Question about Difficulty Level

[beebee73]

I started a game in Normal Difficulty but had soo much trouble with the first boss fight that I switched to Easy. I haven't had too much of an issue with it so far...still sometimes die. Jack killed me a few times especially during the garage fight...BUT

I heard that later in the game, you can get upgrades to the character (this wasn't in other Resident Evil games I've played...so I'm worried that maybe later on in the game Easy will be...well too easy. From what I heard the coins unlock the various upgrades. Is it possible to NOT use them? To sort of keep something of a game balance?

Too bad you can't change difficulty in mid game. I don't want to constantly die, get frustrated and lose interest in the awesome story but at the same time I want at least a little bit of a challenge.

[talgaby]

You can get four items that give you +100 HP each (you start at 1000), and two hidden ones that increase your reload speed by 25%. That is it.
Lategame will also have some spots that may kill you.

In general, easy is goo to get the basics down and the route, normal is good to finally practise combat, and madhouse will mix all of that around.
Also, madhouse will more or less force you to get coins anyway if you want to survive it (or get one of the mandatory keys).

[burningmime]

Yes, this suffers the problem that many other modern games do in that it has an inverted difficulty curve. Games should start off easy as you're getting used to them and gradually ramp up the difficulty, forcing you to "git gud" and overcome increasing challenges. Instead, the challenges remain at roughly the same level, while the game throws more resources at you and ways to beat them.

The coin upgrades are inconsequential, but the weapons become really strong. There's a shotgun that can one-hit headshot on almost all enemies, and several other very powerful weapons that make the endgame sections a breeze. Bosses are hard, and some early enemies where you only have the handgun.

I would recommend staying on Normal if at all possible, since the tension and resource management aspects of the game require you to be challenged. Easy will be easy even if you skip the coin upgrades, since the real power is in the weapons. If you can push through to the end of the second Jack fight (maybe 3 hours in), nothing more on Normal will be a roadblock.

[beebee73]

Thanks guys....I will continue on with the easy difficulty then...doesn't sound as if anything in the coin upgrade store is too 'game breaking' and I guess since am on easy will skip them unless I have a hard time with something later in the game.

Perhaps will do a second play through on normal (heard there were two endings) maybe will do better knowing more about the game....wanted to try normal longer on this play through but was too frustrating to keep getting killed by mia

Thanks again for the info :)

[Lanzagranadas]

The difficulty is relative. For a player, for example, who's good at combat but maybe not so much at stealth and hiding, the first portion of the game will be probably the hardest, since your resources are very limited and you're just not supposed to fight certain enemies. Later in the game you'll no longer have stalker enemies and you'll get more regular enemies instead, but also more resources to fight them.

I personally had more trouble with those moments where I had to fight than when I could simply outsmart and avoid enemies.

[MilfShake]

If you plan to play it once, choose what you think is the best for you. If you wanna play for the 2nd time on Madhouse difficulty, finish trhe game on Normal. Otherwise you might go insane because of the difficulty difference.

[häkeem]

Don't mean to be rude but the 1st boss battle is pretty easy just shoot Jack to stun him then wait for him to break the metal gate then grab the chainsaw & have a pretty cool fight (I did it on normal)