"Normal" difficulty hard enough ?

Generally normal first time, then hardest for acheivements based on difficulty level (that stacks) and finally easiest to mop up remaing achievements. If a game is easy or rubbish so I only want to play it through once then I might try it on a harder/est setting ie Fear 2. Im trying to not attempt stupidly hard games now because frustration isnt fun!

I'm trying to enjoy games for the game themselves and not be an achievement whore these days.
 
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Usually can't be arsed with the hardest setting, most of the time I end up retrying every checkpoint half a dozen times which just doesn't allow you to appreciate the pacing of the game. I'll only play on the hardest difficulty if I really enjoy it.
 
I usually start on the hardest setting, most games aren't all that difficult anymore. 10 years ago the hard setting was actually hard. I only do this because I like to try and get as many cheevos as possible and playing on hard is usually one of them so when you play on hard you get a flood of cheevos at the end :) It also keeps my ageing hand eye coordination young and agile!
There are some game that take me to the cleaners though and have to be turned down.
 
^ I'd agree with the above.

Games generally aren't as tough as they were back in the day... playing some platformers on hard with no saves and if you died you went back to the start of the level, that kind of thing was tough.

The trouble is also that it's hard to know what level difficulty to go with now. It used to be just 'Easy', 'Normal' and 'Hard'. You knew 'Normal' was the best choice as 'Easy' would be too easy and 'Hard' would be hellish.

If we look at some of the current popular titles:

COD
Recruit
Regular
Hardened
Veteran

Gears of War
Casual
Normal
Hardcore
Insane

Halo
Easy
Normal
Heroic
Legendary


They all seem to be going with four difficulty levels.
I personally always play on one below the hardest level, as normal is usually too easy, then go back and maybe play that hardest setting on another play through.

I think really they just need to re-balance things back to three levels. Make Easy....easy and Normal a bit more challenging, then you've always got the hardest difficulty afterwards for a real challenge of skill
 
The last game I put up to the hardest dificulty level was Crysis when I first played that.
Its far too easy on any other difficulty.
 
i tend to play through on the normal difficulty unless ive read that it is way too easy on normal.

i generally play through games for fun and the story so i would rarther play through and relax then getting frustrated on the hardest level
 
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