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[SkittlesKat96]

I always play on Normal and I'm what people consider a 'hardcore gamer'.

[goofyomnivore]

I usually play a game on the hardest difficulty. Especially my first playthrough, because you can't metagame the battlefield/combat. I like to learn as I go, and the more difficult the combat the faster you learn/innovate.

Modifié par strive, 09 juillet 2011 - 11:28 .

[Wulfram]

I tend to start on normal, then go up - having to go down a difficulty level is depressing. I rarely stay on the top difficulty, though I might do a playthrough to show that I can.

[philippe willaume]

Hello
Difficulty is a quite hard to get right in RPG
It is not like a simulator where you can have arcane to full realism. (try to land a plane on aircraft carrier in il2:46)

For example, nightmare difficulty in DA:0 was probably not hard enough and that was a criticism that was noted for that game. Difficulty in DA2 tried to address that but unfortunately it just had increased the tediousness of the fight rather than the difficulty. According to what you play it is going to be the bosses or the waves that will be tedious.
Playing a 2H I ended playing the game in Hard and doing most of the bosses in casual because they always end up of taking ages of rinse and repeat and gulping potions.
This is compounded by the lack of variety in types of fights

TW2 scales better in difficulty, but the normal level of difficulty is harder to master than the normal level in DA 2 and you are only dealing with one char

But it is good to let the player choose the difficulty level.

[Macrake]

I have to put game difficulty as high as possible if i want any kind of challenge. WoW arena top tier made me too good at these types of games.

[turian councilor Knockout]

I usually start to play on the highest, sometimes next hardest but it is very rarely but when i reach the highest difficulty i never look back and turn it down.

[Relix28]

I usually start on Normal, if I'm playing the game for the first time. But in most cases I quickly switch to Hard and Nightmare/Insanity, because today's games are designed to be so easy, that they are no fun at all on lower difficulties. This is true for DA2, ME2 and every other modern single-player game (minus few exceptions). For me, everything below Insanity in ME2 and Nightmare in DA2 is a complete faceroll. And even the highest difficulty settings are not much of a challenge once you get the hang of it. I think the biggest challenge in DA2 is being able to adapt to idiotic companion AI. Some fights are tough and challenging, but those are few and far in between. The other 90% of the game is like, kill everything before it can do any real damage, move on...rinse, repeat.
I think the probem lies with todays dumbed-down society we live in and companies catering to the masses. Unfortuantelly, this trend will continue as long as the masses will be the main source of income for the companies.

Modifié par Relix28, 09 juillet 2011 - 12:28 .

[CrazyRah]

I often do one playthrough on the default difficulty and after that i always play on the hardest difficulty i can.

[vania z]

I prefer default settings for the first playthrough, if it is too easy, I make it harder. for the seond I usually try harder difficulty.

[Luke Bioware]

Hardcore and hard are my standards. Somehwat challenging, but not a cakewalk.

[Giltspur]

I start on Normal on my first playthrough and then adjust difficulty as I want to.

In DAO, I often found myself increasing difficulty because it was too easy.  (By the time you get to Awakening, the game is so broken with an imported Warden I'm not sure there's a difference between the difficulty levels.)

In DA2, I did that as well.  But sometimes I turned difficulty down when combat was boring just to make it go faster.  So I felt I had to massage DA2's difficulty to make the game more fun.  When it's so easy that you can't even justify using a strategy and want to have an excuse to think or synergize your party's abilities, crank up difficulty.  When the the waves or the bosses are causing you to yawn a bit, turn down difficulty. 

Modifié par Giltspur, 09 juillet 2011 - 01:53 .

[Cyberstrike nTo]

Lord Gremlin wrote...

On PC - always easiest difficulty. Unless it's a classic old-school shooter (Quake, Painkiller) those I play on maximum difficulty.
On PS3 I care about trophies a lot, so trophies dictate which difficulty I select. That's how I defeated Harvester on Nightmare. Trophy wanted me to do it. But I like how DAO and DA2 generally don't force you to play on hardest diff to get trophies. That's good cause combat was bad in both games, honestly.

I'm not a big fan of those kind of trophies and achievements.

[cJohnOne]

I'm surprised people haven't mentioned patch 1.03 which made it easier so you can play most battles on Hard difficulty. I turn it down when I get wiped out and it looks hopelessly out numbered.

On Nightmare I'm constantly looking hopeless and outnumbered.

Modifié par cJohnOne, 09 juillet 2011 - 08:47 .

[Huntress]

I play on normal, don't care about fighting difficulties much o thought DA2 improved mages style, I thought was cool but anyway, I like to focus more about the world of Thedas, politic intrigue, more about mages/templars conflic's, about All Cultures ( all god's) and stuff likes that. ( bring back other races)

[elearon1]

I don't need the game to tell me which difficult setting I should have it on. I always start new games on Casual, because I'm there for the story - but in later playthroughs I may turn difficulty up, since I have a firm grasp on combat by then and sometimes a difficult fight can be fun. (especially once I've played through each of the various personality types, plot choices, etc. and am not just playing for the fun of the mechanics) But if a player is too dumb to turn up the difficulty if they're not being challenged, or turn it down if they're getting their arses kicked ... I don't see how spending extra development time to hold their hand is anything but a waste of money.

Typically the people who have played these games before - or any game before - has a grasp on the idea of adjusting difficulty and will do so if they feel inclined ... the reason most people aren't changing their difficulty settings likely has less to do with not knowing how, than being happy with the way things are.

And according to your poll there - with its very tiny sampling - only 5% more people leave the difficulty untouched than fiddle with it constantly.

[Brockololly]

I almost always play a game at the default or normal difficulty to start with, assuming thats the difficulty the developer's balanced the game for.

Now with DA2, the problem I had was that higher difficulties outside of Nightmare were just tedious and not actually harder. So after a while I just dumped it down to Easy because the fights were just boring and took too long, especially once you added in the waves.

[Fraevar]

Brockololly wrote...

I almost always play a game at the default or normal difficulty to start with, assuming thats the difficulty the developer's balanced the game for.

Now with DA2, the problem I had was that higher difficulties outside of Nightmare were just tedious and not actually harder. So after a while I just dumped it down to Easy because the fights were just boring and took too long, especially once you added in the waves.

It was the same for me. There was no greater need for tactical gameplay, mostly because the wave mechanic prevented that, you just had more hitpoints to grind through with each enemy. DA2 is the first game where I put it on Casual not because it was hard to play but because I just wanted those boring fights over and done with quicker.

[Merilsell]

I play on easy or normal, because I'm lazy and are in for the story. Sadly, DA2 failed to deliver to me in both departments.

[Feirefiz1972]

Like to play DA2 on hard and eventhough it can get a bit to easy, i still do'nt crank it up to nightmare because i do'nt want to bother with the friendly fire and immunities.

[The Baconer]

By what criteria are we judging a person as a 'hardcore' gamer in this case?

[Melca36]

I always play normal the first time then work my way up.

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

I always play on normal. I'm in it for enjoyment, not challange. Unless a game has some nifty unlockables that require it beat on hard or whatnot, I don't usually touch the difficulty.

[SoulRebel_1979]

Nothing makes me lose interest faster in a game when I'm able to steam roll over the enemy and breeze through it. I like to be challenged when I play.

[element eater]

SSH83 wrote...

What's everyone here's habit on difficulty settings?

i usualy do a run thru on normal then if i like the game i up the difficulty problem with the high difficulty in alot of games is  quite often  it messes up the balance a bit too much. 

Brockololly wrote...
Now with DA2, the problem I had was that higher difficulties outside of Nightmare were just tedious and not actually harder..

yeh thats similar to how i felt when i upped da2's difficulty 

Modifié par element eater, 09 juillet 2011 - 10:53 .

[Arthur Cousland]

I usually start on normal difficulty until I get comfortable with the game, and then I'll increase the difficulty if I find that I'm breezing through the game. I don't want to feel like I'm just guiding my characters from point A to point B. I want to feel like I actually accomplished something by advancing in the game. Usually, if enemies are dying too fast and aren't putting up much of a fight, then I get bored. Playing on the higher difficulties make the game more fun, as I have to actually put some thought into combat and not just auto attack. I like to feel like I need to think defensively, and use strategy to win in a particular battle.

While I enjoy a good story in my rpgs, I like to kill stuff too, and have my character(s) break a sweat in the process.

Modifié par Arthur Cousland, 10 juillet 2011 - 12:49 .