering how bullet spongy stuff can be. default dips are fine for toaplan. a lot of times though, i play games on the lower difficulties first and then go to the hardest, like with image fight II here's both the touhou 8 and image fight II runs if yOu care to see |
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| I always play the hardest diff. Tried the last difficulty once with Nier Automata but I had to change to Hard... Very Hard is impossible for me, but Hard wasn't even that hard. Perhaps a little bit at Emil's 1st fight, but the pods are way too op. |
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| Completely depends on the game I'm playing. I generally like a challenge but thats mostly from games with one intended experience like Bloodborne or Super Meat Boy. Games with a slider can be harder to judge so sticking with the neutral option is normally what I go for then experiment with harder settings if I really like the game. Completely understand playing on easier settings if thats what you get enjoyment from, its there for a reason. Alternatively I lower the difficulty if I just want to see the end of the story and am generally not enjoying it the game (done this recently with Tales of Arise). EDIT- Spelling =( |
| Depends, if a game is stupid easy on easy, i'll play it on a higher difficulty. Some games i'm playing for the story and not to play for the game, i'll do those on easy. If it's a fair challenge, i'll play it on a high one. But if it's BS hard and ridiculous, i'll play it on easy. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| Nah even when I'm trying to get easily the steam account achievements of that game.I'm usually playing every game on the hardest difficulty and trying to 100% it.Playing at the easiest difficulty for me it's boring and very easily like the dying light.In the easiest difficulty the zombies can't even touch me and in the hardest with 2 hits the night chumps kills me even tho my stats are maxed and they are going down very slowly If they jump you and you're not careful game over 🤣 |
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| If it's a game I've never played before I play on normal, if I'm replaying a game I tend to crank it up to hard to keep things fresh. It's not a point of pride for me, I just feel kinda bad when difficulty settings mess with the progression of the game/character. Like sure it's funny to blow people up in one shot at like level 3 in New Vegas but it kinda throws the whole progression aspect off course. Same applies to facing bullet sponge enemies at level 1 and whatnot, changing the health of NPCs and nothing else is just a lazy way to artificially make a game more "difficult". Way of The Samurai did it well with the one hit kill difficulty setting, everyone including you dies in one hit so nobody is really overpowered but it's still really challenging. |
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| Almost always I go with the default difficulty. Only time I can remember going hard mode was for Dragon Quest XI, and that's because I heard the game was too easy on normal to the point of not really being fun. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but hard mode wasn't too challenging apart from a few cheap bosses. |
| I agree with you. I almost always play on the easiest setting these days. Hardcore gaming is not for me at the age of 30+. |
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| depends on the game and my mood |
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