Do you ever play on Easy?

[Brian Boru]

everything I've done today has been in easy mode

Welcome to The Light, brother convert!

 

[Pifanjr]

I don't remember the last time I chose to play on an easy difficulty setting, but I do make the game easier sometimes in other ways. For example, I've played Dark Souls mostly in co-op with a friend that's a lot better and takes care of most of the enemies for me.

 

[mjda]

I'd say for me it just depends on the game.

When a new Call of Duty comes out my first task is to beat the campaign on veteran. I've beat all of them that I've started on veteran with the exception of World at War because my game saved just before I got blown up so when it restarts, I just get blown up again. I've tried, more times than I can count (or care to admit), to get away from that explosion but it's just impossible. So, out of frustration and the fact that I didn't want to restart the entire level, I just quit (sad, I know).

When I play Farming Sim, on the other hand, I almost always have it set to easy. I just want to make bank and build the biggest farm I can in the shortest amount of time. I haven't played in several days now, though, because right now I play on Xbox One and I'm about to build a new PC. Since I can't transfer my farm from one to the other, I've decided to stop playing on Xbox and just wait until my PC is complete to start again.

 

[McStabStab]

For shooters I usually start on hard difficulty, but for strategy games like Civ I give myself some leeway until I'm confident I can manage the systems well enough for a normal difficulty run.

 

[Brian Boru]

I do make the game easier sometimes in other ways

I'm the opposite—play on Easy and make it harder, typically be avoiding driving, machine guns, rocket launchers, and explosives.

my game saved just before I got blown up

Welcome to the forum

So CoD is one of those games with the pathetically stupid only one save, and you don't even get to select when it saves, yeah? Has anyone told them multiple player-selected saves have been common since at least the 90s?

I'm about to build a new PC

Hey, best of luck! Tell us about it in the Build forum.

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm the opposite—play on Easy and make it harder, typically be avoiding driving, machine guns, rocket launchers, and explosives.

That's kind of how I play Warhammer 2. I play on normal, but I make it harder for myself by not exploiting the AI's weaknesses, having a mix of different units in each army instead of a stack of just the strongest units and by limiting save-scumming, at least in the mid/late game.