In RPGs I do normal first playthrough, then the hardest possible after, depending on whether the game is even worth going through on a higher difficulty.

>>333078339
If it's a genre I'm used to I usually go with hard (i don't pick the impossibile mode the first time I play, if there even is one). If it's a new genre I go with medium

>>333078339

Honestly, Normal for both the formats you listed.

As I've gotten older I really don't have time to play the vidya like I used to. Like lets say beating a game, then again on a harder difficulty. For the most part I only play for an hour at a time as well. I'm pretty much a casual desu famfam.

Nowadays if a game has difficulty options, Hard usually means frustrating bullshit mode, so I avoid it. If the game was good enough to warrant playing through again, then I pick Hard.

>>333078339
>normal
>normal
Unless the game has more than 3 options, in that case I'll go with the difficulty above normal. Oh, and games that give better rewards for playing on hard (like tales of) I'll pick the hardest

>>333078339
I pretty much do what you do. If I've been looking forward to a game for a while and I know what to expect, I'll go for hard, but if it's just a game I've been recommended or got on sale or something I'll usually go normal/medium

>>333078339
If they don't say what changes between difficulties, then I usually go with hard since it feels like "Easy = Very Easy Normal = Easy and Hard = Normal" most of the time.

>>333078339
>1
hardest, always. No exceptions, unless completing it on first playthrough is literally impossible without cheating.

>2
hardest, always. Can go one notch down if the enemies become bullet sponges or psychic beings, but it makes you a turbofaggot.

1) Hardest
2) Hardest

The strongest flame forges the greatest steel.

>hardest
>one harder than normal

Hardest difficulty implies I should be familiar with the game mechanics, which in that situation I am not. Normal implies I am a fucking casual, which I am not.