do you play games on the hardest setting, when theres no reward?

i was just playing battle field 2 on hard when i learned online that u only have to play 1 mission on hard for an achievement.

so im up to chapter 9 and ive been playing on hard so far when i learn this and decide "**** it, ill beat the whole game on hard"

but had i known that going in i prolly would of put it on easy.

what about u, do u play games on hard (or w/e) if theres no reward (not just achievements, but no special prize, mission, gun, w/e)

Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

Darkslayer16

I usually play normal first playthrough unless I am really good at the specific game's genre, I might start at hard.

I play all my shooters on the hardest difficulty. Not for some achievment, but for the challange. Playing Halo:CE on Lengendary changed me...

The challenge is what makes it fun imo. You can take a really great game and make the AI and whatever else pathetically easy and then the game becomes no fun. Sadly thats a trend these days, making games that play themselves.

I play on hard for Achievements Nuh said bro

The challenge is what makes it fun imo. You can take a really great game and make the AI and whatever else pathetically easy and then the game becomes no fun. Sadly thats a trend these days, making games that play themselves.

Gen007

and im curious, what games specifically are so easy that they play themselves? (and if ur comparing them to the nes and computer games of yesteryear then, yeah, i guess games are easier)

I have found thatan awfullot of games are a lot more fun on hard.

I have also found that some games are no fun at all on hard......*cough*Ninja Gaiden 2*cough*

My first play through is usually on the medium difficulty, after that, I bump it up to hard.

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Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

i-rock-socks

Every now and then. I played Darksiders on Apocalyptic on my first playthrough and even then that was actually pretty easy, other than the boss fights.

If I can do it, yeah!

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Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

i-rock-socks

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Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

Darkslayer16

Sometimes beating a game on hard will trigger bonus footage or a secret mission but most of the time beating the game on normal it good enough for me

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Yes because games are short enough already. Playing games on normal and easy is pathetically easy and provides no challenge or fun at all to me.

Darkslayer16

i play to have fun, and getting those rewards is fun to me (achievements mostly), but even though i find the right kinda challenge fun, most games just up the damage or whatnot, which i find lame. its not because its too hard (the only game i gave up on was doing master ninja in ninja gaiden 2 and even still i prolly would of struggled thru it if my xbox would have stopped freezing) but that its typically not fun, just like i said, annoying.

i agree that sometime games are too easy, and sometimes fun games are fun cause their hard (demon souls comes to mind). but most games just shoe-horn "hard" into a game and its hard for all the wrong reasons, thats why i prefer easy(also cause i like to beat em quick so i can move on to the next game).

also, i generally dont complain if a game is too short or long, i have too many games as it is (and if a game i like ends, its always to short).

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[QUOTE="i-rock-socks"]wish i had the time to wrry about games being too short, any games u can think of you found hard or prehaps even too hard?

i-rock-socks

i play to have fun, and getting those rewards is fun to me (achievements mostly), but even though i find the right kinda challenge fun, most games just up the damage or whatnot, which i find lame. its not because its too hard (the only game i gave up on was doing master ninja in ninja gaiden 2 and even still i prolly would of struggled thru it if my xbox would have stopped freezing) but that its typically not fun, just like i said, annoying.

i agree that sometime games are too easy, and sometimes fun games are fun cause their hard (demon souls comes to mind). but most games just shoe-horn "hard" into a game and its hard for all the wrong reasons, thats why i prefer easy(also cause i like to beat em quick so i can move on to the next game).

also, i generally dont complain if a game is too short or long, i have too many games as it is (and if a game i like ends, its always to short).

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[QUOTE="Darkslayer16"] I can't think of any games I would classify as hard and defiantly none that I would say are too hard. Paying 70-80$ for games that last 5-10 hours is both dumb and not fun to me. Look at CoD for example.. even on veteran the games are easy and short so you lower it to easy or normal and it's just pathetic. The only way you can die in most games on those settings have to pretty much be intentional and the AI will be brain dead so I get 0 enjoyment. You mention BC2 I didn't even look at the achievement list and put it on hard anyways and to me the game was still too easy and took me maybe a day to beat on hard and maybe 3-5 for 1000G. Achievements are not exactly much of a reward when most games just hand them out and very few are actually a challenge and instead are either easy or easy and just time consuming.

Darkslayer16

i play to have fun, and getting those rewards is fun to me (achievements mostly), but even though i find the right kinda challenge fun, most games just up the damage or whatnot, which i find lame. its not because its too hard (the only game i gave up on was doing master ninja in ninja gaiden 2 and even still i prolly would of struggled thru it if my xbox would have stopped freezing) but that its typically not fun, just like i said, annoying.

i agree that sometime games are too easy, and sometimes fun games are fun cause their hard (demon souls comes to mind). but most games just shoe-horn "hard" into a game and its hard for all the wrong reasons, thats why i prefer easy(also cause i like to beat em quick so i can move on to the next game).

also, i generally dont complain if a game is too short or long, i have too many games as it is (and if a game i like ends, its always to short).

and u definitely missed my point, i know how to play hitman, it was just an example of a method that a game uses to increase the diff that i dont like. and i beat ninja gaiden 2 on mentor, i didnt rush thru it. but if it didnt have an achievement for doing so i would have. u play for a challenge, i play to have fun, and i can have fun playing a game on easy, if u cant understand that, well, then consider it a challenge

I try to get as much as I can out of games.

So, even if I have gotten all the achievements, I'll usually try to play through the game on the hardest difficulty. However, if that requires a ridiculous amount of time and effort, and I don't receive a reward for it, I'll probably stop. I usually never just jump right into the hardest difficulty. I like to start the game on the default.

nope sure don't! almost never i always play on normal.

Nah I get frustrated to easily to play on hard difficulty I normally play games on normal and if the game is really hard I some times play on easy.

I play on the next to hardest difficulty first then move up to expert/insane/legendary after I got a feel for everything. I'm not walking through the game for the first time but not getting a game over screen every 5mins.

Most games are horrible with making the game harder cause all they do is up damage and health making it not more of a challenge but giving you less room for error.

From easy to expert the stradegy of most games never changes except you have less room for error on expert.

I hope for a day when games are more of a challenge on different difficulties instead of everyone just becoming a high damage accurate tank on expert.

Depends on the game. I'm not really into achievements, so it is always just for fun.