Do You Game On Hard, Medium or Easy?

Usually hard, but then I get stuck :(

I hate the games where you can select between ~8 levels of difficulty, then lower it/raise it whenever you want. If you start on hard, you should have to re-start the whole game if you want to get past a part you cant do
 
I have just completed Crisis 2 finally after it has been sitting on the shelf for over 6 months. Considering the experience I would have put it on easy. I don't like checkpoint based shooters, I like to choose my save point and have a more consistent difficulty. The "end boss" was just silly.

Most other games I whack straight on normal and go for the intended difficulty. The Witcher 2 was the first exception to that rule. That game on normal was insane to the point it made Geralt look like an amateur even if I did manage to kill one of those bloody queen spiders in the end!
 
Usually 'normal', if it's a game in a series that i've played before and was good at then i'll go to hard... or the one below it, if there's four levels.

Takes a good game to make me want to play it on hard though. There was this moment in New Vegas when i just started it up for the night, looking for something through binoculars and these three giant fire geckos sneaked up behind me. Nothing i could do, couldn't run, couldn't kill them so i switched to 'very easy'. That's not cheating, right? :p
 
Hard. The only problem is it can make things 'artificially' hard to the extent that the skill requires is lower than the luck. I'm playing uncharted at the moment and at one point you just have to run for cover and hope the enemies don't decide to flank you immediately, because if so you die in the cross fire in about 5 seconds, there is almost nothing you can do about it.
 
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RTS and puzzle games, easy, everything else on medium.

Rarly play on a harder setting, unless there's something to be gained, i.e unlock, or if I genuinely enjoy the challange. Only game in recent years that's made me do that was Batman:AA
 
A childish sense of personal pride with regards to computer games means I would never play a game on easy!

I don't have time for replays so I will normally play through on medium/normal.

The only exception to this would be games like the total war series - I have played them a lot so tend to stick to v hard for a challenge. The same with civ, though I have not been into that as much in recent years.
 
Medium.

I just feel that's the most playtested mode so that will offer the best experience progressing through the game.

Don't like easy, its too easy.

I quite fancy going hard sometimes but I must think I'm better than I am or something because I've always failed at hard mode in games.
 
I usually play FPS on the hardest setting.
RPGs on hard unless I find the combat system tedious. If so, I'll go down to normal to play for the storyline.
RTS on normal, exception being Starcraft 2 where I became a little achievement point obssessed and completed the campaign on hardest.
 
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Always hard, normally it goes

easy
medium
hard - what I pick
Stupid setting

I like to be challenged as I find games too easy these days, since I'll use whatever skill combos, or tools I have etc. Even racing games that I general suck at are too easy on medium, no fun being first every race etc, I also don't mind reloading a save to retry.
 
Usually hard, but then I get stuck :(

I hate the games where you can select between ~8 levels of difficulty, then lower it/raise it whenever you want. If you start on hard, you should have to re-start the whole game if you want to get past a part you cant do

Disagree totally, I'm the opposite.

If I get stuck for an extended period of time, I usually give up. I'd much rather have the option just to tone down the difficulty and finish the game.
 
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LOL sorry about that :D
 
Used to play all games on hard. I tend to play games on medium or between medium and hard these days because it gets boring quickly when you have to attempt the same scenario 10 times to get to the next part. There is also so many games out there, i don't want to waste time playing the same section of a game 10 times.
 
Good question OP.

Back when I used to have only a few games I'd want each one to last as long as possible and play on the hardest playable setting. You used to get the most out of the AI and it was a great bang for buck challenge.

It would grate me when in some games would only alter enemy health/quantity or ammo.

These days I have so many to get through I play them all on the easiest setting. Initially I'd not bother selecting easy if it's something I've been genuinely excited to play, but these days it's easy all the way.
 
Interesting - I thought in the company of proper gamers I'd be a right pussy playing on normal/medium, but seems not! :)

Sadly, long gone are the days of my youth when I had so much time to play games I could master them on the hardest settings. Been there and got the t-shirt with level 9 Streetfighter II no continues just to see a pathetic extra end screen, nightmare Doom, etc etc! Nowadays I want an easier life, dont have time for replays (unless it's by Valve, it seems, and maybe Mass Effect 2 again is on the cards once I've done the original that I just picked up on Steam for a fiver), and anyway I tend to prefer story based games where the challenge takes second place to the experience, so I stick to normal/medium. Even had to go down to easy for the last few bits of Far Cry :(.
 
I see a few people have mentioned dropping the level down to get past certain parts of a game.

Personal preference prevents me from doing that. I don't know why? Foolish pride perhaps but I just feel it's cheating. If I start a game on a setting I either complete it with that setting or restart completely on something lower.

Some games have achievements that are level based too and I'm starting to become a bit of an achievement hunter :)
 
I look for the pussy-wimp setting first, otherwise easy.
Unless it's one of those games where the AI on easy means the enemy stand around staring at rocks or fling themselves out of the window as soon as I look at them.
 
I start on hard, then get angry and change to medium, then get angry again and change to easy. Then get bored with the game about halfway and never play it again.

Thinking mainly of the boring and repetative batman arkham games.
 
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