Your 'native' difficulty?

[Night_Walker]

As I'm doing a Halo series playthrough and restarted due to realising I wasn't playing at the difficulty level I normally do I just thought I'd ask what is your 'native' setting?

By which I mean what level do you set your games to when you're not going for a difficulty related achievement or tying to challenge yourself.

I tend to go to Normal, as while I can do Hard/Heroic it does lead to bad rage moments for me once in a while. That said once I've gone through a game on Hard/Heroic and go back to Normal I often find myself wishing there was something in between.

Anyhow over to you.

[Phlogiston]

It varies by game. Sometimes easy is just too easy. I'm an unbelievably reckless player, though, too.

[Zazie]

Easy. I want to be able to see the entire game without getting stuck in particularly difficult sections.

Once I beat I can start again on progressively higher difficulties for both a challenge and a little more replay value.

[[SwiftRage]]

Usually go for the hardest difficulty, I like a challenge.

[Grim Heaper]

I start out easy and turn up the difficulty once I know what I'm facing.

[ParaChomp]

It varies but usually Hard. Sometimes the hardest difficulty is downright brutal.

[Charizard Champion#06]

I play on Normal since I figure that's how the game was intended to be played and then Hard after if I feel like a replay.

[Un0va]

Hardest since playing on anything else makes you a filthy casual.

[GravityStorm]

I usually go normal for games/series/genres I've never played before and go with the hardest or second hardest (to save the hardest for a replay) on games I'm more familiar with.

[noobers]

I usually play on Normal, but it can vary. I played on the hardest difficulty in Deus Ex because I felt it fit the game more.

[Shayminlover123]

It depends what game im plaing but I usually play on easy and keep going on gradually.

[Epic-Inferno]

Normal difficulty is my standard. Boring, I know. :/

[the3rdH0kage]

Easy to expirence the story, then Legendary, then I'll lower it to Heroic.

[Un0va]

Easy to expirence the story, then Legendary, then I'll lower it to Heroic.

Can you rephrase that in good game terms?

[the3rdH0kage]

Can you rephrase that in good game terms?

Sorry OP said Halo but start on Easy, then after I beat campaign to hardest, then I go to Hard for subsequent playthroughs.

[Charizard Champion#06]

Can you rephrase that in good game terms?

Halo is a good game.

Oh wait I like a popular FPS looks like I've got **** tastes.

[SpyroxPikachu]

I start on Normal, beat the game; then try Hard (usually only if there's an Achievement for beating the game on hard).

[britishlanguage]

Usually, I play every game (barring Fallout: New Vegas, which I change throughout my 17 playthroughs) on Easy, as I'm not a great video gmae player.

[ForgottenPearl]

It depends. If you get something special for beating each difficulty, I start with Easy. If not, then I usually do Normal.

[pikasaur]

Besides playing WWE games on hard, most times i play on normal