Well?

Hard
>game turns off tutorial or HUD
Switch to normal

>>386520953
Normal first run, hard therefore after

>>386520953
Normal mode if it's my first playthrough
Hard mode if I enjoyed the game enough to play it again

>>386520953
Hard, in games with four or more options second from the hardest.

>>386520953
Picking anything but Normal on your first playthrough is blasphemy.

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Select a difficulty:
>easy
>hard

>>386520953
Hard, but not anything beyond that.

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>Difficulty
>Too easy
>Easy
>neither are easy at all

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>>386521164
> Easy and Normal pose no challenge
> Hard is just unfun bullshit

>>386520953
Normal first playtrough, hard after. Then easy just to fuck around.

If it's an indie game, normal.
If it's a AAA game, hard.

>>386520953
>hit enter
>enjoy game the way it was originally designed
>restart on hard for the challenge, skipping plot
that's how I play

>>386521268
Nicalis Story+

>>386520953
If I can't beat it on hard then I have no business playing the game.

>having different levels of difficulties

if it's a skill based game then straight to the hardest possible difficulty, if it's a "more health, muh bullet sponges" then norml.

>devs add easy mode
>it's still hard

>>386521416
This. Only a NG+ system is acceptable.

>>386521268
Both NieR games?

>>386520953
Won't play hard if it just makes enemies damage sponges and I'll usually pick normal or veteran

>>386520953
Fps normal
Action game hard

>>386520953
>Select a difficulty
dropped. Good games don't have difficulty setting you just play the game

>>386520953
>Game made before 2008
Normal
>Game made after 2008
Hard
>Game made in 2008
Spore

>>386520953
Depends on if its a game I plan to replay. If it is, then I just start on normal and move up in difficulty with each play-through. If its a game that is one and done, I just go to the hardest difficulty setting.

All of them

>>386521416
>>386521486
>>386521620
t. soulsbabies

>>386520953
I generally play through on Normal for my first time. Unless it's Halo, then I play Heroic. If I like the game enough to play it a lot, then I'll go one step above Normal most of the time.

>>386521496
NieR hard is only bullshit for ending of part 1 and early part 2, rest of game and especially endings past a are really easy to cheese.

Unless the developer specifically states that a different difficulty is what they had in mind when they created the game, normal. Otherwise, that difficulty.

Fuck 1998

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>>386521268
>Dragon's Dogma
>normal mode is a breeze
>hard mode is one-shot central

>>386520953
Probably hard. I can enjoy a game that's too hard but I can't enjoy a game that's too easy.

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Always choose the hardest available difficulty.

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>Can't beat the game on easiest difficulty

>>386521268
Half-Life 2 was like this.

>>386520953
it depends.If hard difficulty only increases the gear requirement i will just play on normal.

>>386521268
This happens to often what's the point

>>386521662
>my only experience of games designed around one difficulty is from dark souls

>>386520953
I always go for the difficulty just under the hardest level, because I want a challenge but I know devs like to make the hardest modes absurd to appeal to people with no lives. I don't got time for that shit.

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>>386520953
Easy if it's my first time in the genre. Switch to normal once I've got a hang of the mechanics. Replay the game on hard afterwards
Replay and breeze through it over and over again on extreme turbo ass rape difficulty once I've mastered it

Hard unless it just adds more HP to everything. Nobody has time for that shit.

gen 7 and 8 Hard because games these days are stupidly easy. Gen 1 to 6 Normal because Hard is actually pretty fucking Hard.

It honestly depends on what it changes?
Does it only change HP and damage outputs? Normal
Does it change AI or enemy placement? Hard

>>386521268
git gud

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>>386520953
>game has separate achievements for every difficulty
normal
>it doesn't
easy

>>386520953
Easy.

If it's made by western developers, normal because they generally make hard modes as an afterthought and it's poorly done.

If it's made by Japanese developers, hard mode.

Depends on the game fucko.

Variable difficulty was a mistake anyway.

>>386521776
DD hard mode was designed as a more challenging NG+ (aka with both your already geared and leveled arisen and main pawn). Unless you really know what you're doing there's no reason to start on it. The game doesn't tell you this beforehand though so no harm.

>>386520953
If you play on anything other than easy, you are just pretentious prick who thinks he is better than everybody else

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>Easy
walking simulator
>Normal
fair and balanced
>Hard
one shot at first glance
>UNREAL
permadeath irl

well?

>>386521776

There is an advantage, you get double xp and 5 money on hard.

Its best to get a lv200 pawn from a friend and just let her work while play safe anyway.

>>386522756
unreal then die in the tutorial level

>>386521018
Exactly this senpai.

>>386520953
Normal. It's how the devs intended the game to be played and i don't like messing with that. Same goes with mods/installing dlc that wasn't out yet, etc.

>>386521981
Do you actually do that with all games with variable difficulty? I couldn't be bothered unless the game was extremely good.

I find one game I replay multiple times just because it's that good maybe once every few years.

>>386520953
hard first
then easy to pick up the trophies after
usually there is a trophy for beating it on the hardest and next hardest and they stack so its faster this way

Real question
Easy
Normal
Hard
Nightmare

>>386523154
Nightmare
If Nightmare is "lol u die in 1 hit and your bullets bounce off the enemy", Hard

>easy is actually harder than hard

what the fuck??

>>386520953
used to be normal
now I just default to Hard

DMC3 was the last challenging game I've played, and that was mostly due to it being a horrendous fucking port

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>Normal
>Hard
>Very Hard
>Overkill
>Mayhem
>Deathwish
>One Down

>Rougelikes
Easy
>FPS, Stealth games
Hard
>Everything else
Normal

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Total war:
Easy, normal, hard, or legendary?

>>386523271
If you play anything less than Overkill and are using decent body armor, you should consider not playing video games anymore.

>>386523264
name 1 (one) game

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>easy is normal
>normal is hard
>hard is fucked

>>386523268
I beat the pc port with a keyboard before style switcher was a thing
was not exactly what I would call fun

>>386520953
Old game -> normal
New game -> most challenging difficulty offered

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>difficulty setting is a percentage slider

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>>386520953
This shit mang.

It's a hard balance. If you put a game on the hardest difficulty, it usually means you have to really really use the games mechanics. Firefights become harder, so you have to use more of the special abilities. On easy, you can just run and gun without worry about dying at all. But if it's on hard, you have to use every ability you can.

THAT SAID

A lot of games end up being worse if you put on the hardest difficulty. You end up having to use extremely cheesy tactics in order to win. You end up using the WRONG mechanics. Trying to get enemies pathfinding to fuck up, taking advantage of choke points or the fucking worst...
THE FUCKING WORST is backpedaling when fighting. You have to do that shit all the time because enemies turn into bulletsponges. So many fucking FPS games turn into "RUN BACKWARDS ALL THE TIME."

Depends on the game.

>>386520953
>normal is too easy
>hard is too hard
who else /uncomfortablyaboveaverage/ here

>>386520953
Depends on game. People that go hard only to feel a sense of accomplishment in their life are really sad. Lot of games the hard mode just turns enemies into bullet sponges and ruins time to kill.

But there are those games where Hard really ups the difficulty in a meaningful way of some kind that gets your blood pumping.

Easy

I don't have enough time anymore to dedicate time to hard games every single time. I like hard games like La Mulana or Spacechem every now and then, but anything else I try the easier difficulties

normal 90% of the time because hard seems to have become synonymous with tedious instead of more difficult

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>>386523406
yeah that's what I'm talking about
I mean using a keyboard is superior in the long run, but jesus fucking christ learning the controls was a pain
eg. press 3 to jump
well thank you game i'll do just that

>>386521898
Half Life 2 pose no challenge at all in any difficulty. I played it at hard first time and then got the remaining achievements at easy/normal and was fucking boring.
Easy/normal was like having godmode on.
Hard was easy as fuck.

>>386520953
i think we all know there is only one option
ULTRA VIOLENCE

>>386523580
This. Increased enemy HP and that's it because increasing damage as well would fuck up the balance and they can't be bothered to playtest everything again.

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>>386520953
For the last time, CONTEXT MATTERS.

>>386520953
Hard.

Games are braindead if you go under that. I'd rather struggle for twice the amount of time and feel I got something out of it rather than just listlessly cruise.

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>>386523271
>Crime Spree 3k

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>begin game
>no difficulty setting
>beat game
>unlock hard mode AND easy mode
Actual game, not even makimg bullshit up.

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>default
>harder
>Normal.... ARROW ASS RAPE ALL DAY

>>386520953
>A game has different difficulties change on how most levels are layed out.
>Playing the game on the highest difficulty level is still a fair challenge for the most part but there's a few levels where it's borderline impossible to beat them.
What's her name, /v/?

>>386520953
>normal
>hard
>lunatic
> phoenix

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>>386520953
>no very easy option

Refunded, unsubbed from the subreddit.

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>Normal is too easy
>Hard is basically normal but enemies are HP sponges
and
>higher difficulties are unlocked after completing the game

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>Easy
when you've just come back from a shitty day at work and want nothing other than to feel unstoppable with minimal effort

>Normal
Playing a game through for the first time

>Hard
Already played the game and want to play it again but with new features

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>hardest difficuly is game title or subtitle

>>386520953
Hardest difficulty now cause I dont have time to do many replays like I did in the past

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>on anything above normal 80% of the games variety of tactics and strategies are completely useless and you have to stick with the 20% of cookie-cutter strats.

Depends on the setting.

>>386523782
>>Phoenix mode not only respawns your fallen units the next turn, it also makes enemies unable to use attack stance
It boggles my mind on what were they thinking with that mode. Literally no one is going to get good at the game by playing on phoenix alone, and the only reason I can see playing on phoenix mode is if you're in it for the supports and "story".

>>386520953
>not choosing hardest difficulty always
What are you? A fucking casual?

Normal first
Hard if I like the game enough to play through it twice
Critical first if it's a Kingdom Hearts game

>shit ton of difficulty settings
>they aren't named conventionally

>>386524123
>twink

>>386522038
This

>>386524221
name 1 game that does that

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>game changes difficulty names in translation to mock those who pick the easiest one

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>>386524401

>>386523395
Blood bowl, the difficulty was just the risk factor, so easy teams were unpredictable and did some crazy bullshit when hard teams did the most predictable easy to counter shit.

>>386520953
hard first
if its too hard then I switch down
I never played the game twice

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>does game have a NG+?
>yes
play easy, NG+ on hard

>no
play hard

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>hard mode gives you and the enemies less health

>>386520953
The canonical one of course.

Depends a lot on the game and my confidence but for most AAA bullshit I always go for the hardest difficulty.

>>386521262
Calm down Dungeon of the Endless, no need to make fun of the players.

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>>386520953

>>386520953
I pick the hardest difficulty that doesn't kick my ass, generally the second highest when there are a bunch

>normal
>very normal
>hard
>very hard

>>386524246
>I excluively play very easy mode
>calls everyone that plays hard a twink

>>386524093
>attack stance
>you're clearly talking about fire emblem

What the fuck?

>>386520953
if im playing just for the story or if it's just a game to fuck around with for some dumb fun then easy
if it's a game i wanna play long-term and im really into then hard

>>386523395
Touhou 10 final boss has a spellcard that in Easy becomes slower but that causes it to fill the screen with even more bullets.

I've always considered myself shit at FPS games, but I almost always pick Hard when playing a sp campaign. I guess that means modern FPS sp games are piss easy.

>>386523395
Stalker series, easy gave you more health and made you harder to kill, but also the same to all enemies. This resulted in ungodly bullet sponges. Kind of the same principle but not effect with Metro series

There was this game on PS1 that was a beat em' up/shmup that had a "monkey" difficulty and "super monkey" difficulty after very hard. I cant remember what game.

>>386520953
That depends on if there is any additional content behind Hard or if Hard changes the gameplay enough to justify the difficulty. Turning enemies into health sponges is NOT increased difficulty.

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>game berates you for choosing the easiest difficulty

When its action or anything I'm familiar with, hard
If its a real time rts or smth I'm not familiar with, normal until I get a feel for it

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>Settler
>Chieftain
>Warlord
>Noble
>Prince
>Monarch
>Emperor
>Immortal
>Deity

Always hardest when there are 3 options, second hardest when there are 4 or more options

>>386526561
>every level above prince is just giving the ai free numbers bonuses
really wish they were two separate settings

>>386520953
Hard

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>Hard
>Harder
>Hardest
>Hardester
>Hardestest
>Hardestestest

>>386521005
>Hard
>>game turns off tutorial or HUD
YES YEEES

>>386520953
normal by default
easy is always too damn easy
and hard is balls to the wall hard on many games

standard experience

>>386520953
>play on hardest
>everything is about chip damage
>takes 434245234234234 individual hits to take the enemy out

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>>386521164
>Supereasy
>Superhard
There's actually not that big a difference.

if there is a harder mode than hard i almost always go for that

>Highest difficulty is usually too hard/bullshit to be fun
>Default difficulty is usually too easy
I usually pick somewhere in the middle.

>>386520953
The one that is implied to be the one the developers balanced the game around, so usually normal or hard

>>386527414
Super Hexagon?

Hard for AAA games as those are usually quite easy, normal for the rest

>>386523434
I liked this system in Kid Icarus: Uprising. More games should use this

Not enough easy ITT.

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Always hard. Only time I remember regretting it was Devil May Cry 1 and Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest

>>386520953
It should be challenging enough for a first and maybe second playthrough, Hard should be a real challenge and not just more enemies with more bulletsponginess while you do less damage or have % less chance to hit but then designing around that can be a real challenge, preferably it would actually change the goals, game mechanics, world locations, enemy behavior etc.

Thief's Expert difficulty is literally perfection but that's not applicable to many games, clever design is though.

Normal first to play as the devs intended. Hard if I liked the game but wanted more challenge. Easy for poorman's god mode.

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>>386520953
>normal action based game
Hard
>hardest difficulty means you die in one hit no matter what and enemies have more health
Normal
>turn based
Normal

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>easy is harder than normal

>>386523434
>difficulty is several different gameplay options you can tweak to your liking

>>386520953
I grew up around older cousins who played games and made them look simple as fuck. I never though or imagined they practiced any of this so I picked hard mode in games that didn't have them locked or as a hidden difficulty.

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>>386523395
Sky Odyssey on the PS2, having all the flight assists on makes it impossible to do a lot of the missions in the main adventure mode. So many missions depend upon you being able to navigate tight corridors, manage throttle and gliding, even using wind currents to ascend cliff faces, and that isn't even counting acrobatics. The easy mode might as well not exist.

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>>386531018
BANNERLORD FUCKING WHEN
FUCKING TURKS I SWEAR

>>386521662
>what is R&C
>what is Jak

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Easy (Normal)

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>all hard does is make enemies bullet sponges

I always pick easy for rogue-likes and hard for everything else.

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>Difficulty: HAHAHAHA

>>386532321
does that include xcom?

>>386520953
>European Extreme

Always normal unless Hard changes things other than damage dealt/taken. Damage sponges are rarely fun.

DMC does difficulty right.

>>386523782
I knew someone who picked Phoenix for fucking Birthright. What a retard she was.

>>386532321
>roguelikes with difficulty options
name?

Every shitty clone i've tried it's a one shot bs boring crap, the only one i liked was rogue legacy but it's barely part of the genre.

>>386520953
Hard, I always go one above whatever the middle one is.

>RPGs
Normal, maybe hard if you get better rewards
>action games that changes enemy placement, aggressiveness etc.
Dante Must Die

>>386520953
I just beat Titanfall 2 for the first time on the hardest difficulty, I couldn't imagine playing it any other way, it was fun as fuck.

>>386523395
Valkyrie Profile locks you out of true end and you can't get some pretty strong equipment. Which would be handier than all the levels they gave in easy modo.

>>386520953
>Total War
>EASY-Your units have stat advantages on the AI/Campaign advantages on the AI. Thus even with horrible tactics like blobbing you come out on top.
>Normal- The AI is too retarded to remain challenging once you learn the game.
>Hard- handicaps on you, AI is still retarded
>Very Hard- severe handicaps on you. AI is now retard strong. A unit of levy freemen will wipe the floor with your Evocati cohort.
>Legendary- The AI has now ascended to Cheating Bastard. The Damiyo with one province can now support 19 full stacks of rank 9 samurai. Also he has another full star general in the FOW

Total War has the worst difficulty options I've ever seen.

>>386532697
Risk of rain have three starting difficulty and a difficulty bar raising during the game.

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>cognitive impaired babby
>casual shitter
>average directionless fag
>tryhard nigga
>edgy autistic /v/tard

well??

>>386520953
Normal. If there's 4 or 5 difficulties, I will pick the second to last one.

>>386533058
I'll take casual shitter, please

Was anyone else surprised that hard on Horizon Zero Dawn was legitimately hard? I don't even want to know what the even higher difficulties are like

>>386533058
casual shitter thanks

Hard.

Normal is the equivalent of not choosing a side in a debate. Just pick easy if you want to baby your way through the game, you indecisive turds.

>>386520953

Hard unless the game is known to be brutal, then I pick normal.

>>386533208
>Normal is the equivalent of not choosing a side in a debate.
What if you suspect the debate is retarded and you just want to play video games?

>>386523271
>Normal is actually babby
>Hard is really very easy
>Very hard is easy
>Overkill is normal
>Mayhem is normal2
>Deathwish is normal3
>One down is hard
???

>>386533208
>making a choice is indecisive
????

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>>386520953
>Hardest difficulty is DLC

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>>386533117
>>386533172
I fucking knew it
never change, /v/

>>386520953
Hard almost always. Only time to pick normal is the first time tackling a new genre of vidya. Easy is purely for speedrunning purposes only.

>>386520953
Most 'hard' modes are lazy trash because they balanced the game around normal and didn't bother changing it.

>>386532697
Ever heard of ftl?

>>386532396
ESPECIALLY XCOM

>>386520953
Is it a game known for it's difficulty?
Hard.
Is it just another torrent and delete after beating game?
Normal.

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>>386523264
Due to a programming error or the devs trolling you, Easy was actually the hardest difficulty setting and Hard was easy.

>>386520953
Depends on genre.
Fps or Stealth game = Hard

Revengeance

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>easy (you're a bulletsponge, enemies die from one hit)
>normal (both take 3-4 torso shots)
>hard (enemies are bulletsponges, you die from one hit)
<master (both die from one hit)

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>have to play spin-off game on Hard for it to equal mainline game on Normal

>>386535427
i played this, holy shit it brutal.

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>hard mode adds more enemies, gives them more attacks, improves their AI, replaces early-game enemies with mid and endgame ones rather than just making them all bulletsponges that one-shot you

>>386535808
I wish more games did this. Hell just making enemies faster is a better difficulty curve than bloating their HP.

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>highest difficulty makes you oneshot all enemies and them oneshot you
the only way to play

>>386535865
They do need enough HP to survive against a good player long enough for the player to actually see their more advanced behavior though.

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>>386535886
>game has glass cannon option
>always choose it

>2007 me
Hard
>2017 me
Normal
>2027 me
Easy

This will happen to you too, I'm only 22

>>386523395
Twisted Metal 2 on the PS stopped at the first half of the game if you played on Easy.

>play strategy game on high difficulty
>enemy has infinite resources, APM, instant access to all units and knows exactly where you are

Perfect difficulties:
>Easy
>Normal
>Hard
>Extreme

No memes, no shitty names, just says what's in the box.
Prove me wrong.

>>386520953
hard, all the time.
anybody that picks easy or normal is most likely on the autism spectrum.

>>386535581
this

>>386535808
Wtf i love video games now

>>386536027
False
You don't actually like video games.

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I love it when Hard mode changes the main character's appearance.

Cave Story hard mode is fun.

>hard mode
>game takes longer to beat because of bullet sponges and more trial and error sequences
Higher difficulty settings make games more tedious than fun.

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>>386520953
>Timesplitters 2 hard mode made levels bigger with different access location, making the game overall longer

>>386536520
Depends on the game of course
I'd never bother playing Halo on legendary

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>before I got a job
Hard

>after I got a job
Easy

>>386521449
This

But also I usually play games like CoD/BF/other shooters on hardest difficulty because they are too easy on normal and hard.

Although WaW on Veteren. GRENADA!!!!:The Game

Difficulty modes are killing the fun in games.

>raising difficult doesn't really change anything, just lowers your health or nerds your damage or buffs enemy health

>literally no other difference.

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>Difficulty increases over time forcing you to choose between exploring to find new power ups or moving on before shit hits the fan.

Anything but easy modo

When I was a little shit I played easy mode first, then I reached a poit when it was boring

>>386520953
Normal.

Easy. I get through the game quicker so I can play other games.

Who am I trying to impress?

>>386520953
I play on Hard/hardest always.
Normal is the standard for a first playthrough.
With 25+ years of gaming xp, I should be able to perform above standard.

>>386520953
Hard, specially if it's a Japanese game that was "localized" and easy is replaced by normal, while the highest difficulty is locked or removed.

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>>386520953
>Normal is too easy because otherwise casuals would feel back
>Hard buffs enemies so they have bullshit amounts of damage and HP

I miss when Normal meant something.

>>386521776
In the middle of falling in that pit to awake tentacle moster, i felt the game too easy.
I switched to hard.
Goblins oneshoted me hard, Trolls were brickwalls and they 1shotted me with a dropkick and was so infuriating. I finished it anyway, was easy in the end i just had to play mage because otherwise it's impossible.

>>386520953
Depends on how the difficulty is handled. If it just makes things pointlessly irritating by removing the HUD, giving me less XP, or some other bullshit, then I'm not going to bother. If it just increases raw difficulty then I play on hard literally every time.

I want to be challenged, not fucking annoyed, not getting my time wasted.

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>difficulty changes nothing except numbers
>enemies do the fucking same
>they just deal more damage and can take more hits

>>386537240
feel bad*

>tfw such a fucking loser in life that i have to beat every game on hard to feel some sense of accomplishment
how'd it come to this?

>>386520953
normal

I play REmake on PC on easy difficulty with an infinite ammo trainer.

>>386520953
Depends on genre, rpgs Its normal and on mostly anything else it's hard.

Play it normal
Replay it on hard if i need to replay it
Replay it on easy to get all the achievements

I still to this day think Halo CE did difficulties best. Legendary on the library was bullshit, but it was just the right amount of bullshit.

>>386520953

Easy

Because fuck /v/

Here's a question relating to difficulty, if playing an rpg that has difficulty settings, should you get more experience as a reward for playing higher difficulties or less as a factor that makes them feel harder?

>>386537639
Depends on the game's mechanics.

Normal because 90% of the games balance everything around normal. Even if Hard provides extra challenge it will probably not be worth it.

>>386523696
What game?

You must be crazy if you want to play a Bethesda game on any difficulty higher than normal. It's literally the prime example of bullet sponge enemies that one shot you

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>90% of games difficulty comes from not knowing how to make a good build
>you can't guess it since you don't know what equipment is in the game to build around

basically every isometric rpg

>JP version
>Easy
>Normal
>Hard

>International version
>Normal (Easy)
>Hard (Normal)
>Very Hard (Hard)

To not offend shitters for picking Easy. Or simply just no difficulty setting and it defaults to JP easy.

>>386523359
Hard for an easy fun time, legendary for a tiny bit of challenge

>Easy (enemies have less health + quicksave)
>Normal (intended numbers)
>Hard (some new content + enemies have more health + more item drop chance)
>Hell (Hard content + enemies have significantly more health + even more item drop chance + new items exclusive to Hell difficulty)

Chose one.

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Easy
Normal
Hard
Hard + Honor, Distortion & Spite
Changing difficulty settings in the config file so that it's the maximum possible value + Honor, Distortion & Spite

>>386520953
Easy
>Normal

>Normal
Hard

Easy
Normal
>Hard

Easy
Normal
>Hard
Very Hard

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>Complete the game to unlock Hard difficulty

>>386533264
Overkill devs have to consider normie players as well.

>>386521268
Dead Space

>game asks you if you want to lower the difficulty due to repeated failing/dying

>>386521662
which difficulty do you select when you play mario gaems?

The real question is what do you do when it's:
Normal
Hard
Very hard

I just assume that normal is easy, hard is normal and very hard is hard, and so just pick hard or very hard depending on if its a genre I'm good at.

>>386521268
Bravely Default

>>386520953
Easy.
I want to enjoy my game. I do not want to frustrate myself beyond reason and claim that I derive pleasure from it somehow.

>>386520953
Normal, because that's what I assume the game was balanced around. When they tweak it for hard it can be poorly implemented.

most harder difficulties are just artificial difficulty
never actually more challenging, just padding health of enemies and damage taken

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> tfw as you get older more often you pick easy

>>386520953
easy, playing crash and jak when i was 8 let me connect a lot more than 14 years later when i planned on playing them eventually on hard

>>386546417
then what is a genuine or natural difficulty?

>difficulty settings just make enemies soak more bullets
>obviously tacked-on and ammo availability was never considered

>>386521662
>Final Fantasy VII
>Grandia
>abe's oddysee
>Rayman
>GTA
>Resident Evil:Code Veronica

Look at all these random games i pulled out my ass with no difficulty choices. Shall we add 100's more randomly??

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>>386536881
>host modifies spawn rates, hp of enemies and other shit to make game straight up impossible

>Easy: Game is unbeatable and says to try a harder difficulty after a few levels and start over
>Normal: Game is still unbeatable and says to try a harder difficulty at almost the end and start over
>Hard: Only way to beat the game

What game /v/ ?

Easy
Why would anyone want to rage and try hard at a game?

>>386520953
>easy too easy
>hard means enemies are damage sponges
I'll go normal

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>Hard mode
>enemies deal twice as much damage
>you also deal twice as much damage

>>386546435
Just don't have the time to git gud anymore like I used to.

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>You must complete the game on Hard to unlock Very Easy

>>386546881
Jamestown

>>386521268
>you're a bullet sponge
>Or you die from taking a bullet to the foot
Why is their never any middle ground.

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>Hardest difficulty gives you bonuses making it easier than the second hardest difficulty

>>386547070
You have to die several times on Normal to unlock Easy

Hard then if the enemies are health sponges I'll change to normal

>>386527279
>>386526561
Deity is separate from all those. Bonuses to AI are so high, you are required to use special strats that break the game, such as restarting for Salt or using Fountain of Youth. Seeing other people play is fun, but actually playing it = tedious chore.

>>386527651
Torchlight II is a worst offender.

>>386520953
>Easy
Everything dies in one hit
>Normal
Optimized
>Hard
The game does not change, enemies just become bullet sponges

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>hard mode has extra mechanics which you need to deal with during boss fights

I honestly wonder why the people who play on easy even play video games

>>386547383

lol casual. Winning Deity isn't all that hard and you certainly don't need gamebreaking strategies. I can do it with a random faction

>>386520953
>I'll take the unwatered-down option thank you
>pick hard
>all it does is destroy the balance by making enemies bullet sponges
>no other changes
>doesn't even feel like they tested it
EVERY FUCKING TIME REEEEEEEEE

>>386538851
Megaman Legends

I always choose max

>>386521662
>only knows dark souls

you're the soul babby
blown the fuck out nigger

>386521072
This dude gets it

>>386520953
normal then hard

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>>386520953
>Super Hard
> A difficulty between Normal and Hard

>>386521496
Nier Automata's Hard mode is pretty much normal mode, anything lower than Hard is easy as fuck.

>>386522389
I do the exact opposite, I typically play western games on hard because they tend to be a lot easier than jap games. And I think hard mode being a poorly done afterthought is something you see in both kinds of games.

>Having an easy option.

>>386521268
>Easy
>Hard
>Realistic
One of the best features in Metro and Deus Ex games because since it means you don't have to deal with bullshit.
I don't know why more games don't do it.

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>>386529210
Tfw it's actually not that hard at all

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>Easy mode
>Game gives you 99 continues but you miss out on the final mission

>>386531987
R&C had dynamic difficulty tuning

>>386524401
DOOM, Wolfenstein, Devil May Cry with the harder difficulties, Kingdom Hearts, etc

>>386520953
Normal if hard is just "enemies do more damamge while you do less"
Hard if it's actually different such as "different enemy placement or less items" or something to that extent.

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Easy

>>386541154
It's usually the other way around, Japanese hard becomes international normal and they make a whole new hard difficulty that's much harder than anything in the Japanese version.

>>386546607
Games where the difficulty actually change enemy layout and placement, restrict you in some ways, giving enemes (and bosses) new patterns and moves , or even some gimmick difficulty where everything (including you) can get one shotted.

>>386520953
You go with the hardest difficulty for that is how the game is meant to be played, anything below that is easy.
If the devs managed to play through it on the hardest, so can you.

>>386546607
Different enemy placements, new/different attacks.
I particularly like the way one of the Zero games did it.
You choose the weather, which changes the whole state and either weakens or strengthens the boss. You have to play the hard version to get the copy power.
Eg. snowing covers the platforms in ice, gives the ice boss extra attacks but sunny melts the ice and weakens the boss

>>386546881
Rocket Knight Adventures 2, Genesis
Better collect those swords faggot

>>386548146
For the story and spectacle

>>386554043
How is that any less "artificial" than increasing enemy health and damage?

>>386554273
Because enemies having new placements, such as a late game enemy being in an early game spot means you need to learn how to deal with said late game enemy without your late game crutches. You're forced to come up with new strats depending on the enemy placement. Enemies and bosses having new moves is self explanatory. The new move is typically harder to dodge or counteract. All inflating health bars means is you'll be doing the exact same thing, except the thing taking a minute longer cause you're plinking at the numbers for a longer time.

>>386554273
Because it's difficulty through strategy rather than through repetition.

>>386554541
>>386554581
Increasing enemy health and damage can change your strategy though. If an enemy dies in one hit and does fuck all damage you will just run in and attack it without thinking. If an enemy takes 10 hits to kill and can kill you in one hit then you will play carefully and focus on dodging its attacks.

>hard mode increases the enemies' health and damage by x10
fucking castle crashers

>>386520953
Normal if it's a game or genre I'm unfamiliar with. Hard otherwise.

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>>386520953
>Multiple difficulties

>>386520953
I always go hard from the get go, because I am not a pussy. And most games are STILL way too easy.

>>386554754
Anon an enemy should only die in one hit on easy though. We're talking normal to hard where an enemy already has enough health for a decent challenge, but for hard it takes like 10 minutes of attacking to kill it. That's artificial difficulty.

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If "hard" is actually challenging and keeps the game interesting - then I'd play on "hard".

If "hard" is just tedious stupid shit like Todd's Fallout 3-4 "hard" with sponge-enemies with ridiculous amount of HP and no real challenge whatsoever but waste of time instead - then fuck that "hard".
Nier Automata's "hard" and "very hard" is garbage as well.

Good difficulty scaling was in Furi, Hotline Miami, for instance.

>>386555470
Obviously increasing the enemies health excessively is bad, but people seem to act like any form of increasing enemy health or damage is bad, when it clearly isn't.
Would Monster Hunter be fun if G-rank enemies did the same amount of damage and had the same amount of health as low rank enemies? No of course not, even with their new moves they would feel like a joke with how little they hurt you.
Would Halo games be better if Heroic just replaces all the grunts with Brutes or Elites? I don't think so, having the enemies be stronger is already enough to force you to change your play style and take the game more seriously

My point is that increasing enemy stats is a perfectly good way of increasing difficulty as long as you're not stupid with it, so stop acting like it's always a bad thing

>>386556137
Yeah it actually would be better if they just gave you more of the high level brutes and elites, and none of the lowest tier of grunts.
That's a much better challenge than making all the enemies near unkillable.

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>you can change difficulty and lower your level
>lowering your level reduces health but increases drop rate
>different difficulties have different drops

>>386523395
Touhou 15

>>386520953
>RPG where you unlike hard mode after completing the game
>It's just the enemies being higher leveled, but you gain more experience so Normal mode is just the same as Hard mode

>select hardest difficulty
>necessitates knowing how the game works to even get through the prologue
>still get instructional popups FOR THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE GAME

>>386523395
Worms

ill pick hard first if the game lets me do it and it isn't immediately unfun

>>386557590
>tutorial popups for things that you necessarily have already done by that point
wot

>Decide to play P4G on Very hard after finishing it 4 times on normal/hard (but with ng+)
>Fresh file finally get to yukiko's palace
>Random crits fuck everywhere
>Exp rates are so fucked you need to grind for hours
>Forgot how much bullshit was involved with golden hands without megido
>only finished it after 10 hours level 13 and dying to a crit from double fangs ever time it was shadow yukiko's turn

I'm not sure if I wanna keep going but they say the first dungeon is always the hardest..
.

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>higher difficulties just increase enemy damage and health to stupid amounts
I rarely play anything above normal because of that bullshit

Normal because it's the difficulty the game was built around, but more importantly because I'm not actually that good at video games.

Whichever one is around my skill level

>>386520953
Always Hard unless it's a genre I suck at.

>>386559528
>difficulty the game was built around
Depends on the game. More hardcore games are built around a difficulty that isn't accessible to casuals, so they have to offer a scaled back version. Also, sometimes the developer builds the game around a low difficulty to cater to casuals despite the character progression making those difficulties trivial, as with Killing Floor 2.

>>386523395
Imo guitar hero was easier on expert than any other mode because it used correct rhythm.

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>>386548457
edgy

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>Multiple difficulties
>In a visual novel

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>>386520953
normal

easy may cut out the end in some games, and easy is just giving you more Dosh in the start, not making the enemys easier in any way or form

>tfw you went easy mode as babby only to find this out

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>lower difficulty mean less xp gained

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Very Easy obviously

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>>386520953
Depends on the game. Hard on FPS games and Normal on most RPGs and strategy games, unless that turns out to be too easy.

>game changes difficulty setting without your approval

Absolutely disgusting. If I want to play on hard let me play it even if I die a lot on a certain part.

>>386520953
>while being kid
Hard
>while being teenager
hard or nightmare if it's available
>While being adult
Easy

I can't give a shit anymore about mechanics and game elements that've I played over and over again throughout the years.
It's just the same shit in different wrapping.
It may have some unusual story so that's why I still can run a game on easy to marathon through it to get all the story.

Games are either Meh nowdays or I just grew out of them, in any case I don;t care.

>>386520953

>Easy : I have trouble with few bosses, because I don't bother.
>Hard : Easy piece of cake, because I minimax my stats, and think of a strategie before the fight

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>>386554046
I released a game and actually never beat it on the hardest secret settings

normal if it's a genre I'm not used to, hard otherwise

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What do /v/?

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>>386520953
Hard, ill learn the nuances as the game kicks my ass.

>>386556498
TWEWY is such an underrated gem of a game

>>386561852
>harder difficulties give ridiculous amounts of xp negating most or all of the difficulty

If there are two difficulties, pick the second
If there are three, choose the third
If there are four, choose the third
If there are five, choose the third
If there are six, choose the fourth
If there are seven, choose the fourth
If there are eight, choose the fifth
I can't name any game with more difficulties, except the original Postal, but that was hard as shit on any difficulty.