Upping the notch!

[agnes]

Just wondering, how many of you guys play a game for the first time on the hardest difficulty setting?

I used to play every game on my old PC rig on the hardest setting. With consoles, it has taken me well over a year to even get used to the controller, which I think I'm now satisfactory with. But I am to the point where I now play most games on the hardest setting from the get go.

So, what do you do? Play through on a normal setting then re play through on hard, or just kick it in the nads from day 1?

Oh, only game I'm struggling with on hard is Transformers WFC... Not sure why, the team AI is useless, constantly blocking me whilst I'm firing my weapon and the enemy AI don't like to die that quick. Oh and ammo/guns are near on rare as rocking horse **** lol.

ags

 

[agnes]

Maybe it's just me then by the looks of it. Minor majority of us anyway.

Main reason I do it is I rarely play through a game again unless it has a serious case of being different each time. Such is the likes of Oblivion for example. Or Halo as I love the campaign. But something like Singularity I will only play through once. So I try it on the hardest setting to 1) prolong the life of the game 2) make it feel that much more of a challenge 3) achievements!!!!! Love completing a game that has different difficulty ach's, at the end, getting 350 odd g for unlocking all difficulty settings is rather satisfying.

One thing I hate, is when settings are locked. Like Alan wake (I think) has a locked difficulty that you have to play through on hard to unlock the insane setting. Not sure it's alan wake im thinking of now... But you get what I mean.

ags