gaming What difficulty do you usually start at?

[Meson Bolt 2,648]

I start at normal, and very rarely go either higher or lower than that. I feel like "normal" difficulty is more of what the core game experience is supposed to be like, and adding or subtracting any difficulty from the game is just flavorless fluff.

[Lightwing 12,974]

I normally give a shot on at least Hard difficulty, specially if it is a game or franchise I am already familiar with (Fire Emblem, which I haven't played in Normal difficulty unless it was forced on me since at least the mid 2000s; or Devil May Cry, due to my sheer familiarity with the difficulty design by now). Otherwise, I will suck my pride and play on normal difficulty, but 99% of the time I'm still too prideful to lower the difficulty, so I end up stumbling a lot  

[碇 シンジン 27,431]

depends if its something that i play for challenge or for fun if its for fun i use easy or normal 

[Sherem 4,807]

always between medium and hard

[Kamii 595]

Easy difficulty, unless it's a series I'm used to or if I've played the game previously. But I never really play in hard difficulty to be honest. Not my thing.

[Euphoria 13]

I always play easy because I'm almost always playing the game to have fun, not to be challenged. Some sections of games I play are hard enough on Easy so I'd rather not test my luck on other modes . Minecraft is a bit different; if I'm playing alone it's peaceful (I don't like being jumpscared), but if I'm on LAN it's easy or normal.

[Phosphor 11,529]

00 Agent  

I usually start a new game on easy mode to get a feel for it. If it's a game that's similar to others I've played, I'll often start on normal difficulty.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I usually start at Normal difficulty and go from there. I try and steer away from Easy nowadays.

[CoconutCake 360]

Normal for sure. But depending on the game and my situation, maybe I’ll do easy. But rarely  

[Lucky Bolt 35,064]

Depends on the game, and I'm not a gamer really. But I typically start at normal difficulty. 

[TheRockARooster 51,742]

A gaming question?

I start with EASY to get a feel for the game and when I feel more confident, I will change it to NORMAL and then to HARD whenever I want s real challenge (which isn’t often).

[Pastel Heart 6,466]

Easy, to normal once I've played through once.

I don't like the needless frustration of harder difficulties:/

[Splashee 28,565]

"Practice". I am the cool!

[Dreambiscuit 9,933]

If I'm going to play a game at all, it's going to be EASY every step of the way. And if I get really good at playing (yeah, right) I'm STILL going to play it on Easy. I don't do Hard!

[LegoDashie 1,806]

Easy i like the experience the story more :3 

[Pentium100 2,136]

Whatever is called "normal" or "default" on a game. Sometimes it is the easiest mode, sometimes it is not. My self-respect prevents me from playing on "easy", but I dislike games that cause frustration (I will not play "Dark Souls" or "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" because those games are essentially advertised as "Pentium100 won't like it").

[Dark Bun 681]

Kinda depends. Some games have really fun hard modes like Terraria or Bayonetta, and some have really bad ones like Skyrim or Nier: Automata.

I usually start on normal and try harder modes after my first playthrough, but having fun is my only priority.

[Moony the Cat 3,702]

I always start on easy and then climb up the difficulty settings one by one.

[ivar 23]

Normal difficulty . Of course, sometimes normal difficulty is more difficult or easier than expected. But I try to trust the developers to correctly name the difficulty levels.

[Odyssey 5,716]

Normal difficulty, because Easy is too unfulfilling and Hard reminds me that I need to git gud

[Celli 4,338]

I generally start on the hard skill. So Ultra Violence for Doom, Come Get Some on Duke Nukem 3D, Who Wants Wang on Shadow Warrior. The only exception is Blood, where I play Lightly Broiled which is the medium, because it's a little harder than Shadow Warrior's Hardest, and Doom's UV. Blood is no joke.

[Petrus 696]

I try to push myself to start on the highest difficulty, I just started playing halo Master chief collection for pc. And I’m trying to do an all legendary run for the games. However if it’s a game where you can chill and have fun with the story, usually normal.

[Cash In 22,410]

Depends on the game really. Usually, I'll start on normal, but if it's a genre I'm not very good at, I'll start on easy. I generally only pick the hard difficulty if I'm already good at the game or have played it enough.

[Longhaul 6,884]

I start on the easiest level the game has.  I increase it if I feel I can.

[Nitobit 1,856]

I usually start on normal. Then, if the game is worth playing again, I pick hard. For achievements that involve speedrunning or not dying, I play on easy.