What skill level do you choose when playing single player games?

cainer · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:40

You start a new single player game.. what skill level do you choose?
lets say the game has..

low skill
medium skill
high skill
uber skill

personally i go with medium skill, and if i like the game il play it again at uber skill level.

On Holiday · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:41

Usually medium.

Tried Hardcore (or whatever the highest setting is) for COD and it's just insanely difficult.

Then again, I don't often play SP

Uncle Petey · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:44

Usually medium/normal. If I really enjoy the game, then I'll up the difficulty on the second playthrough.

Sho · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:54

Medium/normal. Once completes and I enjoy it il play it on hard mode.

Pighardia · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:57

I can honestly say that there is a game which totally changed the way I feel about gaming - Dark Souls. Before I played it, I would almost always pick medium difficulty, sometimes even easier... Dark Souls has really made me appreciate the challenge more. Of course this is dependant on the game though, there are some games that I really do not like hard difficulties on(I really don't think The Witcher 2 suits a hard difficulty tbh... And skyrim would be another imo ).

Atm I am playing through kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and I started on normal but very quickly put it up to the hardest, as it was far too easy(and it's not like me to do that!)... And even on the hardest difficulty, it is still a bit on the easy side.

Really, it all depends on how well balanced the game is as to how it plays on harder difficulties imo.

qotsa · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:57

Medium usually

arc@css · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:00

If available, I like to select 'realistic' first, otherwise 'normal' or 'medium'; during later play throughs I'll try all the other options out. There are always exceptions though; for almost all Stalker mods I'll choose the hardest difficulty (balance depending).

SwiftJump · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:02

hardest mode possible

, i punish myself in the end for it but the joy in seeing all the achievements points coming through at the end of completion is tasty.

My mate plays on easy-normal then says he has completed it and gives the game back for another one which grinds my soul sometimes.

But have you really completed a game on easy, like don't you miss out on somethings through the game?

Sui · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:04

Hard normally, I like a challenge, makes it feel more rewarding when you complete it.

^JP^ · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:07

FPS - Hardest
Racing - Hardest
RPG - Normal

SwiftJump · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:09

^JP^ said:
FPS - Hardest
Racing - Hardest
RPG - Normal

Fire Emblem by any chance

oh is that your car in the sig

^JP^ · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:17

SwiftJump said:
Fire Emblem by any chance

oh is that your car in the sig

No, just noob at RPGs but I do like them.

Not my actual car in the picture but I have the same. Pictures somewhere in the Motors section

RumbleBee · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:22

Always medium/normal. Well the one in the middle.

Did occasionally switch to Hard on Bioshock Infinite but found it frustrating

MrMarvelous · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:27

Normal.

Only time I turn it up if normal is too easy. I never turn the difficulty down though.

james_2k · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:28

medium

Hyburnate · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:28

Normal unless I really am going to suck then I opt for easy.

-grabs bike

Fire_fly · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:33

Normal / Medium

Although it depends on the game and what I'm trying to get out of it, ie do I want a challenge or just some fun.

jellofund · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:44

Normal/medium usually but on the odd occassion I find a game too easy I'll bump it up to hard.

panyan · 13 Sep 2013 at 21:47

medium to start and them switch up to hard if the game is too easy

badcompany · 13 Sep 2013 at 22:08

used to be hard then normal now easy as I get bugger all time to game but have so many games I want to play.