Recommended difficulty???

[shano]

What difficulty would you guys recommend playing on.

[Purple Turtle]

That's subject to your playing style and challenge. I personally don't care so much for how hard a game is, so tend to play on the easiest difficulty. Just go for what's comfortable for you.

[Lady Dimitrescu]

Shoot, I just started the game and even "easy" is too hard for me. LOL. there are some very challenging bosses for me.

[banzaigtv]

Definitely play the game on easy. The other difficulties are impossible to complete and totally unplayable.

[shano]

You for real?

[Leto II Atreides]

No, I'm playing the game on nightmare and it's not that bad. The only issue is the camera angles sometimes make it hard to fight... so I rarely lock on

[luluchanelxo]

I set the game to Easy after I encountered a mess of enemies early on (pre-Teapot Cannon), but the reality is that the more difficult puzzles which require PRISTINE timing aren't made any easier by the Easy difficulty... so I wouldn't say Normal is that ridiculous. I think it just suffers from a scaling issue early on -- before you have weapons that are set to HANDLE those situations, doing it on normal can be a real PITA.

[Jo ♥]

I started the game on medium then i had to eventually change to hard because fights were way too easy. I guess it depends on your skills!
Nightmare mode isn't doable in your first playthrough/with no DLC stuff, that's the only thing to avoid :p

[Leto II Atreides]

Originally posted by Jo:

I started the game on medium then i had to eventually change to hard because fights were way too easy. I guess it depends on your skills!
Nightmare mode isn't doable in your first playthrough/with no DLC stuff, that's the only thing to avoid :p

What are you talking about? I'm on nightmare and not using any DLC... what about this game is so challenging for you guys?

[Shizumi]

It's not that Nightmare on first playthrough isn't doable, it's just more difficult while still learning the mechanics. But to answer OP's question:

If you're just interested in the story and want to skip combat altogether: Easy
If you're not looking for a challenge or not very skilled at video games: Normal
If you're looking for a challenge or moderately skilled: Hard
If you think 1990s difficulty is fair and want a proper challenge: Nightmare
(random note: BioShock Infinite's 1999 Mode is way too easy for 1990s)

I'm playing on Nightmare and started dying upon encountering Madcaps. This is pretty much the point where you need to begin using proper tactics, learn when to dodge, when to attack, etc. If you think dying a few times while learning to play, not having an abundance of health and having enemies that can quickly kill you if you mess up are all completely fair, then Nightmare is totally fine.

[Tusken GA]

I played on normal and the only time I started to have any issues was later in the game when they toss minibosses at you as well as infinitely respawning minor enemies to prevent you from locking on.

I played with a controller and it's probably the only time I've regretted it because aiming with the pepper grinder was damn near impossible in the middle of a fight so I HAD to lock on.

And I played STALKER on Hard with my controller, so it's not the controller or my skill with it that's the issue. It's just the way the game was designed.

[shano]

Thanks for the replys fellas.

[TheDeadSkin]

I've played on Hard (one diff lower than maximum), that was quite challenging, but totally playable and interesting. Yea, I died a lot of time, but why not? If you don't want a press X to win - play Hard, because Nightmare is almost unplayable even for PC controls - enemy damage is really insane, even DLC dresses don't always help. If you use a gamepad to play it - you may want a Normal, because it actually becomes quite more difficult than playing with KB+Mouse.

TL;DR - Normal for gamepad, Hard for Keyboard+Mouse.
And yea, if you unlock DLC content - never use regeneration dress (shrinking violet effect), that makes it a combat-regeneration-combat-regeneration game, it's better to play a dynamic game.

[Techies]

I suggest Normal, I've played too many badly designed Hard/Nigtmare difficulties. Those are normally a second though for devs and they normally end up making enemies more bullet spongy and increasing their damage.

And it takes only one wrong value to completely screw up the fun bit of the game.
Better to play the game around the mode it was designed for in the first place.

[Cakefish]

Easy is the right difficulty for me. It is on most games. I play more for the experience (like story, characters, art design etc) than a challenge. Excessive challenges just frustrate me and pull me out of the whole experience.

[Techies]

DamageMultiplierArray[0]=0.75
DamageMultiplierArray[1]=1.0
DamageMultiplierArray[2]=1.5
DamageMultiplierArray[3]=3.0
AliceWeaponDamageMultiplier[0]=1.5
AliceWeaponDamageMultiplier[1]=1.0
AliceWeaponDamageMultiplier[2]=1.0
AliceWeaponDamageMultiplier[3]=0.75

Here's the difficulty Multipliers for Alice.