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How do you play yours?

Easy/story mode always for me. For numerous reasons.

Too many games to get through to be stuck on one.

Real life is hard enough as it is, I dont want my relaxation and de-stress time to be difficult and cause me frustration as well!
 
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Normal unless the game has such tedious elements I want to skip through faster (like FFVII remakes combat)
 
I usually pick Normal or Hard as I feel like I'm cheating if it's too easy. If I start on Hard and it's a really difficult game, I may change it to Normal; I might be doing this with a PS5 game I've started as it just starts to become frustration and I don't care about collecting achievements or trophies anymore. I used to have the mentality that everything needs to be played on the hardest settings, but I don't generally have time for that anymore.
 
Almost always stick to normal/default difficulty, but in games that have long term replayability eg. Civ series, XCOM I will dial up the difficulty to provide more challenge.
 
Usually stick to normal or what the devs hint at being their recommended difficulty for a play through depending on the type of game, I used to play on harder difficulties but that usually just meant the mobs become bullet sponges and didn't add any new tactics etc.
 
I don't pick one difficulty, although I do tend to start off in Normal or whatever the game recommends. You know the way some games say this is the intended difficulty.

Usually I raise or lower the difficulty until the game is a challenge without been punishingly so.
 
Normal mode out of the box and up it if it's too easy. I've been doing some old game series on speedrun recently set on hard (mild rage inducing at times)
 
I start on normal and then adjust it up or down depending on how I'm finding it. Usually up though, I can probably count on one hand the times I've put the difficulty down. I know it's all up to the individual, but I always feel like a sellout if I drop it down to easy lol.
 
Usually pick hard (or the one up from Normal if there's multiple above normal), if it's a game that's known to be especially difficult already then I may just stick to normal.

I enjoy trying to overcome challenges in a game and I definitely get bored if it's easy, unless it's a very narrative focused/short story type game.

I think I'm more likely to pick harder difficulties now than when I was younger, partly as a way to help keep games feeling fresh but I think games got easier for me as I got older and fortunately my reactions are still there... for now.
 
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Easy mode most of the time as I'm in my late 40's, I don't have the patience/reflexes as in my younger days.
 
It depends on what I'm playing.

I'm a bit of a RPG fan and playing on harder difficulties can often result in bigger rewards, or exclusive unlocks. Any sort of RTS or strategy game I'll usually stick on whatever the hardest difficulty is too.

Platformer/adventure type games I just leave on normal, same with survival horror.

That said, it does somewhat depend on how difficulty is implemented. If it's something cheap where everything turns into a bullet sponge or the enemies suddenly land nothing but instant headshots I'll reduce the difficulty, but usually those games are on the poo side anyway so I'd be unlikely to play them.
 
Play whatever mode you find enjoyable but I'm curious why people younger than me are using age as a reason to play easy.
 
Whatever the default is. Games are never balanced for other stuff. Easy just tends to give you more health and you do more damage, hard does the opposite, so the enemy all turns into damage sponges.
 
Nearly always easy or story mode these days, my days of whacking it on hard and dying over and over again are over lol

Hate it when i die to much these days haha, just havent got the patience and yes i hate souls type games for this exact reason.
 
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