What difficulty do you play your games on, /v/? Does the hardest difficulty make it more fun or more of a grind.
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>>344752235
>>344752235
Medium difficulty for nearly everything except JRPGs, for which I choose the easiest difficulty available.
>>344752235
Medium
Depends on the game
Normal most of the time
Hard for subsequent playthroughs or if Normal is too easy. Too bad most of the time a higher difficulty just means increased numbers rather than the dev team making any conscious effort into things like new movesets or something.
Medium always.
I play on normal.
There are many games that are funner on harder difficulties but there are a lot more of them that aren't.
>>344752235
Is that from the monolith map?
Easy because I'm not a tryhard who wants to impress someone with mad vidya skillz.
>>344752235
medium or hard depending on the game
and obviously special cases like STALKER where harder = purely better i play on Hardest
medium tends to be quite easy most of the time, so I tend to stick with that
Hard, unless the game features enemies with hitscan weapons.
>>344752235
as a young teen I would only pick easy or the easiest one since I was a bitch
Normal/medium is usually the best bet, otherwise it becomes stupidly grindy for losers who need to get their sense of life accomplishment from video games or a cakewalk.
>>344752235
Normal because that's how developers intended them to be played.
If it's too easy I'll just go and bitch about it on /v/.
Never easy. Almost always medium my first time, unless I get captivated by the title of the difficulties. For example, my first time playing human revolution, I played on "give me dues ex" difficulty because it seems like hard is the best and most fun option. Once I beat a game and get comfortable with it, I'll bump up the difficulty
Normal, then if I really like the game I replay it on Hard.
>>344752402
this
stalker should be played on the hardest or second hardest difficulty. Increases the atmosphere and immersion
The second highest is always a good bet. The highest is normally grinding, or for people who already finished the game.
>>344752235
hard when hard actually means "harder" not just "longer because every enemy is a HP sponge" etc
>>344752235
Usually hard
I usually read up what the difficulties do. If hard mode just adds grinding then i wont bother, othervise ill play on hard.
I play most games once so I usually go for the hardest difficulty. There's no interest for me to beat something I already did, but slightly harder. Plus hardest difficulty gives you stuff usually, is more fun when you do beat it and makes the game last longer and veery rarely do I have to purchase new controllers.
Depends on the game but usually hard. Being able to do everything on the first try is boring.
In some games where hard is freaking impossible I go normal
As much as /v/ usually shits on last of us being a decent game at best, it seemed to really do grounded well. Instead of just adding HP to all the enemies it took away Joels hearing thing, less ammo, etc.
>>344752235
This game got it correct, normal difficulty was fairly tough, any higher difficulty was a real bitch.
Normal first time unless it's something like Vanquish where hard is pretty much recommend for better experience.
Hard after that if I really liked the game.
I only go for Easy if I hate the game and just want to get done with as soon as possible. Usually there needs to be some really big flaw to force me on easy and just to say fuck it.
if it's skill based like dmc, mgr, bayo then hardest that is available.
if it's shit difficulty settings like the witcher where it's just move in-one or 2 hits-move out-repeat to beat the game, then i play on normal.
Only the hardest for me
>>344752754
Why would you play a game if you hate it?
Hard if it's a meaningful addition to difficulty like different enemies, more complex mechanics, Normal in any other case.
>friend gifts me God Hand
>"yeah bro this game is pretty hard"
>choose easy difficulty
>Gene taunts me for being a pussy
>immediately reset the console and choose Normal
AND THEN I BEAT THE GAME AND IT WAS FUCKING GREATNot gonna play it on Hard that's just crazy
>>344752865
Shouldn't those difficulties be reversed?
>>344752235
Normal except if it's a tactical rpg where hardest is the most fun
>>344752873
Spite, money, impressing women, saving planet from intergalactic annihilation.
4 off the top of my head. Grow an imagination.
>>344752235
Medium for anything you're forced to grind stats in, like JRPGs.
Hard for Shooters, Action and Stealth games. Anything that requires reflex, technical skill and/or gitting gud.
Is there even an excuse for playing easy?
>>344752865
>life as a woman
>hard
>>344752235
divinity OS is so good.
>>344752515
Or because it's easier on the hardest difficulty
>>344752235
Whichever.
>>344752235
When I was still a student I went for hard. Now that I need to work I am glad if I can play some vidya and advance in the story so I pick easy.
>>344753051
yes but men can't get raped. none of those things matter
Normal/medium usually on a first playthrough unless it's more immersive/fun experience to play on the harder for example Witcher 3.
If I enjoyed a game enough to play a second playthrough then hard
>>344752484
This is the only correct answer.
Easy babbies and nightmare try hards need not apply.
In Civ V I like to play on king, emperor is not so bad, immortal can be pretty tough with the extra cheats the AI gets, deity isn't fun.
Prince is too much of a cakewalk.
>>344752873
Sometimes it has some parts that I still enjoy and want to see, but the developers went full retard and fucked other things up.
That said I don't finish everything that I find disgusting, but usually only if I find there is no redeeming factors at all.
>>344753203
>Admitting to being a normalfag
>>344753287
>Anime poster
The hardest difficulty that is possible for the first playthrough. I want a good challenge when i play the game for the first time. The second playthrough is already easier because you know the moveset and weakness of enemies
>>344753287
shut up weebposter your opinion is not welcome
I'd never play an RTS game on hard or higher difficulties, but FPS, TPS, RPG games are meant to be played on hardest difficulty
>>344753154
>yes but men can't get raped.
Yes they can.
>>344752963
Hard just locks it to Die difficulty.
Enemy patterns don't really change or anything, they just turn into damage sponges.
Not a great difficulty system.
>>344752728
Hard difficulty is also pretty fun in TLOU, as long as you choose to not abuse the hearing thing
>>344753270
like fallout 4? :^)
>>344753051
>Get office job
>Don't kill yourself
>Don't marry skank
>????????
>Profit
>>344753154
They can in fact, which is more dangerous if the chick is crazy enough to keep drugging you so your boner is always up.And let's not even mention men raping other men.
>it's a genuine video game thread derails into Men's Rights Slacktivists vs baiting 'socially aware citizens' thread
Gamergate was a mistake.
>>344752235
Normal, unless the game has a reputation of being too easy, then I'd play it on hard.
>>344752865
When the goal of the game is to reproduce, no
>>344753432
>be pretty
>find rich man
Women do have it easier, as long as you don't want to walk the streets of a black neighborhood at night
>>344752235
I normally start with Normal, since I expect the game to be balanced for that to be the intended experience.
It isn't always the case though. Metroid Prime 3 hides Easy mode as Normal and Normal mode as veteran, which resulted in a boring game if played on normal.
>>344752235
Usually hard, except for RTS/turn based strategy games, because all it does it makes AI cheat.
>>344752235
Always the hardest. I turn it down if it turns out to just be hp bloat.
Strategy games are the exception, I always start on normal since you need a really good grasp of the mechanics of all the stages of the game - know the tech trees etc.
Always on hardest if the hardest isn't some bullshit perma death 1 hp mode
>>344753493
>before GG there were no posts calling out feminism on their bullshit
Tumblr influx was a mistake.
>>344753335
>>344753341
Where do you think you are, faggot
>>344753634
Before GG not every single thread turned into incel babies turning a subject into an excuse to complain how men are some oppressed underclass, yes.
>>344752235
Hardest possible. If it's boring (like only numbers get higher), I switch back to normal.
>>344752235
I'm kind of an achievement whore, so if there's an achievement for the hardest difficulty, I dive straight in the deep end, but when there isn't I usually start on Normal (or Hard if there's a Very Hard) then move up from there about half way through a playthrough.
>>344753638
not every thread needs to have weeb shit you dumb faggot
>>344753567
>be pretty
Not all woman are good looking. Hell, go take a walk and count the number of all the woman you see and the number of how many of them are actually good looking.
You'll probably get around 30% decent looking girls at best.
>>344752235
Easy if its a type of game Im really terrible at.
Normal if Im new to the series
Hard if im not or want some replay value.
>>344752314
I find modern TES games and FO games are best on the hardest difficulty because even though they only up the numbers its still easy as fuck.
>>344753731
Because the ugly ones are most likely to reproduce
>>344753490
>>344753369
men enjoy that so it's not rape
but it's traumatizing for women. you don't know how hard our life is
>>344753638
>anime trash
>faggot
le ex de
>>344753683
Newfag detected
The feminism pot was boiling since at least 2012. Even sooner if you count when it was contained to just Bioware threads.
>>344753567
All that proves is that life is easier when you're good looking.
>>344752235
Hard. If there are more then 3 options I pick the one harder then normal.
>>344753392
I really liked it with lvls 0-3, DIE is just fucking bonkers
>>344753834
People have always been bitter about women on here but not every thread degenerated into talking about how men are oppressed and the cards are stacked against them, it was just about being a loser if anything. The political garbage only entered into it after the abortion of a cause that was Gamergate.
>>344753731
now count the number of women an above average intelligence male such as myself would fuck and give a free ride through life while working my non-dead end job/career.
>>344753780
Or because genetics and epigenetics are such a crapshoot it's a miracle any attractive people are born at all.
normal first, then i can tell if the hard mode was a fair challenge with new or more complex mechanics or just enemies but with bigger stats and/or omniscience
>>344752235
older retro games tend to be hard even when theres an easy setting. so on old games i'll pick easy unless the game forces me to play on normal to get the true ending. games these days though normal is the new easy.
>>344753203
>being shit at games
lmao
>>344753891
Again, your new is showing.
Look in the archive for any threads about Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, or any other thread about EAware games or their media coverage from around their release. A good chunk of all of them were devoted to the exact same things the anti-feminist backlash from the past two years has been about.
>>344753683
And not every single thread gets that today either, the ratio is still the same as before, as in, only when some SJW/feminist bullshit gets posted
The difference now is that there's a lot of whiny SJWs around to complain at them being called out on their bullshit. You'd think they'd stay away from fucking 4chan of all websites, but no. They really think that their retarded political correctness will get a free pass here, where everyone can be anonymous and call them out. And now that some time has passed, we also have relevant statistics ready to refute the regardless. And we all know, nothing triggers a SJW more than cold facts.
>>344753780
Yeah, most likely. But average women get average men, ugly women get ugly men (most cases at least), and certainly those men won't give them the life of a Disney princess (well, the life of a Disney princess at the end of the movie).
Before this thread dissolves into a bunch of shitposting, I would like to share that I prefer normal difficulty.
>>344754046
I'm not responsible for validating your arguments, link me a single thread pre-Gamergate showing a heavily political focus that overrides the discussion of video games as a medium or the specific video game the way that you manchildren do now.
>>344754109
Yeah, pretty much.
It's not like they have countless boards where they can bitch about women.
>>344753731
You're giving me the impression that you're female. Men rate 50%+ women as pretty or better, while females rate less than 30% as pretty or better. Men aren't as demanding as you think, lady. Also, make up.
Hard for the first play through, because playing Hard from the start means you get used to the difficulty and it's not so difficult.
>>344752235
Hard at the very least. Higher if possible, but that depends on the game. Games tend to be easier nowadays and I've always liked being challenged. It also usually extends the life of game too.
Why would harder modes make things more grindy? If there's grind in the game, it'll be there in normal modes too.
Also, if there's a permadeath option I'll likely take it if I'm familiar with the game's mechanics (sequel, second playthrough). Makes shit way more fun and puts a lot of weight to the game.
Cunts like pic related piss me off beyond belief.
>>344754125
You've just provided factual proof that you're a newfag. Go back to whatever hugbox you crawled out of, this is not your safe space
>>344754275
this
hard is how you learn the game, theres no point in playing on easier difficulties because you are just learning how to be shit at the game, its actually easier to just start playing on hard from the start
>>344754312
So you can't link a single piece of pertinent information, then? I don't know anon, sounds like that whole 'feelings are more important than facts' nonsense that you no doubt espouse as a core tenant of the evil manhating, video game disabling Voldemorts.
>>344754278
I only remember Mass Effect 2 being like 25 hours long, and that's if you do everything. 45 hours, doesn't seem like cheating made the game shorter for him.
>>344754407
1-you know you're lying/wrong
2-anyone who's been here for over 6 years knows that
3-I can't find the archive with older stuff (I heard it was accessible now again, but moe, foolz and fireden allhave stuff only dating back to 2015)
>>344754278
Holy shit that pic. Fucking weebs
>>344754407
At this point you're not even responding to me.
Also, damn right I'm not going to go digging through the archive for the sake of either a troll or a newfag.
Do it yourself, see I'm right, and then when the adrenaline from shitposting on the internet wears off and you're sitting all alone at the computer knowing I'm right and you'll never have a chance to backpedal because the thread's gone, lurk more.
>>344754549
Yet you can't find ONE piece of information that supports your argument, weird. This is YOU'RE A WHITE MALE levels of debate.
This is the part where you're meant to start posting your prepared bevy of images with goony beard men and cuckolds so you can really solidify what a veteran browser of anonymous image boards you are.
>>344753203
>This is the correct answer.
You can see here an anon regurgitate a phrase here, rather like a computer. You put in the right inputs and you get the same manufactured response from a preordained list of possibilities.
Typical humans understand that some questions don't have a singular correct answer, but unfortunately this anon cannot express that unless someone gives him an easily recollected phrase that it can use.
>>344754462
>Mass Effect 2 being like 25 hours long
I got roughly 100 hours for one playthrough
>>344753724
Says who?
>>344754718
Eh? What the fuck? Did you sit behind cover for 50 hours?
>>344754835
I explored and did everything
>>344752235
I like games without diff setting so I can just press start and have to git good at the game to beat/enjoy it.
>>344752235
Medium, with specific exceptions. Deus Ex is best on Realistic, and Human Revolution is best on the max difficulty. Doom is best on Ultra violence. If you play any musou game like Dynasty Warriors on normal difficulty it becomes completely mindless.
>>344752235
I would do hard for WC3 if it wasn't for the "survive for 30 mins" missions
>>344754696
You're right, I can't find any, because I can't find an archive at the moment with older content. On the other hand, your claim is nearly impossible to prove even if there was an older archive, and is, thus, meaningless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
So IF you're going to ask for proof, etc, the least you could do is not claim what you claimed earlier.
But who am I kidding, you'll just spit more nonsense.
When I start out, I always pick normal. No reason to jump straight into hard mode, and no real reason to ever pick easy either.
>>344754913
I explored and did everything and game was over in 25 hours. You must move at a snail's pace.
This isn't like Mass Effect 1, you can't explore 2 dozen planets or the like, levels are almost completely linear and the hub worlds devoid of interactable points of interest.
>>344755137
I call bullshit
>>344755307
I called bullshit first, wait your turn. This guy probably counts staring at the fucking scenery as exploration.
>playing on anything less than the hardest difficulty available
>not pushing your skills to the absolute limits against vicious enemies
>b-b-but they have to much health! they're hitting wayy to hard its cheap!
casual babies i swear.
>I chose normal because that's how the developers intented the games to be played
you do realise that modern normal difficulty pretty much always means "cinematic gaming experience" right?
the "basic difficulty" in games got incredibly toned down recently, partly because they focus on the huge influx of casuals joiging the industy due to the graphical advencements and also on the aging avarage gamers who became less enthusiastic about games but can easily afford to buy them.
enemies are punching bags in fighting games, they have stormtrooper accuracy in fps, deal little to no damage statistically in rpgs, or you get way too much resources to restore the damage, etc...
and it's not like dying is even punishing in most games, they just throws you back like a half min earlier.
>>344752235
easiest first
hardest second (for trophies and shit)
>>344752235
I cant play games on easy, mainly becouse i dont get the full experience then
and i usually go normal/hard
>>344752314
But is bad when you remove part of the game for normal/easy players
They also need to see the cool moves, enemies coordinating, its fun
>>344755524
>How to break your console as a child the post.
You pick the normalfag setting first then go to hard because your stupid ass needs to beat the game to unlock features that happen after the game is unlocked.
>>344755524
i bet you would play russian roulette with a glock
>>344752736
yeah, i thought i was playing at the hardest setting.
3/4 into the game i found out i actually chose the normal
i was shocked, normal is usually too easy
>>344755828
Did you know? Beating the game on hard also counts as beating the game.
>>344755919
Yes fag but beating the game on normal is quicker.
>easy/normal/hard
>v.easy/easy/normal/hard/v.hard
Hard in both cases.
>>344755974
Perhaps. That does depend on the player and the game. But not everything is about speed, anyway. If speed is all you want, shoot some speedholes into your Xbox to make it run games faster.
>>344756046
>Pick hardest
>Feels like i picked normal since it's just right
Hard or second hardest in a AAA game.
Default for everything else.
This is assuming its your first playthrough.
>>344754096
No. Ugly women get poor men, beautiful women get rich men.
>Pick hard
>Don't give up when the going gets tough because I'm not a weak-willed quitter.
Seriously, I've spent eight hours on one puzzle one time. Refused to walkthrough it, so I brute forced the solution.
Normal if I want to approach the game from a reviewer perspective. Hard if it's an action game and/or I'm looking to be challenged.
>>344752235
I played all the mass effects in the hardest setting. The final part against the multiple banshees was a real fucking bitch, I was 2 hours to pass that part.
>>344752235
Usually whatever is next above "normal" because these days it's the new normal where actual normal is easy (actual easy being "game plays itself)
Unless there's only 2 or 3 difficulties then I know that this game means business and humbly pick normal
>>344752235
Hardest difficulty, unless enemies are just HP sponges.
>>344757165
Torchlight 2 on hardest is a fucking slog
Normal for the first time and Hard if the game warrants a second playthrough.
Though really it depends on the game. If Hard is just "Enemies have more HP and deal more damage but everything else is the same" then I don't really bother, that's the laziest way to do difficulty.
>>344755137
you can't do everything in 25 hours.
>>344752235
Almost always the hardest, usually with Ironman enabled when available. Lots of times I self-impose restrictions on top of this, but only for action games. For strategy games, I actually usually play on Medium or what's in between Medium and the hardest.
Most people might think that dying 10+ times to a single area and 20+ times to a single boss is an annoying grind and that it makes you a casual shitter, but these are unrefined opinions. The casual shitter is the person who faces that challenge and gives up, or complains that it's a grind. And the real difference between my point of view and theirs? They play with the desire to feel badass, they want to be "hardcore" —but because this is their active goal, they end up not being hardcore at all. I just play to have fun with a good challenging game. I actually like playing games and they barely do.
hard, unless it's bullshit really meant for already experienced players
>>344759380
pshhh,,,nothin personal kid
>>344752235
Warcraft 3 has an easy mode?
>>344752235
The objectively correct answer is:
>For the first playthrough, Normal. Play it as the developers intended.
>Subsequent playthroughs when Achievement / Trophy hunting, play as difficult as is necessary to acquire said accolades.
>In the event that your initial playthrough sees you getting your shit pushed in, shamefully switch it to Easy until such time as you master the mechanics enough to play it on Normal. Then proceed to bullet point 2.
>>344760118
>For the first playthrough
You fucked up already.
>playing a game's campaign twice, ever
Normal unless it's fps in which case I choose the hardest difficulty, especially if the fps has regenerating health.
>>344760028
>liking video games is edgy
>>344760210
>being a casual, ever
>>344752235
I pick hard unless the game has a reputation of bending you over and fucking you raw, then I pick normal.
>>344752235
Always the hardest or second hardest.
Easy I don't even understand, it seems designed for cripples.
Normal is usually practically the same
>>344761008
>not making your first playthrough where you don't know what to expect the hardest and most exciting
No anon, you are the casual.
>>344761295
that's what i always do. but you probably missed a bunch of things your first time, or you want to use a different playstyle, or you're not a millenial with a 6 second attention span and you can simply play a game again if you enjoyed it.
I don't like playing a game twice, so I pick hard whenever is available.
>>344752235
I haven't played easy mode in years
Medium by default, Hard on my second playthrough
I usually lose interest after Hard so I don't really make use of higher difficulties unless there's a major difference
medium, if it's too easy i bump it up and if i suck ass i take it down to easy.
examples:
banner saga on easy, witcher 3 on blood and broken bones (2nd hardest)
>>344761384
The only time I like playing through a game again is when I haven't played it in like 10 years, and I really loved it back then, or when the game has heavy enough RNG that I can enjoy it differently. Most the time it's not worth it, 80% of the game stays the same on the second play through which is boring.
Also, back to that first comment >>344760118
>ever playing for cheevos
>ever dialing back to an easier difficulty
>>344761691
that wasn't me, i don't like to play games on normal unless you have to do it to unlock hard.
>>344752235
Depends on how good I am in said genre, if I pick up an RTS its usually on easy because I'm casual as fuck when it comes to those games and I just like ordering huge armies around. Same for console FPS games, I'm fucking shit! at them so I stay on easy.
Anything else its usually medium or above unless its something well known for bullshit difficulties like bethshit games, or games where the fun is sucked out of it if you go for hardest (vanquish comes to mind)
For PC centric shooters its always on standard hardest if I'm doing my first playthrough
Action games are usually more fun on harder difficulties, when it rewards skillful play and adds tension. It should still retain some sense of realism, like the enemies dying from headshots or well-placed explosives, while emphasizing that you're not immortal either.
When you can shoot an enemy in the face three times with a shotgun from point blank range and pepper them with grenades, and they don't even stagger, there's nothing fun about that. It breaks immersion by constantly reminding you you're shooting at computer-programmed boxes with a set of values instead of whatever they're mean to represent. It's not very fun either when you're stuck watching a movie or listening to the same conversations and tutorials for the xth time after dying because of a little mistake.
tl;dr I play whatever setting is most fun and fits the game.
>>344761897
>that wasn't me
Carry on then.
>unless you have to do it to unlock hard
That is the worst shit to me, I wish developers never did this. not only does it feel like it is done as a cheap way to stretch out the length of their game, but since I hate playing a game twice it almost kills the game for me when they do it.
