How important is difficulty to you in games?

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Dante9 said:

I always play on normal difficulty. If the devs say that this is how the game was designed to be experienced, why would I go against it?
In some games you don't even get to pick, so there's no room to even question it.

Sometimes the game is designed on Hard Mode and they actually dumb it down on Normal mode. In Fire Emblem since Awakening is very much clear "Hard" is the actual designed difficulty, with "Normal" is the easy difficulty 

Exactly. Happens all the time now, I don't think it's that they dumb it down though I think it's that they genuinely judge gamers to be less proficient than most are. You can see this with the NPCs giving tips in Ragnorok to the most basic of puzzles before the player even has a chance to think. They think the average gamer is that stupid or their QA team failed them miserably.