LogFAQs > #969357686

depends on the game and my mood. i will usually start with whatever normal is. i don't mind dropping down to easy as long it's not like broken*, especially if it's a genre i'm terrible at. i played God of War 1/2 on easy and it was still pretty frustrating lol

i usually play classic doom on ultra-violence (hard) but if i'm playing a wad for the first time i'll usually go for normal. doom has different enemy / item placements between skill levels so i see it as ng+ / replay value? especially if i enjoy it enough to start doing pistol starts too. for modern doom i play UV but i've dabbled in nightmare and i'd like to eventually do NM without using lives in Eternal. I don't see ever doing UNM tho, i don't think i could even get through permadeath on normal difficulty without going insane first

*examples of broken easy modes:

• RE3 gives you a bunch of extra guns and healing items at the beginning, extra inventory, unlimited saves, some game mechanics play themselves, etc
• serious sam easier modes have health regen and remove self damage from explosive weapons
• devil may cry idr the specifics but i think it had stuff like this in the first game and maybe others
• enemies dying from basically nothing so it's like :/. the converse of this where everything takes forever to kill is also pointless imo too (i think GoW18's highest difficulty was like this?)

if i really like a game and have played the shit out of it then maybe i will try for the harder modes. i don't really play games for accomplishment, i'm more of a sightseer i guess