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Last post: 17 Jun at 18:08
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:22 |
You finally get that new game you've been dying for. You rush home, struggle to tear off the plastic, pop in the disc, and dive into the new experience that awaits. Then the main menu comes up and asks you to select your difficulty level...
What do you choose and why? Sound off in the comments. Let's see how many of us go for it all on the first try and how many of us take the easy way out.
Poll: What difficulty do you play a game on for your first playthrough?
8.6% - Easiest available
3.3% - Easy
31.6% - Medium
6.1% - Hard
17.7% - Hardest available
32.7% - It depends
We had 1,276 responses to the poll.
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Last post: 13 Jun at 19:55
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:27 |
| I always select Easiest Available. I don't want to spend the entirety of playing my first game dead. |
Last post: Yesterday at 18:46
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:28 |
| Most games have a normal/recommend level (usually medium) and I go with that. |
Last post: Yesterday at 14:24
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:33 |
It really depends on the game. If it's a whore game that requires the hardest difficulty for minimum playthroughs then I'll do that.
If it's something I've been looking forward to then I'll usually do medium, unless I know it's easy on medium and go straight for hard.
Saying that, recently, I've been coerced into starting rather difficult games on the hardest available difficulty in co-op. |
Last post: 15 Dec 12 at 15:10
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:46 |
Achievements dictate this somewhat for me, so I chose "It depends".
If I need to play on a certain difficulty for an achievement and it's unlocked from the beginning, I'll likely play that difficulty. Otherwise, my default is normal/medium. |
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Last post: 16 Jun at 17:11
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:49, Edited on 15 July 12 at 16:49 by LV 1 Blue Slime |
| It depends. If a game requires two playthroughs and the first can be on any difficulty, I'll choose the easiest. No reason to make it harder for myself. In other situations, it depends on how hard I perceive the game to be and whether there are rewards for playing on harder difficulties, like better loot and more experience in an RPG for example. I'll play hard in that case, but I will otherwise play on medium. I usually only default to easy if it's a genre I'm not good at (fighters). |
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Last post: 11 Jun at 20:32
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 16:55, Edited on 15 July 12 at 17:58 by RuukuSukotto |
"Depends"
90% of the time I prefer to go through on the easiest possible, my first playthrough of any game is always for the story and to get to grips with the game, achievements mean absolutely nothing to me other than being somewhat of a "to-do" list.
I picked depends because sometimes, not very often, I leave the difficulty as is. |
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Last post: 15 Jul 12 at 17:26
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 17:26 |
| Gotta man up and play the hardest available difficulty and knock as many achievements out as possible in one playthrough, |
Last post: 31 Jan at 13:18
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 17:36, Edited on 15 July 12 at 17:36 by SecondHeartbeat |
| If it's from a series I've already played then I'll play it on Hard; if it's completely new to me I'll play it on Normal. |
Last post: Today at 06:35
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 17:40 |
I used to do hardest available to get difficulty-specific achievements out of the way in the shortest playthroughs required however I found myself loathing games and being unable to enjoy the game doing that.
I now play on Hard difficulty (or Normal, if Hard is the hardest available) so that I can learn the game and enjoy it, while preventing myself from getting bored of the difficulty. |
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Last post: 14 Feb at 18:03
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 18:14 |
| It definitely depend with me, if it is a game like call of duty or battlefield, then usually I pick the hardest or second hardest difficulty. But if it say an RPG the I will normally go on the default difficulty then increase or decrease it depending if it is too hard or easy. |
Last post: 21 Mar at 20:15
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 18:45 |
| It depends if it is easy on hard and is enjoyable, like medal of honor, but on gears I usually play on normal on solo or hardcore with friends and then do insane. |
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Last post: Yesterday at 18:49
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 19:01 |
| Dreakon1313 said:Achievements dictate this somewhat for me, so I chose "It depends".Same here! |
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Last post: 10 Apr at 00:41
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 19:15 |
It really depends on if it's a genre I'm not exactly comfortable with, shooter would go on normal, but action/adventure games would go on the hardest I can play, saying that I started Ninja Gaiden 2 on the easiest  |
Last post: 08 Mar at 09:28
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 20:00 |
It depents on the achievement.
If for the achievements all you need to do is complete the game with no difficulty required I'll pick easy.
If the difficulty achievements stack I'll start on the harderst dificulty.
And if the difficulty achievements don't stack I'll start with easy (and do the collectibles on that difficulty if there are any) and work my way up to the harder difficulties. |
Last post: 27 Nov 12 at 23:39
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 20:09 |
| I always go straight in at the deep end unless I have to play it through 3 or 4 times for achievements anyway. I still normally go for the hardest though. |
Last post: Yesterday at 01:41
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 20:22 |
| Normal, I want to play regular before ball busting or walking through. |
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Last post: 30 Mar at 14:13
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 21:10 |
| I usually go for Hard if the game has a difficulty above that (which most of the games I play do, but you need to unlock it). That way, I can both have fun with the story, without spending 90% of my time behind cover, recovering health, and knock out one or two difficulty related achievements, and it also gives me a chance to get used to the slightly harder AI. |
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Last post: Yesterday at 19:20
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 21:41 |
| It depends. If I've played a game from the series, I may go for the harder setting. If I want to blast through a game, I'll pick easy. If I'm feeling lazy, I'll pick easy. |
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Last post: 11 Jun at 00:26
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Posted on 15 July 12 at 21:44 |
DeathGuard 123 said:It depents on the achievement.
If for the achievements all you need to do is complete the game with no difficulty required I'll pick easy.
If the difficulty achievements stack I'll start on the harderst dificulty.
And if the difficulty achievements don't stack I'll start with easy (and do the collectibles on that difficulty if there are any) and work my way up to the harder difficulties.Yeah that's pretty much the same as me. Given the choice I'd always just play on the easiest, but unfortunately games like COD force me to have to do the hardest for the achievements, which honestly often just completely ruins the game for me and I end up hating every minute of it and can't wait until it's done :( |
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