Easy or Hard?

[RosieDaven]

I play the games for relaxation, for fun and for the story. I especially love it when the surroundings in the game, the voices, musics are fitting, and I can almost feel like I'm in there. You know, as if I was reading a good book and totally forgetting about everything else. That matters the most to me. But if I really love a game I'm willing to play it on hard, it's better that way, so.

I need to mention, sometimes when I'm bored I put up challenges for myself, like I can't die before finishing the game,if I die, I have to restart.

 

[WildSpirit]

I always set my game one difficulty higher than normal. I don't really encounter any difficulty when Playing normal so I usually turn up the difficulty one notch so that it becomes challenging.

That's what I'm talking about. :smile: We are on the same boat, mate! :wink:

 

[Pink_Turtle]

The level of difficulty has to be gradual. I don't think it's cool to start playing a game in the most difficult way it has.

It's a terrible choice to make.

I agree with you on this! If you do this, I think eventually you'll end up hating the game because you can't pass the levels and you'll lose the fun part of playing and just relax or chill. I personally would get really frustrated if I'll start in the most difficult level!

 

[BatmanWayne]

I like to learn how to use the controls and then play the game, I use to try it at easy mode first and then when it ends I restart it and put the hardest mode to have a challenge, it is bad sometimes because you spoil all the game when you do it first, but in the second and hardest time you take a deeper look into the game, and sometimes you found some interesting Easter Eggs.

 

[kgord]

I play the games for relaxation, for fun and for the story. I especially love it when the surroundings in the game, the voices, musics are fitting, and I can almost feel like I'm in there. You know, as if I was reading a good book and totally forgetting about everything else. That matters the most to me. But if I really love a game I'm willing to play it on hard, it's better that way, so.

I need to mention, sometimes when I'm bored I put up challenges for myself, like I can't die before finishing the game,if I die, I have to restart.

Yes, I think being part of the action and the feeling of being there is what gamers most enjoy. Some games are so realistic it is as if you really are part of that world and playing that game. It is a feeling that most who game enjoy in my opinion.

 

[WildSpirit]

I agree with you on this! If you do this, I think eventually you'll end up hating the game because you can't pass the levels and you'll lose the fun part of playing and just relax or chill. I personally would get really frustrated if I'll start in the most difficult level!

Yeah, and I think this is one of the mistakes that most happen to players who want to become "experts" (wtf?! ) in a game almost instantly. That's not gonna happen. :unamused:

I like to learn how to use the controls and then play the game, I use to try it at easy mode first and then when it ends I restart it and put the hardest mode to have a challenge, it is bad sometimes because you spoil all the game when you do it first, but in the second and hardest time you take a deeper look into the game, and sometimes you found some interesting Easter Eggs.

The level of difficulty has to be gradual. The ideal is to know the game slowly and to know how everything works before you want to go to a much more complicated stage.

 

[olaryeankarh]

Oh please! Let me play "easy" from beginning till the end. I have other things to do than to play trial by error on a game I actually want to enjoy. If I can't get past anywhere with the easy level, chances are I'm done with that game. I just prefer to spend quality time playing something I enjoy.

 

[Tania997]

I always choose the normal or medium difficulty, hard in a game you know nothing about doesn't really make sense. That difficulty is designed for people who already beat the game and know the mechanics.

 

[overcast]

I can't play most of the games in hard mode. I used to play Quake series of the game into hard mode. And then after that not much getting into the easy games. It depends on how I can handle such games in that case. You can see that some of the games are designed to be hard and that's something challenges most of the people out there.

 

[Yiskah]

I would say it probably depends on the game and what my mood is. A lot of time I play a game on easy then after I beat it I'll then go back on hard and play again. When I say it depends on my mood I mean some times I just feel lazy and don't want to work my brain! lol

 

[mcbryan]

I really like playing with challenges and hardship so I definitely choose hard mode. Easy mode makes the games boring and dull. It won't develop your gaming skills to the fullest. Playing in hard mode develop your different skills including strategic and analytical skills.

 

[James Arthur]

Some games such as GTA I enjoy playing for fun but on other games I enjoy the challenge of the game making it more life like. Depends on the game

 

[JaiGuru]

Yup, there are days when you just want to take it easy, while some times you really want the game to throw everything that it has on you. People even do armorless runs, pacifist runs, or even trying to beat the game on the highest difficulty using the weakest weapon in the game. Other times you just want the game to be easy enough to waste time on while not being frustrated by dying a lot and restarting.

I remember hearing about a guy who took a "pacifist" rout through World of Warcraft using a Pandaren. He killed nothing and still made it to level cap! I do like to do buster-only runs through Megaman games, myself, though I'm not sure how hard that really is since it's just simple pattern recognition. It was challenging enough for me though.

 

[WarVet]

The level of difficulty has to be gradual. The ideal is to know the game slowly and to know how everything works before you want to go to a much more complicated stage.

Precisely man. Few games have been able to do this in my experience. Most of them are too easy and provide the player with an option to increase the difficulty if he wants. Few games actually provide a good balance between a challenge and an impossible stage.

 

[OursIsTheFury]

I remember hearing about a guy who took a "pacifist" rout through World of Warcraft using a Pandaren. He killed nothing and still made it to level cap! I do like to do buster-only runs through Megaman games, myself, though I'm not sure how hard that really is since it's just simple pattern recognition. It was challenging enough for me though.

Is that the guy who only killed rabbits in the starting area or something? I read about a player who did that, reached max level before picking a side, and he's just there at the starting area. Kinda wasted your time though, don't you think? The idea of repetitively hunting the first enemies of the game while your level points dramatically increase in limit to reach the next level, it's a hell I don't wanna live in.

 

[WildSpirit]

Precisely man. Few games have been able to do this in my experience. Most of them are too easy and provide the player with an option to increase the difficulty if he wants. Few games actually provide a good balance between a challenge and an impossible stage.

I think the different ones of difficulties exist precisely for this: for the players to know the field where they are before advancing to "unknown" paths.

 

[kgord]

Yes, I think you have to have some initial success with the game in order to keep playing. People are unlikely to play a game even if they like it, if all they do is lose. You have to feel like you can get somewhere in the game in order to keep playing in my opinion.

 

[BatmanWayne]

The level of difficulty has to be gradual. The ideal is to know the game slowly and to know how everything works before you want to go to a much more complicated stage.

Yes, that's it, that is how I like to play the games, but there are games that have a franchise and the controls are always the same so you don't have to learn how to use it.

 

[OursIsTheFury]

Some games such as GTA I enjoy playing for fun but on other games I enjoy the challenge of the game making it more life like. Depends on the game

Is there a difficulty slider for the GTA games? I swear it was only one difficulty mode, if not, then I really have missed a lot of harder chances to play GTA quests. There are hard missions, sure, but most of GTA involves fluff where you just race, drive, and walk into destinations witout that much action or anything. I think even the final missions aren't hard, and only notorious missions like CJ on the train and controlling a toy helicopter can really challenge you.

 

[WildSpirit]

Yes, that's it, that is how I like to play the games, but there are games that have a franchise and the controls are always the same so you don't have to learn how to use it.

In this case, I agree that you can raise the level without a prior knowledge (because you actually already have it :sweatsmile.