Most games today higher difficulty just means "smarter" enemies that take more shots to kill and who kill you with fewer shots, rather than more enemies.

depends on the game

More shit to kill, and I don't have to worry about keeping my health up or hunting down ammunition.

When I play a game, I'd rather just rip through it without having to track down health packs and ammunition cases -- that's one of the aspects of gaming that I find to be frightfully tedious and boring. And I also don't have to worry about getting killed and then having to keep replaying that part until I get past it... again, I just find that aspect of playing games tedious.

To each their own. :shrug:

I find that stuff tedious too, so I largely just steer clear of such games rather than cheat my way through them.

Recent shooters have gotten better since Halo added the "sit and recharge" element to FPS games. Makes stuff like that and Gears of War much more playable since you can just hide and build your life back up.

Yeah.. The major reason I played FPS on hardest level (PC only) because of online competition. I managed to complete CoD2 on hardest level within 2 days and got killed twice. Then I played online against other people, it was cakewalk.

But on console, I'm terrible with controller (I swear my hands are not designed for controller!) and I couldn't survive CoD 2 on easiest level! :(

It's just hard to adjust to after being used to the keyboard and mouse controls.

I'm just the opposite. Life long console gamer, so I suck ass on keyboard and mouse controls and have to play most PC FPS games on easy to get anywhere.

I was going start a thread asking this very question but found this old one instead and thought I would bump it.

I used to play games on Hard or Expert but have slowly moved down to Medium or "Normal" and have even considered moving down to easy since I have such a back catalog of games to get to.

I don't really give a shit about achievements since I got so behind on games but I don't think I could play all of them on Easy without feeling guilty somehow.

When I was younger playing on Genesis and Nintendo 64 I would always play on Easy. Since the PS2 I've always played on Medium. I always figured for the majority of games, the storyline and the ending was the same. So, why not play on easy?

Josh H retired? :(

Easy only. I already have an extremely low tolerance as far as getting annoyed with games so anything more than easy usually ends in broken controllers.

I am having bigger and bigger issues with this as more and more games require higher difficulty levels to unlock content.

I find when I get home from work or whenever I have time to sit down to play I don't want something challenging. I want something fun and relaxing. I am one of those people who enjoys playing with cheats on in single player. I like destroying the competition versus winning in the final second. This only applies to single player though. I like a challenge when I play other people as long as it is close but against the computer AI I want something easy.

i play in the hardest mode, usually because the achs stack so i just have to play 1 play thru

I've been playing on "HARD" and so far it's been ok. Although at this point I'm stuck on really hard bosses in Conan and Devil May Cry 4. :grunt:

i play default for most games.. well gow, I only have three games.. just bought my xbox not long ago.. i play the sports games at a higher leval for when i play online i don't get my ass kicked.. never played gow online, and havn't finished the game yet.. good game though.. more into sports games though.

I usually pick the easiest level for practice until I'm good at the game. Then I pick a more difficult level.

Medium first usually, then Hard, then the 'unlocked' hardest setting, or the existing hardest setting. Unless the game is thought to be easy then I start with hard.

I knew quite a few pansies who thought thought beating GOW on God Mode was impossible.

More like :up:

No shit on Conan. It has a very old school feel to it regarding the bosses being so difficult.

I enjoy the game and want to finish it but I wish I had started on Normal instead of Hard. But I am so many levels in now I don't really want to start over on Normal. I may never finish the damn game.