What difficulty mode do you usually start playing on?

[SvennoJ]

I usually start on normal, but if it's a game I'm only interested in for the story I first check if the difficulty can be dropped down during play, if not I'll start it on easy.

I like it when you can change the difficulty, I started the last of us on normal and changed it to hard midway through. And I would have missed the best part of Bioshock infinite if I could not have changed it to easy to get past the annoying defense section.

Racing games I usually play on easy, competing with the moronic AI is not rewarding at all. I rather race myself perfecting each corner out in front of the pack. I'll go online for a challenge.