Which difficulty setting do you start with?

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#1 backinthekrak
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In games that give you a choice, which difficulty setting do you use the first time you play a new game? 'Easy' just to get through it fast, see what the game is like & then go back later on a harder diffculty? Or a harder setting right away to get the tough experience first?
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#2 nextgenmaster
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I usually start with a normal setting, then do the easy and harder difficulties.
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#3 Hobbies230
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I'll play it through on the "normal" difficulty setting. Later on, I'll be up for the challenge of the harder ones.
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#4 therapyhiccup
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i go with normal
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#5 RebornInFlames
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Hardest available, unless it is really crushing (DOOM on nightmare anyone) that way the game lasts me a couple weeks at least.....R6V on realistic is taking forever
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#6 NINJA65056
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Always the hardest first. Cause when i Finally say “Screw it this is to hard!” I feel am im better prepared for the lower difficult lvl.
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#7 Elraptor
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I usually start with easy, and if it's just too simple I keep bumping it up until there's a challenge. :P
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#9 jdbthexboxgamr
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I always start with the default (normal) setting and then I make adjustments if need be later on..........

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#11 ateace3
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Normal Difficulty. If its too easy/hard I'll adjust it later.
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#12 Sevenus
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Usually normal... But if the game is part of a franchise.... Resident Evil, i usually start on hard as i know the games controls ect just not the story line. Same with MGS.
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#13 TheRFour
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Normal. I used to always play on easy, but then I would burn through games when I did easy. 
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#14 xfan-atic
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Heroic, Veteran, Hardcore...
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#15 TheTrid
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I usually start on the normal dificulty, except for sequels of games that I've played, then I usually bump it up a notch, and after i beat a game on normal I almost always go back and play through it on hard, like gears, I'm going back through now and playing on insane, it get's pretty... insane :P

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#16 OfficialBed
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start at easy and work my way up...that way, i play through the game 3 times and i feel like it was worth the money
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#17 II-FBIsniper-II
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Hardest usualy.
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#18 BlacKJaCK2290
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Medium/ Normal
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#19 Cutekitten6_18
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The Medium one.
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#21 RiderGino
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The Medium one.
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same here
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#22 firebreathing
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why do the gamefaq'ers think they're so much better than the GSers??? mine as well be racist while you're at it you arrogant sobs..........
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#23 zeppelin6591
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mine as well be racist while you're at it you arrogant sobs..........firebreathing

1. It is just a sig, get over it
2. Hating someone for something they can't choose is different that hating them for their favorite video game site
3. Your post is off topic
I usually start on easy and move up unless you have to start a new game to change difficulty, in which case I start at normal.
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#25 konradak
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Normal, then I go through Hard or the highest difficulty. :)
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#26 burgessjacob
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depends on how many difficulty levels there are, but usually the second hardest one, unless its a sequel. then i tend to try the hardest difficulty.
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#27 xtrm360
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I like to play default settings.. that's how developers want me to play the first time through, so I'll stick with that.
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#28 xelloss88
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Easy, normal and work my way up from there.
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#29 MentatAssassin
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I used to always start at normal but now I always start at hard then move up to whatevers next.
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#30 battlefront23
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easy, then work my way up. Easy get u to the hang of things then normal means your experienced and hard should mean your great at the game.
 
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#31 Sharvie
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Normal then i skip to the hardest after that.
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#32 rockokla4life
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I prefer the hardest mode since it gives the game a longer life than if I breeze through the entire game in 5 hours.
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#33 blacktorn
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Easiest
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#34 sk8jim
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Default, then play again on hardest
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#35 RipaX21
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If I've purchased the game, I start on the hardest difficulty available.  If it's to overwhelming then I'll knock it down a notch and go back to hard later on.  If I've rented the game I usually play it through on easy or normal just to beat it (I don't subscribe to any of the rental services so I usually only have the game for a week or so).
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#36 booomer69
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Hard.Gets your better in the game Quiker.At least for me it does.
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#37 deactivated-5f93995c29447
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I always start hard and I let it stay that way!!!
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#38 jsloane
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If I own the game I start at default usually and adjust from there or a second time through,  but rentals I tend to be in a rush to finish so I put it on easy
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#39 childe_roland
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I start on normal so that if I like the game I've got insentive to play through again on hard and if the game kind of sucks I can still roll through it fairly easily and quickly on normal...
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#40 Baroncx
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easy, always :D
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#41 zombiejonny
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i start on the default settings.
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#42 imrlybord7
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second hardest
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at normal difficulty. if it is to easy I turn up the difficulty setting later
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#44 SicsStringFreak
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i have my dashboard setting to hard, so by choice i would choose hard as well,  i  have been gamming for over 2 decades.  and i figure that by the time im done zooming through the single player on the hardest difficulty. i feel that im trained for the online play, where im familiar enough to slaughter my opponents.

and its worked for 3 years now.

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#45 ChocOPuffS
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I allways start on the hardest becous then if its to damn hard the normal setting feels easey:)
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#46 ChocOPuffS
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i have my dashboard setting to hard, so by choice i would choose hard as well,  i  have been gamming for over 2 decades.  and i figure that by the time im done zooming through the single player on the hardest difficulty. i feel that im trained for the online play, where im familiar enough to slaughter my opponents.

and its worked for 3 years now.

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lol someone isent moddestXD
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#47 b11051973
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I'll usually try a nomral difficulty. If it is too easy, I'll go back and start the harder one. That's what I did with GRAW 2. I beat Act I at normal and thought it was way too easy. Started over at the most difficult setting and beat it on that.
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#48 maxmax1234
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i always start with easy, and if i can handle that easey, im going on medium, or hard.

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#49 TheBigTicket21
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easy unless i have another game in the series like CoD
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#50 pvt_parts_815
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i used to start on the easiest setting, but then i decided that that was no fun so now i start on either normal or hard(then ill usually play it on the next difficulty once i beat it)
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