Easy , medium , hard?

Pugsley

Atari Jaguar

For FPS games hard virtually all the time, they tend to make them way too easy. However for strategy games usually medium, its one thing loading back and losing 5 mins in a buggered up run in an FPS, its another losing 45mins in an RTS. For beat em ups tend to be medium/hard for capcom's (6 stars usually), and hardest for 3d beat em ups. Just depends on the game really.

Fobia

Depends what I want the game for..if I want to compete online etc I'll go straight to hard, but if I just want to play the game for the plot I'll play on easy/medium..

rainbow kirby

Hard

the poll wrote:

Easy with cheats on, im a big girl!!

I resent the wording of this poll

KdjaCL

Atari Jaguar

rainbow kirby wrote:

I resent the wording of this poll

Thankfully not the spelling

Level of dicciculty?

kdjac

RopeDrink

Hard

I base all games by playing on medium first, then deciding what difficulty later suits me if I have any intention of playing again (or keep playing if it gets too frustrating / simple).

I think this applies to the humble majority.

Franky Boy

I play hard to medium then to easy.

Sugarbear

Hard

Medium's the best way to go to get a feel for the game, and then decide whether you're good enough for hard....or if you're total sh*te and have to turn it down a notch

Kiith

Atari Jaguar

i generally pick hard, since i find it more enjoyable when theres a genuine challenge.

but for games like the total war series, or civ type games, ill pick medium or sometimes easy, cause i suck at them.

managed to clear far cry on the 2nd hardest setting, but damn, the hardest is bloody hard

Praetorian

I used to play everything on hard mode, but these days I usually start off on medium mode for a fun time with no frustration. I am now playing HL2 again on hard mode and I'm pwning the AI (The prison will be hard though) :!

monument

Hard

Medium most of the time, the odd time hard.

Borat_Sagdiyev

Atari Jaguar

I usually go for the toughest level in soccer games because then when you've played a league game and you've grinded out a 0-0 playing against a good side and your lads are muck, you'll fell you've earned it. I always find that when you go to easy or medium and get used to destroying them, its not too much of a step up to hard. I enjoy the time I have not being good at a game because when I get to the stage I can beat any team in the game with any other, its boring.

Illuvatar

Hard

I go for medium then I work my way up the ladder.

Vulture

Atari Jaguar

Hard at least, legendary or godlike if you can do it without reloading ever time you kill someone.
Best example i have is halo, about 2 levels into the game i was only using the green energy pistol and the standard marine pistol. Charge green pistol pop out of cover shoot big shilded guy and his shields dissappear, switch to pistol and put either one bullet in his head of three in his chest and it's all over. See my friend playing it and he is still using the machine gun, he just runs up point blank and fills the guy's chest with lead, unless theirs two in which case he just runs up point blank and fills the guy's chest with lead run around in circles while reloading and then runs up point blank and fills the second guy's chest with lead. I enjoyed the game more than him and played it twice, but then thats most likely because i'm an addict. I suppose it depends on how serious a gamer you are.
For strategy games i go hard as well, you may die in the first 5-15 min about 10 times but then you learn how to survive the first fight. After that it's just a matter of balancing your economy. Well ok it's a little bit trickier than that but i find it really helps speed up the learning curve.

PS cheats are just pointless and the only excuse is that you have finished the game already and are just having fun .

TCamen

Hard

Medium pretty much always. Can't think of the last game I either downgraded to 'Easy' or upgraded to 'Hard' tbh.

Stalfos

Atari Jaguar

Racing games and beat em up are always hard and RTS's medium but i generally dont play games with a skill setting or i just never bothered to look maybe. RPG's mainly dont come with skill settings afaik.

spooky donkey

Medium

I go for easy cuse i find it hard to find time to finish a game once. Time is short enough and there ar so many games I want to get around to playing.

Slutmonkey57b

Easy

Easy with cheats on. If I wanted to be challanged I'd beat my head off the wall and enter the special olympics. RL is challanging enough, I play games to be entertained, not frustrated.

ghost26ie

Medium

grimloch wrote:

For a first play, gererally medium or more likely easy. If I feel like replaying then maybe hard.

For games like Invisible War with its deplorable combat physics it will always be easy.

i'm generally the same. start of with normal/easy/medium and then if i play for a game a second time i'll move up to the hardest level.

ambro25

FPS - medium
Schmups - medium
Racing - hard/realistic
Flying - hard/realistic
Turn/Strategy - medium 1st, then hard