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I try to play on at least normal in Japanese games, but I almost always pick easy in western made games because the balancing often feels worse or or they like to stick in cheap bs more or at least it's a lot harder to gauge what I'm going to be getting myself into when I start them and I worry that I might get in over my head (though, it's probably better now than it was in the past, where a lot of western publishers and western branches of japanese companies were in full on fuck you for trying to play our game mode and tended to crank up the difficulty because they didn't want you to finish it in a rental).

there's some exceptions, like I play RE and MGS on easy difficulties, and I played Doom and some other fps games on more normal - intermediate difficulties.

I rarely play games on hard modes, though. (particularly since I don't replay games all that much due to trying to finish as many games as possible, and I probably wouldn't play on a first playthrough.) Well, that's not counting scenarios where you can change the difficulty at any time and I was going for achievements or was on a ng+. I think the last times I remember offhand going out of my way to play on hard include trying to beat Viewtiful Joe on V rated (though I kind of got side tracked and put it down at Fire Leo.) and trying to replay Tales of Eternia from scratch on Hard on the PSP version (where I couldn't finish it because of the Volt glitch on my copy). Oh and I guess I did finish R&C Crack in Time on Hard to get the platinum but that wasn't very difficult.