Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:02:47 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 10:23:16 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
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So for me, yep I play on easy mode.

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If it is a strategy game, I play on the easiest difficulty and move up
from there. I usually end up at one of the middle difficulties and
don't go and higher. The only one I play at the harder settings is
HOMM III because it is my favorite strategy game and I just got good
at it from playing it so much.
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If it is an RPG, I play it at normal difficulty and leave it there.

Generally, I start on the default difficulty. If it's a game (or
genre) I really enjoy maybe I'll up the difficulty a level or two. I
almost never play on the hardest difficulty levels.

But that's because I largely play games for the experience rather than
the challenge. I want to immerse myself in a virtual world, play out
the story, live out the power-fantasy. Being able to say I beat the
computer has never really had that much appeal to me.

And the one thing I absolutely detest in video-games is
repetitiveness. It's bad enough that most games have incredibly
shallow gameplay to begin with; I can endure that.

(I mean, "Doom" is just 'shoot dodge run shoot jump shoot shoot pickup
shoot open door shoot' repeated over 8 hours ;-)

But if I have to do the same sequence more than once, it becomes
annoying. If I have to do it more than twice the game rapidly starts
losing its attraction. Thus, if I get to a point in the game where the
difficulty curve rapidly spikes upwards and I'm forced to fight
through the same arenas over and over again because I keep getting
defeated, I'm not averse to lowering the difficulty. Or even --dare I
say it aloud?-- cheating (gasp! I said it). I'd rather not but there
are times I've typed in the secret codes to sneak past particularly
annoying bits. I'm much more interested in just getting on with the
story than banging my head against an egregiously annoying boss or
platforming sequence.

(I'll also sometimes cheat just to bypass the too-slow leveling up in
games that demand an undue amount of grind to actually get to the good
stuff; you know, the cool skills and weapons. Playing a game for ten
or twenty hours BEFORE you get to the bits that are actually fun is
not my cup of tea. I'll happily hexedit myself some unearned skill
points and XP first).

But on the whole I try to play honestly. So long as the game remains
fun, I'll play by its rules. But I don't feel the need to make it
unduely difficult either. The game is supposed to entertain me, after
all.