Its time for yall to drop the ego

I play normal but i prefer when the game just starts up, Last game i played on easy was Witcher 3 i believe sword and story.

I start on normal and up the difficulty if it gets too boring.
If the story is interesting or I'm close to finishing and I'm getting burned out, then I'll lower the difficulty just to get it over with.
The latter rarely happens.

>Having ego about playing a video game

Never have and never will. If I'm having a bad time playing on normal or hard then the game simply isn't for me.

>>712524306 (OP)
That's fine, you can play on easy. I want to play on hard, it's fun for me.

>>712524306 (OP)
Harder difficulties are often more fun.

>>712524306 (OP)
If you need to play AAA games on easy you should get checked for brain damage or 2 digit IQ.

I play easy/normal first and then hard for a repeat playthough so I get a different experience instead of the same experience again but more boring.

>>712524306 (OP)
Depends on the game but more often than not easy is the least fun difficulty. Boredom is stressful, too.

>shaming and gaslighting into casualizing because you lack the capacity for harder challenges
nah fuck off

>>712524306 (OP)
There's no point of playing a game on anything less than normal unless the difficulty order is abnormal or maybe it becomes a slog and you just want to be done with it.

>>712524306 (OP)
I always play games on the hardest difficulty unless I have prior knowledge that the hardest difficulty just means everything takes longer to kill. Only exception is I don't enable Ironman if it isn't on by default.

Risk of Rain 2 on Monsoon is tense. On lower difficulties it's genuinely boring.

most of the fun comes from overcoming a challenge, easy mode is less fun

>>712524306 (OP)
Nobody cares what difficulty you play on.
Insecure faggot.

>>712524306 (OP)
no, i like a nut buster. i got pic rel on true ultra chaos because why not.

I play all games on Normal mode, but CRPGs (mainly Pathfinder games or the old BG) on Easy mode because the combat is dogshit.

>>712524782
this, why do you care what others think? play however the fuck you want

>>712524723
I only play on drizzle for unlocks, now that i have basically everything i don't touch the difficulty

Only just got the dlc and heard one of the new characters is unlocked when you beat 50 waves in the simulacrum mode, might grind that out later

>>712524306 (OP)
But my entire life revolves around protecting my precious ego. I HAVE to believe that I'm the most important person in the world.

>>712524838
The Owlcat pathfinder games are such trash i don't see how anyone enjoys the buff stacking.

>>712524306 (OP)
retarded statement
i don't play on easiest, if i had to, i would simply drop the game. i am not there to experience your cinematic story, i am there to get better at whatever the systems in place are and overcome, hopefully, reasonably challenging encounters by using said system at a reasonable level
in all scenarios where your game is balanced so poorly that i have to lower the difficulty level for it to feel challenging but not bullshit, i have dropped the game and not went back. there is no enjoyment in overcoming something that never posed a challenge to begin with and that everyone can overcome by hitting x

I only play the game on hard if the experience differs. If it's just the same game but the enemies deal more damage and/or take longer to kill then I don't bother. But some games add more enemies, more loot, more areas, improve the AI in the higher difficulties. So I usually pick hard to experience that. I'd rather have more stuff to shoot than have the same enemy with 2x health.

>>712524306 (OP)
Why are redditors so insecure that they need this group consensus validation before they can admit that THEY play on easy mode?

>>712525004
it's fun :)

>>712524306 (OP)
>tactical shooters
masochist difficulty
>story focused games
story mode or normal

>>712524306 (OP)
If normal mode is too easy (boring) then I'll turn up the difficulty. Simple as.

>>712524306 (OP)
EHHHHHHHHHHHHH? EASY MODO?!

>>712524306 (OP)
I like to see myself improve.

>>712524306 (OP)
>tfw play on hard and it's still easy
Lookin at you, Yakuza.

>>712524306 (OP)
i always play normal. i like a bit of a challenge but i dont like being an autist who spends 30 minutes in setting up my character for each boss fight. that's not fun, that's tedious

>>712524306 (OP)
Go play your fucking cozy games casual and get the fuck out

>>712525650
They HATE being told they don't belong.

I default to normal, or whatever the "dev-intended" equivalent is. The other modes are just numbers tweaking most of the time, doing shit like "enemies have 50% more health and deal double damage" is a lame way to make the game harder, so I don't fucking bother.
>>712526537
this is the only exception, would gladly start up on legend if it was an option

the difficulty is not even that important to me
there are some games i am not good at that i play on normal and some i am good at so i play on hard or higher
they important thing is to play at such a difficulty that i am "forced" or "forcing" myself to make use of all the mechanics the game gives me

>this is the intended difficulty
If a game tells me that then that will be the difficulty I play on

>medium for first playthrough
>hard+ if I like the game
>easy if the gameplay is boring but story is decent

>>712526537
I am NOT fucking playing Yakuza 3 on anything other than normal when the combat is that fucking DOGSHIT bro

>>712524306 (OP)
No, I play normal or hard depending on my level of familiarity with the genre/mechanics.
I uliterally fall asleep when a game is too easy.

Shit thread

>>712524306 (OP)
>"gaywaymes are swuppowse two bwe fuwun not stwessfwul"
I get home from a long, hard day, and unironically relax with 'stressful' games.
Noita, Eclipse RoR, souls, dead cells, whatever the game - its on hard and im focused = im relaxed.

its okay to be a gay little baby, OP, but dont project it onto everyone else.

>>712524306 (OP)
losing is fun

>>712527816
t. hentai game fem protag

>>712527768
>doesn't post a single hard game

>>712524894
>Only just got the dlc and heard one of the new characters is unlocked when you beat 50 waves in the simulacrum mode, might grind that out later
thats one way to get him, 50 waves OR beat the void boss.
I dont go to drizzle for unlocks just because it takes away the reward of the unlock itself, unless the unlock requirements are fucking annoying or too RNG, cant remember the worst ones off the top of my head, but some of them were definately "okay, im drizzling this" ones

Rex unlock for example, on monsoon its a challenge and makes rex more of a reward, on drizzle its... not even remotely difficult. Meanwhile some random alternate attack requires you to do something dumb or waste time on RNG - thats when the drizzle cheese happens

>>712527717
same as it ever was

>>712524984
You're note even the most important anon in this thread mememe-frogshitter.

The only time I ever, willingly chose easy is if its some form of a JRPG and im aware all hard does is increase HP, and all easy does is decrease HP.
JRPGs arent balanced or challenging anyway, so all thats changing is how long you have to grind for to arbitrarily succeed, its why I liked Lost odyssey, a game where you just couldnt really grind and it remained hard throughout the whole game relatively speaking.

After gaming for 3 decades, im just bored if a game isnt challenging at all, unless im playing it for some reason other than the gameplay, so I default to hard even if its only a numbers game.

>>712527489
>I need other people to make decisions for me, and tell me how to have fun
anon, those same devs intended there to be a difficulty option and added a harder one there, meaning they intended for people to also play on hard, meaning they intended skilled players have the mind to know to push it up if its too easy. How do you know what the 'intended' experience is when someone else is telling you? You are not them. And game devs are historically retarded at their own games.

>>712528193
>>I need other people to make decisions for me, and tell me how to have fun

>>712528193
>How do you know what the 'intended' experience is when someone else is telling you?
When the game tells me this is the intended difficulty like I said, you being a sheep of the other herd doesn't make you as smart as you think it does

The number one reason for me to drop games lately is a lack of challenge.
Games don't have to be super hardcore or anything, but I have to be challenged once in a while to keep it interesting and if I'm not I'll get bored and drop the game. I also refuse to do self-imposed challenges, I will not balance the game for the developer.

Had it with Tainted Grail recently where I was just one-shotting everything without powergaming or anything.Before that it was Trouble Shooter. Both fun games in their own right, but just too fucking easy.

>>712527918
>noooo dead cells BC 5 isnt haaaard
youre either just trolling or lying, but none of those games are 'casual' or 'easy' by any stretch, and im not going to list every single hard game, those are just the ones that I played recently.
faggot.

>>712524306 (OP)

>game has difficulty options
>you dont know which is for you, since it doesnt really explain what changes, nor what experience they think youd have with each.
>make a choice based on guessing
>play for a while forming your opinion
>hate it, be it hard is just BS sponge enemies and is unfun but not challenging, or normal is too easy, whatever
>cannot change difficulty, have to restart the whole game
nah, im thinking quit and uninstall.

>>712524306 (OP)
I like difficult games.
But my vision is getting worse, so I'm going to try playing on an easier difficulty. I'm not sure I can play well anymore.
Getting older is tough.

>>712524306 (OP)
>my only argument is a strawman projection of my own lack of skill
Does this actually sway anybody at all?

>>712528501
I feel that.
Cant move my fingers and hands as well as I could, the mind is strong, fast, reactive
the body is fragile, weak, slow.
Cannot physically compete anymore.
Have to sit close to the screen to read, even with glasses.
suddenly find dad games and job sims fun

its over.

>>712524306 (OP)
>Board with words pointing "meme"
kill yourself, preferrably take your family with you as well.

>>712528501
>>712528593
And yes anons, it WILL happen to you too. Faster than you think.

>>712524584
Could also be they're playing on cucksoles and can't aim for shit with a cucktroller

>>712524306 (OP)
i don't trust devs not to just up the sponginess and go home early when implementing harder difficulties so those are out. even if the game is objectively too easy picking hard/extreme will just fuck up the balance 9 times out of 10. easy modo is literally admitting you might as well watch a fucking stream or something instead.

>>712528501
i'm saving my blackpill for the day a game on normal has a puzzle or mechanic that requires reflexes i no longer possess. it's getting there.

I genuinely only do this when i am cleaning up non difficulty based achievements.
I haven't played a game on easy to clear it sense i was like 10 years old.
In all games released after 2010 i pay exclusively on difficulties above normal.

People who get stressed when they lose in a single player video game are dumb.
Its always fun to win a fight you just lost.

If the game can't provide a challenge, why play it? Some games are built around going for higher difficulties. There's nothing wrong in accepting you don't want a challenge, just don't try to make it seem everyone else does too.

>>712524306 (OP)
I don't play games with difficulty options, design your game properly or get the fuck out

>easy
>medium
>hard
>very hard
>extreme
>chaos
>extreme chaos ultra
>impossible
>impossible+
>sid mieier

>>712524306 (OP)
ARTURD
show us ur hentai

But I'm not a """journalist""".

>>712524306 (OP)
i don't find it stressful to play on normal
but i find it boring as fuck to play on easy

>>712524306 (OP)
games are supposed to be fun, easy mode is braindead and not fun
if no encounter ever has the risk of dying whats the point

>>712524385
>I play normal but i prefer when the game just starts up
For sure, one intended experience. With difficulty selection you know that some of the difficulties are just stat changes that nobody cared to test