Your favourite difficulty settings

[Ryan Timothy B]

Constantly loading the game if I died or if I wasted too much ammo or health.

See, to me that's just tedious...
And frustrating if I forget to save my game, which I often do.

I don't do it too often unless it's a game that really grinds the gears on conserving ammo/health.  A game like F.E.A.R. that I recently played again.  In that game certain guns will become more common to see on your enemy, so you'll have to drop one of your guns with low ammo so you can pick up theirs and collect all their ammo.  Doing it several times throughout the game.

Depends. If it's an RPG-like game (as in, experience and equipment and stuff), I only play at Easy to Normal, so I can skip the grinding.

At this very moment I'm actually playing Mass Effect (RPG).  It's on the hardest setting and I haven't noticed any extreme difficulties.  I think there were only 3 areas (and I've almost completed the game) that were actually troublesome.
Oblivion also didn't bother me much--it's all in how attack.  In Oblivion you jump back whenever they are about to attack you.  Or launch fire balls from far distances.  It's easy to dodge most of their attacks.

[InCreator]

Easy.
If given many options, like 5 maybe (fps games like Doom or COD), second one.

I'm not the quickloading type (anymore) and don't think that I would go through long process of mastering a difficult game, like I did so often with NES, arcade, and other old games in the past. Modern games are rarely worth time and effort to really master...

This day, I like it easy and enjoyable, with all my hair intact after ending credits.

Then again, my favourite games are one of the most difficult games ever, like Jagged Alliance series, Stronghold Crusader, Samurai Shodown series...

[Terrorcell]

The thing I've noticed about starting off on the hardest difficulty is that when I get up to a certain difficult spot or level, it just feels like its difficult and I dont really think about it being on the hardest difficulty. I just endevour to finish that part and when I do finish it I continue on my way.
After I've finished playing the game it's then I realise that I've just finished it on the hardest difficulty and in some cases, thats quite a challenge for some players. And I did it without even thinking about it.

[ManicMatt]

Play Shadow of Rome on hard mode! (ps2) go on, I dare you! I got about 6 hours in before I just was incapable of getting any further. Started the game again on "Normal" mode, which was also very hard, but I managed to complete it.


oof.