Depends on the type of game and how good the AI is at higher difficulties. Call of Duty World at War for example used to just spam enemy spawns over and over which just felt more frustrating than tougher. Fifa also has some of the worse AI iv'e ever seen at higher settings with scripting and nerfing of your own teams skills and ability, it's no fun dominating a team for 90 minutes for them to win with their only shot on goal, good play should be rewarded, no matter what the difficulty.
3d and 2d fighters, i nearly always crank it up to the hardest difficulty, i like the practice for online play.
Anything with a campaign/single player story I generally play on the hardest setting straight away. I'm not one for multiple playthroughs so this way I get the best challenge without having to replay. I've not yet had to drop the difficulty but I've been close a couple of times.
Any side missions or trophies I need afterwards I sometimes do on easy just to get them done so I can move on to something else.
But on FPS I will only use the easiest setting and I still get killed a lot. I just can't do FPS games. Hence I no longer buy them and only play games free on PS+.
I play on the hardest setting available. I want my first play through to be a challenge and to last a while, I will normally knock the difficulty down to the easiest setting on a second play through (Unless a harder mode has opened and is required for a trophy) as that means I can experience the story without any breaks and it make mopping up miscellaneous trophies easier.
Same as Hotbird for me.
I always play on the hardest difficulty possible (using mouse & keyboard) so that I can get every last drop I can get out of the game, and if that unlocks a harder level then I go for that too :cool: . The CoD campaigns played on Veteran made it really frustrating at times, but I just kept trying until I succeeded in doing what needed to be done to progress and win through. Never drop down a level.
There are sometimes extra bits/levels in a game on the highest difficulties (thinking of Thief: TDP in particular), plus if I enjoy a game then I'm darn well going to enjoy it to the maximum, not just blast through it without doing everything!
There are sometimes extra bits/levels in a game on the highest difficulties (thinking of Thief: TDP in particular), plus if I enjoy a game then I'm darn well going to enjoy it to the maximum, not just blast through it without doing everything!
If I'm playing on normal difficulty I don't blast my may through, I always take my time and explore everywhere, playing on the hardest settings will only enrage me to the point of smashing the controller which is no fun lol.
Didn't know about extra bits for playing it on hard though, wondering what I've missed now
I usually play on normal and crank the difficulty up if I play through again. On sports sims however I usually play on normal for my first few games and gradually move upto the hardest difficulty.
In the PS2 era, I used to select easy on every game. Silent Hill 2, Devil May Cry (I think easy has to be unlocked - which wasn't too difficult!), MGS 2 etc. RE Remake for the Gamecube.
Then... I went through an Hard phase with the PS3, with Uncharted and The Last of Us especially.
Now I just select Normal and probably be done with it!
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3d and 2d fighters, i nearly always crank it up to the hardest difficulty, i like the practice for online play.
Any side missions or trophies I need afterwards I sometimes do on easy just to get them done so I can move on to something else.
Same though I will turn the difficulty up on repeat playthroughs to get some trophies.
But on FPS I will only use the easiest setting and I still get killed a lot. I just can't do FPS games. Hence I no longer buy them and only play games free on PS+.
Finally, a hardcore gamer amongst us lightweights.
I always play on the hardest difficulty possible (using mouse & keyboard) so that I can get every last drop I can get out of the game, and if that unlocks a harder level then I go for that too :cool: . The CoD campaigns played on Veteran made it really frustrating at times, but I just kept trying until I succeeded in doing what needed to be done to progress and win through. Never drop down a level.
There are sometimes extra bits/levels in a game on the highest difficulties (thinking of Thief: TDP in particular), plus if I enjoy a game then I'm darn well going to enjoy it to the maximum, not just blast through it without doing everything!
I've beaten all Gear of War games on the hardest difficulty available and yet can't unlock the 'insane' difficulty.
Didn't know about extra bits for playing it on hard though, wondering what I've missed now
Easy for me as well but mostly because of my disability I've only got 1 hand to control the game with
Then... I went through an Hard phase with the PS3, with Uncharted and The Last of Us especially.
Now I just select Normal and probably be done with it!