Your Initial Difficulty Choice?

[Lemonray]

I'm an old ass man now and this gaming gramps ain't got no time for "Super Difficult Hard Torture Maniac Mode"

>not playing real life on NEET mode


Hm. Typically I will investigate how hard each given mode is before doing actual playthroughs of games.
I prefer higher difficulties if the challenge is genuine. Genuine meaning, enemy placements, enhanced/smarter AI, and so on.

What I don't like is when enemies are able to cheat. See for example, games where enemies can hit you through walls and other solid objects. This can be fine in the right context (Dark Souls' ghosts, Iron Knuckle's attacks breaking through pillars in the Zelda 64 games...) but it's crazy to see enemy attacks just clipping through things and hurting you when it makes no sense for that to happen.