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No, although I consider it often and sometimes even go as far as starting a game on an easier difficulty if I'm dead tired after work thinking it'll help me relax more but then I start feeling guilty that I'm not playing it the way the dev intended and that I'm not gonna get the real experience so I restart with normal or hard

No, I always play on normal. If that's too easy then I'll switch to hard.

For FPS and Action games, pretty much never
For fighting games only sometimes (fighting against higher level AI's develops bad habits when you go online)
Always for RTS, the AI pretty much blatantly cheats

Normal is easy for me.

The last time I've done it was in EDF 4.1 for completion.
It was actually kinda fun to just charge in without caution but got boring kinda quickly.

When I achievement hunted like a decade ago I'd do a second playthrough on easy with a guide for collectibles or whatever. I just play on hard these days under the assumption that it's actually just renamed normal mode and that assumption is almost always correct in modern games. Very hard is still usually a meme difficulty.

all the time 2bh

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depend of the genre
if it's a rpg I don't care about playing in easy since the only thing that change is how long you need to kill shit

>muh inflated enemy health
brainlet take, you're also never in any danger because enemies do less damage, just admit you're a shitter

I play ga.es on the hardest difficulty. If it's full of cheap mechanics or too hard I drop the game

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If I wanted something relaxing, I’d just play something else

Normal first time then I climb up one by one even if they give me the option for the highest.

I'm always relaxed when playing vidya, so no
>that atrocious pixel art
How do you fuck up this badly

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>How do you fuck up this badly
"Indie games"

I put Bioshock Infinite on easy because that last fight on the airship was a bitch and a half, although I was like 13 when I played it when it came out. I'm considering putting God of War 2018 on easy mode because these fights are painfully hard for me even on easy, but I've managed to push through so far.

Almost always normal. If I can change the difficulty mid-game, I start increasing the difficulty as I get more accustomed to the gameplay (like with Tales games).

HURT ME DADDY

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After a normal/hard playthrough in dead space I like to relax and chill by setting the game on easy and auto piloting to the end, good way to catch up on the story

Only time I ever put a game on easy is if I don’t care about the game mechanics and just want to get through the story. Or if I’m on a time limit, like Game 2 is coming in like a few weeks but I haven’t played Game 1 yet so I easy mode that shit to get it out of the way.

Other than that, I usually go normal and adjust it to a harder difficulty if I feel like it’s too easy

I do on RPGs because I just want to do the story and get on with it

I don't quite understand this image, the only thing I see wrong with "Misaligned" is that Maro is slightly off the floor, and I fail to see what's going on with Mixels and Rixels

Nearly every game I play now is on the easiest setting. I find that as I've gotten older I give less of a shit how I'm perceived, and what I have to "prove" to others via my skill. I play games to enjoy myself, not to restart a level hundreds of times in frustration just for one meaningless win.

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No. I fell that playing on easy or normal is a waste of time, I'm rather watch something on Netflix instead

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phoneposter begone

sure, I turn on doom with russian overkill sometimes when I want to mindlessly blow through some wads

No but I have a feeling I will later on in life when I have shit to do and get older in order to cope with my reflexes declining

NUCK FAZIS

back in the days when those graphics were a necessity of hardware limitations, pixels could only move on a grid
if you move a pixel from one point to its nearest neighbor, it does not take time moving there nor does it stretch, it just changes positions. in that regard, "misaligned" is when the pixels are not aligned to that grid and can move in smaller parts
"mixels" means that the pixels can change size regardless of those limitations
"rixels" is that the pixels rotate irrespective of the grid, when they should always be aligned to be perfectly centered

there's nothing absolutely "wrong" about these in the sense of artistic value, perhaps, but these things were techniques that were not available to the developers of the time, and make the game look inauthentic

More like Pickle Rixels

Only point n' click games, if given the option.
How was I supposed to know I have to use the juice 6 times on the slot machine to make a solar powered battery?

Purist autists bitching about certain thing even tho some late SNES games did have chips in the cartridge that supported rotating sprites already.
The misaligned one is a straight up dev mistake that comes with using 3D engines to emulate 2D pixel games, tho.

just give me one rpg that is hard and not just a time sink on harder difficulties

I put most game in normal as a rule since I imagine that the game was made for it...easy only when it's something like civilization and I want to make a cool story more than win...hard only if I like the game enough to care about it

If you're a grown man and still playing videogames, you need to cross easy and normal off at the start.

no,i only destress when im lying on the bed trying to sleep,i can only enjoy games when there's a challenge,playing easy vidya feels like a chore and more of a job than fun

i try to find easier games in general if i want to relax, usually turn based games or ones ive already beaten. games like this are ones that require focus and im probably going to be playing them during the day when i want something with a challenge. turning the difficulty down defeats the entire point of the game. and yes, always pick max difficulty, you fucking scrubs.

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I always play on the standard difficulty. I only consider harder difficulties if it's a game I enjoy enough to replay and I never touch the "easy" difficulty or equivalent, mostly out of stubborness.

Not really. I play games normally, because I dislike replacing stress with emptiness.

No, I tend to get really, really bored if I'm not being challenged.

No. Easy mode is obviously not how the game was intended to be played. If I want relaxing gameplay Ill just play an easier game.

All video game difficulty is artificial though

Videogames are artificial.
I'll take artificial over... nothing.

I played Digimon World Next Order on easy because all it changes is how much stats you get from training/fighting, the fights themselves don't get any harder, harder modes just make you waste more time grinding to do the same fight.

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Middle difficulty, all day every day. Not too hard, not too easy.

All the time

I've gotten annoyed with "Hard mode" in mnost games because all it is is the same mode with enemies with more HP. theres no challenge, its just longer for no reason.

> tfw savescumming fag

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Normal or Hard always

...except on these games. Always play on easy, Normal if I feel adventurous

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When's the last time a Hard Mode didn't just increase enemy health and/or decrease your damage output/health?

when it increases enemy armor so their effective hp goes up but hp itself is technically unchanged

I like DMC/Bayonetta kind of hard modes where they mix the enemy placements around so you get more interesting and difficult enemies earlier on.

just play ez mode robots like frozen titans

forgot pic

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Last game I played on normal was Blazing Chrome and it was fucking mental hard. Took me about 20 hours to beat. Now I'm afraid to start any game on medium.

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Contra-like games are usually hard, what did you expect.

Never, only medium> difficulties.

Difficult, but not fuck-you-in-the-ass-sideways difficult.

Energy Zone says hi.

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I usually love getting kicked in the nuts by video games, but I'll gladly switch to easy mode if the combat is a chore (mainly in rpgs) so I can get to the good stuff faster.

>Energy Zone
I never beat it as a kid, but I have Contra ready on my PSP once my ass is ready for another teardown

As shitty of an argument as it may be, I have no reason to play on harder difficulties at all. Ever. Why would I? Do I have to prove I'm a hardcore god gamer to somebody? Yeah, challenge can be fun, I've beaten tons of famously hard games in my lifetime, and I enjoyed those, but that's it. I have no desire to stress myself in any capacity doing shit that has no purpose. I just play on Normal or Easy whenever I can because I just wanna enjoy the fucking game, not have an aneurysm.
I really have to reiterate because I know retards here with 0 reading comprehension will jump to this at the first chance, I am NOT saying Challenge =/= fun, Challenge IS fun. But I do not enjoy the challenge unless I am willingly looking for it. And at the same time I will stay away from games that from the get go are just too much for my skill level, but I will praise them for being able to provide the desired challenge and difficulty for the people that look for it.
Point is, do what YOU wanna do, play how YOU wanna play and don't let others dictate anything about how you enjoy videogame.

Into the breach is kinda weird, because Easy is too easy (I get 100% of objectives and max out by 3rd isle) but Normal kicks my butt (lose objectives, sometimes lose pilots even, die on Volcano)

Guess I haven't gotten gud yet

I beat the entire game on 3 starting lives only once as an adult. Felt good. Super C, on the other hand, was easy as fuck in comparison.

>medium is too fucking easy
>hard is too fucking hard
What's her name, Yea Forums?

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I always start on Medium unless the description outright says that Hard is recommended for fans of the franchise.

I never play through on Easy on the first playthrough. I'm not against doing it on later playthroughs, but the concept of playing a game I already know well enough to have beaten on Normal but on Easy isn't really "relaxing" to me, it's just braindead. If I want a relaxing game, I play a game that specifically does that (Pokemon, Euro Truck Sim etc.) instead.

I think people who play everything on Easy just for the power fantasy and not wanting a challenge is fine though, you do you.

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Serious Sam is like that, Hard difficulty is just an exercise in frustration. I went straight to Serious and I found it much more enjoyable.

I'm a 35+ boomer. I'm too old and stressed out already so nowadays I usually play easy on my first playthrough. If the game is good and I feel like doing a 2nd run I do it on hard.

>Normal too easy.
>Hard just gives the enemy like 20x the usual number of turns.

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>I beat the entire game on 3 starting lives only once as an adult
That pretty rad. Maybe I start with Super C when I get back to Contra games

In my opinion Super C is much more stylish than Contra 1. Even the very first level has so much atmosphere to it.

If it's a genre I'm not familiar with, yeah.

Yeah just checking videos of Super C. Aesthetics wise Hard Corps was top tier. That's why I was drawn to Blazing Chrome in first place

Is he holding Majin Buu on the left?

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>s rank DMC3 and 4 without much trouble when I was younger
>get my ass kicked on normal in 5, use assist mode for V
I started playing games on easy because I just can't be bothered to get my ass kicked constantly. I played through Evil Within 2, Remake 2, Hitman, and Doom 2016 on easy and had a fantastic time.

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I just want the story.

The first ~100 hours I put into EU4 were played on normal or hard,but for the past 1500 hours I exclusively play on very easy, because I have become addicted to map painting and care about nothing else. I don't like it, but I can't stop.

>Purist autists bitching about certain thing even tho some late SNES games did have chips in the cartridge that supported rotating sprites already.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about since the SNES could rotate sprites using Mode 7 in any game.

The SuperFX chips etc in some carts were for more advanced 3D operations. Mode 7 was a built in graphics mode.

However neither would increase the output resolution of the SNES, you halfbrained fucking dipshit.
You can "rotate" a bitmap, but the pixels it will remap to remain squares on the same grid. They don't become rotated diamonds like in that image. Smooth rotation is only possible when you are displaying at a higher resolution than the scale of your sprites, which was fairly rare in the past but very common now since upscaling your sprites and displaying at native resolution is easier than cleanly scaling your output if you're a shitty programmer.

Easy is boring so no. If I want a relaxing experience I go play animal crossing or the Sims or something.

only if i'm going for speedrun trophies

I usually just play an easier game like Pokémon or Animal Crossing if I want something relaxing and not too stressful.

If I wanted to relax and do something easy, I'd throw on some music and read a book

The only game I do this with us FTL just beacause being able to steamroll the whole game and just enjoy the atmosphere of the game is very Quant and nice to end the day

>Destress
I'm on Yea Forums, I do everything I can to make myself miserable.

I play on whatever difficulty I want to and don't have to justify myself to strangers on the internet. If I want to play on easy I play on easy, if I want to play on hard I play on hard.
I wanted to beat Bioshock Infinite on the hardest difficulty so I could play it once and never again but I got to the part with the ghost bitch and just had enough and stormed through the rest of the game on easy.
I beat RE2make on all the difficulty levels and platinumed it on PS4 because I loved it so much.

i think it's supposed to be a baby bottle, but it looks just like buu