What difficultly level do most of you play your games on?

What difficultly level do most of you play your games on? The reason why I asked is because how do some of you guys finish these games so fast? Like GTA4. This game doesn't have a difficulty level, but still, how did most people finish this game so fast. Did you use cheat codes or something? MGS4. Now, this game has a difficulty level and most people finished it already.

This isn't meant to bash anyone, so don't take it the wrong way, but I can't see finishing a game within a week. I don't have the time. Not saying that i want to finish games that fast, but i'm saying. I also know that everyone is different, but enquiring minds want to know...

MGS4 took me 24 hours of gametime ....... I played on the normal difficuty and didn't rush through it. I played it over 6 days , so about an average of 4 hours per day. That is a lot for me , but I had to finish it because of all of the spoilers going around and something that I really couldn't put down because it was so immersive. It is not really a difficult game , but I did die quite a few times.

GTA IV on the otherhand looks like a broken mess (repeating missions from the beginning over and over again) , that might take me a few months to get through if I can stomach it.

If it is a previous family-er franchise game like Halflife or Call Of Duty the difficulty is put up.

For RTS usually easy. I suck at them.

For RPG's franchise that are family-er like the D@D games, BG/BG2?IWD ect.. usually leave them on default.

Normal

normal / medium .. the default setting

this is generally the right difficutly for me, and i have no trouble finishing any game

i only ever stop playing a game without completing it if i realise it's just so bad that there's no point putting in any more effort

Normal the first time, usually.

I normally play all of my games on normal for the first play thur and if i want to play it again, them i'll up the level. For games like Madden, its All-Madden all day long. For my figthing games, I normally play them on hard because most of the time, playing on hard is just like playing a real person.

I like to take my time, so i would play them for about an hour or 2 per session.

Always Hard or Harder which ever comes before the insane setting on a game. Some games i go straight into the hardest settings like FPS games for example, after years of playing similar games you tend to devolope a sense of what the Dev will do next making games far easier.

Thats what i have found anyway longer you play computer games the easier they become, same rules apply to most genres if you can not see that you either suck at games, have little experience or you like to breeze through games. I prefer a challenge myself.

Depends on the genre for me...

if its action/adventure/beat em ups I usually opt for the highest difficulty option available.

Most other genres, I usually play them on medium settings...especially FPS games.

Normal. but a lot of people play a game for 4-6 hours a day.

If you do that, you could beat an average length game (20 hours) in 3-4 days.

i mostly put it on normal on the first run, but the second time around i usually just put it on hard

Shooters usually on hard and most others on default/normal.

start on hard

i find a higher level of challenge increases the fun. and it takes longer, so i feel as if i got more for my money. Then if you unlock a harder setting by beating it, then i might replay it (ngb being an example)

when i do buy mgs4, im going to start off on the hardest immediately available difficulty then replay it on whatever the real hardest setting is (if simply beating it unlocks it, that is)

Normal. NG2 I started on Warrior instead of Acolyte though.

Normal unless reviews said the game was relatively easy. I like a challenge which many times a normal difficulty setting doesn't offer, but I don't want it too difficult and frustrating like a step-up from normal sometimes is.

On second play-throughs I play on harder difficulties.

Normal - Hard, sometimes the hardest I can. I enjoy the challenge, speaking of which I still need to beat BioShock on hard, I've beat it on medium twice.Bluestorm-Kalas

I play on easy or medium

I find hard not fun.

I normally play all games on the hardest difficulty available, MGS4 is was on Big Boss Hard, FEAR on Extreme, and pretty much any other game on Hardest from teh start, I like unlocking difficulties because it adds replay value.

Even DMCs I went though almost all of them (cept 2) but i skipped a couple. But like three I did all the way to DMD.