Your Initial Difficulty Choice?

[Kosheh]

But really, when you first play a game, what difficulty setting do you start with, if you're given a choice?

It really depends on my confidence with the genre. >:

I'll usually pick Normal if it's something I've just picked up and doesn't really require you to play on Easy, i.e. Kingdom Hearts, cool action game (like No More Heroes, or something) and then replay it on Hard for any extra cool things I couldn't unlock on a Normal playthrough.

If the game is inherently difficult and requires a deep mechanical knowledge and very structured decision-making, like  Fire Emblem, Contra... and Street Fighter or Tekken ; I'll go with easy (it's true: im bad at the fighting games I love most) so I can enjoy the story.

With the latest Fire Emblem though, I can't play without Casual Mode enabled...I actually came into the series from Advance Wars, where units are expendable, so to have a unit die forever is just rough. :/
I also hate resetting to keep my units alive otherwise. I've gotten better with it since (playing through Path of Radiance now) and I'm just generally more cautious, period.


I'm an old ass man now and this gaming gramps ain't got no time for "Super Difficult Hard Torture Maniac Mode"
man I gotta work and make money to put a roof over my head. Gaming's a hobby at this point, and I play video games to relax, not scream at