>game asks me to choose difficulty >feel like a little

>>378835545
>game asks me to choose difficulty
>immediately google it to know what each difficulty means exactly

>>378835545
>Higher difficulties only give enemies more health and me less.

>>378835545
>insecure towards a game

>sometimes the hardest mode is the way the game is meant to be played
>other times it's the ridiculous bullshit difficulty for autists

>>378835732
^This
There have been a few games where the only difference between "easy" and "hard" mode is that easy is just more enjoyable and requires me to grind a lot less.

There was some action RPG where the only difference between easy and hard was that you leveled faster and you had more options open to you in a skill tree on easy mode. Hard mode was literally just a slog through enemies with more health and less rewards.

If Hard mode actually feels like it will be more enjoyable, I'll gladly do it on my first run.

Normal mode.

I play games to escape my difficult and horrible life.

>>378835545
Why? You can replay the game how many times you want with a different difficulty each time.

>Hard mode is just the same as Normal mode but with all the extra "challenge" modifiers turned on all the time
>It still gives you the extra bonuses for having them on, but just makes it tedious as fuck to play

>>378836060
but i might die tomorrow

>>378835545

>So pathetic you have to justify how you enjoy your entertainment

Wew.

>hard modes usually just make enemies bullet sponges
>easy modes usually just do the exact opposite
>games usually balanced around normal/medium modes

is there ever a reason to not play medium?

>>378836317
Are you fucking gay or something?

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>>378835545
It goes like this if the game only has easy, normal, or hard then I choose hard, unless the game is known for being challenging in normal to begin with (like underrail). If it has more than three difficulties I choose the second to last hardest (heroic on halo)

>>378836325
>is there ever a reason to not play medium?
If youre not a bitch

>>378835732
This, you can never be sure that the difference between normal and hard isn't every enemy being a bulletsponge. It also helps you avoid bullshit like Metro LL's retarded Ranger Hardcore mode that removes hud elements like QTE prompts and navigating your inventory while Ranger Easy plays exactly the same but just minimalizes the hud instead of removing vital information.

I always pick medium. The reason being that it is usually how the game was made, but then some of their testers felt it was too easy or too hard and thus make those modes to cater to them.

>>378837734
>I always pick medium. The reason being that it is usually how the game was made
Nigga, medium is literally casual babby mode in every western game. Anything below is video game journalist mode

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>easy
>experience zero stress or frustration for the entire duration of the game, but also no satisfaction from anything you accomplish

>pick normal
>game starts out perfectly balanced in terms of difficulty and ends up getting way too easy toward the end as your skill level improves

>pick hard
>game starts way too difficult, is infuriating and annoying, and you feel like dropping the game/restarting on a lower difficulty, but if you persist, the game becomes perfectly balanced as your skill level improves

which do you prefer?

If only a game could be normal for the first half, and hard for the second half. That'd be perfect.

>always chose the Easy difficulty because I want to have fun

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>>378837954
>Pick hard
>Game starts out ass-crushingly hard, then eventually becomes braindead easy

>>378835545
but if you want to replay it then you have nowhere to go.

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>>378835545
>tend pick medium the first time because the implicit understanding is that medium is the level of difficulty devs intended for their game.
>the difficulty description for Hard is "This is the way the game was meant to be played"

Ninja dog

>>378837561
What game is this?

>>378835545
If normal is described as normal, I play normal.

If hard turns everything into a bullet sponge, it breaks immersion.

>>378838181
>>the difficulty description for Hard is "This is the way the game was meant to be played"
>with bullets sponges and enemies killing you in 1 hit
sure thing

>Golden eye custom difficulty
>enemies take 10 headshots, drop 10 bullets and you die in one hit

>>378835545
>Game let's me choose dificulty.
>Pick the hardest one.
>Still easy as fuck.
Fuck you filthy casuals ruining my entertainment.

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>>378835545

2 difficulties
>pick difficulty 2, with 1 being the easiest
3 difficulties
>pick difficulty 3
4 difficulties
>usually pick difficulty 3
5 difficulties
>usually pick difficulty 4
6 difficulties
>pick difficulty 4 because I know my Serious Sam limits, and SS is the only series I know that has 6 difficulty settings

>>378835789
>try BF3 campaign on ace difficulty
>can't move up on a hill because infinite enemy reinforcements until i move up, making grenades useless
>can't move up because i am forced to tank some hits, but die from 2 bullets

infinite reinforcements is the biggest cancer in the FPS industry

>>378835545
>game asks me to choose difficulty
>if there are no diff related achievements I pick the easies
>nobody will know

>>378838919
>Play CoD:MW2 on hardest
>Cheese it by sprinting to spawn points and having friendlies fill for me, otherwise they keep fucking spawning
This is such bullshit

>>378837561
Which gender is hardcore?

>>378838292
Grim dawn

>>378839083
Any good?

>>378835545
>game asks me to choose difficulty
>Pick hard because in modern games Normal means easy and Easy means the AI is deactivated by default and pressing X makes the credits roll

>>378839109
Kinda. If you liked titan quest you will like it

>>378839109
Not him but yes, really good alternative to Diablo 2 and POE if you are into arpgs

>>378836325
>more hp isn't harder
When will this meme stop?

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>>378835545
I pick easy when:
>gameplay is garbage
>I just want the story/experience

I pick hard when:
>I like the gameplay to a great deal and wish to master it
>I want to keep playing the game but have exhausted all other means of keeping it "fresh"

I pick medium when:
>everyone ist alking about this shit I just want to see what the noise is about

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>>378835545
>game has 4 diffs
>only 2 are available for the first play

>>378839346
It's not enjoyable difficulty though. Good difficulty changes will make the AI smarter and introduce more/different enemies in order to make the player strategise more instead of just shooting more.

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>>378839552
>Available difficuilties are casual tier

>>378839346
But more hp doesn't make you play better, just play longer.

i normally go with the second hardest difficulty.
really hate it when games have difficulties designed for NG+ unlocked at the start without informing the player about that.

>>378840032
Is that your rationalization for being a scrub?

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>>378835545
>Play game on normal because it's probably the best balanced
>Tell myself that I'll replay it on hard
>Never go back after beating it

>hardest difficulty makes the game easier

>>378839856
Fight is longer, enemies hit you more, you die.
It requires you to play good more consistently.
It can be tedious in single enemy fights but it definitely adds to the difficulty in mob fights. since you can't turn it into a 1v1 as easily.

>medium is the intended way

WTF is this fucking bullshit I keep reading on threads like this one?

Hardest difficulty is the only way to go. That's how the devs want you to play the game. They just think "oh shit, this maybe is too hard to all those casual plebs" and make medium. And then they think "hey, maybe this is still too hard for fucking retards" and make easy.

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I research what the difficulty settings change and then pick. Sick of going very hard and then enemies take bullets to the head like they're made of steel. Makes the game slow and boring as fuck.

Hard difficulty should mean you die in 2 hits and so do your enemies.

>>378838060
This is how I felt about the new DOOM.

I enjoyed the earlier levels way fucking more than the rest because of it though.

>>378838995
The last airplane level in the first MW on the hardest difficulty was pretty cool though. I actually had to use flashbangs and proper covers as well as pinpoint accuracy to be able to finish it.

>>378840665
>game on Hard
>scarce ammo
>enemies are bulletsponges

Are devs even thinking?

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>>378835889
>hardest mode ever the way the game is meant to be played.
>When normal/medium exists.
The only time I can think of the hardest game mode being "normal" is rhythm games.
The only time a game is "meant to be played" on a difficulty is if there is no option to choose a difficulty.

>Be you be him be me

>Pick easy every time

>Hate on people for picking lesser difficulties here.

I have lived long enough to see myself become the villain

>>378840868
Bioshock Infinite was shit but 1999 mode made it infinitely more shit

>>378840695
I remember playing about the first 1/4 of the game on nightmare forgetting that I had even set it to that difficulty. Game starts getting harder and die more often. Get to one part I just can't get past.

Check my difficulty level...Oh, lol.
Still had heaps of fun playing it at 2nd hardest though.